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Acting/Directing

Sarah Barker

Theatre Movement, Acting. Associate Head of the MFA Acting Program. Associate Professor. MFA, Southern Methodist University, 1974. Certified Alexander Technique, Certified Lozanov Instructor.

Sarah is a nationally recognized leader in movement training for actors and is an internationally known expert in the Alexander Technique. Her book, The Alexander Technique, has been distributed world wide and has been translated into French, Japanese, Portuguese, and German. It has been used as a standard text in many theatre training programs. Sarah Barker coaches and choreographs movement professionally for companies including Shakespeare and Company, St. Louis Repertory and Three Rivers Shakespeare Festival. She has been a member of the training and artistic staff of Shakespeare and Company (Lenox, MA) since 1986. Nationally, she currently serves as a board member for Alexander Technique International. She has also been president of the Association of Theatre Movement Educators and a board member of the University/Resident Theatre Association. Sarah has acted professionally, in roles including Kath in Entertaining Mr. Sloan, Ophelia in Hamlet, Carol Cutrere in Orpheus Descending and Honey in Lenny Bruce. She has performed for Theatre South Carolina, playing Judith Bliss in Hay Fever and Amanda in The Glass Menagerie. She teaches Alexander Technique privately and trains Alexander Technique teachers in Japan and at the Chesapeake Bay Alexander School.

Robyn Hunt

Acting. Professor. UC/San Diego.

A member of Actor’s Equity, Hunt has acted professionally in the US, Canada, Europe and Japan. She worked for over a decade with Tadashi Suzuki, performed in Tokyo and Kanazawa in Opium, a joint Pacific Performance Project/Theatre Group Tao production under the direction of Kenji Suzuki, studied and performed in Kyoto under the direction of Shogo Ohta, and between 1994 and 2000 performed frequently at the Actor's Theatre of Louisville, under the direction of Jon Jory. Hunt was co-founder and first artistic director of the San Diego Public Theatre and co-heads the Pacific Performance Project/east, now based in Columbia, SC. In 2001, she received the University of Washington Distinguished Teaching Award. Most recent acting roles include Dottie in Noises Off, the title role in Mother Courage and Ranevskaya in both Gravity (Connelly Theatre, NYC) and The Cherry Orchard Sequel at LaMaMa. Hunt performed in the New York debut of Peter Kyle Dance as Miss Haversham in To What Extent at the Henry Street Settlement/Abrons Arts Center inFall 2007, and in 2000, appeared in another Kyle dance, Going. She has created several evening length dance/theatre pieces, including the trilogy Suite For Strangers, which had its Seattle debut in 2004. Other dance/theatre collaborations (with Peter Kyle and Steven Pearson) include: Myra's War, Prix Fixe, and Shogo Ohta's The Water Station (Mizu No Eki). She appears in the January 2008 article "Shaping the Independent Actor," in American Theatre Magazine. Her Work can be viewed at the Pacific Performance Project/east website (P3east.com).

Richard Jennings

Acting, Directing. Professor. Graduate Director. MFA, California Institute of the Arts, 1979. Actors’ Equity Association, Screen Actors Guild.

A member of Actors' Equity Association and the Screen Actors Guild, Richard is a professional film and stage actor who has been acting professionally since 1966. He was Director of Theatre for several years at Morningside College. He has been a guest master acting teacher at colleges and universities across the country.

Richard has acted in professional companies from the Pearl Theatre in New York to the Odyssey Theatre in Los Angeles. He has acted and directed at the Clarence Brown Theatre in Tennessee playing such diverse roles as Mozart in Amadeus and Valmont in Les Liaisons Dangereuses. Richard has appeared in national film and television productions as well.

Jim O’Connor

Directing, Acting. Professor. MFA, Pennsylvania State University, 1969. Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers.

