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The School of Drama employs faculty, staff, and theatre artisans who are committed to quality in all areas. We work both to produce outstanding productions in our season and to pass our knowledge on to a new generation of actors, directors, designers, and academic professionals. The School is consistently ranked as one of the top departments, not only in training theatre professionals but in creating outstanding theatre historians, dramaturgs, and theorists.

Faculty

Staff

Graduate Students

Directories

Distinguished Faculty and Staff


Alex Danilchik
Distinguished Staff Award
2009
"Being able to work with students, collaborate with them is satisfying. They bring their side of it and you bring your side. You put that together and see the result." – Alex Danilchik


Shanga Parker
Distinguished Teaching Award
2006
“Shanga Parker is not only a superior teacher from an academic perspective, but he brings with him the grit and truth of the acting profession as he has experienced it.” – PATP student Jeremiah Davis


Jennifer Lavy
Distinguished Teaching Award
2005
“In addition to the breadth and depth of knowledge and the interest she brings, is her ability to draw great new things out of her students." -- student Markus McVay


Alan Weldin
Distinguished Staff Award
2004
“His lessons and his legacy are carried on through the many that pass through our doors, spend a short time with us, and move on." — staff of the Drama Scene Shop


School of Drama BA Program
Brotman Award for
Instructional Excellence
2003
“Whatever idea you have in your head, you can propose it. It’s a really great way for people to experiment.”
-- Drama student Andy Kidd


Barry Witham
Distinguished Teaching Award
2002
“What’s my satisfaction? Just that I get to see a whole lot of my students succeed.” – Barry Witham


Robyn Hunt
Distinguished Teaching Award
2001
“Hunt is always creating new ways for students to learn, whether it's through dialogue after a dance concert, new techniques or performance ideas. When Hunt and her students begin their work, it's always a fresh creation.” — Julie Garner

 

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