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 Rich Brown Acting and Movement |
RICH BROWN earned his Ph.D. in Theatre with an emphasis in acting and directing from the U. of Oregon in Eugene, where he was the artistic director of Mad Duckling Children’s Theatre for three years. After working with master teachers Stephen Wangh and Mary Overlie at NYU’s Experimental Theatre Wing, Rich began teaching acting, directing, and dramatic literature at Hartwick College in Oneonta, NY. He has been published in Theatre Topics, presented at ATHE conferences in San Francisco and Chicago, coordinated a Bread and Puppet Theatre residency, performed with Mary Overlie in the Shady Corners Performance Art Festival, and cofounded Theatre 88 with John Benitz, which produced Zoo Story and most recently What I Heard About Iraq, which performed at LaMama E.T.C. in NYC and Montreal. Rich’s research interest in devising “collaboratively created theatre” continues with his current work on a chapter for a book that explores teaching devising in academia. Most recently, Rich completed Anne Bogart’s SITI Company’s summer intensive training in Saratoga Springs, NY. |
 Deborah Greer Currier Asst. Professor, History/Theatre in Education WWU Theatre Arts Dept |
DR. DEBORAH CURRIER holds a Ph.D. in Theatre Arts from the University of Oregon, Eugene, with emphases in dramatic literature, acting/directing, multicultural and children’s theatre. She has extensive experience with theatre for youth, serving as the Artistic Director for WWU’s most recent addition, the Summer Youth Theatre Institute (SYTI). She also served as Artistic Director for Mad Duckling Children’s Theatre in Eugene, as an Artist-In-Residence with Young Audiences of Montana, and a Tour Actor/Director with the Missoula Children’s Theatre International Touring Project. She currently writes and directs the WWU Multicultural Outreach Touring Project, an elementary-level literature-based touring show performed with WWU Drama in Education students. She has served as a Service-Learning Faculty Fellow at WWU, and has presented and published works regarding incorporating academic service-learning into the higher theatre-in-education curriculum. Her most recent directorial endeavors were the children’s musical Naku Tsuru and the Samurai in the spring of 2006 and Pirates of Penzance at the Bellingham Theatre Guild, Summer 2006. Dr. Currier teaches Theatre History, Dramatic Literature, Children’s Theatre, Secondary Theatre Techniques, Creativity Across the Curriculum, and Puppetry. |
| PATRICK DIZNEY received his MFA from the University of Washington’s Professional Actor Training Program. He subsequently moved to New York, where he worked professionally for 6 years. His credits include prime time television, national commercials, industrial videos, children’s theatre, 2 national tours, Off and Off-Off Broadway, feature and independent film, and lots of Regional theatre including: Artists Repertory Theatre, West End Theatre (Portland), Maine Shakespeare Festival, Texas Shakespeare Festival, Penobscot Theatre and Theatre! Theatre! He also wrote, produced and performed in his one person show Inveigler on Theatre Row in NYC. His directing credits include: The Foreigner, Meatgrinder Waltz (at 13th Street Rep in NYC), Desdemona, A Play About A Handkerchief, Eastern Standard and If Dreams Came True, and original script by faculty member Mark Kuntz. This is his second year at WWU, where he teaches Intro to Cinema, Acting for the Camera and Voice and Diction. |
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Scenic Design |
ROGER GERMAIN is an Associate Professor in the Department of Theatre Arts at Western Washington University. He has designed scenery for the academic year and Summer Stock productions since 1970. He designed scenery for Bigfork Summer Playhouse from 1994-2000 and The Sunshine Boys for the Montana Rep in 1995. Recent designs include: Sweeney Todd, Afgan Women, Supplient Women, and The Cider House Rules. |
 Mark Kuntz Directing/Literature PA 295 360.650.7310 |
MARK KUNTZ is currently in his ninth year on the theatre faculty at WWU after spending eleven years at Eastern Oregon University. He received his BA in Theatre Arts from the University of Oregon. Mark has served three times as a member of the National Selection Team for the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival and was recently elected as National Vice-Chair. His work as a director has been produced regionally with K.C.A.C.T.F., and his production of Lips Together, Teeth Apart was recognized at K.C.A.C.T.F. . Some of his recent directing credits include Shakespeare’s R&J and Summer Stock’s 2005 The Foreigner and A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum. |
 Gregory Lawrence Pulver Department Chair/Design PA 395B 360.650.6862 |