Jim has directed at numerous regional theatres, such as Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, the Alley Theatre in Houston, Stage West in Massachusetts, the Walnut Street Theatre in Philadelphia, and the Wisdom Bridge and Northlight Theatres in Chicago. He has also directed for the Tony Award-winning Utah Shakespearean Festival on numerous occasions as well as the Great Lakes Shakespeare Festival. He received the Cleveland Critics Circle Award and was nominated for Chicago’s Joseph Jefferson Award for Directing. He created and headed the MFA program at Purdue University where he also served as Chair and Artistic Director for ten years. He served two terms as the President of the University/Resident Theatre Association, and has been elected to the prestigious National Theatre Conference and he is head of the Stavis Playwriting selection panel.

Jim received the Distinguished Alumni Award from the College of Arts and Architecture at Penn State University in 1999. He Chaired and served as the Artistic Director of Theatre South Carolina from 1997 until returning to the faculty full time in 2004. Jim has an intensive background in the visual arts and brings this as well as his focus on theatrical forms to bear on his teaching.

Steven Pearson

Acting. Professor. Head of the MFA Acting Program. Carnegie-Mellon.

Professor Pearson has acted and directed professionally in the US, Japan, Canada and Europe. A graduate of Carnegie-Mellon University with degrees in acting and directing, and a 10-year student of Tadashi Suzuki, Professor Pearson was head of the Professional Actor Training Program at the University of Washington from 1992 to 2003, and previously taught in and headed the acting program at the University of California, San Diego. He is an Artistic Director of the Pacific Performance Project/East, and recent professional work includes directing at On the Boards in Seattle, LaMaMa in New York, in Sibiu, Romania, in Chicago and Minneapolis; and acting in Seattle and Kyoto, Japan.

Robert Richmond

Directing and Acting. Associate Professor. Head of Undergraduate Performance. Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama.

Robert Richmond, originally from Hastings, England, studied at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama. For Aquila Theatre he has directed over 30 productions including Romeo & Juliet, Hamlet, Twelfth Night, The Invisible Man, Agamemmnon, Othello, The Man Who Would Be King, Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Importance of Being Earnest, The Tempest, Wrath of Achilles, Much Ado About Nothing, Cyrano de Bergerac, Julius Caesar, The Iliad: Book One, and King Lear. He has also directed special concert engagements of Cherubini’s Medea, Tanyev’s Oresteia, and Theodorakis’ Electra at Carnegie Hall. In 2005, Aquila and Mr. Richmond’s production of Much Ado About Nothing played a command performance for a private reception at the White House in honor of Shakespeare’s birthday. Additionally, he has worked extensively as an actor in the UK and US including seasons with Aquila, The Royal Lyceum, Communicado, and Citizens’ Theatre Glasgow.

Erica Tobolski

Voice, Acting. Associate Professor. MFA, Purdue University, 1989. Certified Lessac Teacher.

Erica Tobolski is the voice and speech trainer at the University of South Carolina, teaching acting, voice, speech and dialects. She has professionally coached voice/text/dialects for the Tony Award-winning Utah Shakespearean Festival, the Clarence Brown Theatre, Charlotte Repertory Theatre, Purdue University and others, and was dialect consultant for productions at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and for the radio play Merry Go Round on NPR. As Distinguished Visiting Professor at Universiti Teknologi in Malaysia she taught acting and voice and also served as voice and acting coach on a Malay version of A Midsummer Night’s Dream performed at the National Theatre in Kuala Lumpur. Her work is published in The Complete Voice and Speech Workout, in addition to several articles in the leading journal The Voice and Speech Review. She maintains a private practice in voice consultation, is a Lessac Certified Trainer and regularly performs on stage and in voice-overs.

Design Faculty

Nic Ularu

Design. Professor. Head of the MFA Design Program. Universitary degree (MFA equivalent), University of Bucharest, 1980.

Professor Ularu has extensive design credits in USA and Europe, including theatres in Sweden, Northern Ireland and Romania. Nic Ularu was the head of scenography at the National Theatre of Bucharest - Romania, and served for four years as a board member of The European League of the Institutes of the Arts (ELIA), Amsterdam, The Netherlands. He has taught scene and/or costume design in Romania, Germany, Sweden, UK, Italy, Denmark and Hong Kong. Prior to USC, he taught at Smith College, National Theatre School of Denmark and The University of Theatre and Film, Romania. In 2003, Professor Ularu received an OBIE award for outstanding achievement in Off-Broadway theater. Ularu’s designs appeared in the USA entries at the Prague Quadrennial International Exhibitions of scenography in 2007, 2003 and 1998. In 2005, Nic co-designed the exhibit and designed the poster of the World Stage Design Exhibition, Toronto - Canada, and was appointed by the United States Institute of Theatre Technology as the leading designer and curator of the USA National Exhibit at the Prague Quadrennial International Exhibition of 2007.

