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Elaine P

Elaine P. Schatzline-Behr

 

 

EDUCATION

 

1978-80                         Northwestern University, School of Speech, Evanston, IL

Full National Merit Scholarship Finalist

 

1980-83                         Rutgers University, Mason Gross School of the Arts, New Brunswick, NJ

BFA, Acting, May 1983

 

1996-98                         Northern Illinois University, School of Theatre and Dance, DeKalb, IL

MFA, Directing, August 1998

 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

 

1984-85                         Assistant Artistic Director, Empyrean Productions, Chicago, IL

Duties included actor coaching all productions, teaching, season planning, press and public relations

 

1985-90                         Founder, Artistic Director, Chicago Cooperative Stage, Chicago, IL

Duties included board development, season planning, budget development, directing, staff and artist hiring, actor coaching, teaching, design

 

1990-95                         Director of Performing Arts Ministry, Call To Action, Chicago, IL

Duties included grant writing, donor programs and special fund raising, budget development, volunteer corps administration, staff and artist hiring, supervising marketing, product development, contract negotiations, overseeing travel and touring arrangements, directing

 

1996-98                         Supervisor, Corner Theatre Series, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL

Duties included marketing and box office, facility scheduling, artistic oversight of all production elements, budget administration

 

Graduate Assistant, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL

Duties included teaching, assistant teaching, guest lecturing, actor coaching, directing, stage management

 

1998-2002                  Assistant Professor of Theatre, Indiana State University, Terre Haute, IN

Duties included teaching all department acting performance courses, directing, supervision of student directors, actor coaching, shared supervision of Theatre FEST and High School Theatre Workshop, undergraduate academic advisement, student preparation for annual professional, graduate school, and competition auditions, departmental and college level committee work, student affairs service, creative project and thesis committees for graduate MA students

 

2002-07            Guest Teacher, Port Huron Area School District.

Duties include all regular teacher daily responsibilities plus lesson plans, grading, IEPC meetings/grade transfer evaluations, and staff meetings for the following long-term guest teacher positions:

Michigamme Elementary School

     3rd Grade, April 2 through June 12, 2003        

Edison Elementary School

     Combined Pre-K/Lower Elementary H.I. April 4 through June 16, 2005

Fort Gratiot Middle School

     Hearing Impaired, December 6, 2005 through June 14, 2006

 

2002-2008         Trainer, Magellan Health Services

Duties include preparing and presenting corporate training seminars for presentation through the clients’ Employee Assistant Program.  Seminar topics include trainings ranging from “Coping with Holiday Related Stress” to “Recognizing, Responding to and Preventing Sexual Harassment in the Workplace,” and “Effective, Assertive Communication Skills.”

 

2006-2009                  Artistic Director, Enter Stage Right, Inc., Marysville, MI

Duties included board development, season planning, budget development, directing, staff and artist hiring, actor coaching, teaching, workshops, design

 

 

CREATIVE ARTISTRY: ACTING

 

1970                 The Court of Miracles (Lisa)

                        Ensemble Theatre, Northwestern University, Lee Alan Morrow- director

 

1980                 Impromptu (Laura)

                        Pegasus Players, Chicago, IL, Eric Feldman- director

 

1980                 The Bald Soprano (Mrs. Smith)

                        Jameson Studios, Rutgers University, Mark Weinblatt- director

 

1981                 The Imaginary Invalid (Louisa)

                        Jameson Studios, Rutgers University, Claudia Anderson- director

 

1982                 The Apple Tree (Eve)

                        Douglass Cabaret, Rutgers University, Walter Born- director

 

1982                 Rashomon (Kimune)

                        Levin Theatre, Rutgers University, Claudia Anderson- director

 

1982                 As You Like It (Phebe)

                        Little Theatre, Rutgers University, Jack Bettenbender- director

 

1983                 Talking With…. (Scraps)

                        Little Theatre, Rutgers University, Michael Nash- director

 

1983                 St. Joan (Duchess La Tremouille)

Levin Theatre, Rutgers University, with Avery Brooks and Loyd Williamson, Harold Scott- director

 

1984                 Hand To Hand (Margie)                                                                       World Premiere

                        Empyrean Productions, Chicago, IL, Joseph Sauris- director

 

1985                 Sisters: Some Theatrical Rituals about the Nunnery (Sarah)    World Premiere

                        Empyrean Productions, Chicago, IL, John Bettenbender, Jr.- director

 

1986                 Horsefeathers (Terry)                                                              World Premiere

                        Chicago Cooperative Stage, Chicago, IL, John Bettenbender, Jr.- director

 

1986                 The Luck of Jesse McCorker (Jesse)                                       World Premiere

                        Chicago Cooperative Stage, Chicago, IL, John Bettenbender, Jr.- director

 

