Denver Center Theatre Academy Faculty

Larry Hecht has been teaching, directing and acting professionally for more than 35 years. He is Head of Acting for the National Theatre Conservatory (NTC). He has been with the Conservatory and Denver Center Theatre Company (DCTC) for ten years. He is a member of the DCTC acting company. He worked with ACT in San Francisco for more than 20 years where he served as Conservatory director and head of the MFA Program. Some of the many theatres and schools he has worked with include: PCPA, San Diego Repertory, the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, the Magic Theatre, San Jose Repertory, Berkeley Repertory, Arizona Theatre Company, and Stanford University. He is a graduate of the University of San Francisco and has an MFA in Acting from the American Conservatory Theatre.


Dave Moss in Glengarry Glen Ross 

Lawrence has appeared at the Denver Center as Tupolski in The Pillowman and Mick Dowd in A Skull in Connemara. He is Head of Acting at the National Theatre Conservatory where he has been teaching and directing for the last 11 years. Most recently, he acted at Shakespeare Santa Cruz portraying Lear in King Lear and Duke Frederick in As You Like It. He has appeared here in Denver in Vigil for Modern Muse Theatre Company. Lawrence was a company member, resident director and Conservatory Director with American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco for more than 20 years. As an actor, teacher and director he has worked at many theatres including PCPA, Arizona Theatre Company, San Diego Repertory Theatre, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, San Jose Repertory Theatre, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, San Francisco’s Magic Theatre, the American Musical Theatre, Lizard Head Theatre Company, Marin Theatre Company, Denver University, University of San Francisco and Stanford University, to mention a few. He has been a member of Actors’ Equity Association for more than 30 years.