Besides his national and international design activity Nic Ularu is a playwright and director. His recent freelance work as playwright and director includes several acclaimed productions at LaMaMa ETC - New York, Sibiu International Theatre Festival - Romania, Teatrul Foarte Mic, Bucharest - Romania, “O” Teatret - Sweden, National Theatre of Constanta - Romania, and National Theatre of Cluj - Romania.

Walter T. J. Clissen

Assistant Professor, Sound Design. MFA, National institute for Theatre and Performing Arts, Brussels, Belgium.

Walter has 25+ years of experience in all aspects of the audio world. He received his BFA/MFA from the Higher Institute of Theatre and Culture Spreading in Brussels, Europe. Born in Belgium and working in venues all over Europe, he moved to Los Angeles, CA in 1988. His sound designs have been heard internationally in Theatre and Opera houses (e.g. L.A.’s Center for Bilingual Arts, La Mama ETC New York City, PCPA Theatrefest Santa Maria-Solvang CA, Arizona Repertory Theatre, Tucson AZ, Romanian National Theatre, Cluj, Romania, The Flanders Opera Belgium etc.). Recent work includes Arno Raunig’s Barrock and Subsonic Sonar’s Emerald Green Vortex. He composed and designed the new musical, SEVEN STARS IN PARADISE, with his partners Jean-Louis Milford (France) and Francis Dixon (England). He has started sound design on a new musical, My Fairy Tale (a musical about Hans Christian Andersen, original idea & concept by Flemming Enevold, Music & Lyrics by Stephen Schwartz, book by Phillip LaZeb), commissioned by PCPA Theatrefest to have its American premiere summer 2011 in Solvang CA. He has taught several audio courses, workshops and lectures in Europe, at UCLA, CSU Fresno, Pacific Conservatory of Performing Arts in Santa Maria,CA, and at the University of Arizona in Tucson, AZ. He is currently Asst. Professor in Sound Design at the University of South Carolina teaching Sound Design courses for the Dept. of Theatre and Dance and the Dept. of Media Arts..

Lisa Martin-Stuart

Costume Design. Associate Professor. Associate Department Chair. MFA, University of Texas at Austin, 1984. United Scenic Artists, Local 829.

As head of the Costume Design Program, Lisa has a strong background in design, historical research and costume technology. Lisa’s professional design credits include Film: Ruby in Paradise; winner of the 1993 Sundance Film Festival and starring Ashley Judd, Ulee’s Gold (1997) starring Peter Fonda, Coastlines (2002) starring Timothy Olyphant. Regional Theatre: American Folklore Theatre, Asolo State Theatre, Aquila Theatre Company of London, Charlotte Repertory Theatre, and Hippodrome State Theatre. Her continued collaboration with Marilyn Wall (Emmy Award-winning costume designer) and Marion Caffey (Three Mo’ Tenors) on Cookin’ at the Cookery has brought her design and technical expertise to the Geva Theatre, Merrimack Repertory Theatre, and Huntington Theatre Company. As resident wardrobe stylist for Mad Monkey, a nationally recognized media production company, she has collaborated on numerous national and regional award winning television commercials including University of South Carolina’s Bicentennial Campaign and more recently “Cheerleader” from 2004. During Lisa’s 13 years at USC she has designed over 30 productions for Theatre South Carolina.

Jim Hunter

Scene and Lighting Design. Professor. Chair and Artistic Director. MFA, University of Virginia, 1991. United Scenic Artists, Local 829-Scenic and Lighting Design.

