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Harold F. Burgess II
Assistant Professor
301.405.6643
Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, Room 2745
harold@umd.edu
Education/Training: M.F.A., Lighting
Design, University of Maryland, 2004; B.A., Theatre with an Emphasis
in Design, University of Maryland, 1997
Area of Specialization/Interest: Lighting Design,
Drafting/Rendering, Computer Assisted Design
Representative Productions: Harold has been working
in the Washington area on numerous productions over the last ten years.
His recent regional lighting design credits include: Breath Boom and My Children! My Africa!, The Studio Theatre; The School for Scandal, Everyman Theatre; James
and the Giant Peach,
BAPA Imagination Stage; Our Country’s Good, American University, Monster and Having
Our Say,
Olney Theatre
Center for the Arts; The Story, I Have Before Me A Remarkable Document Given To Me By A Young Lady From Rwanda , From the Mississippi Delta, African
Continuum Theatre Company; Incident at Vichy, Washington
Shakespeare Company.
Harold has been an assistant lighting designer for the Berkshire
Theatre Festival,
Shakespeare Theatre, Signature Theatre, Studio Theatre, The Kennedy
Center, Roundhouse Theatre, and the Olney Theatre Center for the
Arts.
Professional Affiliations: United States Institute
for Theatre Technology (USITT); member of United Scenic Artists, Local
829
Honors and Awards: General Research Board Summer Award, 2006; Henry C. Welcome Fellowship 2005,
Honorable Mention for Lighting Design, Region III KC/ACTF (Kennedy
Center American
College Theater Festival),
2002. Barbizon Excellence in Design Honorable Mention, Lighting Design,
Region III KC/ACTF, 2001. Charles B. Hale Award for outstanding achievement
and dedication to the University of Maryland University Theatre program,
1997
Faedra
Carpenter
Assistant Professor
301.405.6246
Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, Room 2815
fcarp@umd.edu
Education/Training: Ph.D.
in Drama, Stanford University, 2005; M.A. in Drama, Washington University,
1994; B.A. in English, Spelman College, 1992.
Areas
of Specialization/Interest: American Performance and Dramatic Literature
(with concentrations in African American and Latina/o Dramatic Literature and
Contemporary Performance); Critical theories of Race, Gender, and Sexuality;
Dramaturgy; Racial Iconography
Professional Affiliations: Current: Dramaturg for Fresh Flavas
(ACTCo's new play development program), American Society for Theatre Research
(ASTR), Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE), Literary Managers
and Dramaturgs of the Americas (LMDA). Former: Helen Hayes Award Judge, Resident
Dramaturg/Literary Manager of Crossroads Theatre Company, Literary Associate/Dramaturg
of Arena Stage, Production Dramaturg for the African Continuum Theatre Company,
TheatreWorks, New Perspective Theatre, Black Women Playwrights Group, and the
Young Playwrights Theatre.
Representative Productions: Directing projects at Stanford University
include: Cloud Tectonics by Jose Rivera, The Camp by
Griselda Gambaro, and On the Hills of Black America by Keith
Josef Adkins. Professional Dramaturgy (for over 20 plays) includes: The
Amen Corner at ACTCo , Fences at TheatreWorks, Spirit
North at Crossroads (World Premiere); Long Day's Journey Int o Night at
Arena Stage (Helen Hayes Award); and The Odyssey by Derek Walcott
(American Premiere).
Representative Publications/Research Activities: "Robert
O'Hara's Insurrection: Que(e)rying
History" in Text and Performance Quarterly , 2003 and reprinted
in Black Queer Studies: A Critical Anthology, 2005. Forthcoming:
"(L)activists and Lattes: Breastfeeding Advocacy as Domestic Performance" in
Women & Performance: A Journal of Feminist Theory, 2006; "Reading
Between the Lines: Intertextuality and the Documentation of African American
Theatre History" in Blackstream,
2006; and "Hip-Hop Interviews" with Joan Morgan and Gwendolyn Pough in in
Callaloo: A Journas of African Diaspora Arts and Letters, 2006.
Honors and Awards: Research
and Teaching Fellowship, Stanford University; Invited Lecturer.
Susan Chiang
Lecturer
301.405.0912
Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, Room 3749
Susan_Chiang@juno.com
Education/Training: M.F.A., Costume
Design, George Washington University, 1992; B.A., French Literature,
University of Maryland, College Park, 1973
Area of Specialization/Interest: Period Styles, Makeup,
Draper/Costume Shop Foreman
Professional Affiliations: Theatre J, Resident Costume
Designer; Wolf Trap Opera Company, Costume Shop Manager
Representative Productions: Theatre J designs include
Talley's Folly, The Last Seder, Death and the Maiden,
Born Guilty and Miklat. She has designed costumes
for other theatres including Olney Theatre Center (The Laramie Project),
Imagination Stage (Cinderella Eats Rice and Beans, Voyage
of the Jumblies, Abiyoyo, among others), Woolly Mammoth
Theatre (Rocket to the Moon, Stop Kiss!), Washington
Shakespeare Theatre, Keegan Theatre, and Source Theatre. Film credits
include costume design for PBS' George Washington Revisited, Cato
Segment. Guest designer credits at George Washington University
include Steel Magnolias, Stop Kiss! and The Seagull.