1987                 The Belle of Amherst (Emily Dickinson)                                Original Adaptation

                        Chicago Cooperative Stage, Chicago, IL, John Bettenbender, Jr.- director

 

1988                 Agnes of God (Dr. Martha Livingston)

                        Chicago Cooperative Stage, Chicago, IL, Cas Recio.- director

 

1988                 Mortal Risk (Johanna Spector)                                                  World Premiere

                        Chicago Cooperative Stage, Chicago, IL, Peter Grahame- director

 

1989                 Graceland (Rootie)

                        Quando Productions, Chicago, IL, Betsey Cassells- director

 

1990-99            All That I Am (Mrs. Simon-Peter, Mistress, Anne Donne, Hilde, Maria, Kay)

                        Call To Action, Chicago, IL; Merely Players, Pittsburgh, PA,

Dorothy Gregory- director

 

1991-93            A Question of Choice (Query)

                        Paint Box Theatre, Chicago, IL, Denise Berry-Hanna- director

 

1992-94            In Shakespeare’s Time (Hermia, Titania, Kate)

                        Paint Box Theatre, Chicago, IL, Denise Berry-Hanna- director

 

1993                 The Tempest (Prospera)

                        Crawford Studios, for Chicago Cable Access, Chicago, IL,

Kym Crawford- director

 

1995                 Off With Their Heads (Angela)                                                 World Premiere

                        Ursuline House, New Rochelle, NY, Bing Bills- director

 

1996                 Earth Awakening (Westernia)

                        Merely Players, Hales Corners, WI, Dorothy Gregory- director

 

1999                 All That I Am (Mistress, Anne Donne, Kay)

                        Merely Players, Illinois/Indiana Tour, Dorothy Gregory- director

 

2000                 The Tavern (Violet)

                        Summer Stage, Terre Haute, IN, Lew Hackleman- director

 

2000                 You Can’t Take It With You (Olga)

                        Summer Stage, Terre Haute, IN, Gary Stewart, director

 

2000                 Take All Of Us With You (Henry, Favored Child- voiceovers)

                        Awake Productions, Chicago, IL, Bev Spangler- coach

 

2001                 Breathe a Solo Performance Piece

                        Women’s Resource Center, Indiana Stage University, Catherine Jonet- director

 

2001                 Tortilla Moon (Tia Choco)

                        Indiana Repertory Theatre, Indianapolis, IN, Ric Averill- director

 

CREATIVE ARTISTRY: DIRECTING

 

1988                 Donald Abramson’s Melissa, While She Sleeps                         World Premiere

                        Chicago Cooperative Stage, Chicago, IL

 

1988                 Jane Martin’s Talking With….                                              Original Adaptation

                        Chicago Cooperative Stage, Chicago, IL

 

1989                 Ron Mark’s The Wings of Mooney Fishbein                             World Premiere

                        Webster Circle Theatre, Chicago, IL                             Joseph Jefferson Citation

 

1989                 Rosemary McLaughlin’s Motherless Child                             Midwest Premiere

                        Chicago Cooperative Stage, Chicago, IL

 

1990                 Ron Marks’ Joe Momma                                                           World Premiere

                        Chicago Cooperative Stage, Chicago, IL

 

1990                 Helene Hanff’s 84 Charing Cross Road                                        Original Adaptation

                        Chicago Cooperative Stage, Chicago, IL                        Joseph Jefferson Citation

 

1991                 Paul Amandes’ Earth Awakening

                        Call To Action, Chicago, IL

 

1992                 Elaine Behr’s Earth, Magic & Me

                        Call To Action, Chicago, IL

 

1992                 Paul Amandes’ Between The Times

                        Call To Action, Chicago, IL

 

1993                 Caryl Churchill’s Top Girls

                        Moraine Valley Community College, Palos Hills, IL

 

1993                 Paul Amandes’ Peace*Works

                        Call To Action, Chicago, IL

 

1994                 Robert McClory’s Haunted By God                                               Video/Cable

                        CORPUS Video, New York, NY

 

1995                 Irene Mahoney’s All That I Am                                                       Video/Cable

                        CORPUS Video, New York, NY

 

1996                 Katherine Snodgrass’ Haiku

                        Corner Theatre, Studio Series, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL

 

1997                 Jane Martin’s Keely and Du

                        Corner Theatre, Studio Series, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL

 

1997                 Allen, Mamet, and May’s Death Defying Acts

                        Players Theatre, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL

 

1997                 Rosemary McLaughlin’s Otherisms                                           World Premiere

                        Merely Players, Hales Corners, WI

 

1998                 Gardner McKay’s Sea Marks

                        Corner Theatre, Studio Series, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL

 

1998                 Rosemary McLaughlin’s Standing In The Shadows                   British Premiere

                        University of Hertfordshire, England

 

1998                 John Guare’s The New York Actor, Tony Kushner’s Reverse Transcription

                        and Daniel Meltzer’s Intermission

 

