Evan Mueller
In addition to teaching Acting and Voice & Speech at Western Washington University, and previously at New York University, Evan Mueller is a professional actor and director who has been seen on stage and screen both regionally and in New York City. Evan also teaches privately as an acting and vocal coach for individuals and for numerous shows and projects. Evan was a co-founder and Artistic Associate of New York's Strange Sun Theater, and is currently the Artistic Director of American Theater Northwest. Previously, Evan taught Voice & Speech for undergraduate students in the BFA conservatory acting program at Rutgers University, Mason Gross School of the Arts. Outside of the New York area, he has been assistant company manager for a theater outreach program (Educational Theater Programs) sponsored by Kaiser Permanente in the Washington DC / Baltimore area. Additionally, he has taught workshops at regional theaters and other arts institutions, including the McCarter Theater in New Jersey, the Rutgers Summer Acting Conservatory, and North Carolina’s Wendell Theater Group, of which Evan was a co-founder and artistic director. Evan has worked with many theater companies across the country, such as Amphibian Stage Productions, the Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival, Manbites Dog Theatre in North Carolina, the Warehouse Theatre in South Carolina, The Artful Conspirators, the Sweet William Collective, the Rutgers Theater Company in New Jersey, The Samuel French Company, Theatre Workshop of Nantucket, The Public Theater in Maine, The Idiom Theater, Bellingham TheatreWorks, Fairhaven Summer Repertory Theatre, Western Summer Theatre, the New Phoenix Theater Company, 86th Street Films, The Triptych Theater Company, the Lightning Strikes Theater Company and the Hamptons Shakespeare Festival in New York, and the Source Theatre Company’s Washington Theater Festival, where Evan received a best supporting actor nomination. Acting credits include Clean House, The Understudy, This is How it Goes, where his performance was voted best actor by the Dallas/Fort Worth area press, and Below the Belt, which also was selected for best acting. He appeared in the American premiere of The True History of…Julia Pastrana, the Ugliest Woman in the World. Other acting credits: Time Stands Still, Inside/Outside, Betrayal; Orphans; Children of a Lesser God; Measure for Measure; The Taming of the Shrew; A Midsummer Night’s Dream; The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged); Our Country’s Good; and The Swan among many others. He has been seen in various independent films on the festival circuit, and on television in All My Children. As a playwright, Evan’s play Hot Season was given its first New York performance in 2014 where it was called "A Thrilling Piece," "Guaranteed to give you chills as you've never had before." As a director, Evan has worked with, among others: how to clean your room (and remember all your trauma), No Exit, Arms and the Man, A Doll's House, The Imaginary Invalid, Seminar, Angel Food Cake, The Norman Conquests, Pride and Prejudice, Fully Committed, Miss Witherspoon, Nocturne, Dolores, Romeo & Julie, Henry V, Twelfth Night, As You Like It, The First Day of School, Animals Out of Paper, and a series of short films for the Arts Council of Forth Worth called “For the Love,” about the financial struggles of a regional theater in difficult economic times. Evan is a member of the Actors Equity Association, American Theatre in Higher Education, and the Voice and Speech Trainers Association. B.A. from Duke University, magna cum laude, phi beta kappa; M.F.A. from Rutgers University, Mason Gross School of the Arts.
