Faculty & Staff:
Acting/DirectingBusiness of TheatreDanceDesign/TechHistory, Theory, & CriticismMusical Theatre
Acting/Directing
Elizabeth Mozer
Associate Professor, Head of Acting/Directing, Co-Director of Studio Season
Theatre
Teaching Interests
- Voice and Speech, Linklater
- Acting for the Camera
- Business of Acting
- Shakespeare
Research Interests
- Acting
- Directing
- Voice
- Embodied and somatic practices
- New play development
- Global theatre
Business of Theatre
Dance
Research Interests
- Tap
- Jazz
- Choreography
Heidy Batista Garcia
Lecturer
Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program
Teaching Interests
- Choreography/Creative Processes
- Classical Ballet
- Cuban Technique of Modern Dance
- Latin Dance Styles
Research Interests
- Choreography
- Modern Dance
- Film Acting
- Staged Reading
- Lutherie
- Costume and Prop Design
Ania Nikulina
Research Assistant Professor, Charles E. Scheidt Faculty Fellow
German and Russian Studies
Research Interests
- State-sponsored dance
- Artistic protest and censorship
- Dance and Archives
- Dance Ethnography
- Cultural Diplomacy
Samuel Elikem Kwame Nyamuame
nyamuame@binghamton.eduResearch Interests
- Ethnomusicology
- Musical Cultures of Africa
- Dance Traditions of Ghana
- African Dance
- Drumming
Lindsay Rapport
lrapport@binghamton.eduDesign/Tech
Olivia Dilworth
odilworth@binghamton.edu
Clarence Hause
chause1@binghamton.edu
Olivia O'Brien
oobrien@binghamton.edu
Research Interests
- Costume design
History, Theory, & Criticism
David Bisaha
dbisaha@binghamton.eduResearch Interests
- History of theatre and performance design
- Immersive and participatory performance
- Theatre historiography
- Theatre labor studies
Teaching Interests
- Theatre history
- Performance studies
- Dramaturgy
- Modern and Contemporary Drama
- Acting and Directing Theory
Lakshmi D Bulathsinghala
ldbulath@binghamton.eduResearch Interests
- Drama and Theatre in Asia
- Theatre Studies in Sri Lanka
- South Asian Culture and Society
- Women, Gender, and, Sexuality in South Asia
Andrew Walkling
walkling@binghamton.eduResearch Interests
- Seventeenth-Century British History
- Visual Culture
- Literary Studies
- Performance Studies
- Musicology
Teaching Interests
- Early Modern London: Architecture, Sound and Space
- Music and Text in 17th-Century England
- The Masque in 17th-Century England
- British Painting from Holbein to Hogarth
- Courses in English literature: The English Civil War; Restoration; Augustanism
- Graduate seminars on British art, architecture, and print culture; 17th-century English literature; early modern theatre history and dramatic theory
Musical Theatre
Tommy Iafrate
tiafrate@binghamton.eduResearch Interests
- Musical Theatre
- Directing for Musical Theatre
- Music Direction
- Auditioning
- Vocal Coaching
Research Interests
- Musical Theatre and CCM Vocal Pedagogy
- Vocology and Voice Habilitation
- Voice Care Networks
- Women Composers of Musical Theatre (Past and Present)
- Underrepresented Vocal Pedagogues
- The Cross-Genre Singer
Teaching Interests
- Voice Lessons (Musical Theatre, CCM)
- Vocal Pedagogy
- Class Voice
- Vocal Techniques for Musical Theatre
Hye Won Kim
hkim132@binghamton.eduResearch Interests
- Theater Studies
- Performance Studies
- Dramatic Literature
- Musical Theater
- Critical Theory
- Cultural Studies
- Sound Studies
- Media Studies
- Visual Culture
- Reception Theory
- Transnational Asian Studies
- Asian American Studies
- Korean Popular Culture
Research Interests
- Musical Direction
Office Staff
Katherine Albertsman
kalbertsman@binghamton.edu
Brandon M. Weber
bweber6@binghamton.eduFaculty Emeritus
Research Interests
Chancellor's Award for Internationalization, 2004; Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching, 1997-1998; University Award for Excellence in Teaching, 1997-1998; President's Award for Innovative Instruction, 1999;
Research Interests
- Acting
- Directing
- Movement, including Somatic Practices
- Voice
- Effective Communication / Public Speaking