                        Idyllwild Arts Academy, Summer Theatre, Idyllwild, CA

1999                 William Mastrosimone’s Shivaree

                        Summer Stage, Terre Haute, IN

 

1999                 William Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew

                        Indiana State University, Terre Haute, IN

 

2000                 Robert McClory’s Haunted By God

                        Women’s Studies Colloquium, Indiana State University, Terre Haute, IN

 

2000                 Allen, Mamet, and May’s Death Defying Acts

                        Summer Stage, Terre Haute, IN

 

2000                 Beverly Spangler’s Take All Of Us With You                             World Premiere

                        Awake Productions at Straw Dog Theatre, Chicago, IL

 

2000                 Kathleen Tolan’s A Weekend Near Madison

                        Indiana State University, Terre Haute, IN

 

2001                 Russell McGee’s Tutankhamen

                        Indiana State University, Terre Haute, IN

 

2001                 Irene Mahoney and Sharon Ammen’s Out Of the Shadows

                        St. Mary-of-the-Woods College, St. Mary-of-the-Woods, IN

 

2004                 E P S Behr’s The Big Not Bad Wolf at the Door

Marysville Recreation Program, Marysville, MI

 

2005                 E P S Behr’s 360 Degrees of Family

                        Marysville Recreation Program, Marysville, MI

 

2006                 William Shakespeare’s A Midsommer Nights Dreame

                        Marysville Recreation Program, Marysville, MI

 

2006                 Kathryn Schultz Miller’s Pan and the Lost Kids

                        Marysville Recreation Program, Marysville, MI

 

2006                 Joy Kurtz and Wayne Simpson’s The Saga of Dead Dog Gulch

                        Thomas Edison Elementary School, Fort Gratiot, MI

 

2007                 Craig Sodaro and Stephen Murray’s Boogie-Woogie Bugle Girls

                        Fort Gratiot Middle School, Fort Gratiot, MI

 

2007                 Regina Spain’s Wicked/Oz

                        Enter Stage Right, Marysville, MI

 

2008                 Craig Sodaro’s Liberty Street

                        Fort Gratiot Middle School, Fort Gratiot, MI

 

2008                 Regina Spain’s Wicked/Oz

                        Michigan Waterways Girl Scout Council & Enter Stage Right, Port Huron, MI

 

2008                 Elaine Behr’s Holiday Lights

                        Enter Stage Right, Inc., Port Huron, MI

 

2009                 Cynthia Mercati’s Flyin’

                        Cardinal Mooney Catholic High School, Marine City, MI

 

2009                 Claudia Haas’ The Haunting of Will Shakespeare

 Enter Stage Right, Inc., Smiths Creek, MI

 

CREATIVE ARTISTRY: DESIGN, TECHNOLOGY, & COACHING

 

1977                 Ring ‘Round the Moon, Costume Design

Frankly Theatre, Detroit, MI, Martha Franks- director

 

1980                 Impromptu, Costumer

                        Pegasus Players, Chicago, IL, Eric Feldman- director

 

1980                 La Cenerentola, Props Master

                        Opera Midwest, Evanston, IL

 

1983                 Broadway Dreamers, Choreographer

                        St. Mary’s High School, Paramus, NJ, Adele Mongioi- director

 

1984                 Hand To Hand, Properties Design

                        Empyrean Production, Chicago, IL, Joseph Sauris- director

 

1985                 Call Me Juliet, Costumer

                        Empyrean Productions, Chicago, IL, Ken Prestininzi- director

 

1985                 Sisters, Costume Design

                        Empyrean Productions, Chicago, IL, John Bettenbender, Jr.- director

 

1986                 Horsefeathers, Properties Design

                        Chicago Cooperative Stage, Chicago, IL, John Bettenbender, Jr.- director

 

1987                 Bedroom Farce, Costume and Properties Design

                        Chicago Cooperative Stage, Chicago, IL, John Bettenbender, Jr.- director

 

1987                 Key Exchange, Costume and Properties Design

                        Chicago Cooperative Stage, Chicago, IL, David Gurdian- director

 

1988                 Lovers, Set Design

                        Chicago Cooperative Stage, Chicago, IL, David Gurdian- director

 

1989                 The Wings of Mooney Fishbein, Sound Design

                        Webster Circle Theatre, Chicago, IL, Ron Mark- director

 

1989                 Tartuffe, Costume Design

                        Lake Forest College, Lake Forest, IL, Buffy Lee- director

 

1995                 Off With Their Heads, Costume Design

                        Ursuline House, New Rochelle, NY, Bing Bills- director

 

1996                 Haiku, Sound Design

                        Corner Theatre, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL, EPS Behr- director

 

1997                 Keely and Du, Sound Design

                        Corner Theatre, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL, EPS Behr- director

 

