About

OnTheRoad Repertory Company was founded in 2012 by Artistic Director Alice Spivak, the renowned acting mentor and author of How to Rehearse When There is No Rehearsal - Acting & the Media. The company was founded in collaboration with her advanced professional acting students.

Our mission is to create an ensemble of players producing revivals and original works in New York City.

Alice Spivak

FOUNDER

Alice Spivak acted extensively Off Broadway and in regional theatre (receiving the Joseph Jefferson Award in Chicago). Television audiences saw her in Law and Order, Sex and the City, Law and Order CI, and as a regular performer on Sidney Lumet’s 100 Centre Street. Recent film appearances included Please Give, Find Me Guilty, and Before the Devil Knows You're Dead. Two of her favorite movie roles were Jenny in Privilege by Yvonne Rainer, which premiered at the NY Film Festival in 1991, and Louise, an American tourist, in An Electric Moon, written by Arundhati Roy, directed by Pradip Krishen, and made in India.

She coached on feature films, Broadway shows, TV mini-series, pilots, etc., and taught Film Directing Workshops, receiving the Indie Award by The Association of Video and Filmmakers in 1977. She was a member of the faculties of NYU and Columbia Film Grad Schools, teaching Directing Actors.

JT Patton

Associate Director

JT Patton has performed in numerous Off Broadway productions including The Cherry Orchard, The Dumb Waiter, The House of Yes, Orpheus Descending (directed by Ms. Spivak), and OnTheRoad Rep's inaugural production, Lone Star. He has also appeared in Law and Order, Blue Bloods and several independent films.