Daniel Conway
Associate Professor, Head of Design Area, Director of the M.F.A.
in Theatre
301.405.6680
Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, Room 2747
dconway1@umd.edu
conwaydesign.com
Education/Training: M.F.A. Design,
The George Washington University, 1982; B.S., Theatre, The State University
of New York, Brockport, 1978.
Areas of Specialization/Interest: Scenic Design, Lighting
Design, Computer Assisted Design.
Professional Affiliations: United Scenic Artists; Art
Director /consultant to Hillman and Carr, Washington D.C. for permanent
collection films for The Smithsonian Institution, The Cleveland Science
Museum, The Carnegie Science Center, and The National Civil War Museum.
Representative Productions: Scenery and lighting design
for more than 250 productions Off- Broadway and at regional theatres,
including: Berkshire Theatre Festival, Cleveland Playhouse ,(premiere:
Reynolds Price’s New Music), New Theatre of Brooklyn
(premiere: Brecht’s: Conversations in Exile), Manhattan
Class Company, Harold Clurman Theatre, Samuel Beckett Theatre; (premiere:
Horton Foote’s: Lily Dale), Home for Contemporary Theatre,
Soho Rep, Chelsea Theatre, Circle Repertory Lab, Long Island Stage Company,
Syracuse Stage, Wilma Theatre, Arden Theatre Company, Boston Lyric Opera,
Repertory Theatre of St. Louis,The Studio Theatre, and Woolly Mammoth
Theatre. Designer of Industrial shows for Icon Communications 1985-89,
NYC. Assistant designer at Caribiner, NYC, for State Farm,
IBM, and McDonald’s. Assistant to Circle Repertory designers John
Lee Beatty, David Potts and Hariton/Baral on a dozen Broadway and Off-Broadway
productions. Recent designs: scenery for Runaway Home at Studio
Theatre, lighting for Jump/Cut) at Woolly Mammoth Theatre,
scenery for Hedda Gabbler, lighting for My Children,
My Africa at Everyman Theatre, and scenery for The World
Goes Round and Fences at Round House Theatre.
Honors and Awards: Six-time nominee of the Helen Hayes
Award for Outstanding Scenic Design and winner of the award in 2000
for Ambrosio at Rep Stage; Individual Artist Fellowship, D.C.
Commission on the Arts and Humanities, 1997;
2004 Helen Hayes Award nomination for Outstanding Set
Design, Resident Play or Musical.
Leslie Felbain
Assistant Professor
301.405.6672
Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, Room 2819
lfelbain@umd.edu
Education/Training: Ecole
Jacques Lecoq and Atelier Serge Martin - Paris, France 1978-1981; B.S.
Dance and Anatomy 1975 University of Wisconsin, Madison; Workshops with
Augusto Boal, company members of Jerzy Grotowski's Polish Theatre Lab,
company members of Theatre du Soleil, Monika Pagneaux, Peter Brook, Kabuki
and Noh Theatre with A.C. Scott; Alexander Training Institute of San
Francisco, Teacher Certification 1991; Cranio-sacral Therapy, Upledger
Institute 1994-2000.
Areas
of Specialization/Interest: Acting, Directing, Movement,
Mask, Clown, Bouffon, Theatrical Styles, Character Development,
Ensemble Work, Solo Performance, Creation & Development
of Original Material.
Professional
Affiliations: American Society of Teachers of the Alexander
Technique, Theatre Bay Area, Association des Theatres de Poche, International
Association of Heathcare Practitioners.
Representative
Productions: Movement Director & Character
Coach Rules of Charity by John Belluso at The Magic Theatre,
Direction and Adaptation The Green Bird by Carlo Gozzi
at The College of Marin, Movement Coach for Barry Humphries/Dame
Edna, Staging and Movement Direction Pericles, The Master
and Margarita, Director Noses are Red, Clownscientious
Objectors at
The American Conservatory Theater, Director Show Up, Tetrasomia The
Pickle Family Circus, European And North American Tours of Solo
Shows Gullible's
Travels and The Big Deal, Core Member of le dal Theatre in
Paris, France, Adjunct Faculty in the MFA program at The Conservatory
Theatre.
Representative
Publications/Research Activities: Physical
Approach to Actor Training, the synthesis of the physical approach to theatre
training in Europe and the psychologically-based training in the United States.
Laurie Frederik Meer
Assistant Professor
301.405.6682
Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, Room 2816
fredmeer@umd.edu
Education/Training : Ph.D., Cultural Anthropology, University of Chicago, 2006; B.A. Honors, Social Anthropology, University of Cape Town, South Africa, 1993; B.A., Anthropology, University of Virginia, 1990; School for International Training, Kenya/Tanzania, 1990
Area of Specialization : Cuba, Latin America, African Diaspora, performance and creative process (theatre, improvisation, storytelling, spoken word, music, dance), ethnography, cultural politics, nationalism, subversive culture and social protest
Professional Affiliations : Performance Studies International (PSi), Latin American Studies Association (LASA), Society for Cultural Anthropology (SCA), American Anthropology Association (AAA)
Representative Productions : Consultant and investigator for: Guajiro a los Cuatro Vientos, Laboratorio de Teatro Comunitario, Guantánamo, Cuba; Ten mi nombre como un sueño, Teatro de los Elementos, Cumanayagua, Cuba; and the South African adaptation of Hair, CAPAB, Nico Malan Theatre, Cape Town. Performer in La Muerte Juega el Escondido, La Cruzada Teatral, Guantánamo, Cuba, and in community and university theatre productions of Li'l Abner, 110 in the Shade, Once Upon a Mattress, and Hair. Professional dancer in Ballet Folklórico de America Latina.