1998                 Idyllwild Arts Festival, Sound Design and Fight Choreography

                        Junior Players Theatre, Idyllwild, CA, Jude Levin- artistic director

 

1999                 Not Not Darling, Voice, Speech and Dialect Coach

                        Brown County Playhouse, Nashville, IN, Bruce Burgun- director

 

1999                 Don’t Drink the Water, The Miser, Having Our Say, Acting Coach

                        Summer Stage, Terre Haute, Lew Hackleman- artistic director

 

2000                 Take All Of Us With You, Costume, Sound & Properties Design

                        Awake Productions, Chicago, IL, Beverly Spangler- producer

 

2001                 Side Man, Acting Coach

                        Theatre on the Square, Indianapolis, IN, Chris Goldfarb- director

 

2001                 Say Uncle, Uncle Silas, Stage Combat Choreographer

                        Greencastle High School, Greencastle, IN, Vickie Parker- director

 

2002                 A Midsommer Night’s Dreame, Language Coach

                        Greencastle High School, Greencastle, IN, Vickie Parker- director

 

CREATIVE ARTISTRY: STAGE MANAGEMENT

 

1978                 You Can’t Take It With You

                        Frankly Theatre, Detroit, MI, Martha Franks- director

 

1979                 The Circle Game

                        Prince John Players, Detroit, MI, John Puchalski- director

1984                 Blocks

                        Empyrean Productions, Chicago, IL, John Bettenbender, Jr.- director

 

1986                 Ludlow Fair

                        Chicago Cooperative Stage, Chicago, IL, John Bettenbender, Jr.- director

 

1990-92            Haunted By God

                        Call To Action, Road Manager (Chicago, IL), Dorothy Gregory- director

 

1993                 A Question of Choice

                        Paint Box Theatre, Road Manager (Chicago, IL), Denise Berry-Hanna- director

 

1996                 Godspell

                        Centerlight Theatre, Northbrook, IL, Joe Huber- director

 

1996                 Godspell

                        Griffin Theatre, Chicago, IL, Joe Huber- director

 

1996                 Waiting for Godot

                        Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL, John Bettenbender, Jr.- director

 

1997                 Death Defying Acts

                        Summer NITE, Chicago, IL, David Zack- director

 

1997                 A Streetcar Named Desire

                        Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL, Gene Terruso- director

 

ARTS ADMINISTRATION: PRODUCING

 

1985                 Lanford Wilson’s Ludlow Fair, Chicago Cooperative Stage

 

1985                 Rosemary McLaughlin’s Horsefeathers, Chicago Cooperative Stage

 

1985                 Myrna Lamb’s I Lost a Pair of Gloves Yesterday, Chicago Cooperative Stage

 

1986                 Ron Mark’s The Luck of Jesse McCorker, Chicago Cooperative Stage

 

1987                 William Luce’s The Belle of Amherst, Chicago Cooperative Stage

 

1987                 Kevin Wade’s Key Exchange, Chicago Cooperative Stage

 

1987                 Alan Ayckbourn’s Bedroom Farce, Chicago Cooperative Stage

 

1988                 John Peilmeier’s Agnes of God, Chicago Cooperative Stage

 

1988                 Ron Mark’s Mortal Risk, Chicago Cooperative Stage

 

1988                 Brian Friel’s Lovers, Chicago Cooperative Stage

 

1989                 Donald Abramson’s Melissa While She Sleeps, Chicago Cooperative Stage

 

1989                 Ron Mark’s The Wings of Mooney Fishbein, Webster Circle Theatre

 

1989                 Rosemary McLaughlin’s Motherless Child, Chicago Cooperative Stage

 

1990                 Ron Mark’s Joe Momma, Chicago Cooperative Stage

 

1990                 Helene Hanff’s 84 Charing Cross Road, Chicago Cooperative Stage

 

1997                                  Rosemary McLaughlin’s Standing in the Shadows, Northern Illinois University

 

2007                                  Regina Spain’s Wicked/Oz, Enter Stage Right

 

2008                                  Elaine Behr’s Holiday Lights, Enter Stage Right

 

2009                                  Claudia Haas’ The Haunting of Will Shakespeare, Enter Stage Right

 

SCHOOL RESIDENCIES

 

1990-91            St. Gregory Elementary School, Chicago, IL        Second Grade

 

1994-95            Passow Elementary School, Franklin Park, IL     First Grade

 

1996-98            Illinois Arts Council, Arts in Education, Roster Artist

Specialty Focus: Teacher Education (Using the arts in the primary and secondary classroom as the delivery vehicle for the curricular content.)

 

PROFESSIONALLY ORIENTED PUBLIC SERVICE ACTIVITIES

 

1985-90            Board of Directors, Chicago Cooperative Stage, Chicago, IL

 

1985-92            Script development consultant to Ron Mark, playwright and teacher for Wisdom Bridge Theatre, St. Xavier College, Victory Gardens Theatre, Chicago, IL

 

1985                 Script development consultant to Rosemary McLaughlin for Horsefeathers, published in Intimate Acts, 1997.

