News and Accolades from theatre faculty and other faculty in the School of the Arts
All faculty and staff are seasoned theatre professionals whose experience ensures our students receive a practical education that helps them build their own careers.
Recent Faculty Activity (Selected Highlights)
- Pianist, Vespers Music: Recital Performance with Taylor Stayton.
- Pianist and Music Director, Performance of students from Speed Dating with Sound Health, Buffett Cancer Center, UNMC.
- Musician and Speaker, Food for the Soul Series, Omaha Conservatory of Music
- Guest Conductor/Instructor Hansel and Gretel opera performances, Depaul University.
- Music Director, Indecent, BLUEBARN Theatre.
- Pianist, International Vocal Health Day Performances, Buffett Cancer Center, UNMC.
- Performer, Chamber Music, Crossroad Music Festival.
- Great Plains Theatre Conference, Conference-Related, 2006 – Present production director, script reader, playwright respondent, University student and faculty personnel connector.
- Actor, Dialect Coach, & Dramaturg, Indecent, BLUEBARN Theatre.
- Playwright, Flo, “Centering the Margins,” The Union for Contemporary Art. Omaha, NE.
- Playwright, The Journey, The Rose Theater and Performing Arts Center. Performed by Young, Gifted, and Black Teen Theatre Program.
- Playwright, In What America Do You Live? Collaborative performance piece, Jindra Fine Art Gallery, Peru State College.
- Performer, The Blues of Knowing Why, Staged reading, Kimmel Harding Resident Artist Chris Maly
- Performer, North Omaha Neighborhood Tapestries, Performed original work in collaboration for Great Plains Theatre Conference PlayFest.
- Scholarly Feedback. Red Summer After the Show, Blue Barn Theatre.
- The Whipping Man, Malcolm X Festival, UNO.
- Race, Omaha Community Playhouse.
- Panelist, The Whipping Man, Omaha Community Playhouse.
- Scholarly Feedback. Clybourne Park, Anti-Defamation League and SNAP! Theatre.
- Keynote/Plenary Address - "Women’s Playwrights Initiative Phase 4 Presentation." Presented at National Theatre Conference, National Theatre Conference, New York, NY.
- Shakespeare Theatre Association (STA) - quarto, Editor, Associate Editor.
- Past President of STA.
- UNMC, Collaboration with UNMC Dr. Howard Liu and others on E-Module Learning Modules. Depression in Adults and Adolescents, dealing with aggressive patients.
- Tour Coordinator, Little Wars (a UNO Theatre devised production), International Collegiate Theatre Festival at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
- Meritorious Achievement Awards, Kennedy Center / American College Theatre Festival, Outstanding Scenic and Lighting Design, The Clearing, UNO Theatre
- Lighting and Scenic Designer, A Raisin in the Sun, Omaha Community Playhouse.
- Scenic Designer, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Nebraska Shakespeare Festival.
- Scenic Designer, Shakespeare In Love, Nebraska Shakespeare Festival.
- Lighting Designer - EPIC, Great Plains Theatre Conference.
- Lighting Supervisor/Advisor - Tuck Everlasting, Skutt High School.
- Lighting and Scenic Designer, Indecent, BLUEBARN Theatre. Omaha Entertainment Award Nomination: Outstanding Scenic Design.
- Scenic Designer, Curious Incident of Dog in the Nightime, Omaha Community Playhouse. Omaha Entertainment Award Nomination: Outstanding Scenic Design.
- Costume Design, Little Wars, UNO Theatre. International Collegiate Theatre Festival at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
- Costume Shop Manager, Bernhardt/Hamlet, Brigit St Brigit Theatre Company.
- Costume Shop Manager, Hamlet and All's Well That Ends Well, Nebraska Shakespeare Festival.
- Costume Design, Assassins, Brigit St Brigit Theatre Company.
- Costume Design, Incident at Vichy, Brigit St Brigit Theatre Company.
- Actress, Holiday Lights: Monsters, Menorahs, and Quarks, Brigit St Brigit Theatre Company.
- Actress, Bold Girls, Brigit St Brigit Theatre Company.
- Presentation, “‘Oh, What A Little Whopper!’: To Stage from Screen in 1919.”." Song, Stage, and Screen Conference, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK.
- Presentation, “‘Line!’ vs. Reading.” Mid-America Theatre Conference.
- Presentation, "Susan Glaspell’s Free Laughter." Presented at Association for Theatre in Higher Education.
- Producer, “Shakespeare on the Air: A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Mendelssohn, KVNO Radio.
- Actor, Major, “Miracle of the Danube,” First Flight Theatre Company.
- Actor, General Plehve, “Second Overture,” First Flight Theatre Company.
- Actor, La Harpe, “The Feast of Ortolans,” First Flight Theatre Company.
- Actor, Kuhn, God on Trial[Postponed], Brigit Saint Brigit Theatre.
- Actor, Constant, Bernhardt/Hamlet, Brigit Saint Brigit Theatre.
- Actor, Clay/Old Clay, Monkey in the Shade, Great Plains Theatre Conference.
- Actor, Charles Guiteau, Assassins, Brigit Saint Brigit Theatre.
- Actor, Detective/Ferrand, Incident at Vichy, Brigit Saint Brigit Theatre.
- Actor, Captain Brackett, “South Pacific in Concert,” Music Theatre Wichita and Omaha Symphony.
- Actor, Prince Prospero, “The Masque of the Red Death,” Joslyn Castle.
- Director, Hath Taken Away (by Jacob Juntunen), Great Plains Theatre Conference.
- Director, Don’t Be Evil (by Bennett Fisher), Great Plains Theatre Conference.
- Director and Adaptation Author, Animal Farm, UNO Theatre. Omaha Entertainment Award Nomination: Best Dramatic Play & Best Premiere of a New, Original, Local Script. Kennedy Center/American College Theatre Festival National Award: Distinguished Achievement by Performance and Production Ensemble.