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Chaelon Costello (they/she) is an actor, writer, and movement artist based in Brooklyn. A two-time nominee for both the Distinguished University Teaching Award and Achievements in Social Justice Teaching, Chaelon serves as a Professor, First Year Coordinator, audition adjudicator, and a founding member of the Cultural Change Task Force for The New School. The 2019 Innovations in Education Fund awarded Chaelon a team grant winner on project: Intimacy In Performance with colleague, Glynis Rigsby. Their class roster has included Foundations in Acting I and II, Intermediate Acting: Classical Technique, Small Group Lessons, Performance Preparation, Portfolio: Reflective Practice, Directed Research: Devised, Directed Research: Thesis, and CoPA’s Whole Human Artist. Chaelon has been tapped for curriculum development in the remote learning transition, CoPA Core, and Freshman Orientation. For CoPA Drama, Chaelon co-directed devised work: Ursa Minor with Glynis Rigsby and participated as text coach for Feigned Courtesans. As a movement director, Chaelon has choreographed Medea (Drama), A Soldier's Tale (Mannes), and The Motherf**ker with the Hat at City College. At Fordham University, Chaelon joined as a Guest Artist, working with the MFA playwrights in Devised Theatre and Collaboration (2014). They are a Resident Teacher with the Williamstown Theatre Festival (2018, 2019) and have taught in Residence at Bethel Woods Center for the Performing Arts. Currently, Chaelon is developing a television series with wife and collaborator, Liza Bennett. As an actor, Chaelon has joined invited workshops at BAM, The Old Vic, and with Frantic Assembly. Credits include: The American Dream by Dipika Guha (The Old Vic), The Review or How to Eat Your Opposition by Donnetta Lavinia Grays (The Women’s Project) Lulu (Dixon Place), Hamlet (Kraine Theatre), The Illusion (The Cell), Richard III, and 4.48 Psychosis, R&J: The Webseries (Ready Set Go Theatre Co.), The Art of Gaman (workshop) by Dipika Guha (Fault Line Theatre Co). MFA: The New School for Drama. BA: SUNY Geneseo. Member: AEA

Degrees Held

MFA Acting, The New School for Drama

BA English, SUNY Geneseo