Current Instructors
Here are the talented teachers of our Fall 2025 courses. We’re so happy to present them to you, and we’re so proud of the excellent courses they will deliver around Wellfleet and by Zoom to you wherever you may be.
ALSTON BROWN
Alston Brown is an actor, writer, director, and producer originally from Atlanta, GA and a proud Cape washashore. He has appeared in and contributed to numerous productions in NYC and across the country, including Trinity Rep, Naked Angels, The Wild Project, New Dramatists, Provincetown Tennessee Williams Theater Festival, Provincetown Theater, Mason Street Warehouse, Sleeping Weasel, and Salvage Art Productions. He has produced films that have appeared at Tribeca Film Festival, SXSW, and Baltimore Film Festival. Film/TV credits include “Observe and Report”, “The Enemy Within”, “Little Sister”, “High Tide”, “Applesauce.” Alston is a graduate of the Brown/Trinity MFA Program..
Jeff Zinn
JEFF ZINN is best known as the longtime Artistic Director of Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater (WHAT). Some of the many productions he directed there include, A Lie of the Mind, Buried Child, The Road to Nirvana, The Mystery of Irma Vep, The Baltimore Waltz, 7 Blow Jobs, Waiting for Godot, Killer Joe, The Beauty Queen of Leenane (with Julie Harris), Love Song, Shining City, The Pillowman, Danny Casolaro Died for You, A Behanding in Spokane and Bakersfield Mist. The legacy of WHAT continues at the Harbor Stage where he directed Fool for Love, The Thin Place and played Serebryakov in Uncle Vanya. As an actor he made his Equity debut as “Danny” in the original off-Broadway production of Sexual Perversity In Chicago, and appeared on Broadway with Derek Jacobi in The Suicide. His book, The Existential Actor: Life and Death, Onstage and Off was published in 2015. His podcast, Gurus - The Story of Acting, is now available on Apple, Amazon and Spotify.
Indira Ganesan
Indira Ganesan is the author of three novels, The Journey, Inheritance, and As Sweet as Honey. She was born in Srirangam, India, and grew up in St. Louis, MO, and Rockland County, NY. She held fellowships from the Mary Ingraham Bunting Institute at Radcliffe College, The MacDowell Colony, The Paden Institute for Writers of Color, and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. She has taught at UCSan Diego, UCSanta Cruz, Naropa University, CUBoulder, and LIU. She now teaches fiction at Emerson College, reviews non-fiction books for Phi Beta Kappa’s online magazine, The Key Reporter, and hosts Namaste, a weekly global music program on Cape Cod community radio, WOMR/WFMR. Her website is indiraganesan.com.
Martha L. Rothman
Martha Leibowitz Rothman, FAIA, graduated from the Harvard Graduate School of Design in 1965 with a Master of Arts in Architecture. She joined Rothman Partners in 1971, founded in1968 by her husband Elliot Paul Rothman…
John Dennis Anderson
John Dennis Anderson holds B.A. and M.A. degrees in Communication Studies from Baylor University and a Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin.A native of Texas, he moved to South Wellfleet in 2016 after retiring from teaching Communication and Performance Studies…