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Our faculty provide comprehensive training in all the professions of theater, from playwriting and acting to costume design and directing. They also provide a study of theater's 2,500-year history and literature. Students engage in the presentation of dramatic work in a community where creativity and critical thought combine in the exploration of the artistic and intellectual challenges inherent in the making of theater.

The Department of Theater has some of the most distinguished faculty and visiting artists in the world. With this professional training, students are following in the footsteps of our illustrious alumni.

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Roster Faculty

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SYLVAN OSWALD Associate Professor Sylvan Oswald has received a prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship, one of four professors at UCLA to receive the honor in 2019.
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J.Ed Araiza
Chair, Theater
Professor

Jeff Burke
Professor in-Residence

Michelle Liu Carriger
Assistant Professor

Myung Hee Cho
Head of Stage and Production Design; Professor

Lap Chi Chu
Head of Lighting Design Professor

Hanay L. Geiogamah
Professor

Michael Hackett
Professor

Chrisi Karvonides-Dushenko
Head of Costume Design
Professor

Suk-Young Kim
Head of Performance Studies Professor

Brian Kite
Interim Dean
Professor

Deborah Nadoolman Landis
Distinguished Professor

Sean Metzger
Professor

Thomas O'Connor
Associate Professor

Joseph M. Olivieri
VC, Undergraduate Studies Head of Undergraduate Acting; Associate Professor

Sylvan Oswald
Head of Playwriting
Associate Professor

Marike Splint
Head of Directing
Associate Professor

Dominic Taylor
Professor

Edit Villarreal
Vice Chair, Graduate Studies
Professor

Professors Emeriti

Alan Armstrong Professor Emeritus	Sue-Ellen Case Distinguished Research Professor	Nicholas Gunn Professor Emeritus	Patricia Harter Professor Emerita	Robert H. Hethmon Professor Emeritus
Anna Krajewska-Wieczorek Professor Emerita	Michael McLain Professor Emeritus	Joanne T. McMaster Professor Emerita	Thomas Orth Senior Lecturer SOE Emeritus	Rich Rose Professor Emeritus
Mel Shapiro Professor Emeritus	Carol Fisher Sorgenfrei Professor Emerita	José Luis Valenzuela Professor Emeritus	William Ward Professor Emeritus	Margaret Wilbur Professor Emerita

Visiting & Adjunct Faculty

Eric Abele Lecturer	Vikas Adam Lecturer	Daniel Baker Lecturer	Lynn Bathke Lecturer	Cheryl Baxter Lecturer
Dan Belzer Adjunct Professor	Michelle Bossy Lecturer	Drew Boughton Lecturer	Scott Brick Lecturer	Elizabeth Brohm Hanrahan Lecturer
Jonathan Burke Head of Sound Design Academic Administrator	Ross Chitwood Lecturer	Sara Ryung Clement Lecturer	Christian Cordella Lecturer	Fae Corrigan Lecturer
Toni Dager Lecturer	Perry Daniel Lecturer	James Darrah Lecturer	Michael Donovan Lecturer	Kitty Doris-Bates Lecturer
Cynthia Ettinger Visiting Associate Professor	Tony Fanning Lecturer	Tony Fitzgerald Lecturer	Gina Flanagan Lecturer	Julia Flores Lecturer
Marilyn Fox Adjunct Associate Professor	Brian Gale Lecturer	John Garofalo Lecturer	Paul Girard Academic Coordinator	Keilani Gleave Lecturer
Fidel Gomez Lecturer	Naomi Gonzalez-Kahn Lecturer	David Gorshein Lecturer	Evelyn Halus Lecturer	Peggy Hickey Adjunct Professor
Cara Hinh Lecturer	Morgan Hood Lecturer	Yuki Izumihara Lecturer	Alexis Jacknow Lecturer	Ross Jackson Lecturer
Jon Jory Visiting Professor	Linda Kerns Adjunct Professor	Nancy Keystone Lecturer	Hana Kim Lecturer	Colleen Kleppinger Lecturer
Rachel Robb Kondrath Lecturer	Michelle Krusiec Regents' Lecturer	Jessica Kubzansky Lecturer	Wendy Kurtzman Lecturer	Andrew Leung Lecturer
Sara Lyons Lecturer	Melanie Mahoney Lecturer	James Maloof Lecturer	Jeremy Mann Adjunct Professor Head of Musical Theater	Lee Martino Lecturer
Jeffrey Maynard Lecturer	Akin McKenzie Lecturer	Mark Measures Lecturer	Rod Menzies Lecturer	Jason Moloney Lecturer
Edward Monaghan Adjunct Associate Professor	Judith Moreland Adjunct Associate Professor	Oguri Lecturer	Se Hyun Oh Lecturer	Daniel Ostling Visiting Professor
Adam Pascal Lecturer	Aasha Ramdeen Lecturer	Lauren T. Roark Lecturer	Tim Robbins Visiting Associate Professor	Jean-Louis Rodrigue Adjunct Professor
Mark Rosman Lecturer	Leon Rothenberg Lecturer	Christina Roussos Lecturer	Jane Ruhm Lecturer	Pablo Santiago-Brandwein Lecturer
Robin Schneider Lecturer	Nathan Schroeder Lecturer	Angela Scott Lecturer	Deena Selenow Lecturer	April Shawhan Adjunct Associate Professor
Roshni Shukla Lecturer	Peter Shushtari Lecturer	Jonathan Snipes Lecturer	Roxanne Steinberg Lecturer	Kathryn Stratford Lecturer
Tyler Thomas Lecturer	Natsuo Tomita Lecturer	Jesse Vacchiano Lecturer	Hans Very Lecturer	Paul Wagar Adjunct Professor
Jonathan Wang Lecturer	R. A. White Lecturer	Thomas William Lecturer	Mary Lynn Wissner Lecturer	Dana Rebecca Woods Lecturer
Mark Worthington Lecturer	Alexandra Wright Lecturer	Amanda Zieve Lecturer

In Memoriam

Gilbert Cates	John Cauble	Donald B. Crabs	Gary Gardner	Henry Goodman
Neil Peter Jampolis	Leon Katz	Sylvia Moss	W. Tom Wheatley