Representative Publications/Research Activities : Currently working on book manuscript entitled: The Comedy and Tragedy of 21st Century Cuban Identity: Theatre and Performance in the Zones of Silence. Published articles include:"La Batalla for Cuban Identity: Option Zero Theater," in The Special Period: Cuban Culture in the 1990s (forthcoming, Palgrave 2008); "Playback Theatre in Cuba: the Politics of Improvisation and Free Expression" (The Drama Review 2007); "Cuba's National Characters: Setting the Stage for the Hombre Novísimo" (Journal of Latin American Anthropology 2005); "Competition Ballroom Dancing, Anthropology and the Field: The Native's Point of View" (Anthropology News 2005); and "The Contestation of Cuba's Public Sphere in National Theater and the Transformation from Teatro Bufo to Teatro Nuevo"(Gestos 2001). Articles also published in Spanish in Cuban theatre journals Conjunto and Tablas.
Honors/Awards : Notre Dame Pre-Doctoral Fellowship, Fulbright-Hayes Doctoral Research Fellowship, Wenner-Gren Anthropological Foundation Fellowship, Spencer Foundation Research Grant, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Grant, Rotary International Graduate Ambassadorial Scholarship
Patti P. Gillespie
Professor Emeritus
301.405.6676
Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, Room 2809
Education/Training: Ph.D., Indiana
University, 1970; M.A., Western Kentucky University, 1962; Sp. Ed.,
Western Kentucky University, 1964; B.S., University of Kentucky, 1958.
Areas of Specialization/Interest: American theatre;
Pedagogy.
Professional Affiliations: Association of Communication
Administration; American Theatre Association; Speech Communication Association;
Southern Speech Communication Association; American Society for Theatre
Research; The Faculty Voice; American Association of University Professors;
Collegiate Council; Southeastern Theatre Conference.
Representative Publications/Research Activities: Co-Author
of Scholarship on Women and Society: Selected Proceedings of An
Inter & Multi Disciplinary Conference, with Helen Houseley;
Co-Author with Kenneth M. Cameron of: Western Theatre: Revolution
and Revival, The Enjoyment of Theatre, and Teachers
Manual for Enjoyment of Theatre; Co-Author of Speech: An Important
Skill and accompanying audio tapes, with Robert Kemp; Author of
many chapters and articles on Theatre History, Criticism, and Theory,
Education, and University Administration.
Honors and Awards: Lilly Center for Teaching Excellence
Fellow; Fulbright Scholar and Lecturer; Omicron Delta Kappa; Guest Editor
of ACA Bulletin; ACT-NUCEA National Award, Project SAETT; Dissertation
Fellow & Indiana University Fellow; Alpha Psi Omega; Phi Beta Kappa.
Mitchell
Hébert
Professor
301.405.6684
Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, Room 2820
mhebert@umd.edu
Education/Training: M.F.A. in Acting,
University of Washington, 1983; B.F.A., Theatre, University of Wisconsin,
1980.
Areas of Specialization/Interest: Acting, Directing
Professional Affiliations: AEA, SAG, AFTRA
Representative Productions: Charles in The Clean
House at Woolly Mammoth Theatre, where he is a long standing company
member. Other Woolly credits include: Reuben in Patience,
Jimmy in Heaven,
Tom Bates in Brimstone and Treacle, The Irish Man in The
Gigli Concert,
and Frank in Kvetch. Weston, Curse of the Starving Class (Woolly/UM).
Cyrano in Cyrano de
Bergerac at the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, at Everyman
Theatre; Vanya in Uncle Vanya, at Round House Theatre; Mr.
Dussel in The Diary of Anne Frank, Morgan in The Drawer
Boy, Mayor Robert F. Wagner in Shakespeare, Moses, & Joe
Papp, Rolly
Moore in Criminal Genius, and Escape from Happiness,
Leonard in One Shoe Off. Other local crdits include:
the title role in Nathan the Wise at Theatre of
the First Amendment, Olney Theatre Center:
Tartuffe in Tartuffe, Dysart in Equus, Salieri
in
Amadeus. FILM: The Hunley. TELEVISION: the title
role in Nathan the Wise on PBS-TV, Homicide: Life on
the Street.
RADIO: LA Theatre Works/NPR, Col. Martin “Jiggs” Casey
in
Seven Days in May (with Ed Asner and Senator Fred Thompson),
Lt. Commander John Challee in The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial,
Aaron Geldhart in The Substance of Fire, (with Ron Rifkin)
Jim Bayliss in All My Sons (with Julie Harris). Upcoming
projects include; directing Savage in Limbo for Woolly/UM, and the
role of Picasso in the world premier of Picasso's Closet by Ariel
Dorfman at Theatre J.