 

1987-89            Artistic advisor to Webster Circle Theatre, Chicago, IL

 

1987                 Board development consultant to Webster Circle Theatre, Chicago, IL

 

1987                 Founder and coordinator of the Bucktown Theatre Fest for off-loop Chicago theatres, the first festival of its kind

 

1988                 Co-coordinator of the Bucktown Theatre Fest

 

1988                 Assistant Director of the Ebenezer Lutheran summer arts camp for children ages 3-18, Chicago, IL

 

1989                 Script development consultant to Rosemary McLaughlin for Motherless Child, produced Off-Broadway in 1995

 

1989                 Director of the Ebenezer Lutheran summer arts camp for children ages 3-18

 

1989                 Co-coordinator of Chicago’s Rhinoceros Theatre Festival

 

1990                 Board Development consultant to Call To Action’s Performing Arts Ministry, Chicago, IL

 

1990-92            High School Forensics judge for the Northern Illinois region

 

1990-92            Script development consultant to Paul Amandes, winner of the Cardinal Bernardin leadership award for peace and social justice

 

1992                 Script development consultant to Irene Mahoney, a three time playwriting awardee of the Lily Foundation

 

1993                 Board development consultant for Paint Box Theatre, Chicago, IL

 

1997                 Script development consultant for Rosemary McLaughlin’s Otherisms/Them

 

1999                 Grant Review Panel for the Indiana Arts Commission, Arts Illiana Region

 

1999                 Fourth Adjudicator, South Eastern Theatre Conference, Lexington, KY

 

1999                 Director, Sally Carpenter’s Star Collector, Arts Alliana’s Crossroads Arts Fest, Word Stage, Terre Haute, IN

 

1999                 Reader (Hodl), Adult Education Committee, United Hebrew Congregation, Terre Haute, IN

 

1999                 Reader (Margaret), Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Arts Illiana’s Crossroads Arts Fest, Word Stage, Terre Haute, IN

 

1999-2000         American College Theatre Festival, Region III, Associate Production Respondent

 

2000                 Indiana Thespian Conference, Indianapolis, IN, scholarship and performance competition judge

 

2000                 Reader, Sally Carpenter’s Common Ground, American College Theatre Festival, Playwriting Competition

 

2001                 Indiana Theatre Association Convention, DePauw University, Greencastle, IN, Audition Respondent and Reader, Kathy Speigner’s Behind The Curtain for the ITA Works playwriting competition

 

2000-01            American College Theatre Festival, Region III, Associate Production Respondent

 

2001-02            American College Theatre Festival, Region III, Associate Production Respondent

 

2001-02            Treasurer, Executive Board, Indiana Theatre Association

 

WORKSHOPS PRESENTED

 

1997                 “Producing Something Other Than Another Waiting for Godot”

                        Illinois Theatre Association’s Undergraduate Theatre Festival, Northern Illinois University

 

1997                 “Meisner Table Work for Non-Meisner Actors”

                        Illinois Theatre Association 25th Anniversary Convention, Southern Illinois University

 

1997                 “Stage Management: Behind the Scenes with A Streetcar Named Desire”

                        School of Theatre Arts’ High School Theatre Workshop, Northern Illinois University

 

1998                 “Morning Warm-Ups”, “Audition Techniques”, “Stage Management”, Period Costume & Movement for Actors”

                        High School Theatre Workshop, Indiana State University

 

1999                 “Non-Verbal Communication: The Behavioral Dimension of Effective Teaching”

                        WinterFest Conference, Center for Teaching and Learning, Indiana State University

 

1999                 “Tuning Up The Artist”, “Audition: Selling Yourself in Under Two Minutes”, “Conquering Your Fear of Shakespeare”, “Auditioning- Musical Theatre”, “Improv Workshop”

                        High School Theatre Workshop, Indiana State University

 

1999                 “Feminist Revisioning of Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew”

                        Women’s Studies and Department of Theatre Colloquium, Indiana State University

 

2000                 “Meisner Table Work: A Key for Unlocking the Text”

                        Director- Doug Bedwell’s The Veranda for the Original Student One-Act Competition of The Works

                        Indiana Theatre Association Conference, DePauw University

 

2000                 “Fighting Our Way through Shakespeare”

                        Stage Combat Workshop and Performance

                        Arts Illiana’s Crossroads Arts Fest- Mainstage, Terre Haute, IN

 

2000                 Invited Presenter: National Communication Association Convention,

 Seattle Convention and Trade Center, Seattle, WA

Panel: “Stage Direction and Feminist Theatre Practice: Diverse Strategies for

Discussion”

     Presentation: “Deconstructing the Canon- Taming The Taming of the Shrew”

Performance: I Have Lived Through the Long Night, Latin American

performance art and social justice

                        Panel: “Performing for the Earth: Artists Set the Stage for Mother Nature”

                             Presentation: “Building the Earth Community through the Performing Arts”

 

2001                 “The Meisner Mystery, The Meisner Mystery, The Meisner….”

