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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
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
VC, Undergraduate Studies Head of Undergraduate Acting; Associate Professor

Sylvan Oswald
Head of Playwriting
Associate Professor

Marike Splint
Associate Professor

Dominic Taylor
Professor

Edit Villarreal
Vice Chair, Graduate Studies
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

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	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
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
Michelle Krusiec Regents' Lecturer	Jessica Kubzansky Lecturer	Wendy Kurtzman Lecturer	Andrew Leung Lecturer	Sara Lyons Lecturer
Melanie Mahoney 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	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
Amanda Zieve Lecturer

In Memoriam

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