Theatre Faculty and Staff

Research Interests

• Acting
• Directing
• Movement, including Somatic Practices
• Voice
• Effective Communication / Public Speaking

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

Research Interests

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

Research Interests

• Entertainment Relations and Promotions

Teaching Interests

• Classical ballet
• Cuban modern dance technique
• Afro-Caribbean dances and music
• Choreography

Research Interests

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

Research Interests

• Tap
• Jazz
• Choreography

Research Interests

• Danish music and ballet

Research Interests

• State-sponsored dance
• Artistic protest and censorship
• Dance and Archives
• Dance Ethnography
• Cultural Diplomacy

Research Interests

• Ethnomusicology
• Musical Cultures of Africa
• Dance Traditions of Ghana
• African Dance
• Drumming

Research Interests

• Costume design

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

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

• 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

Research 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

Research Interests

• Musical Direction