Honors and Awards: Creative and Performing Arts Award
(CAPA), 1987; 2004 Helen Hayes Award nomination for Outstanding Lead
Actor, Resident Play; Morgan in The Drawer Boy at Round House
Theatre
Franklin J. Hildy
Professor
301.405.3157
Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, Room 2828
hildy@umd.edu
Education/Training: Ph.D.,
Theatre, Northwestern University, 1980; M.A.,
Theatre, Northwestern University, 1976; B.A., Humanities, Shimer College,
Mt. Carroll, IL, 1975;Tutorial Program, Dramatic
Literature, Oxford University; Humanities Administrator, Division of
Research Programs, National Endowment for the Humanities, Washington
DC
Areas of Specialization/Interest: Theatre Architecture,
Theatre Archaeology, History of Stage Technology, Problems in the Production
of pre/early-Modern Drama, Shakespearean Stagecraft., New Technology
and post modern performance, Theatre Consulting
Professional Affiliations: American Society for Theatre
Research (ASTR), Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE),
Center for Renaissance and Baroque studies (CRBS), International Federation
for Theatre Research (IFTR), International Shakespeare Globe Centre
(ISGC), Shakespeare Theatre Association of America (STAA), National
Initiative for a Networked Cultural Heritage (NINCH), Shakespeare Association
of America (SAA)
Representative Productions:
Professional lecture: Over 40 lectures across Europe, Taiwan, and USA.
Theatre Consultant: Five projects including, E.H. Young Theatre Complex,
Berry College, GA ; Rockport Schools Auditorium, Cambridge, MA; Oxford
Performing Arts Center, Emory University; Lord, Aeck & Sargent,
Architects, Atlanta, GA. Architectural history advisor: Ten projects
including Shakespeare’s Globe reconstruction, International Shakespeare
Globe Center, London; 2nd Globe Playhouse, Shenandoah Shakespeare Company,
Stanton, VA; Rose Playhouse, Shakespeare & Company, Lenox, MA. Consultant:
Numerous projects including $900,000.00 Virtual Vaudeville, National
Science Foundation.
Representative Publications: Author: Shakespeare
at the Maddermarket: Nugent Monck and the Norwich Players (1986),
current project - Theatre Archaeology: A Reconsideration of Theatre
Architecture From the Greeks to the Romantics. Editor: New
Issues in the Reconstruction of Shakespeare's Theatre (1990); Co-author:
with Oscar Brockett, two editions of History
of the Theatre (1999 and 2003). Various articles on theatre
space, Shakespearean staging, Spanish Golden Age, and Baroque theatre.
Authored entries: Oxford Companion to the Theater, Encyclopaedia
Britannica.
Helen Q. Huang
Professor, Director of Undergraduate Studies (Fall 2004) and Scholarship
Coordinator
301.405.6685
Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, Room 2753
hhuang@umd.edu
Education/Training: M.F.A. in Set and Costume Design from the
University of Missouri, Kansas City, 1988; B.F.A. in Set Design from
Central Academy of Drama, Beijing, 1982.
Areas of Specialization/Interest: Costume, Scenic design
Professional Affiliations: Costume designer, United
Scenic Artists Local 829. Resident Costume Designer at The Studio Theatre.
Representative Productions: Costume design for many
regional and Washington area theatres, including: Oregon Shakespeare
Festival, The Shakespeare Theatre, Arena Stage, the Children’s
Theatre Company, Utah Shakespeare Festival, Milwaukee Repertory Theatre,
the Boston Lyric Opera, Woolly Mammoth, Theatre of the First Amendment,
Olney Theatre Center, National Players, Pan Asian Repertory Theatre,
the Central Television of China, and the Central Opera House, Beijing,
China. Recent designs include: Lilly’s Purple Plastic Purse
and Wizard of Oz at the Children’s Theatre Company, The
Piano Lesson at Oregon Shakespeare Festival, and the scenic and
costume design of The Life of Galileo at Studio Theatre.
Honors and Awards: 2000 Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding
Costume Design for Indian Ink at The Studio Theatre; Creative
and Performing Arts awards for 1998 and 2003 at the University of Maryland.
Misha Kachman
Assistant Professor
301.405.6639
Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, Room 2739
mkachman@umd.edu
mishakachman.com
Education/Training: Post-Graduate Study, Department of Scenography,
State Academy of Theatrical Arts, St. Petersburg, Russia, 1996; M.F.A. in Scenography,
Department of Scenography, State Academy of Theatrical Arts, St. Petersburg,
Russia, 1994; BFA in Painting and Graphic Art, State Industrial Arts Academy,
Leningrad, U.S.S.R., 1988.
Areas of Specialization/Interest: Scenic Design, Costume Design, History of
Costume and Period Style, Painting and Drawing.
Professional Affiliations: United Scenic Artists Local 829, Russian Artists' Union.