GREGORY LAWRENCE P. is the Department Chair and a Professor in Costume Design at WWU. He teaches costume design, costume history, and specialty classes in puppetry, millinery, mask making, and movement for actors. He holds an MFA in Costume Design and Choreography from Humboldt State University in California. His directing credits include Suppliant Women, The 1940s Radio Hour, Bye Bye Birdie, Godspell, Laughter on the 23rd Floor, and Red, Hot and Cole. Mr. P. has been the costume designer for seven Summer Stock seasons and is both the 1993 winner of the Costume Design Award for his work on Three Penny Opera and the recipient of the K.C.A.C.T.F. Meritorious Achievement Award for his choreography of HSU’s 1999 production of Cabaret. |
 Jim Lortz Acting PA 383 360.650.3790 |
JIM LORTZ received his MFA from the University of Montana, Missoula, and now teaches acting, musical theatre, and voice and diction classes as well as contemporary literature studies. He has been a WWU faculty member for 17 years. This year he is on a sabbatical. He has professionally acted at the Bathhouse Theatre, Montana Repertory Theatre, and the Skid Row Theatre. Past directing credits at Western include Cabaret, Angels in America: The Millennium Approaches and Perestroika (both parts of which were invited to attend K.C.A.C.T.F. in Anchorage, Alaska, in February 2001), Into the Woods, Fiddler on the Roof, To Kill a Mockingbird, City of Angels, The Diary of Anne Frank, Grease, Sweeney Todd, Assassins, The Happy Prince and The Cider House Rules. |
 Maureen O'Reilly Acting PA 381 360.650.3794 |
MAUREEN O’REILLY received an MA in acting/directing from the University of Washington and an MFA in directing from the University of Cincinnati. She has directed over one hundred plays in college, community, and summer stock programs in Washington, California, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Indiana, including two productions at the Berkeley Repertory Theatre. She was Artist in Residence at the Bathhouse Theatre in Seattle for two years. She teaches a variety of acting classes that focus on physical and vocal style, and assorted literature courses. She recently completed a faculty exchange with Dr. Nike Imoru at the University of Hull, England. Some of her recent productions include Arms and The Man and Cider House Rules at WWU, After Easter at the Bellingham Theatre Guild, and Crimes of the Heart and Proof for Summer Stock. Maureen recently spent a term at Deakin University in Melbourne, Australia. |
 Kay Reddell Advisement Coordinator |
KAY REDDELL has been the Administrative Assistant to the Chair and Advising Coordinator in the Theatre Arts Department as well as the Administrative Assistant to the Producer of Summer Stock for nine years. She did graduate work at Huxley College and has been advising students at WWU for eleven years. She currently coordinates student advising, manages the operation of the department, and has been granted the honorary, yet well-deserved, title of Department Oracle and Goddess.s |
| RACHEL SOPHIA ANDERSON has been with the Theatre Arts Department for seven years, and has worked with the Summer Stock program for over ten years. After receiving her BA from Fairhaven College, Rachel spent three years doing graduate costume design work at the University of Montana, and several more working professionally in Seattle. She received her MFA in Costume Design from UM in 2000. In 2003 Rachel had the opportunity to take a much-needed sabbatical from Summer Stock to work as a First Hand in the Costume shop of the renowned Santa Fe Opera. Her other credits include: Stitcher at Kaufmen-Davis Studio and Greg Thompson Productions, and Wardrobe for the Pacific Northwest Ballet and Seattle Children’s Theatre. Past costume design credits include Rimers of Eldritch, WWU’s 2001 production of Vagina Monologues, Snoopy!!!, Side by Side by Sondhiem, Arcadia, Guys and Dolls, and James and the Giant Peach. | |
 Bryan Willis Playwriting PA 385 360.650.3893 |
BRYAN WILLIS teaches playwriting for the Theatre Arts Dept. and serves as faculty advisor for N.P.T. His plays have peen produced, work-shopped, and caught in various developmental loops at New York Theatre Workshop, Milwaukee Rep, A.C.T., Seattle Rep, Riverside Studios (London), Abingdon Theatre Company, and over 1,000 smaller venues across the U.S. and the U.K. His play, Sophie, will be produced in January at the Tacoma Actor’s Guild, where Bryan serves as Playwrite-in-Residence. Bryan graduated from Oberlin College and spent two years in London working with the Riverside Studios before receiving a full scholarship to New York University’s Dramatic Writing Program, where he completed his MFA in 1987. He has worked in the literary dept. at Playwrights Horisons and served as NYU’s Playwright-in-Residence at Lincoln Center. Bryan is currently the Literary Manager for the Northwest Playwrights Alliance and Artistic Director of the Academy of International Education. He is also the recipient of a Theatre Fellowship from Artist Trust and the Kennedy Center Gold Medallion for his work with K.C.A.C.T.F. |
