Faculty
Teaching Interests
- Classical ballet
- Cuban modern dance technique
- Afro-Caribbean dances and music
- Choreography
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
Teaching Interests
- Theatre history
- Performance studies
- Dramaturgy
- Modern and Contemporary Drama
- Acting and Directing Theory
Research Interests
- Acting
- Directing
- Movement, including Somatic Practices
- Voice
- Effective Communication / Public Speaking
Lakshmi D. Bulathsinghala
Instructor
Translation Research and Instruction Program (TRIP); Theatre
Research Interests
- Drama and Theatre in Asia
- Theatre Studies in Sri Lanka
- South Asian Culture and Society
- Women, Gender, and, Sexuality in South Asia
Olivia Dilworth
Staff, Costume Construction Specialist
Theatre
Teaching Interests
- Multi-disciplinary arts instruction
- American popular music
- Cultural literacy
Laura Hawkes
Associate Professor, Director of Design and Technical Theatre; Chair, Faculty Senate Executive Committee
Theatre; Faculty Senate
Research Interests
- Choreography
- Modern Dance
- Film Acting
- Staged Reading
- Lutherie
- Costume and Prop Design
Tommy Iafrate
TRIP Courtesy Title; Associate Professor/Director of Musical Theatre
Translation Research and Instruction Program (TRIP); Theatre
Research Interests
- Musical Theatre
- Directing for Musical Theatre
- Music Direction
- Auditioning
- Vocal Coaching
Research Interests
- Tap
- Jazz
- Choreography
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
Teaching Interests
- Acting Technique, Scene Study
- Movement, Physical Theatre
- Devising, Creating Original Theatre
- Acting for the Camera
- Embodied Acting
- Meisner Technique
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
Samuel Elikem Kwame Nyamuame
Assistant Professor; Assistant Professor, Undergrad Director
Theatre; Africana Studies
Research Interests
- Ethnomusicology
- Musical Cultures of Africa
- Dance Traditions of Ghana
- African Dance
- Drumming
Olivia O'Brien
Production Stage Manager, Lecturer
Theatre
Research Interests
- Acting
- Directing
- Voice
- Embodied and somatic practices
- New play development
- Global theatre
Andrew R. Walkling
Professor; Professor; Director of Graduate Studies
English, General Literature and Rhetoric; Art History; Theatre
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
Barbara E. Wolfe
Chair, Director Undergraduate Program
Theatre
Research Interests
- Costume design
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
Brandon Weber
Marketing and Communications Manager
Theatre