Faculty
Beau Coleman
Professor
Primary teaching areas: MFA Directing, BFA Acting, Performance Creation. Graduate Seminars in Directing and Performance. Graduate Supervision.
Associate Professor | MA & PhD Program Coordinator
Primary teaching areas: Theoretical Approaches to Theatre and Performance; Canadian Theatre; Indigenous Performance; Theatre and Colonial Modernity; Theatre and Performance Historiography; Decolonizing Research Methodologies in Performance Studies and Settler Responsibilities.
Dr. Piet Defraeye
Professor | BA Honors Program Coordinator
Primary teaching areas: Dramatic Theory, Introduction to Theatre Arts, Play Analysis. Graduate Seminars in Production Dramaturgy, Audience Reception Theory, Brecht, Research Tools. Graduate Supervision.
Michael Kennard
Professor | ABBEDAM & Off-the-Cuff Festival Advisor
Primary teaching areas: Performer-Created Theatre, Movement and Physical Theatre, Collective Creation, Clown. Graduate Supervision.
David Kennedy
Professor | MFA Directing Program Coordinator
Primary teaching areas: MFA Directing, BFA Acting, Performer Created Theatre, Graduate Seminars in Dramatic Structure and Playwriting and Performance on the Contemporary American Stage.
David Ley
Professor | BFA Acting Program Coordinator
Primary teaching areas: BFA Voice, Speech in Rehearsal and Performance, Dialects and Accents, BFA Acting, MFA Voice Pedagogy. Graduate Supervision.
Dr. Donia Mounsef
Professor
Primary teaching areas: Introduction to Dramatic Arts, Play Analysis, Critical Theory, Playwriting, Media and Performance, Digital Theatre and Emerging Technologies. Graduate Seminars in Contemporary French and Francophone Theatre, Gender, Desire and the Modern Stage, Theatre of War, Intermediality. Performance Theory. Graduate Supervision.
Dr. Stefano Muneroni
Professor | Director of Graduate Programs; Dig Deeper Coordinator
Primary teaching areas: Play Analysis, Modernist Stage, Performance Theory. Graduate Seminars in Border Theatre, Intercultural Theatre, Post-Colonial Theory, Research Tools. Graduate Supervision.
Jon Price
Associate Professor
Primary teaching areas: Technical Theatre, Stagecraft, Production Crew.
John Raymond
Professor (Sabbatical July 1, 2025 – June 30, 2026)
Primary teaching areas: Stage Management, Production Management.
Robert Shannon
Associate Professor
Primary teaching areas: MFA and BFA Theatre Design, Historic Dress and Décor, Costume Design and Construction, Technical Drawing for Theatre Design.
Professor | MFA Theatre Practice Program Coordinator (Sabbatical Winter 2026)
Primary teaching areas: BFA Movement for Actors. Graduate Supervision.
Professor | Theatre Design Program Coordinator
Primary teaching areas: BFA and MFA Theatre Design, Studio Techniques for Theatre Design, 3D CAD for the Theatre. Graduate Supervision.
Kathleen Weiss
Professor (Sabbatical Fall 2025)
Primary teaching areas: Directing, BFA acting, Performer-Created Theatre. Graduate Seminars in Directing, New Play Dramaturgy, Emergence of the Director. Graduate Supervision.
Kenneth T. Williams
Professor | Director of Undergraduate Programs; New Works Festival Advisor
Primary teaching areas: Playwriting, Theatre Practice, Indigenous Theatre History.
Faculty Service Officers
Larry Clark
FSO III | Technical Director
Primary teaching areas: Production Crew, Technical Production. Graduate Supervision.
FSO III | Technical Director; BFA Production Program Coordinator
Primary teaching areas: Production Crew, Technical Production.
FSO I | Lighting Supervisor
Primary teaching areas: technical lighting, technical theatre, computer media, best practices in theatre. Supervision of technical students in productions, advising design students on the technical uses of lighting equipment.
FSO II | Sound Supervisor
Primary teaching areas: sound system engineering & design, sound foley and digital manipulation, basic music composition for theatre, supervision & design advising of technical students in sound practicums.
Full-Time Instructors
Intimacy Direction Coordinator
Primary teaching areas: Performer-Created Theatre. Directing.
MFA Voice Pedagogy Program Coordinator
Primary teaching areas: BFA Voice. Speech in Rehearsal and Performance. Dialects and Accents. Acting. Scene Study. MFA Voice Pedagogy.
Primary teaching areas: Movement & Dance.