One-hour Private Acting Lesson given by Keely Baisden Knudsen, Legacy Theatre's Artistic Director and Co-Founder

An award-winning director and member of Actors' Equity Association, Keely has performed, directed, and choreographed internationally in plays, musicals, operas, and dance companies in hundreds of theatrical productions and has performed in 48 of the United States and in the UK. Keely has directed, choreographed, and taught a myriad of performing arts courses at such institutions as Quinnipiac University, Yale University, Fairfield University, Hartt School of Drama, Southern Connecticut State University, Westminster College, and was the Director of Education of New Haven's acclaimed Elm Shakespeare Company for several years. Additionally a composer/lyricist and playwright, she is currently collaborating on two musicals and is a member of ASCAP. Her directing has been heralded by the Arts Paper as "?visually striking, emotionally moving" and "captivating" and of her direction of Hamlet it was said, "Knudsen has made the notoriously difficult Shakespearean language accessible." Her BFA is from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, at which she graduated first in the class, and she received her Masters Degree in Drama on full scholarship from The Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in Glasgow.