Representative Productions: Most recent designs include costumes and scenery for Cymbeline at Milwaukee Shakespeare, Così fan tutte at Maryland Opera Studio, David in Shadow and Light, Shlemiel the First and Either, Or at Theatre J, Bricktop at Metrostage and Lorraine Hansberry Theatre, TempOdyssey at Studio Theatre Secondstage, The Balcony, The Insect Play and The Persians at Scena Theatre, among many others. Before coming to the United States Misha designed for numerous theatres in Russia and Europe. Mr. Kachman's career includes a five-year tenure as a staff museum designer at The State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg. Misha Kachman is a successful painter and printmaker who has participated in scores of one-man and group exhibitions in the United States and abroad.
David Kriebs
Instructor, Technical Direction
301.405.6681
Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, Room 2739
dkriebs@umd.edu
Education/Training: M.F.A., Technical
Design and Production, Yale School of Drama, 1982; M.A., Theatre, University
of Tennessee, 1973; B.S., Engineering Physics, University of Tennessee,
1972.
Areas of Specialization/Interest: Production Management,
Technical Direction, Lighting Design.
Professional Affiliations: United States Institute for
Theatre Technology, USITT Chesapeake
Representative Productions: Technical direction for Theatre
of the First Amendment, National Players, and Olney Theatre Center; as
well as University of Maryland and other universities. Resident Lighting
Designer for The National Ballet. Recent designs include: Remembering
the Green, Flatland, and Ga Trong Con.
Ralph Lee
Jim Henson Artist in Residence
301.405.6676
Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, Room 2751
Roger
L. Meersman
Professor Emeritus, Founding Chair of the Department of Theatre
301.405.6676
Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center,
Room 2809
Education/Training: Ph.D., Theatre
& Dramatic Literature, University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana,
1962; M.A., Theatre & Rhetoric, University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana,
1959; Diplome in French, U.S. Army Language School, 1956; B.A., St.
Ambrose College, Speech & Drama, 1952; A.A., Liberal Arts, Blackhawk
College, 1950.
Areas of Specialization/Interest: American Theatre;
Directing and Criticism.
Professional Affiliations: American Theatre Association;
Association for Theatre in Higher Education; Performing Arts Division
Consultant for The Smithsonian Institution, the Public Broadcasting
System, and the National Theatre Library; National Theatre Archives
Board of Directors; Studio Theatre Honorary Board of Advisors.
Representative Productions: Directing projects at the
University of Maryland include The Bacchae, Man of the
Masses (Region IV Winner, American College Theatre Festival, 1972),
The House of Blue Leaves (Region IV Finalist, American College
Theatre Festival, 1974), and Medieval Miracle Play (also produced
at the Folger Shakespeare Library and for NBC); Professional directing
projects include: A Streetcar Named Desire (The Source Theatre),
The Taming of the Shrew (Summer Shakespeare Festival on the
Mall).
Representative Publications/Research Activities: Author
of Stage for a Nation: The Story of the National Theatre, with
Douglass Lee and Don Murphy; Author of numerous chapters and articles
on Baltimore/Washington theatre; Theatre Critic for many publications,
including The Washington Post, The Washington Guide to
the Arts; and the Journal Newspapers.
Honors and Awards: Board of Regents' Award for Excellence
in Teaching; Creative and Performing Arts Grants; Phi Theta Kappa; Phi
Kappa Phi; Board Member, founding judge, and recipient of the Governor's
Award of the Helen Hayes Awards.
Heather S. Nathans
Associate Professor, Associate Chair, Associate Director of the David
C. Driskell Center for the Study of the African Diaspora
301.405.6687
Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, Room 2818
hnathans@umd.edu
THET 290
Education/Training: Ph.D. in
Theatre, Tufts University, 1999; A.B. in Theatre, Dartmouth College,
1990
Areas of Specialization/Interest: American Theatre
and Drama, African American Theatre, Musical Theatre, 17th and 18th
century French Theatre, Theatre Historiography, English Restoration
Drama, and Directing
Professional Affiliations: American Society for Theatre
Research; Association for Theatre in Higher Education; American Theatre
and Drama Society; Society of Early Americanists; Society for Historians
of the Early American Republic
Representative Productions: Directing projects at the
University of Maryland include Taming of the Shrew, Fashion,
Sister Mary Ignatius Explains it All for You, and 'Dentity
Crisis
Representative Publications/Research Activities: Currently
working on two manuscripts, Lifting the Veil of Black: Studies
in Sentiment and Slavery on the American Stage, 1787-1861 and Hideous
Characters and Beautiful Pagans: Performing Jewish Identity in the
Antebellum
American Theatre; Early American Theatre from the Revolution
to Thomas Jefferson: Into the Hands of the People, Cambridge
University Press, 2003; articles include, “The Diasporic Imagination,” New
England Theatre Journal, 2005, "A Much Maligned People: Jews on
the Early American Stage." Journal of Early American Studies,
2004;
“Trampling Native Genius: John Murdock Versus the Chestnut Street
Theatre,” Journal of American Drama and Theatre, 2002;
“All of the Federalist School: Choosing Sides and Creating Identities
in the Boston Theatre Wars,” New England Theatre Journal,
2000, “Forging a Powerful Engine: Building Theatres and Elites
in Boston and Philadelphia,” Pennsylvania History Journal,
1999.