Jim’s scene and lighting designs have been seen at such theatres as: Theatre Virginia, Phoenix Theatre, Charlotte Rep, Florida Stage, Arkansas Rep, Playhouse on the Square, Drury Lane Theatre, Heritage Repertory Theatre, Flat Rock Playhouse, VeggieTales Live National Tour, Florida Rep, as well as others. Jim toured with the modern dance company Wall Street Danceworks. Recent designs include the lighting design for The Lost Colony in North Carolina and the scene design for Thoroughly Modern Millie at Phoenix Theatre in Arizona which was awarded his second consecutive AriZoni Award for Excellence in Scene Design. Jim is a member of the national designers union, United Scenic Artist, Local 829 in scene and lighting design. National service includes the Commission for Accreditation with the National Association of Schools of Theatre. Please visit his online portfolio at www.jimhunterdesigns.com.

Design and Production

David Britt

Production Manager, Lab Theatre. Instructor. MFA, University of South Carolina

David Britt appeared on stage at Theatre South Carolina in Measure for Measure, A View from the Bridge, Bus Stop, Dancing at Lughnasa and A Midsummer Night’s Dream. He is from Raleigh, NC, where he appeared in more than 30 roles. He has trained at the New Actors Workshop in New York City and at the world renowned Shakespeare and Company in Lenox, MA. David also completed the Second City Comedy Improvisation Boot Camp.

Sam Gross

Assistant Technical Director. Senior Instructor. MFA, Indiana University 2005.

Sam Gross is a graduate of Indiana University where he earned an MFA in Theatre Technology. He specializes in mechanized scenery, computer controlled systems, electronics, set construction, and rigging. He has designed and built motion control systems for such productions as The Real Thing, Sweeny Todd, Romeo and Juliet, Sweet Charity, Dracula, and Pal Joey. He has overseen the construction of USC productions since 2005. Mr. Gross received his Bachelor of Sciences Degree from the University of North Alabama where he also worked as a sound designer, lighting designer, sound engineer, carpenter, and actor. In his position as Assistant Technical Director, Sam supervises graduate and undergraduate students in the construction of scenery and props for USC Theatre and Dance productions.

M. Spencer Henderson

Costume Technology. Instructor. Costume Shop Supervisor. MFA, UNC Chapel Hill, 2008.

M. Spencer Henderson is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where he received an MFA in Costume Shop Management and Costume Technology. He received his BA in theatre from Florida State University. His costuming credits include Playmakers Repertory Company, The Utah Shakespearean Festival, and Glimmerglass Opera. He has spent the last three summers at the Williamstown Theatre Festival as the Costume Shop Manager. Spencer supervises the USC costume shop, assists with the patternmaking and construction of costumes, and teaches costume construction classes. He is also an advisory board member of SC Pride and has designed at Workshop Theatre here in Columbia.

Christine Jacky

Assistant Technical Director for Lighting and Sound. Instructor. MFA, Southern Illinois University, 2010.

Christine Jacky received her MFA from Southern Illinois University in Theater with emphasis in lighting design and theatrical management. She specializes in stage electrics, sound technology, production management, and photography for the stage. She has worked at Central Piedmont Summer Theater, Long Lake Camp for the Arts, McLeod Summer Playhouse, New York City International Fringe Festival, and Lookingglass Theater in Chicago.

Andy Mills

Technical Director. Instructor. MFA, University of South Carolina, 1996.

Andy has designed professionally at Shakespeare Theatre’s Young Company (Washington, DC), Charlotte Repertory Theatre, Carolina Opera, USC Opera, and Trustus. Andy currently teaches Intro to Theatre Design and Theatre Laboratory. He specializes in the area of properties, finding or building the most obscure of items. Andy is a Member of USITT.

