Undergraduate Training:

University of Colorado

Graduate Training

Smith College

Biography:

Deborah Robertson is a professor, Head of the B.F.A. Acting Program, and the Undergraduate Advisor for the School of Theatre and Dance at Northern Illinois University. She has previously been on the faculties of the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University, the Actors Movement Studio in New York City and the Actors Center in Chicago. Her work as an choreographer and movement coach has been performed internationally, in regional theatres, university productions, and on television. As an actress and dancer, she has appeared on Broadway, National Tours, Off Broadway, industrials, regional theatres, and television.

She is the vice president of the Association of Theatre Movement Educators (ATME), a member of the Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE), the Michael Chekhov Association (MICHA), Actors Equity (AEA) and the Screen Actors Guild (SAG).

Recently she received a grant to complete work on the creation of a digital video documentary of Loyd Williamson and the movement training that he created.