Chaya Gordon-Bland

Assistant Professor of Acting and Movement

Chaya Gordon-Bland

Chaya Gordon-Bland received her Bachelor of Arts from Oberlin College and her Master of Fine Arts in Performance Pedagogy from the University of Pittsburgh. In Pittsburgh Chaya was seen onstage in Pitt Repertory Theatre productions of A Toothache, a Plague and a Dog, Vinegar Tom and The Wedding. For Pitt Repertory Theatre Chaya also choreographed fights for Family Stories and Desdemona: A Play about a Handkerchief, directed Wonders of the Invisible World Revealed, and directed and fight directed William Shakespeare’s Cymbeline.

Prior to moving to Pittsburgh Chaya was based in New York City for 9 years where she worked as a professional actor and teaching artist for companies such as the American Globe Theatre, Inwood Shakespeare Festival and the Actor’s Shakespeare Company. Regionally Chaya has worked for Kentucky Shakespeare Festival, New England Shakespeare Festival, the Roxy Regional Theatre, and Shenandoah Shakespeare. Favorite roles include Puck in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Rosalind in As You Like It, and the title role in Antigone.

Chaya is a member of Actors’ Equity Association (AEA) and the Society of American Fight Directors (SAFD), in which she holds Actor/Combatant status with proficiency in Unarmed Combat, Rapier and Dagger, and Broadsword.

Cymbeline
Cymbeline
A Toothache, a Plague, and a Dog
A Toothache, a Plague, and a Dog
The Wedding
The Wedding
Twelfth Night
Twelfth Night