Honors and Awards: Fellowships from the American
Society for Theatre Research, the McNeil Center for Early American
Studies, the Library Company of Philadelphia, the
Massachusetts Historical Society, the American Antiquarian Society,
the Gilder Lehrman Foundation, and the David C. Driskell Center for
the Study of the African Diaspora; Non-resident Fellow at the W.E.B.
Du Bois Institute at Harvard University from 2001-2004; Grants from
the Center for Teaching Excellence and the Consortium on Race, Gender,
and Ethnicity at the University of Maryland.
William V. Patterson
Associate Professor Emeritus
301.405.6676
Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, Room 2809
Education/Training: M.F.A.,Theatre/Theatre Management,
University of Utah, 1972; B.F.A., Drama/Acting and Directing, University
of Oklahoma, 1970
Areas of Specialization/Interest: Theatre Management,
Arts Accessibility for People with Disabilities
Representative Publications/Research Activities: Editor/Writer,
Design for Accessibility: A Cultural Administrator’s Handbook,
National Endowment for the Arts and National Endowment for the Humanities,
2003. Regularly provides consultation and training for the development
of accessibility services and facilities for performing and visual arts
venues, museums and historical sites, as well as films and videos. Extensive
experience as writer-narrator of Audio Description tours of museums
and historical sites including the Ellis Island Immigration Museum,
the Mashantucket Pequot Museum and Research Center, the Cultural Heritage
Center of the South Dakota State Historical Society, and for films,
videos and television including the nationally broadcast test of WGHB
Television’s Descriptive Video Service and numerous projects for
the National Park Service and other government agencies.
Honors and Awards: Award for Distinguished Service
to the University of Maryland Diversity Initiative, University of Maryland
Diversity Year Initiative Award for Excellence (Faculty Category), University
of Maryland Chancellor’s Commission on the Disabled 1988 Faculty
Award, Association of College, University and Community Arts Administrators,
Inc. Arts Management Achievement Award , American College Theatre Festival
Gold Medallion Award of Excellence in Theatre Management, Appointed
Associate Professor Emeritus (2005)
Rudolph Pugliese
Professor Emeritus
301.405.6676
Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, Room 2809
Education/Training: Ph.D. Ohio State University, 1961;
M.F.A. Catholic University, 1949; B.A. Miami University, 1947
Areas of Specialization/Interest: Directing, Arts Administration,
Theatre Consulting, Children's Theatre, Audience Development. Sponsor
of Maryland Drama Association and other educational theatre organizations.
Professional Affiliations: American Theatre Association,
Shakespeare Association of America, Maryland Drama Association, The
Society for Theatre Research (London), National Collegiate Players,
Omicron Delta Kappa Honorary; Director, Theatre Division, University
of Maryland (1969-1979); Initiated and established many programs at
the University of Maryland, including the State of Maryland Speech and
Drama Association, Experimental Theatre, University of Maryland Summer
Theatre, and the Graduate Program in Theatre.
Representative Productions: Director of more than 80
academic and community theatre productions and operas including All
My Sons, The Little Foxes, The Clandestine Marriage,
Antigone, The Importance of Being Earnest, The
Knight of the Burning Pestle, Saint Joan, MacBeth,
The Beaux’ Strategem, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s
Nest, Good News, Anything Goes, Finian’s
Rainbow, Oklahoma!, Showboat, Madame Butterfly,
and The Beggar’s Opera.
Representative Publications/Research Activities: Author
of numerous articles and reviews for Educational Theatre Journal,
Players Magazine, Social Studies and other publications
Honors and Awards: The Rudolph E. Pugliese Arts Scholarship
(bestowed by the Maryland Drama Association); Ertzman Award for outstanding
contribution to Maryland High Schools Drama Program (1980); Venue in
Tawes Fine Arts Building named Pugliese Theatre (1986-2001); Appointed
Professor Emeritus (1986).
Scot Reese
Associate Professor, Director of Undergraduate Studies (Spring 2005)
and Scholarship Coordinator
301.405.6686
Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, Room 2817
sreese@umd.edu
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Education/Training: M.F. A., Directing,
Northwestern University, 1994; B.A., UCLA, 1981
Areas of Specialization/Interest: Directing, Black
Theatre and Performance, Musical Theatre
Professional Affiliations: Actors' Equity Association
(AEA), Screen Actors Guild (SAG),
American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (AFTRA), American
Guild of Variety Artists (AGVA), Black Theatre Network (BTN), Association
for Theatre In Higher Education (ATHE), Theatre Communications Guild
(TCG)
Representative Productions: Professional theatre credits
include productions from Los Angeles to New York. Television credits
include daytime dramas, situation comedies, variety specials, and
commercials. Most recent credits include Once On
This Island and Crumbs
From the Table of Joy at the Round House Theatre; Pretty Fire and From
the Mississippi Delta for
the African Continuum Theatre Company; The Heidi Chronicles
and Barefoot in the Park (with Laura Linney and Eric Stoltz)
at LA Theatre Works, blackballin' for
Arena Stage's Old Vat, Zooman and the Sign, Blue Window and Electra at
the University of Maryland, A Raisin in the Sun at Olney
Theatre, and Bells
are Ringing and Purlie at the Kennedy Center.
