Connor Graham

Teaching Artist

Connor Graham (he/him) is an accomplished theatre professional with a strong academic background and performance resume. He holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Theatre (Performance) from the University at Buffalo, SUNY, and an Master of Fine Arts in Theatre from The Ohio State University. He is currently pursuing an Advanced Certificate in Theatre Education from Adelphi University.

His regional performance credits include “Gruesome Playground Injuries” with The Sound Company, “The Full Monty” and “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” with Subversive Theatre (earning an ARTIE Award nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Play), “Design for Living” and “The Yeats Project” with Irish Classical Theatre Co., “Over the Tavern” with the Kavinoky Theatre, “Free Fred Brown!” with Ujima Theatre Co., “Stupid Fucking Bird” with ART/WNY (earning a Broadway World Award for Best Actor in a Play, “Junie B. Jones is Not a Crook” with Theatre of Youth, “Where There’s a Will There’s a Play” with Shakespeare in Delaware Park) and “Tuesday Night Magic” with P3 Magic Theatre. His acting credits at Ohio State include “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time,” “Are You Now or Have You Ever Been…,” and “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”.

In addition to acting, Connor’s directorial credits include “Votes for Women!” with the Kingfisher Theatre (earning a Best of Rochester nomination for Best Production, and “The Glass Menagerie” at University at Buffalo, SUNY (earning a KCACTF nomination). His commitment as a creator of new work is evident in his artistic collaborations, such as co-creating, producing, and performing in the interactive magic and mentalism play “For What It’s Worth”, the proceeds of which were donated to Puerto Rican relief following the devastation of Hurricane Maria. He also devised a new Mime and Foley duet with his creative partner, Erin Alys. They toured the piece before adapting the stage play to film during the summer of 2020. The film premiered at the International Boulder Fringe Festival, and the proceeds were donated to the Okra Project. His most recent original solo play, “Terrible Shattering Blows,” received its fringe premiere via film in STLFringe.

As a movement theatre specialist, Connor has choreographed intimacy and movement for productions in Ohio and New York including “The Seagull” at Ohio State University, and “Animal Farm” and “Memphis” at the Buffalo Academy for Visual and Performing Arts. He has had the privilege of training with renowned movement theatre artists, including Avner “the Eccentric” Eisenberg, Gregg Goldston, Theatrical Intimacy Education. In 2022, Connor was honored to be invited as one of thirty international artists to participate in SITI Company’s final Skidmore training, where Anne Bogart commented on his compositional work as “gorgeous and moving” and his acting displaying “precision and presence”.

Connor is a Certified Hypnotist through the National Guild of Hypnotists (NGH) and a member of the Gene Gordon - Karl Norman International Brotherhood of Magicians (IBM) Ring 12. He is a founding member of the Association of Regional Theater Artists (ARTA), the Association of Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE), Association for Theatre Movement Educators (ATME), and Voice and Speech Trainers Association (VASTA). Connor shares his passion for theatre as a teacher and director at the Buffalo Academy for Visual and Performing Arts. In his first year at the school he directed “Animal Farm,” served as a consultant on “Memphis,” and produced two new-works festivals titled “Voices That Move Us” and “EXEUNT”. For more information about Connor Graham and his work, please visit www.connorjamesgraham.com