Eric Morris

Instructor/Production Manager. MFA, Western Illinois University

Eric is a teacher, designer, painter and a writer. Born and raised in Augusta, GA, he is a graduate of Augusta College and earned his MFA in Stage Design from Western Illinois University. He has assisted, designed and produced for trade shows, ballet, opera, regional theatre, Off-Broadway and Broadway. As a young designer he assisted Tom Skelton, Michael Phillippi, Kevin Rigdon, Brian MacDevitt, Natasha Katz and others at venues such as The Goodman Theatre, Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Trinity Repertory and Great Lakes Theatre Festival. For almost twelve years he served as the resident scenic and lighting designer for Lexington Children’s Theatre in Lexington KY, where he produced work seen by hundreds of thousands of Kentucky children and adults. His teaching includes classes and workshops for colleges, universities and professional training programs such as Illinois Wesleyan University, University of Kentucky and The Hotchkiss School Summer Program. In 1991 he was one of six national candidates granted a TCG/National Endowment for the Arts Young Designer Fellowship. His articles and stories have appeared in Painter’s Journal, Business Lexington, Sandhills Magazine, and others. He is currently on faculty with University of South Carolina, and the Designer/Production Manager for USC Dance. Eric’s latest work includes design and production management for Wideman-Davis Dance Company. In his spare time he writes fiction and makes original music with his band Classes of Dynamo.

Valerie Pruett

Costume Design. Instructor. MFA, University of South Carolina.

Valerie is the instructor and designer for hair and makeup at Theatre South Carolina. She started out in professional theatre as a makeup and hair artist for such outdoor pageants as Tecumseh! and Unto These Hills. After paying her dues with the outdoor circuit Valerie went on to work and sub-contract with several regional theaters including Milwaukee Repertory Theatre, American Players’ Theatre, Utah Shakespearean Festival, Dallas Theatre Center, Hippodrome, New American Theatre, Heritage Repertory Theatre and most recently the American Folklore Theatre. Before returning to USC, Valerie was a guest instructor and artist at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s Professional Theatre Training Program and at Lawrence University in Appleton, WI. She is a registered artist with the SC Film Commission and the makeup artist for the Addy Award-winning media company, Mad Monkey.

K. Dale White

Stage Management. Production Manager. Instructor. BFA, Webster University, 1981. American Guild of Variety Artists. Actors' Equity Association

K. Dale is a proud member of Actors’ Equity. He has worked on Broadway, Off Broadway, regionally and has toured. He has worked with David Rabe, Richard Greenberg, Anna Deavere Smith, George C. Wolfe, Will Eno, Tony Kushner, John Rando, James Taylor and Billy Joel among others. Other credits include: The Berkshire Theatre Festival, Shakespeare and Company, Playwrights Horizons, The Public Theatre, Manhattan Theatre Club, La Mama, Cambridge Theatre Company, The American Repertory Theatre, Chamber Theatre Productions, Available Light, Opera Theatre St. Louis, the Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, The Alley Theatre, STAGES, and the Alaska Repertory Theatre. He teaches Stage Management at the University of South Carolina, Department of Theatre and Dance, Columbia, SC. He has taught at Emerson College, Boston, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA and Bard College at Simon’s Rock, Great Barrington, MA. K. Dale is a graduate of the Conservatory of Theatre Arts, Webster University, St. Louis, MO.

History/Theory

Peter Duffy

Theatre Education. Assistant Professor. MFA, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 2007.

Peter is the head of the MAT program in theatre education at the University of SC. Before coming to USC, Peter was the Director of Education and Community Programs for the Irondale Ensemble out of Brooklyn, NY. Peter taught middle level and high school English, German and Drama for a decade in Maine and New Jersey. Additionally, Peter worked as an actor/teacher in New York City schools, most notably with the Creative Arts Team. Peter works mostly with students and teachers infusing theatre in to the basic curriculum both here and abroad. He has served on the international board of Pedagogy and Theatre of the Oppressed and is actively involved in AATE. He is the co-editor along with his colleague, Elinor Vettraino, of Youth and Theatre of the Oppressed, published by Palgrave Press. His research
interests include the intersection of cognition and theatre, using Theatre of the Oppressed techniques with youth and activating the basic curriculum through theatre. He lives in Blythewood, SC with his actress wife, Patti, and their children Eve and Nolan.

Victor Holtcamp

Theatre History/Theory. Assistant Professor. PhD, University of Washington, 2003.

