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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
Head of Graduate Acting; Professor

Jeff Burke
Professor In-Residence;
Vice Chair, Graduate Studies

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
Head of Directing;
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
Vice Chair, Undergraduate Studies; Head of Undergraduate Acting; Associate Professor

Sylvan Oswald
Head of Playwriting;
Associate Professor

Marike Splint
Assistant Professor

Dominic Taylor
Acting Chair, Theater;
Professor

Edit Villarreal
Professor

Professors Emeriti

Alan Armstrong Professor Emeritus	Sue-Ellen Case Distinguished Research Professor	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	W. Tom Wheatley Professor Emeritus	Margaret Wilbur Professor Emerita

Visiting & Adjunct Faculty

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	Toni Dager Lecturer	Perry Daniel Lecturer
Kitty Doris-Bates Lecturer	Cynthia Ettinger Visiting Associate Professor	Tony Fanning Lecturer	Tony Fitzgerald Lecturer	Gina Flanagan Lecturer
Marilyn Fox Adjunct Associate Professor	John Garofalo Lecturer	Paul Girard Academic Coordinator	Keilani Gleave Lecturer	Fidel Gomez Lecturer
Naomi Gonzalez-Kahn Lecturer	David Gorshein Lecturer	Nicholas Gunn Adjunct Professor	Evelyn Halus Lecturer	Mk Haley Visiting Assistant Professor
Peggy Hickey Adjunct Professor	Cara Hinh 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	Jessica Kubzansky Lecturer	Andrew Leung Lecturer	Sara Lyons Lecturer	Melanie Mahoney Lecturer
Jeremy Mann Adjunct Professor Head of Musical Theater	Lee Martino 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
Adam Pascal Lecturer	Lauren T. Roark Lecturer	Tim Robbins Visiting Associate Professor	Jean-Louis Rodrigue Adjunct Professor	Mark Rosman 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	Tyler Thomas Lecturer	Natsuo Tomita Lecturer	Jesse Vacchiano 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

In Memoriam

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