Specialty: Working with students to create scenes based on history and bringing them to full production

Gayle Stahlhuth is an actor, director, playwright, producer, and storyteller. She has performed off-Broadway, in national tours, regional theater, television, and in film, and her plays have been performed throughout the country. As producing artistic director of the Equity professional East Lynne Theater Company from 1999 through 2022, she produced 123 shows, including 23 world premieres and 13 NJ premieres, and directed most of them. The company received excellent reviews in -The New York Times,- -The Philadelphia Inquirer,- -The Wall Street Journal,- and other media. Currently she is the artistic director of Classic American Tales.

In the early 1980-s, she was a pioneer in the artist-in-residence movement to put art back into public schools, and is on the teaching artist rosters for New York, New Jersey, and Utah. For her work, she was selected as one of only two hundred artists from all arts disciplines to be listed in the “Directory of Community Artists” published by the National Endowment for the Arts.

Residencies are tailored to the needs of teachers, curriculum, and/or the community.

Gayle has been awarded commissions from The National Portrait Gallery, the Missouri and Illinois Humanities Councils, and grants from the NJ Humanities Council, the NYS Council on the Arts, and the Mid-Atlantic Foundation for the Arts. She is a member of the Dramatists Guild, SAG-AFTRA, Actors’ Equity Association, and the League of Professional Women honored her in 2016 for her work in theater.

Gayle is available for school groups of grades 3 and up.