Honors and Awards: 1991 Emmy Award for Individual
Achievement in Performance; 2002, 2000, 1998, 1996 General Research
Board Summer Research Award; 1997, 1995 Creative and Performing Arts
Award; 1997 Instructional Improvement Grant; 2000, 1997 Research and
Travel Grant; 1996, 2000 Outstanding Teacher, UMCP; 1995 Diversity
Initiative Steering Committee Matching Funds Grant.
Korey R. Rothman
Visiting Assistant Professor
301.405.6682
Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, Room 2816
krothman@umd.edu
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Education/Training: Ph.D., Theatre and Performance Studies, University
of Maryland, 2005; M.A., Theatre History and Criticism, University
of Maryland, 2005; M.Ed., Secondary English Education, University of
Florida, 1995; B.A., English, University of Florida, 1994.
Areas of Specialization/Interest: Musical Theatre, American Theatre
and Drama, Popular Theatre, Gender Studies, Gay and Lesbian Studies
Professional Affiliations: American Society for Theatre Research;
Association for Theatre in Higher Education
Representative
Productions: Directing projects at the University of Maryland
include
Triumph of Love; Assassins and A...My
Name will Always be Alice on the University's second stage
Representative
Publications/Research Activities: Author of "'Will
You Remember?': Female Lyricists of Operetta and Musical Comedy," a
chapter in the forthcoming book Unsung Contributors: Women Who
Created Twentieth Century American Musical Theatre , ed. Bud Coleman
and Judith Sebesta.
Honors
and Awards: Dissertation awarded "with distinction," University
of Maryland Distinguished Teaching Assistant Award, American Society
for Theatre Research's Thomas F. Marshall Travel Fellowship, Margaret
Storrs Grierson Travel Grant for travel to the archives at Smith College,
Gilder Lehrman Travel Grant
Catherine
A. Schuler
Associate Professor, Director of Graduate Studies
3091.405.6688
Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, Room 2814
cschuler@umd.edu
American Society for Theatre Research
Education/Training:
Ph.D., Theatre History and Theory/Criticism, Florida State University,
1984; M.A., Theatre, Emerson College, 1977; B.A., Theatre, Eckerd College,
1974; Indiana University Intensive Russian Language Program, 1987; SUNY
Binghamton, Intensive Lessac Vocal Workshop, 1976.
Areas of Specialization/Interest: Russian Theatre,
Gender Studies, Theory.
Professional Affiliations: American Society for Theatre
Research; Association for Theatre in Higher Education; International
Theatre Federation; Modern Language Association; American Association
for the Advancement of Slavic Studies; Association for Women in Slavic
Studies; Consulting Editor for Theatre History Studies, Peer
Review for Slavic and East European Journal, Slavic Studies,
Theatre Survey, and Robert Leach's Revolutionary Theatre.
Representative Productions: Directing projects at the
University of Maryland include The Mineola Twins, Peter
Pansy's Excellent Adventure (also co-author with Susan Leonardi),
Abducting Diana, and The London Merchantperson (also co-author
with Susan Leonardi); Translation consultant for The Next Stage (Washington,
D.C.).
Representative Publications/Research Activities: Author
of Women in Russian Theatre: The Actress in the Silver Age
(Barnard Hewitt Award, 1997); Co-Editor with Karen Laughlin of Theatre
and Feminist Aesthetics; Author of numerous articles and chapters
on gender, pre-Revolutionary Russian theatre, and Russian actresses;
currently working on an anthology of memoirs by Russian actresses and
a monograph on class and gender in Russian theatre entitled Performing
Modernity: Theatre and the Modernization of Russia, 1756-1882.
Honors and Awards: American Society for Theatre Research,
Senior Fellowship; Phi Kappa Phi Mentor Award; Barnard Hewitt Award
for Outstanding Research in Theatre History; University of Maryland
Award for Teaching Excellence; Harvard Russian Research Center Fellow.
Leigh Wilson Smiley
Assistant Professor
301.405.6683
Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, Room 2821
lsmiley@umd.edu
Education/Training:
B.A., Marlboro College,
Vermont, 1982; Designated
Linklater Voice Teacher; Study
with: Richard
Armstrong, Jean Rene Toussaint, Catherine Fitzmaurice, Cecily Berry, Michael
Howard, Billy Hickey, Tina Packer.
Areas of Specialization: Voice, Acting, Text, Shakespeare,
Speech, Dialects
Professional Affiliations: Screen Actors Guild (SAG),
Actors Equity Association (AEA), American Federation of Television
and Radio Actors (AFTRA), Voice and Speech Association (VASTA), Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE).
