Heather Baird (Workshop Head)Heather will be teaching: Film Acting Theater Acting at the following locations: Atlantic Theater Company Bio Heather Baird is a BFA theater graduate of NYU's Tisch School of the Arts and Atlantic Alumna. Upon graduation, Heather worked as a Film and Television casting director for 10 years. Noted film projects include Oscar winner, The Hours, starring Meryl Streep and Nicole Kidman, Brown Sugar, starring Queen Latifah and Taye Diggs, Nicholas Hytner's film, Center Stage, and Paul Thomas Anderson's film, Magnolia. Television projects include numerous network pilots, HBO's dramatic series', Oz and The Wire, and ABC daytime series, Loving and The City. Heather's most recent casting project was a search for the lead boy in Billy Elliott the Musical for Broadway. Heather began her career in the performing arts as a member of American Ballet Theater's corps de ballet under the directorship of Mikhail Baryshnikov.
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