Petronia Paley
Lecturer of Acting
Petronia Paley holds a BFA from Howard University. She teaches Acting IV.
More About Me
She is an awarding winning actor and director, having worked in theatre, television and film. Some acting credits include: Telling Tales Out of School, New Federal Theatre; Gin Game (Broadway); On Golden Pond (Broadway); Macbeth, The Oedipus Pays & Trojan Women, Shakespeare Theatre; King Lear, Yale, Repertory Theatre; The House That Will Not Stand, Berkeley Repertory Theatre; The Cherry Orchard, Classical Theatre of Harlem.
Television: Billions, New Amsterdam, Blue Bloods, Modern Love, The Guiding Light, Another World. On the Way to Timbuktu (written and performed) Ensemble Studio Theatre.
Directing Credits: Three Mothers, Capital Repertory Theatre; Henry IV, Part 1, Purchase College; Emmet Till, The Opera, Trilogy Opera; Our Time, Our Voices, Negro Ensemble Theatre; Looking for Leroy, New Federal Theatre.
Playwright: On The Way to Timbuktu, The Empty-Handed Traveler Left No Limits to Her Desires, An Education 101, Falling...Leaves, and Boy George.
She is a member of the Actors Studio and the Ensemble Studio Theatre.
She has taught scene study and monologue work at The Frederick Douglass Creative Arts Center, The Puerto Rican Travelling Theatre, I the Actor, and New Federal Theatre.