Marcia Haufrecht graduated from Performing Arts High School as a dancer and got her first job on Broadway in Plain and Fancy, followed by a national tour with Can Can. As an actress she has appeared on Broadway, off, and off-off Broadway, as well as on television and film, in roles ranging from Tondeleyo in White Cargo, to Queen Elizabeth opposite Al Pacino in Richard III. She has performed with Center Stage in Baltimore, The Boston Theater Company, Lincoln Center, The Public Theatre, Ensemble Studio Theatre, and La Mama. Some of her film appearances have been in Dog Day Afternoon, Prince of the City, Daytrippers, and on TV in The Soprano’s, As The World Turns and Law & Order, Law & Order: SVU, and Law & Order: CI. She has most recently been seen in the films The Night Listener with Robin Williams, and The Producers: The Musical - film version. Upcoming films due out 2007 are The Ungodly, and Anamorph starring Willem Defoe. A published playwright, her plays have been produced at The Actors Studio, Ensemble Studio Theatre, The Quaigh, The Common Basis Theatre (all in NYC) around the country in Woodstock, San Francisco, Texas, Florida, The Company of Angels and CSU Fullerton in California, as well as in Australia at La Mama in Melbourne and at the Kultur Im Gugg in Austria. As a director she has worked on both revivals and original plays at Ensemble Studio Theatre, The Actors Studio, and The Common Basis Theatre, as well as in Australia, Portugal, and Austria. Recently she directed an extremely successful production of Collected Stories at the Communa Theatre in Lisbon, and will be directing a production of Frozen at The National Theatre in Lisbon opening January 2006. She was a student of Lee Strasberg’s and subsequently a teacher at The Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute (including NYU courses) for five years. She also worked as an adjunct professor in the film graduate program at Columbia University for 2 years. She has taught and coached privately for over twenty five years. Her students include Ellen Barkin, Alec Baldwin, Janine Turner, Debbie Mazur, Loren Dean, David Duchovney, Uma Thurman, and John Leguizamo. Most recently she coached Harvey Keitel. She has taught, and continues to teach in Australia, Austria and Portugal, and currently is professor of acting at The New School University in the MFA drama school. She is a long standing member of The Actors Studio, Ensemble Studio Theatre and founder and artistic director of The Common Basis Theatre.