office: 239 Porterfield Hall
telephone: 540 831-5231
fax: 540 831-6313
P. O Box 6969 RU Station.
Radford, Virginia
24142
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This is Mr. Guest’s first year as a member of the RU Theatre and Cinema faculty. His teaching focus is on performance courses with a special interest in stage combat and comic technique. He is also a professional actor and fight choreographer. Currently, Tony is working on his directing debut at RU, the world premiere of Trust: One Story of Pocahontas and Captain John Smith by commissioned playwright Jack Neary.

Tony is coming to Radford after completing four years as the Director of Theatre at Aquinas College (Grand Rapids, MI) where he directed Our Town, The Nerd, You’re a Good Man Charlie Brown, Marvin’s Room, and A Midsummer Night’s Dream and presented numerous workshops at local high school and college theatre festivals; most notably the American College Theatre Festival (ACTF: Region III). He holds a MFA in Acting and Directing from the University of Missouri - Kansas City (Professional Actor Training Company) and a BS in Biology from The University of Michigan-Flint.

Mr. Guest called New York City home for two years where he directed (Rumors at Fordham University) and acted both on stage (Macduff in Expanded Arts production of Macbeth) and on camera (Stanley Sheff in Guiding Light on CBS). Tony has performed in numerous regional theatres including the Missouri Repertory Theatre, The Kennedy Center, Unicorn Theatre (Drama Desk Award nomination for best supporting actor in The Judas Kiss), Heart of America Shakespeare Festival, Kentucky Shakespeare Festival, and the Tony Award winning season at the Utah Shakespearean Festival. Tony has choreographed fights for The University of Michigan-Flint, Community Circle Theatre (Grand Rapids) and Aquinas College.

Tony is a member of the Actors’ Equity Association (AEA), the Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE), and Theatre Communications Group (TCG).

He shares his love and his life with his wife Beth and three children Lucas, Andrew and Isabella.