Faculty

Full-Time Faculty

Courtney Bailey, B.S.C., Ohio University; M.A., Ph.D., Indiana University. Rhetoric and media studies.

River Branch, B.A., Kenyon College; M.A., M.F.A., University of Iowa. Media production; new technology.

Mark Cosdon, B.A., Colby College; M.A., Ph.D., Tufts University. Theatre history and performance studies.

Daniel Crozier, B.A., St. Mary’s College; M.F.A., University of Wisconsin, Madison. Acting, movement, voice.

Michael Keeley, B.A., Pennsylvania State University; M.A., Marquette University; M.F.A., Brooklyn College. Video studies, mass media.

Michael Mehler, B.A. Northwestern University; M.F.A., University of Texas (Austin), Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh,  Theatre design.

Vesta Silva, B.A., Indiana University; M.A., Ph.D., University of Iowa. Rhetoric and speech studies.

Ishita Sinha Roy, B.A., M.A., University of Bombay; M.A., Ph.D., Annenberg School for Communication, University of Southern California. Media studies.

Beth Watkins, B.A., Moorhead State University; M.F.A., University of Texas.  Directing, acting, devising and adaptation.

Jon Wiebel,  Ph.D., University of Iowa; B.A., Baylor University; M.A., University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill). Rhetoric, political communication.

Emily Chivers Yochim, B.A., Allegheny College; Ph.D. University of Michigan. Media studies.

Visiting Assistant Professor

Wilson, Julie,  M.A.,University of Minnesota,  Ph.D.  University of Minnesota.

Adjunct Faculty

Tompkins, Joseph,  B.A., University of Minnesota; Ph.D. Candidate University of Minnesota.

 

Playshop Theatre

W. Scott Choffel,  B.A., Allegheny College, Technical Director

Sarah Russell, B.A., Bowling Green State University, M.F.A., Kent State University, Costume Shop Supervisor/Designer

Jim Sumerfield, B.A., Allegheny College, Assistant Technical Director

Selected Faculty Publications/Achievements

  • Professional acting, New York City
  • Freelance design
  • Theatre History Studies
  • Board of Advisors, Theatre Insight
  • Board of Editors, Film Criticism
  • Text and Performance Quarterly
  • Participant, Institute for Theatre Technology (ITT) Seminars
  • Participant, Association of Theatres in Higher Education (ATHE)
  • Officer, Theatre as a Liberal Art (TLA)
  • Journal of Medical Humanities
  • Journal of Communication
  • Reading Stephen Sondheim: A Collection of Critical Essays
  • Theatre Annual
  • Quarterly Journal of Speech
  • Media, Culture and Society
  • Skate Life:  Re-Imagining White Masculinity, University of Michigan Press, 2010
  • The Hanlon Brothers:  From Daredevil Acrobatics to Spectable Pantomine, 1833-1931
  • Journal of American Drama and Theatre
  • Vice President, American Theatre and Drama Society