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, Director of Studio Season

Theatre
FA 228

Research Interests

  • Acting
  • Directing
  • Devising
  • Movement, Physical Theatre
  • Embodied and Somatic Practices
  • Physical Dramaturgy
  • Theater Pedagogy
  • Meisner Technique
  • On-Camera 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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Business of Theatre

Dance

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David Wynen

Assistant Professor: Head of Dance

Theatre
FA 108

Research Interests

  • Theatrical staging and dance choreography notation
  • Jazz dance as a rehabilitive tool

Teaching Interests

  • Tap Dance
  • Broadway Jazz
  • Acting into Song
  • Rock the Audition
  • Musical Theatre
  • Luigi Jazz
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Ania Nikulina

Research Assistant Professor, Charles E. Scheidt Faculty Fellow; Lecturer

German and Russian Studies; Theatre

Research Interests

  • State-sponsored dance
  • Artistic protest and censorship
  • Dance and Archives
  • Dance Ethnography
  • Cultural Diplomacy
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Samuel Elikem Kwame Nyamuame

Assistant Professor; Assistant Professor, Undergrad Director

Theatre; Africana Studies
FA 110

Research Interests

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

History, Theory, & Criticism

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David Bisaha

Associate Professor, Curator of Theatre Collection

Theatre
FA 222

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 D. Bulathsinghala

Instructor

Translation Research and Instruction Program (TRIP); Theatre
LT 312

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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Andrew R. Walkling

Professor; Professor; Director of Graduate Studies

English, General Literature and Rhetoric; Art History; Theatre
FA 226

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

TRIP Courtesy Title; Associate Professor/Director of Musical Theatre

Translation Research and Instruction Program (TRIP); Theatre
FA 148

Research Interests

  • Musical Theatre
  • Directing for Musical Theatre 
  • Music Direction
  • Auditioning
  • Vocal Coaching
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Office Staff