Carl Menninger

Carl Menninger is an American actor, director and playwright. He is currently a professor of Theatre at American University in Washington, DC. He holds a master's degree from Emerson College and a bachelor's from Northwestern University.

Menninger co-authored Minding the Edge: Strategies for a Successful, Fulfilling Career as an Actor with Lori Hammel. The Ganymede Fall Arts Festival recently presented a reading of his play Dysfunction Spelled Backward . . . is family. He directed a staged reading of the Adam Gwon and Julia Jordan musical, Bernice Bobs Her Hair at American University.

As a teacher, Menninger taught at the Berklee College of Music as well as professional training programs in Washington and Chicago. While in Boston and Chicago he directed and/or choreographed over 150 productions. While at American University, Menninger directed productions of Into the Woods, Nine, Romeo and Juliet, Hay Fever, Do I Hear a Waltz?, The Hot L Baltimore, Shared Space, Orpheus Descending and Happy.Go.Lucky.

Additional playwriting credits include: Objects in the Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear, For Real, And So She Moved In, Private Life: Your Fifteen Minutes, and the book for the musical, A Pocket Full of Grace.

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