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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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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
Associate 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
Head of Undergraduate Acting; Associate Professor

Sylvan Oswald
Head of Playwriting
Associate Professor

Marike Splint
VC, Undergraduate Studies; 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

Vikas Adam Lecturer	Daniel Baker Lecturer	Michael Bauer Lecturer	Cheryl Baxter Lecturer	Dan Belzer Adjunct Professor
Scott Brick Lecturer	Elizabeth Brohm Hanrahan Lecturer	Jonathan Burke Head of Sound Design Academic Administrator	Sara Ryung-Clement Lecturer	Fae Corrigan Lecturer
Perry Daniel Lecturer	James Darrah Lecturer	Alana Dietze Lecturer	Marilyn Fox Adjunct Associate Professor	Brian Gale Lecturer
Paul Girard Academic Coordinator	Keilani Gleave Lecturer	Jill Gold Lecturer	Fidel Gomez Lecturer	Naomi Gonzalez-Kahn Lecturer
David Gorshein Lecturer	Evelyn Halus Lecturer	Peggy Hickey Adjunct Professor	Morgan Hood Lecturer	Denise Hudson Lecturer
Yuki Izumihara Lecturer	Jon Jory Visiting Professor	Linda Kerns Adjunct Professor	Rachel Robb Kondrath Lecturer	Jessica Kubzansky Lecturer
Wendy Kurtzman Lecturer	Bruce Lemon, Jr. Lecturer	Andrew Leung Lecturer	Sara Lyons Lecturer	Melanie Mahoney Lecturer
James Maloof Lecturer	Jeremy Mann Adjunct Professor Head, Musical Theater	Lee Martino Lecturer	Mark Measures Lecturer	Aasha Ramdeen Lecturer
Edward Monaghan Adjunct Associate Professor	Judith Moreland Adjunct Associate Professor	Daniel Ostling Visiting Professor	Aasha Ramdeen Lecturer	Lauren T. Roark Lecturer
Jean-Louis Rodrigue Adjunct Professor	Mark Rosman Lecturer	Leon Rothenberg Lecturer	Jane Ruhm Lecturer	Pablo Santiago-Brandwein Lecturer
Robin Schneider Lecturer	Nathan Schroeder Lecturer	Angela Scott Lecturer	Peter Shushtari Lecturer	Jonathan Snipes Lecturer
Kathryn Stratford Lecturer	Natsuo Tomita Lecturer	Jessie Vacchiano Lecturer	Hans Vermy Lecturer	Paul Wagar Adjunct Professor
Jonathan Wang Lecturer	Andre Washington Lecturer	Mira Winick Lecturer	Mark Worthington Lecturer	Alexandra Wright Lecturer
Corey Wright Lecturer	Jean Carlo Yunen-Arostegui 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