Dwight Tolar

Instructor
Acting and Directing

Biography
Dwight Tolar is a director, and professional actor from Manhattan, KS. His directing credits include: Beehive: the 60’s musical, Bonnie & Clyde, Into The Woods, Steel Magnolias, Closer, Reasons To Be Pretty, Moon Over Buffalo, Time Stands Still, Brighton Beach Memoirs, Suburbia, Speech & Debate, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, and The Wedding Singer. For film and television, acting credits include: Be Washington, Occupying Ed, Secrets, Subtract Nine Sundays, The Ant, Buttercup, The Great American Scream Machine, The Shot Heard Round The World/Lexington & Concord, The Tall Tales Of Jim Bridger, Into The Wild Frontier, Legends & Lies: The Civil War, Impossible Escapes, Copycat Killers, Fatal Attraction, Turn: Washington’s Spies, and Homicide Hunters.

Dwight was an Assistant Professor in acting for the School of Music, Theatre, and Dance at Kansas State University from 2004-2014. He received his MFA from Wayne State University's Hilberry Repertory Theatre, and studied at the Oxford School of Drama, UK. He is represented by Exposure Model and Talent, and Reel Talent Studio.