Theatre Faculty and Staff

Faculty & Staff:


Acting/DirectingBusiness of TheatreDanceDesign/TechHistory, Theory, & CriticismMusical TheatreOffice Staff


Acting/Directing

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Elizabeth Mozer

Associate Professor, Head of Acting/Directing Area, Director of Studio Season

Theatre

Research Interests

  • Acting
  • Directing
  • Devising
  • Movement, Physical Theatre
  • Embodied and Somatic Practices
  • Physical Dramaturgy
  • Acting Pedagogy
  • Meisner Technique
  • On-Camera Technique
  • Intimacy Direction
  • Michael Chekhov Technique

Teaching Interests

  • Acting Technique, Scene Study
  • Movement, Physical Theatre
  • Devising, Creating Original Theatre
  • Acting for the Camera
  • Embodied Acting
  • Meisner Technique
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Ansa Akyea

Senior Lecturer: Acting

Theatre
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Lisa Rothe

Senior Lecturer: Acting/Directing

Theatre

Research Interests

  • Acting
  • Directing
  • Voice
  • Embodied and somatic practices
  • New play development
  • Global theatre
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Business of Theatre

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Keith Hurd

Adjunct Lecturer: Marketing

Theatre
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Deborah Mitchell

Adjunct Lecturer

Theatre

Research Interests

Entertainment Relations and Promotions
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Dance

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JoEllen Kuhlman

Lecturer: Dance

Theatre

Research Interests

  • Tap
  • Jazz
  • Choreography
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Heidy Batista Garcia

Lecturer

Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program

Lecturer - Dance

Theatre

Teaching Interests

  • Choreography/Creative Processes
  • Classical Ballet
  • Cuban Technique of Modern Dance
  • Latin Dance Styles
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Andrew Horowitz

Lecturer and Artist in Residence

Theatre

Research Interests

  • Choreography
  • Modern Dance
  • Film Acting
  • Staged Reading
  • Lutherie
  • Costume and Prop Design
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William Lawson

Adjunct Lecturer in Organ and Harpsichord

Theatre

Adjunct Lecturer in Organ and Harpsichord

Music

Research Interests

  • Danish music and ballet
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Samuel Elikem Kwame Nyamuame

Assistant Professor

Theatre

Associate Professor, Undergrad Director

Africana Studies

Research Interests

  • Ethnomusicology
  • Musical Cultures of Africa
  • Dance Traditions of Ghana
  • African Dance
  • Drumming
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Design/Tech

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Laura Fine Hawkes

Associate Professor, Director of Design and Technical Theatre

Theatre

Chair, Faculty Senate Executive Committee

Faculty Senate
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Seth Boyd

Assistant Technical Director and Props Master

Theatre
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Olivia Dilworth

Costume Construction Specialist

Theatre
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Christopher Duffy

Assistant Technical Director

Theatre
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Clarence Hause

Scene Painter - Instructional Support Asst

Theatre
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Laura Hensley

Staff, Sound and Lighting Technician

Theatre
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Jana Kucera

Costume Shop Assistant

Theatre
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Olivia O'Brien

Lecturer: Production Stage Manager

Theatre
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Michael Rathbun

Assistant Professor: Lighting Designer

Theatre
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Scott Selmeski

Technical Director

Theatre
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Ariel Thomke

Costume Shop Manager

Theatre
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Barbara Wolfe

Department Chair

Theatre

Research Interests

  • Costume design
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History, Theory, & Criticism

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David Bisaha

Associate Professor, Curator of Theatre Collection

Theatre

Research 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
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Lakshmi Bulathsinghala

Instructor

Translation Research and Instruction Program (TRIP)

Instructor

Theatre

Research Interests

  • Drama and Theatre in Asia
  • Theatre Studies in Sri Lanka
  • South Asian Culture and Society
  • Women, Gender, and, Sexuality in South Asia
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Jane Elliott

Lecturer

Theatre
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Andrew Walkling

Professor

Department of English

Professor

Art History

Professor; Director of Graduate Studies

Theatre

Research 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
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Musical Theatre

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Tommy Iafrate

Associate Professor/Director of Musical Theatre and Undergraduate Program

Theatre

TRIP Courtesy Title

Translation Research and Instruction Program (TRIP)

Research Interests

  • Musical Theatre
  • Directing for Musical Theatre 
  • Music Direction
  • Auditioning
  • Vocal Coaching
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Susan Eichhorn-Young

Adjunct Lecturer - Voice

Theatre
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Madeline Harts

Assistant Professor of Musical Theatre Voice

Theatre

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
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Kristina Ruffo

Adjunct Lecturer

Theatre

Research Interests

  • Musical Direction
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Peter Sicilian

Lecturer: Voice Teacher

Theatre
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Melissa Yanchak

Lecturer, Music Director

Theatre


Office Staff

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Theresa Price

Operations and Finance Manager

Theatre
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Katherine Albertsman

Administrative Assistant

Theatre
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Yichen Zhang

Office Assistant

Theatre
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Brandon Weber

Marketing and Communications Manager

Theatre