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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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FACULTY NEWS

DEBORAH NADOOLMAN LANDIS Costume designers "find the beating heart of the people in the text and create with the actors real, authentic individuals," says Professor Landis in a Q&A with online magazine The Talks

J.Ed Araiza
Chair, Theater
Professor

Jeff Burke
Professor in-Residence

Michelle Liu Carriger
Associate Professor

Jennifer Chang
Associate Professor

Myung Hee Cho
Head of Stage and Production Design; Professor

Lap Chi Chu
Head of Lighting Design Professor

Michael Hackett
Professor

Chrisi Karvonides-Dushenko
Head of Costume Design
Professor

Suk-Young Kim
Professor

Brian Kite
Interim Dean
Professor

Deborah Nadoolman Landis
Distinguished Professor

Sean Metzger
Head of Performance Studies
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	Hanay L. Geiogamah Professor Emeritus	Nicholas Gunn Professor Emeritus	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	Lynn Bathke Lecturer	Michael Bauer 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	Alana Dietze Lecturer	Tony Fanning Lecturer
Gina Flanagan Lecturer	Julia Flores 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	Jessica Hanna Lecturer	Peggy Hickey Adjunct Professor	Cara Hinh Lecturer	Morgan Hood Lecturer
Denise Hudson Lecturer	Yuki Izumihara Lecturer	Alexis Jacknow Lecturer	Ross Jackson Lecturer	Alex Jaeger Lecturer
Jon Jory Visiting Professor	Lainie Kazan Lecturer	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
Bruce Lemon, Jr. Lecturer	Andrew Leung Lecturer	Sara Lyons Lecturer	Melanie Mahoney Lecturer	James Maloof Lecturer
Jeremy Mann Adjunct Professor Head, Musical Theater	Jeffrey Maynard Lecturer	Lee Martino Lecturer	Akin McKenzie Lecturer	Mark Measures Lecturer
Edward Monaghan Adjunct Associate Professor	Jason Moloney Lecturer	Judith Moreland Adjunct Professor	Oguri Lecturer	Se Hyun Oh Lecturer
Aasha Ramdeen Lecturer	Aaron Rhyne Lecturer	Lauren T. Roark Lecturer	Tim Robbins Visiting Associate Professor	Jean-Louis Rodrigue Adjunct Professor
Mark Rosman Lecturer	Leon Rothenberg Lecturer	Shoshana Rubin Lecturer	Jane Ruhm Lecturer	Pablo Santiago-Brandwein Lecturer
Nathan Schroeder Lecturer	Angela Scott Lecturer	Deena Selenow Lecturer	April Shawhan Lecturer	Roshni Shukla 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
Mary Lynn Wissner Lecturer	Mark Worthington Lecturer	Alexandra Wright Lecturer	Corey Wright Lecturer	Amanda Zieve Lecturer

In Memoriam

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