Faculty

Act One Faculty

  • Ted Hoerl
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Ted Hoerl was a casting director with Rabedeau Casting for ten years, where he cast over 1,000 commercials, as well as industrials and feature films. Originally trained in the Stanislavski method, he studied the Meisner Technique at The Actors’ Center for four years before starting to teach here in 1996.

He has appeared in more than 50 plays, and directed more than 20, including the long running, Charlie’s Oasis Museum & Bar at the Theatre Building, Cobalt’s recent Alarms and Excursions, and Red Hen's production of John Green's Twilight Serenade. Ted appeared in Next Theatre’s A Doll’s House, The Millionairess, and their acclaimed production of Are You Now or Have You Ever Been...? (Jeff Award for Best Ensemble, After Dark Award for Best Production). He appeared as Harlan in Dreamboy (Jeff Nomination for Best Ensemble, Citation for Best Production), and also in Fascination, at About Face Theatre, where he is a company member. He also played Osric and Marcellus in Hamlet for Streetsigns, Merlin in Knights of the Round Table at Eclipse Theatre (directed by Jay Paul Skelton), James in Belinda Bremner’s Mrs. Coney, Daddy in the Sandbox & Irvin in Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom at the Goodman Theatre, Perry in Organic Touchstone’s Production of Love! Valor! Compassion! and Marchand in Incident at Vichy at Writer’s Theatre of Chicago (After Dark Award for Best Ensemble). Most recently Ted performed as Peter Shirley and Morrison in Major Barbara for Remy Bumpro. Ted is also a professor at Roosevelt University.
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Ted Hoerl was a casting director with Rabedeau Casting for ten years, where he cast over 1,000 commercials, as well as industrials and feature films. Originally trained in the Stanislavski method, he studied the Meisner Technique at The Actors’ Center for four years before starting to teach here in 1996.

He has appeared in more than 50 plays, and directed more than 20, including the long running, Charlie’s Oasis Museum & Bar at the Theatre Building, Cobalt’s recent Alarms and Excursions, and Red Hen's production of John Green's Twilight Serenade. Ted appeared in Next Theatre’s A Doll’s House, The Millionairess, and their acclaimed production of Are You Now or Have You Ever Been...? (Jeff Award for Best Ensemble, After Dark Award for Best Production). He appeared as Harlan in Dreamboy (Jeff Nomination for Best Ensemble, Citation for Best Production), and also in Fascination, at About Face Theatre, where he is a company member. He also played Osric and Marcellus in Hamlet for Streetsigns, Merlin in Knights of the Round Table at Eclipse Theatre (directed by Jay Paul Skelton), James in Belinda Bremner’s Mrs. Coney, Daddy in the Sandbox & Irvin in Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom at the Goodman Theatre, Perry in Organic Touchstone’s Production of Love! Valor! Compassion! and Marchand in Incident at Vichy at Writer’s Theatre of Chicago (After Dark Award for Best Ensemble). Most recently Ted performed as Peter Shirley and Morrison in Major Barbara for Remy Bumpro. Ted is also a professor at Roosevelt University.