COURTNEY BURR

Courtney Burr is currently in his tenth year at the Margie Haber Studios. He has taught in Europe as well as in New York and Los Angeles. He was voted one of LA’s favorite teacher/coaches in the 2007 Backstage Reader’s Choice Awards.

You have seen his clients in numerous movies and many popular television shows including, CSI-NY, The Closer, Will and Grace, Dexter, The Riches, Close To Home, King of Queens, My Name is Earl, JAG, NYPD Blue, Veronica Mars, etc.

Mr. Burr started in the entertainment business 38 years ago as an actor, studying at New York’s Circle in the Square and also with the renowned Herbert Berghoff. He starred in the original cast of Tennessee William’s Kingdom of Earth, Sal Mineo’s production of Fortune and Men’s Eyes, The Elephant Man, as Alan Strang in Equus, and Noel Coward’s Hayfever, among many others. His television roles included Joe Kennedy, Jr. in the mini-series Robert Kennedy, His Life and Times, as well as appearances on popular shows like Murder She Wrote, Remington Steele, Benson, The American Times, etc.

Courtney is also an accomplished producer and director. His first Broadway production was The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds starring Shelley Winters and Carol Kane. A few years later, Harold and Maude starring first-time Academy Award winner Janet Gaynor. Mr. Burr subsequently directed Ms. Gaynor in the play On Golden Pond, Keir Dullea in Deathtrap, Chazz Plaminteri in Lou Gehrig Did Not Die of Cancer. In Los Angeles, he produced the award-winning productions of David Berry’s G.R. Point, Tennessee Williams’ Kingdom of Earth, and Lee Blessing’s Fortinbras..

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