                        Indiana Theatre Association Convention, DePauw University

 

2002                 “Audition Clinic”

                        Indiana Theatre Association Conference, Masonic Temple, Indianapolis, IN

 

2008                 “Let’s Do Theatre”

                        Michigan Waterways Girl Scouts Council, Port Huron, MI

 

2008                 “Uniquely Me-Behind The Scenes”

                        Acting, Stage Combat, Shakespeare Workshops

In partnership with the Dove Foundation Grants Program to the Michigan Waterways Girl Scouts Council, Port Huron, MI

 

2009                 Acting Techniques Survey

8 week introductory acting methods survey

The Thespis Group, Port Huron, MI

 

GRANTS AND AWARDS

 

1978                 National Merit Scholarship Finalist, Full Four Year Scholarship Award

 

1989                 Chicago’s Joseph Jefferson Citation for Ron Mark’s The Wings of Mooney Fishbein

 

1990                 Chicago’s Joseph Jefferson Citation for Helene Hanff’s 84 Charing Cross Road

 

1990                 Sisters of Saint Agnes Foundation Award Grant for All That I Am

 

1991                 Springfield Dominican Creative Arts Grant for Earth Awakening

 

1992                 Sacred Heart Fathers Arts Grant for Earth, Magic & Me

 

1992                 Sisters of Saint Agnes Foundation Award Grant for Earth, Magic & Me

 

1993                 Sacred Heart Fathers Arts Grant for operating support, Call To Action Performing Arts Ministry

 

1999                 Honoree, Friends of Cunningham Library, Annual Artists and Authors Reception, for the British Premiere of Rosemary McLaughlin’s Standing in the Shadows

 

2000                 Indiana Arts Commission, Individual Artist Grant Awarded for continuing study in Williamson Movement Technique Teacher Training

 

UNIVERSITY SERVICE: Northern Illinois University

 

1996-97            Assistant Director and acting coach for Arms and the Man

 

                        Artistic Supervisor for Studio Series productions of Cloud Tectonics, The Only Game In Town, Haiku, and the Summer Nite readings Series

 

                        Acting Coach for Waiting for Godot, Calm Down Mother, The Actor’s Nightmare, Extremities, and A Photograph

 

                        Artistic Supervisor for the Studio Series productions of Calm Down Mother, The Actor’s Nightmare, Extremities, A Photograph, and Keely and Du

 

                        Guest Lecturer on directing for Introduction to Theatre (THEA 203)

 

1997-98            Artistic Supervisor for the Studio Series productions of Kiss of the Spider Woman, The Real Inspector Hound, The Summer Nite Reading series, and Jack and Jill

 

                        Guest Lecturer on stage management for THEA 203

 

                        Guest Lecturer on Actor’s Equity contracts, guidelines, rules, and responsibilities of stage managing for Stage Management (THEA 313)

 

Guest Lecturer on Actor’s Equity contracts, guidelines, rules, and responsibilities of stage managing for Advanced Stage Management (THEA 513)

Acting Coach for The House of Bernarda Alba, The Real Inspector Hound, Jack and Jill, To be Young, Gifted and Black, Blood Knot, and The Elephant Man

 

Artistic Supervisor for the Studio Series productions of To Be Young, Gifted and Black, Sea Marks, Blood Knot, and The Elephant Man

 

UNIVERSITY SERVICE: Indiana State University

 

1998-99            Supervisor, Grease Medley, TheatreFest

 

Supervisor, Studio Production, Alice in Wonderland

 

Audition Coach for students attending, Southeastern Theatre Conference, University and Regional Theatre Association, Midwest, Indiana Theatre Association, and professional/graduate program auditions.  (33 auditions)

 

Competition Coach for six students participating in the American College Theatre Festival’s Irene Ryan Acting Competition

 

Competition Coach for Jennifer Cox- National Society of Arts and Letters Competition for Drama (Acting)- third place, Indiana Chapter

 

Review and revision of all performance courses, credit hours, tracking, prerequisites, ad catalog course descriptions

 

Acting Coach for Picasso At The Lapin Agile, Alice in Wonderland, A Dybuuk, The Love Suicide at Schofield Barracks, Death, Merrily We Roll Along, Flyin’ West

 

Casting: US Federal Penitentiary, Hostage Negotiation Team Training, Warden Harley Lappin

 

1999-2000         Member, College of Arts and Sciences, Academic Affairs Committee, Joyce Wilson, Chair

 

