
Barbara E. Wolfe
Chair, Director Undergraduate Program
Theatre
Research Interests
- Costume design

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

Research Interests
- Acting
- Directing
- Movement, including Somatic Practices
- Voice
- Effective Communication / Public Speaking

Lakshmi D. Bulathsinghala
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Theatre; Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Research Interests
- Drama and Theatre in Asia
- Theatre Studies in Sri Lanka
- South Asian Culture and Society
- Women, Gender, and, Sexuality in South Asia

Research Interests
- Tap
- Jazz
- Choreography

Laura Hawkes
Associate Professor, Director of Design and Technical Theatre
Theatre

Research Interests
- Acting
- Movement
- Dialects
- Stanislavsky technique
- Chekhov technique
- Jewish theatre
- Holocaust theatre

Research Interests
- Choreography
- Modern Dance
- Film Acting
- Staged Reading
- Lutherie
- Costume and Prop Design

Tommy Iafrate
Associate Professor/Director of Musical Theatre
Theatre
Research Interests
- Musical Theatre
- Directing for Musical Theatre
- Music Direction
- Auditioning
- Vocal Coaching

Research Interests
- Entertainment Relations and Promotions

Elizabeth Mozer
Associate Professor, Director of Studio Season
Theatre
Research Interests
- Acting
- Directing
- Devising
- Movement, Physical Theatre
- Embodied and Somatic Practices
- Physical Dramaturgy
- Theater Pedagogy
- Meisner Technique
- On-Camera Technique

Ania Nikulina
Research Assistant Professor, Charles E. Scheidt Faculty Fellow
German and Russian Studies; Theatre
Research Interests
- State-sponsored dance
- Artistic protest and censorship
- Dance and Archives
- Dance Ethnography
- Cultural Diplomacy

Samuel Elikem Kwame Nyamuame
Assistant Professor
Theatre; Africana Studies
Research Interests
- Ethnomusicology
- Musical Cultures of Africa
- Dance Traditions of Ghana
- African Dance
- Drumming

Andrew R. Walkling
Professor; Professor; Director of Graduate Programs
English, General Literature and Rhetoric; Art History; Theatre
Research Interests
- Seventeenth-Century British History
- Visual Culture
- Literary Studies
- Performance Studies
- Musicology

Brandon A. Wright
Assistant Professor, Acting/Directing
Theatre

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