Kathryn Gately, Associate Professor of Theatre Arts, is the co-director of an international student exchange program between The Gaiety School of Acting in Dublin, Ireland and Northern Illinois University. Having studied with Sanford Meisner at the Neighborhood Playhouse, Ms. Gately has taught the Meisner Method extensively in America and in Dublin, Ireland. Ms. Gately received her MFA from Rutgers University, Mason Gross School of the Arts, under Bill Esper, with whom she eventually co-taught the BFA and MFA candidates. She co-founded the Gately/Poole Studio in New York City on Off-Broadway's Theater Row, which grew into one of the leading two year acting training programs in the U.S. Ms. Gately's alumni have worked in stage, film, and television and have been nominated and/or received such awards as the Cannes Film Festival's Palm d'Or, the Oscar, the Golden Globe, the Emmy, the Ace, the Tony, the Drama Desk, the Outer Critics Circle, the Joseph Jefferson, the Dramalogue, and the Pulitzer Prize. Most recently, James Gandolfini received the Emmy and the Golden Globe for his role in The Sopranos; Roger Bart won both the Tony and the Drama Desk Award for his work in You're a Good Man Charlie Brown; Kevin Chamberlain was nominated for a Tony Award for Dirty Blondes; and Marc Wolf, won the Obie Award and was nominated for both the Drama Desk and the Outer Critic's Awards for his one man show Another American: Asking and Telling, which he wrote and starred in. In addition to teaching at Northern Illinois University, Ms. Gately has also taught at the Gaiety School of Acting and the Abbey Theatre in Dublin and, during the summers, teaches and coaches stage and film acting in Los Angeles and Boston. Ms. Gately coached the world premiere of Sins of the Father at the Theatre Space in Dublin, Ireland.