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office: 239 Porterfield Hall
telephone: 540 831-5231
fax: 540 831-6313
P. O Box 6969 RU Station.
Radford, Virginia
24142
arguest@radford.edu
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.
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