Member, Performing Arts Advisory Council, First Year Initiative Program, Office of Residential Life

 

Volunteer, New Faculty Mentoring Program, College of Arts and Sciences

 

Volunteer, New Student Academic Advisement and Registration Program, Academic Opportunity Students, College of Arts and Sciences

 

Member, Grant Committee, Department of Theatre

 

Member, Teacher Education Committee, Department of Theatre

 

Member, Musical Theatre Degree Revision Joint Committee, Department of Theatre Representative

 

Supervisor, Cycle of Destruction, Theatre FEST

 

Acting Coach for Don’t Drink the Water, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Cinderella, Cyclops, Pippin, Break Away

 

Faculty Supervisor for Cinderella and Cyclops

 

Faculty Supervisor for the Stage Combat Workshop, Spring Semester

 

Audition Coach for students attending, Southeastern Theatre Conference, University and Regional Theatre Association, Midwest, Indiana Theatre Association, and professional/graduate program auditions.  (25 auditions)

 

Competition Coach for six students participating in the American College Theatre Festival’s Irene Ryan Acting Competition

 

Casting:            Radio, TV, Film Screenwriting Class (Susan Kray)

School of Nursing Teaching Video (Dale Ann O’Neal)

 ISU Public Relations Fall TV Spots (William Randall Agency)

American Red Cross Three County Disaster Simulation (Lisa Cook)

US Federal Penitentiary Hostage Negotiation Team Training (Warden Harley Lappin)

 

Coaching:  Musical Theatre Workshop Class Performance (Colleen Davis)

 

Reader:             Doug Bedwell’s In the Fall, Theatre @4

Gary Stewart’s Girl Tales, Theatre @4

Sally Carpenter’s Common Ground, Department of English Creative Writing Competition, winner (Playwriting)

 

2000-01            College of Arts and Sciences, Academic Affairs Committee, Chairperson

 

College of Arts and Sciences, Teacher Education Committee, Theatre Department Liaison

 

Member, Performing Arts Advisory Council, First Year Initiative Program, Office of Residential Life

 

Volunteer, Faculty Liaison Program, Office of Residential Life

 

Member, Faculty Teaching Partnership Program, Center for Teaching and Learning

 

Member, Musical theatre Degree Revision Joint Committee, Department of Theatre Representative

 

Library Representative, Department of Theatre

 

Supervisor, Take Five, Theatre FEST

Reader: Ashes To Ashes, Take Back The Night, Women’s Studies Program

 

Audition Coach for students attending, Southeastern Theatre Conference, University and Regional Theatre Association, Midwest, Indiana Theatre Association, and professional/graduate program auditions.  (25 auditions)

 

Competition Coach for six students participating in the American College Theatre Festival’s Irene Ryan Acting Competition

 

Director: The Life of Dorothy Day for the Women’s Studies Colloquium on Sex and Gender in Higher Education

 

Acting Coach for Death Defying Acts, Beanie and the Bamboozling Book Machine, The Daughters of Edward D’Boit, The Woodman and the Goblins, The Actor’s Nightmare, The Mikado

 

2001-02            Vice Chairperson, Academic Affairs Committee, College of Arts and Sciences

 

Supervisor, Stage Combat Scenarios, Theatre FEST, Department of Theatre, Dede Plaza

 

Supervisor, The Vagina Monologues, College Campaign at Indiana State University

 

Supervisor, Free to Be, You and Me, Stage Workshops and Indiana State University, co-producers

 

Acting Coach for Free to Be, You and Me, The Vagina Monologues, Everyman, Akhenaten and Nefertiti, El Grande de Coca Cola

 

Audition Coach for students attending, Southeastern Theatre Conference, University and Regional Theatre Association, Midwest, Indiana Theatre Association, and professional/graduate program auditions.

 

Competition Coach for eight students participating in the American College Theatre Festival’s Irene Ryan Acting Competition

 

Guest artist with the University Schick Lecturer John Kavanagh (IT Sligo, Ireland), performing “Bella Donna” and Other Incarnations

 

Performer, “Theatre Sings: a Cabaret from the American Musical Theatre”, Theatre @4, Department of Theatre

 

GRADUATE COMMITTEES

 

Kevin Ward, MA- Communication (Theatre), The End of Silence, Creative Project Committee Member, February 19, 1999

 

Lisa Meyer, MA- Communication (Theatre), Tricked, Creative Project Committee Member, May 10, 1999

 

Sally Carpenter, MA- Communication (Theatre), Jesse Lord, Creative Project Committee Member, April 27, 2000

 

Mark Bertram, MS- Communication (Theatre), Committee Member, June 27, 2000

 

Kathy Speigner, MA- Communication (Theatre), For Daisies To Bloom, Thesis Committee Member, November 15, 2000

 

Molly Comer, MA- Communication (Theatre), Creon, Creative Project Committee Member, April 29, 2001

