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Geof Alm
PATP combat instructor, Geoffrey Alm is a Fight Master with The Society of American Fight
Directors, and has taught
around the world. He has worked at numerous theatres including Intiman,
Seattle Rep, Seattle Children’s Theatre, ACT, Seattle Opera,
Arizona Theatre Company, McCarter Theatre Center in Princeton, New
Jersey and the Huntington Theatre Company in Boston, as well as the
Cinncinatti Playhouse, The Kennedy Center, Kansas City Rep and The Santa Cruz Shakespeare
Company.
Bob Boehler
cabob@u.washington.edu
Bob is an accomplished technical director with nearly twenty years of professional and academic experience. Before coming to the UW Bob was involved in over thirty productions working for nearly every professional theater in Seattle. He has also worked in movies, television, and display. Bob received his BA from Denver University and his MA from San Francisco State.
Alex Danilchik
alexd@u.washington.edu
Alex came to the University of Washington in 1980 to begin a journey into the world of electrical engineering and computer science and barely one year into school was spending all of his time in the theatre. SInce then Alex has seen hundreds of productions that he was involved with, ranging from Operas to Musicals, Drama, movie and television productions. His first 17 years with the School of Drama was as the Properties master, with a switch to technical direction just over 8 years ago, and a little over a year ago he took over as the Scene Shop Manager, while continuing to handle the Technical Direction of many productions.
 Josie
Gardner
jogard@u.washington.edu
Costume Shop Manager/Costume Director, holds a MFA from
UCLA and has a certificate in strategic leadership from the UW. She has freelanced as a designer and an artisan at Seattle
Rep, Intiman Theatre, ACT, Tacoma Actor's Guild, Village Theatre,
Civic Light Opera and on the set of "Northern Exposure."
Josie recently designed costumes for L'Incoronazione di Poppea for the Seattle Early Music Guild and Etta Phifer's
Testimonial Shoe Kismet at ACT. She teaches theatrical make-up and advanced make-up, and has taught
workshops for Pacific Northwest Theatre Associates (PNTA) in Seattle. Josie also freelances as a fiber artist and teaches management classes for non profit organizations.
Valerie Mayse
valmayse@u.washington.edu
Costume Specialist, has made costumes for The Seattle
Repertory Theatre, Intiman Theatre, Pacific Northwest Ballet, the
Denver Center Theatre Company, and Parsons-Meares Costumes in New
York, among others. She specializes in fine dressmaking and
corsetry. She is also a certified yoga instructor.
Deborah Skorstad
drs4@u.washington.edu
Deborah Skorstad is a costume designer, technician and
promoter of theatrical costume education for students
and for those in the industry.
Anne Stewart
astewart@u.washington.edu
Stage Management. She has been Production Stage Manager at Seattle's
Empty Space Theatre, and has worked in San Diego and Chicago in
arts administration and technical theatre.
Other UW Faculty
Faculty in other departments are sometimes
invited to teach seminars for Drama students. Recent guest faculty
include:
Herbert Blau
The Byron W. & Alice L. Lockwood Professor of the Humanities.
Professor of English with a distinguished career in the professional
theater. He was co-founder and co-director of the Actor’s
Workshop of San Francisco, co-director of the Repertory Theater
of Lincoln Center and artistic director of the experimental group
KRAKEN. Blau has published widely, his most recent books are Sails
of the Herring Fleet: Essays on Beckett and The Dubious
Spectacle: Of Theatre and Other Matters, 1976-2000. Earlier
publications include: Take Up the Bodies: Theater at the Vanishing
Point, To All Appearances: Ideology & Performance
and The Audience.
Susan Glenn
Professor in the History Department, with an interest in US Social
and Cultural History and Women’s History. Professor Glenn
earned her Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley in
1983. Selected bibliography includes Female Spectacle: Popular
Theater and the New Woman, Harvard University Press, Fall 2000.
“‘Give an Imitation of ME’ Vaudeville Mimics and
the Play of the Self” appeared in American Quarterly 50
(March 1998).
Laurie Sears
Associate Professor in the History Department whose areas of research
include Southeast Asia and Historiography. Professor Sears earned
her Ph.D. at the University of Wisconsin, Madison in 1986. Selected
bibliography includes Shadows of Empire: Colonial Discourse
and Javanese Tales, Duke University Press, 1996. Editor, Fantasizing
the Feminine in Indonesia, Duke University Press, 1996. Editor,
Autonomous Histories, Particular Truths: Essays in Honor of John
R. W. Small, Wisconsin Monographs on Southeast Asia, 1993.
Emeritus Faculty
Jack Clay: Acting
M. E. Comtois: Playwriting
James R. Crider: Costume History
Vanick S. Galstaun: Acting, Directing, Make-up
Jack Sydow: Directing
Aurora Valentinetti: Puppetry, Child Drama
Jack
Wolcott: Theatre History, Theatre and Computing
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