In addition to teaching Acting and Speech & Diction in the Department of Music and Performing Arts Professions, Evan Mueller is a professional actor and director who has been seen on stage and screen both regionally and in New York City. Evan also teaches privately as an acting and vocal coach for individuals and for numerous shows and projects. Previously, Evan taught Voice & Speech for undergraduate students in the BFA conservatory acting program at Rutgers University, Mason Gross School of the Arts. Outside of the New York area, he has been assistant company manager for a theater outreach program (Educational Theater Programs) sponsored by Kaiser Permanente in the Washington DC / Baltimore area. Additionally, he has taught workshops at regional theaters and other arts institutions, including the McCarter Theater in New Jersey, the Rutgers Summer Acting Conservatory, and North Carolina’s Wendell Theater Group, of which Evan was a co-founder and artistic director. Evan is a resident company member of New York’s Sweet William Collective, and is also a company member with Amphibian Productions, based in Fort Worth, Texas. Other theater groups he has been involved with include the Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival, Manbites Dog Theatre in North Carolina, the Warehouse Theatre in South Carolina, the Rutgers Theater Company in New Jersey, The Public Theater in Maine, the New Phoenix Theater Company, 86th Street Films, The Triptych Theater Company, the Lightning Strikes Theater Company and the Hamptons Shakespeare Festival in New York, and the Source Theatre Company’s Washington Theater Festival, where Evan received a best supporting actor nomination.  Recent acting credits include This is How it Goes, where his performance was voted best actor by the Dallas/Fort Worth area press, and Below the Belt, which also was selected for best acting.  Recently he appeared in the American premiere of The True History of…Julia Pastrana, the Ugliest Woman in the World; Betrayal; Orphans; Children of a Lesser God; Measure for Measure; The Taming of the Shrew; A Midsummer Night’s Dream; The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged); Our Country’s Good; and The Swan among many others. He has been seen in various independent films on the festival circuit, and on television in All My Children. As a playwright, Evan’s play Hot Season has been developed by several New York independent theaters; it received its first public presentation in April of 2004 at the ArcLight Theater in New York City. As a director, Evan has worked with Miss Witherspoon, Nocturne, Romeo & Juliet, and a recently produced series of short films for the Arts Council of Forth Worth called “For the Love,” about the financial struggles of a regional theater in difficult economic times.  Evan is a member of the Actors Equity Association, the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, and the Voice and Speech Trainers Association.  Professor Mueller received his B.A. from Duke University and his M.F.A. from Rutgers University, Mason Gross School of the Arts.