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Harrison Long
Assistant Professor and Coordinator of the Acting Concentration
Harrison Long received a BFA (Acting) from Florida State University and an MFA (Acting) from Southern Methodist University. He is an alumnus of the Teacher Development Workshop at the Actor’s Center in New York City as well as Richard Schechner’s ECA Performance Workshop at Tisch School of the Arts, NYU. In 1999 he traveled to Indonesia to study Balinese Theatre, Shadow Puppetry, and Mask Making.
Harrison began his professional acting career in 1986 and has performed styles ranging from contemporary drama to musical comedy with a special emphasis on Shakespeare. New York credits include the title role in Henry V (Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival), Athol Fugard’s A Lesson From Aloes (78th Street Theatre Lab) and Bloomsday On Broadway (Symphony Space). Regional credits include People’s Light and Theatre Company, Arkansas Repertory Theatre, Tennessee Repertory Theatre, Hope Summer Repertory Theatre, Oregon Cabaret Theatre, Clarence Brown Theatre and the Utah, Texas and North Carolina Shakespeare Festivals. In Atlanta, Harrison has performed for the Alliance Theatre, Georgia Shakespeare Festival, ART Station, Theatrical Outfit, Theatre Emory, Horizon Theatre, and Georgia Ensemble Theatre where he was a founding company member.
Long directed premiere productions of What Rough Beast Slouches and Trinity on the main stage of the 14th Street Playhouse. He has staged operas ranging from Gilbert and Sullivan to Mozart. He has also guided the creation of original works such as FLOOD!; a performance piece integrating world mythology with survivor experiences from the 1997 Red River Flood in North Dakota.
Teaching credits include Marymount Manhattan College, The University of Tennessee, St. John’s University, Southern Methodist University, Georgia State University, Clayton College and State University, Virginia Governor’s School of the Arts, and the Summer Theatre Institute at Columbia University. He has coached students, professionals and was the Dialogue Coach for the CBS series, Dangerous Curves. He is a member of The Actor’s Equity Association.
