Parlan McGaw

Parlan McGaw has been helping actors connect with the core of their talent since 2005, when he codirected the first of two weeklong retreats with master acting teacher Michael Howard here at Karme Choling. He has since developed a program called Heart of Acting and has taught its methods to actors at Villanova University, the Michael Chekhov Acting Studio, the Interdependence Project, Shantigar Foundation, and the Michael Howard Studios in New York. A meditation instructor in the Shambhala tradition, Parlan has acted with the New York Shakespeare Festival, the Old Globe Theatre, Virginia Stage Company, and other theatres in New York and regionally, and he made his film debut in Todd Haynes’s Poison.