Faculty
Beau Coleman
Professor
Primary teaching areas: MFA Directing, BFA Acting, Performance Creation. Graduate Seminars in Directing and Performance. Graduate Supervision.
Dr. Selena Couture
Associate Professor | MA & PhD Program Coordinator
Primary teaching areas: Theoretical Approaches to Theatre and Performance; Canadian Theatre; Indigenous Performance; Theatre and Colonial Modernity; Theatre and Performance Historiography; Decolonizing Research Methodologies in Performance Studies and Settler Responsibilities.
Dr. Melanie Dreyer-Lude
Professor | Dig Deeper Coordinator
Primary teaching areas: directing, acting, empathy, interdisciplinary critical thinking, study abroad, cultural awareness.
T. Erin Gruber
Assistant Professor | Dig Deeper Coordinator
Primary teaching areas: BFA and MFA Theatre Design, Lighting Design for the Theatre.
Michael Kennard
Professor | ABBEDAM & Off-the-Cuff Festival Advisor
Primary teaching areas: Performer-Created Theatre, Movement and Physical Theatre, Collective Creation, Clown. Graduate Supervision.
David Kennedy
Professor | Director of Graduate Programs; MFA Directing Program Coordinator
Primary teaching areas: MFA Directing, BFA Acting, Performer Created Theatre, Graduate Seminars in Dramatic Structure and Playwriting and Performance on the Contemporary American Stage.
David Ley
Professor | BFA Acting Program Coordinator
Primary teaching areas: BFA Voice, Speech in Rehearsal and Performance, Dialects and Accents, BFA Acting, MFA Voice Pedagogy. Graduate Supervision.
Dr. Donia Mounsef
Professor
Primary teaching areas: Introduction to Dramatic Arts, Play Analysis, Critical Theory, Playwriting, Media and Performance, Digital Theatre and Emerging Technologies. Graduate Seminars in Contemporary French and Francophone Theatre, Gender, Desire and the Modern Stage, Theatre of War, Intermediality. Performance Theory. Graduate Supervision.
Dr. Stefano Muneroni
Professor (Sabbatical July 1 - December 31, 2026) | Cross-appointment with Modern Languages and Cultural Studies (MLCS)
Primary teaching areas: Play Analysis, Modernist Stage, Performance Theory. Graduate Seminars in Border Theatre, Intercultural Theatre, Post-Colonial Theory, Research Tools. Graduate Supervision.
Robert Shannon
Professor (Sabbatical July 1, 2026 - June 30, 2027)
Primary teaching areas: MFA and BFA Theatre Design, Historic Dress and Décor, Costume Design and Construction, Technical Drawing for Theatre Design.
Lin Snelling
Professor | MFA Theatre Practice Program Coordinator
Primary teaching areas: BFA movement for actors, dance, research creation, experiential anatomy, conversational practices, multidisciplinary-theatre-performance making, somatics, choreography, improvisation, site specific performance, studio practice, practice-led research.
Guido Tondino
Professor | Theatre Design Program Coordinator
Primary teaching areas: BFA and MFA Theatre Design, Studio Techniques for Theatre Design, 3D CAD for the Theatre. Graduate Supervision.
Kathleen Weiss
Professor
Primary teaching areas: Directing, BFA acting, Performer-Created Theatre. Graduate Seminars in Directing, New Play Dramaturgy, Emergence of the Director. Graduate Supervision.
Kenneth T. Williams
Professor | Director of Undergraduate Programs; New Works Festival Advisor
Primary teaching areas: Playwriting, Theatre Practice, Indigenous Theatre History.
Faculty Service Officers
Larry Clark
FSO III | Technical Director
Primary teaching areas: Production Crew, Technical Production. Graduate Supervision.
Lee O'Reilly
FSO III | Technical Director; BFA Production Program Coordinator
Primary teaching areas: Production Crew, Technical Production.
Jeff Osterlin
FSO I | Lighting Supervisor
Primary teaching areas: technical lighting, technical theatre, computer media, best practices in theatre. Supervision of technical students in productions, advising design students on the technical uses of lighting equipment.
Matthew Skopyk
FSO III | Sound Supervisor
Primary teaching areas: sound system engineering & design, sound foley and digital manipulation, basic music composition for theatre, supervision & design advising of technical students in sound practicums.
Full-Time Instructors
Amanda Bergen
Intimacy Direction Coordinator
Primary teaching areas: Performer-Created Theatre. Directing.
Peter Locock
Primary teaching areas: Scenic Carpentry, Stagecraft, Technical Theatre, and Production Crew.
Alison Matthews
MFA Voice Pedagogy Program Coordinator
Primary teaching areas: BFA Voice. Speech in Rehearsal and Performance. Dialects and Accents. Acting. Scene Study. MFA Voice Pedagogy.
Dana Tanner-Kennedy
BA Honors Program Coordinator
Primary teaching areas: Theatre History, Dramaturgy, Play Analysis, Critical Writing.