 

Reginald Vaughn, MA- Communication (Theatre), Creon, Creative Project Committee Member, April 30, 2001

 

COURSES TAUGHT: Northern Illinois University

Fundamentals of Acting                                     Theatre 110 (3 credits)              Instructor

            A Practical Handbook for the Actor, Bruder, et al

 

Introduction To Theatre                                     Theatre 203 (3 credits)              Instructor

            The Essential Theatre, 5th Ed, Brockett

            Types of Drama, 6th Ed, Berman

 

Acting Technique: Truth on Stage                       Theatre 310C (3 credits)                        Ass’t Instructor

            The Fervent Years, Clurman

 

Acting Technique: Emotional Preparation            Theatre 310D (3 credits)            Ass’t Instructor

            On Acting, Meisner

            Legacy, Stanislavski

 

Text Analysis: Poetic Realism                            Theatre 407A (3 credits)            Ass’t Instructor

            Spoon River Anthology, Masters

 

Clarity and Character                                        Theatre 410E (3 credits)                        Ass’t Instructor

            My Life In Art, Stanislavski

 

Directing II                                                       Theatre 412 (3 credits)              Ass’t Instructor

            Play Directing, 4th Ed, Hodge

 

Text Analysis: Poetic Realism                            Theatre 507A (3 credits)            Ass’t Instructor

            Spoon River Anthology, Masters

 

Acting Techniques                                             Theatre 508 (3 credits)              Ass’t Instructor

            Stanislavski in Rehearsal, Toporkov

            Actors Talk About Acting

 

Advanced Acting: Clarity & Character               Theatre 510B (3 credits)                        Ass’t Instructor

            Mother Goose Anthology

 

 

COURSES TAUGHT: Indiana State University

 

Beginning Acting                                               THEA 150 (3 hours)                  Instructor

            The Practical Handbook for the Working Actor, Bruder

            Stanislavski in Rehearsal: The Final Years, Torporkov

 

Script Analysis                                                  THEA 191 (3 hours)                  Instructor

            Four Major Plays, Ibsen

            Death Trap, Levin

            Richard III, Shakespeare (First Folio)

            Tape, Belber

            Murderer of the Women’s Hope, Kokoschka

            Script Analysis, Grote

 

Acting Practicum- Analysis                                THEA 200 (2 hours)                  Instructor

            Impromptu, Mosel

 

Acting Practicum- Analysis                                THEA 200 (1 hour)                   Instructor

            The Stepmother, Bennett

 

Acting Practicum- Analysis                                THEA 200 (1 hour)                   Instructor

            Haiku, Snodgrass

 

Acting Techniques                                             THEA 250 (3 hours)                  Instructor

            Respect For Acting, Hagen

 

Voice for the Stage                                           THEA 387 (3 hours)                  Instructor

            The Use and Training of the Human Voice, Lessac

 

Voice for the Stage                                           THEA 387 (2 hours)                  Instructor

            Freeing the Natural Voice, Linklater

 

Movement for Actors                                        THEA 388 (2 hours)                  Instructor

            The Breathing Book, Farhi

 

Dialect Workshop                                              THEA 400 (1 hour)                   Instructor

            Russian Dialect Tape, Lane-Plescia

            Acting With An Accent: Russian, Stern

 

Acting Practicum                                              THEA 400 (2 hours)                  Instructor

            George, Bond

 

Acting Practicum- Analysis                                THEA 400 (2 hours)                  Instructor

            Pomp and Circumstance, Martin

 

Acting Practicum- Audition Techniques              THEA 400 (2 hours)                  Instructor

            Audition, Shurtleff

 

Audition Techniques                                          THEA 456 (2 hours)                  Instructor

            Audition, Shurtleff

 

Acting On Camera                                            THEA 464 (3 hours)                  Co-Instructor

            In collaboration with the English Department’s Screen Writing Course

 

Meisner Technique- 3rd Semester                       THEA 464 (3 hours)                  Instructor

            Spoon River Anthology, Masters

 

Advanced Acting I                                            THEA 484/584  (3 hours)           Instructor

            The Fervent Years, Clurman

 

Advanced Acting II                                           THEA 485/585                          Instructor

            Spoon River Anthology, Masters

            20th Century Actor Training, Hodge

 

Advanced Acting III                                          THEA 486/586 (3 hours)           Instructor

            An Actor Prepares, Stanislavski

            The Complete Mother Goose Nursery Rhymes

 

Graduate Acting Practicum- Character               COMM 601B (3 hours)             Instructor

            Middle Aged White Guys, Martin

 

Graduate Independent Study                              COMM 664 (3 hours)                Instructor

            Research and Analysis in Character

 

*THEA 200, THEA 400, and THEA 464 are directed study course numbers, the content of which is designed one semester at a time to respond to student need and interest.


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