Theatre & Dance Faculty

The department's facutly features artists and scholars with national and international profiles whose research and professional work is integral to their work as teachers. Scholars in the department are in the forefront of their respective fields and the work of faculty artists is seen regularly in New York, at major American regional theatres, in Europe and elsewhere around the world.

During the 2006-2007 academic year alone, the work of the faculty was seen on Broadway, at major theatres and festivals in Romania, Hungary, Serbia, Mexico, Austria and Italy, the Festival of Arts and Ideas in New Haven and at American theatres such as the Arena Stage, Shakespeare Santa Cruz, the Utah Shakespearean Theatre, La Jolla Playhouse, Oregon Shakespeare Fesival, San Diego Rep, The Alley, the Old Globe, Chicago Shakespeare Festival and Theatre for a New Audience in New York. During 2006-07 faculty members have served as guest teacher/artists at arts institutes and universities in China, Mexico, Latvia and Germany.

Acting
KYLE DONNELLY Head of Acting	KIM RUBINSTEIN Directing, Acting, Head of Undergraduate Acting	EVA BARNES Speech
URSULA MEYER Voice	CHARLIE OATES Movement	TODD SALOVEY Acting
LINDA VICKERMAN Singing for the Actor	JAMES WINKER Acting

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Dance
ALLYSON GREEN Dept Chair	PATRICIA RINCON Head of Dance	YOLANDE SNAITH Head of Graduate Dance Theatre
KRISTIN ARCIDIACONO	TONY CALIGAGAN	LIAM CLANCY
ERIC GEIGER	SANDRA FOSTER KING	ALICIA RINCON
TONNIE SAMMARTANO	JUDITH SHARP	ALISON DIETTERLE SMITH
TERRY WILSON

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Design
SHAHROKH YADEGARI Head of Design/Sound Design	ANDREI BOTH Scenic Design	ALAN BURRETT Lighting Design
JUDITH DOLAN Costume Design	MARK GUIRGUIS Undergrad Design	JIM INGALLS Adjunct Faculty
TARA KNIGHT Design	VICTORIA PETROVICH Scenic/Costume/Multimedia Design

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Directing
GABOR TOMPA Head of Directing	ROBERT CASTRO Directing, Chicano Theatre, Acting	KIM RUBINSTEIN Directing, Acting, Head of Undergraduate Acting

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PHD
JIM CARMODY Theatre History	NADINE GEORGE-GRAVES Theatre History
MARIANNE McDONALD Theatre History	JOHN ROUSE Theatre History	EMILY ROXWORTHY Theatre History
JANET SMARR Theatre History

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Playwriting
NAOMI IIZUKA Head of Playwriting	ALLAN HAVIS

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Stage Management
LISA PORTER Head of Stage Management	STEVEN ADLER

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Emeritus Faculty
ARTHUR WAGNER Founder of the Department and Emeritus Faculty
MARY CORRIGAN	TONY CURIEL	FRANTISEK DEAK
DEB DRYDEN	ATHOL FUGARD	JORGE HUERTA
JEAN ISAACS	WALTON JONES	MARGARET MARSHALL
RON RANSON	JONATHAN SAVILLE	ADELE EDLING SHANK
THEODORE SHANK	LES WATERS

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