Dr. Holtcamp has been an actor, dancer, director, and dramaturg, as well as a theatre historian and theoretician. He earned dual degrees in History and Drama at the University of Washington, received his Master's degree from Brown University in Providence, RI, and completed his Ph.D. in 2003. Major areas of study include the intersections of industry, culture, and theatre; Shakespeare; and 20th century U.S. theatre history. He has presented papers at a variety of national and international theatre conferences, and published on topics as varied as the apocryphal Shakespearean play Mucedorus to the Broadway musical A Chorus Line. His performance credits run the gamut from West Side Story to works of physical theatre and modern dance. As a dramaturg, Victor has supported productions at the University of South Carolina, and worked with playwrights to develop new works for the stage. He recently completed an adaptation and performance of Barry Lopez's The Rediscovery of North America. He is currently working on a book project investigating the influence of industrialization on approaches to stage and screen performance.

Amy Lehman

Theatre History. Associate Professor. PhD, Indiana University, Bloomington, 1996.

Prior to joining USC in 2005, Amy taught at Towson University, MD, and at the State University of New York at Albany. She has taught undergraduate and graduate level courses on topics in theatre history and dramatic literature, ranging from 17th century French theatre to 20th century women playwrights. She has researched and published in the area of 19th century theatre and actresses, and has a book about Victorian women performers and mesmerism forthcoming from McFarland & Co., publishers. She has presented scholarship at the American Society of Theatre Research and the International Federation of Theatre Research. Other areas of interest include acting and dramaturgy for plays including Cloud 9 and The Duchess of Malfi.

Dance

Susan E. Anderson

Ballet, Choreography, Historic Dance. Professor. MFA, University of California at Irvine, 1973.

Susan is Artistic Director of the South Carolina Summer Dance Conservatory and the University Dance Program. She is founder and Artistic Director of the USC Dance Company.

Susan trained with the San Francisco Ballet and danced professionally with the Los Angeles Dance Theatre and Ballet Celeste of San Francisco. She has taught master classes and workshops throughout the US and internationally. She is a dance history specialist in baroque dance and has choreographed twenty full-length ballets and more than fifty original works. Most recently, she taught and choreographed at the University of Buffalo and The Gus Giordiano Dance Company in Chicago and Dresden, Germany.

Stacy Calvert

Dance. Senior Instructor.

Stacy Calvert, former soloist with the New York City Ballet and a scholarship student at the School of American Ballet, was chosen by George Balanchine to be a company member by the age of 18. Some of her notable roles were in Western Symphony, Stars and Stripes Forever, and Who Cares. She received her early dance training from Ann Brodie, Artistic Director, Carolina and Columbia City Ballet in South Carolina. Her mother, part owner of the very successful Calvert Brodie Dance School, has also had a great influence in her dance training.

Kyra Strasberg

Dance. Instructor.

Kyra Strasberg was a ballerina with the Boston Ballet, rising to Principal status over a 15 year career. She has taught and staged works for Harvard University. She is a master teacher trainer for Pilates.

Dr. Mila Parrish

Associate Professor, Director of USC Dance Education Major

Dr. Mila Parrish is nationally and internationally recognized for her work in dance pedagogy, educational technology and multimedia development. She received a BFA in choreography and performance and K-12 Teachers Certification from the University of Michigan; an MA in Dance Education from Columbia University and a Ph.D. from The Ohio State University in Art Education. Her research and publications have established new trends in movement technology, K-12 integrated curriculum and teacher training in the digital arena. Parrish was a professional dancer and choreographer in NYC, performing with modern, ballet and theatre companies, most notably, The Jean Erdman Theater of Dance, with whom she toured nationally. Her company, Koshin Dance Theater has been presented at various NYC venues including DIA Center for the Arts, P.S. 122, the Morningside Dance Festival and St. Mark's Church. She is a Certified Movement Analyst (CMA) from the Laban Institute of Movement Studies in NYC with research interest in Labanotation, enhanced movement cognition, distance pedagogy and multimedia development. Mila has served on the board of the National Dance Education Organization (NDEO), Dance and the Child International (daCi), and the Dance Notation Bureau (DNB). Currently, she is the Director of Technology for NDEO. For five years she directed Moving Inventors a community arts school with a hands-on dance laboratory for teacher education. Mila is very active in professional development, leading seminars and workshops throughout the U.S. and in China, Finland, and the Netherlands. She has been on faculty at Columbia University, Ohio State University and Arizona State University.