Representative Productions: Voice & Dialect Coach: The Shakespeare Theatre (WDC), Fords Theatre, The Folger Shakespeare Theatre, Shakespeare & Company (Lenox MA), Arena Stage, Philadelphia Shakespeare Theatre, Wilma Theatre, Catalyst Theatre Co., Georgetown University, Catholic University, Olney Theatre, Open Eye Theatre. Stage: Cassandra Project, Anna Bella Eema, Mary Stuart, Macbeth, Quills, Custom of the Country, The Winters Tale, Two Noble Kinsmen, A Lovers Discourse, Under Milkwood, What the Butler Saw, The Miser. Film: Beloved, Twelve Monkeys, Philadelphia, Renaissance. Director: Trojan Women - University of Maryland, Stop Kiss - University of the Arts, Cassandra Project - Capitol Fringe Festival. Workshops: "Shakespeare's Text into Action:" Acting/Directing Workshop for the Center for Renaissance & Baroque Studies;"Archetypes and the Voice" for Centre for Performance Research's Giving Voice Festival 2006 in Aberystwth, Wales; " Vocal Presence with Self: A Conscious Journey through the F.M. Alexander and Linklater Voice Techniques" for the ATHE 2006 Conference; Linklater Voice Workshops and Shakespeare Weekend Intensive Workshops for Universities and Conservatories.
Representative Publications/Research Activities: Author: "Cowboy Resonance in America," Voice & Speech Review, 2007; "The Vocal Soundscape of Trojan Women," Voice & Speech Review, 2006.
Honors and Awards: Creative and Performing Arts Award (CAPA), 2006
Daniel
MacLean Wagner
Professor, Chair
301.405.6679
Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, Room 2811
dmwagner@umd.edu
Education/Training:
M.A., Design/Technical Theatre, University of Maryland, 1982;
B.A., Dramatic Arts, University of Maryland, 1979
Areas of Specialization/Interest: Lighting Design,
Producing
Professional Affiliations: Lighting Designer, United
Scenic Artists Local 829. Resident Lighting Designer, Olney Theatre
Center and National Players (1992 - present); Artistic Associate, Signature
Theatre (1996 - present), Associate Artist, Round House Theatre (2003-present);
previously served as Resident Lighting Designer,
The Studio Theatre (1986 - 1998). Producer and Production Designer,
Helen Hayes Awards (1988 - present). Board Member, Olney Theatre Center;
Washington Area Performing Arts Video Archive (WAPAVA). Lighting Consultant/Systems
Designer
Representative Productions: Lighting design for more
than 350 productions at many regional theatres, including Berkshire
Theatre Festival, Portland Stage, Philadelphia Theatre Company, Arden
Theatre Company, The Shakespeare Theatre, The John F. Kennedy Center,
The Studio Theatre, Signature Theatre, Round House Theatre, Theatre
of the First Amendment, Potomac Theatre Project, Woolly Mammoth Theatre
Company, National Players, and Olney Theatre Center; has also designed
for Boston Lyric Opera, and several Off-Broadway productions. Recent
designs include: Alexander, Who's Not, Not,...Going to Move at
the John F. Kennedy Center and on national tour; Copenhagen at
Olney Theatre Center; The
Highest Yellow at
Signature Theatre; Living Out and The Diary of Anne Frank at
Round House Theatre; Radiant Abyss at Woolly Mammoth Theatre
Company.
Representative Publications/Research Activities: Again
and Again: The Legacy of Washington Theatre, Washington Theatre
Awards Society, 1988.
Honors and Awards: Eight-time recipient of the Helen
Hayes Award for Outstanding Lighting Design (most recently for The
Diary of Anne Frank at Round House Theatre, 2005), for which
he has been nominated twenty-six times; Creative and Performing
Arts
Award,
College
of Arts and Humanities, 1997; Individual Artist Fellowship, D.C. Commission
on the Arts and Humanities, 1992, 1996
Adjunct
Faculty
Susan
Chiang, Costume Construction, History of Fashion
Ann
Chismar,
Scene Painting
Kristine Eckerman, Sound Technology
Timothy Jones, Properties
Kyle Kweder, Lighting Technology
Raye
Leith, Figure Drawing
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Elizabeth
Hontz
Executive Administrative
Assistant
301.405.6675
Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, Room 2809
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Education/Training:
B.F.A. University of Utah, 2001, Ballet; B.S. University of Maryland
University College, 2005, Computer and Information Science
Areas of Specialization/Interest: Administrative Assistant to the Department
Chair, Graduate Secretary, APT and Search Committees
Sandra
Sue Jackson
Director of Business
Operations
301.405.6690
Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, Room 2812
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Education/Training:
B.S. University of Maryland University College, 1998, Management and
Computer Studies
Areas of Specialization/Interest: Business Manager
Marguerita
Phelps
Coordinator of Student Services
301.405.6694
Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, Room 2806
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Education/Training:
University of Maryland 1968-1971, Art History; Experience in Arts Management
(Ticketing, Publicity, Publications, Assistant Concert Manager)
Areas of Specialization/Interest: Undergraduate Program (Advising,
Recruitment, Retention, Registration) Scholarship Auditions,
Scheduling, Webmaster, Alumni Relations
Honors and Awards: 2001 President's Commission on
Women's Issues Clerical/Secretarial Staff Recognition Award, 2003
University
of Maryland nominee - Board of Regent's University System Staff Award
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