Kyle Schaefer is originally from Tulsa, Oklahoma where he started dancing at the age of three. He did his first play in first grade and eventually ended up at Theatre Arts, Inc., a performance studio in Broken Arrow, OK where he began to study private voice and acting. Later, in junior high he began performing with Theatre Arts Productions in shows including Peter Pan, The Wizard of Oz, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, and The Sound of Music. Still later, in high school, he continued dancing, singing, and performing in plays and musicals, as well as discovering a passion for directing --- debuting with Ionesco’s The Bald Soprano.

Upon graduation, he landed at the University of Evansville in Indiana performing shows including: Noises Off, Anatomy of Gray, The Taming of the Shrew, Our Town, and Urinetown: the Musical --- for which he received an Irene Ryan Acting Scholarship nomination.

In college he was afforded many opportunities, such as: studying abroad for six months at the Collège International de Cannes in the South of France (where he performed two plays in french), a workshop with Jim Leonard on his new play Battle Hymn, the New Harmony Project for new play development, and touring to the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. (once with Anatomy of Gray and later with The Comedy of Errors by invitation for Shakespeare in Washington --- a six-month “landmark festival of theater, music, dance, film, art, and more throughout the nation’s capital”). He graduated with Honors, Summa Cum Laude with a BS in Theater Performance and a double minor in Business Administration and French.

After college, he was accepted into the American Conservatory Theater Master of Fine Arts Program in San Francisco. He currently resides near Union Square and the China Gate, and is entrenched in the home-stretch of his third and final year of graduate school. He has also spent many summers performing at places including the Williamstown Theater Festival, Berkshire Theater Festival, Shakespeare & Company, Summer Repertory Theater in Santa Rosa, Hope Summer Repertory Theater, and Bigfork Summer Playhouse. Look for him in the world premiere of The Tosca Project---created and staged by Carey Perloff and Val Caniparoli of SF Ballet---coming up in June on the A.C.T. Mainstage. His next project is as Marveaux in O Lovely Glowworm or Scenes of Great Beauty by Glen Berger at the Zeum (playing March 4--20, 2010. CLICK HERE for tickets).

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