Administration

ALAN MACVEY
Director of the Division of Performing Arts and Chair of the Theatre Arts Department; Professor, directing and acting
BA, MA, Stanford; MFA, Yale
Office: 105 TB
Phone: (319) 353-2430
E-Mail: alan-macvey@uiowa.edu

Alan MacVey is Director of the Division of Performing Arts and professor and Chair of the Theatre Arts Department. He also serves as President of the National Association of Schools of Theatre. During the summer he is Artistic Director of the Acting Ensemble, an Equity company-in-residence at the Bread Loaf School in Vermont. He has served as Associate Director of the Trinity Repertory Company in Providence Rhode Island, and for ten years was Director of the Program in Theatre and Dance at Princeton University. He has directed major productions for the Cleveland Playhouse, Trinity Repertory Company, North Light Theatre in Chicago, TheatreWorks in California, the McCarter Theatre, the Shakespeare Theatre at the Folger, the Theatre of the Riverside Church in New York, and other companies. He is also a playwright whose works have been performed in New York, California, and elsewhere. He is a recipient of the Regents Award for Facutly Excellence, and is a Collegiate Fellow in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.

Acting and Directing

JOHN CAMERON
Associate Professor, Head of Acting
PhD, Kent State University
Office: 140 TB
Phone: (319) 353-2408
E-Mail: john-cameron@uiowa.edu

John Cameron is the head of the acting program. Before coming to The University of Iowa, he was a member of the theatre faculty at Stony Brook University on Long Island for 10 years where he served as Director of the Living/Learning Center for the Arts and Director of Graduate Studies for the Department of Theatre Arts. He trained with Sanford Meisner and has performed on stage in Europe, Central America, Australia and in various regional theatres throughout the United States, and in television and film. He is also a director and playwright. He has directed extensively for the academic and professional stage and television, and his plays have been produced at a variety of academic and professional theatres.

ERIC FORSYTHE
Professor, Head of Directing; Artistic Director, Iowa Summer Rep
BA, Dartmouth; MFA and Ph.D., Carnegie-Mellon University
Office: 138 TB
Phone: (319) 353-2407
E-Mail: eric-forsythe@uiowa.edu

ERIC FORSYTHE trained for a theatre career as a child actor at the Erie (PA) Playhouse, and then at Dartmouth and Carnegie-Mellon University (MFA, PhD).  He heads the directing program at the University of Iowa, and is Artistic Director of Iowa Summer Repertory Theatre. His acting credits include hundreds of stage productions at major theatres across the country, from the McCarter, LaMama ETC and Philadelphia Drama Guild, to Boston's Charles Playhouse and the St. Louis Rep, working with actors such as Jason Robards, Geena Davis, Oliver Platt, and David Strathairn.  His favorite roles include King Lear, Sherlock Holmes, Tartuffe, Prospero, Trigorin, Brian (in Joe Egg) and George (in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?).  He has directed some 130 stage productions, with actors as diverse as Sylvia Sidney, Betsy Palmer, Ted Danson and John Sayles.  Favorite productions include: An Empty Plate in the Café du Grand Boeuf, Marat/Sade, The Flea in Her Ear (also translated), The Kentucky Cycle (pre-Broadway), Uncle Vanya, and Present Laughter.  He has performed in many commercials, films ("Return of the Secaucus Seven," and "Hall Pass"), television ("George Washington" series, NBC Movie-of-the-Week, Hallmark Hall of Fame), radio productions (many for NPR), and industrial films, both nationally and internationally. He has been the national or international voice for such companies as SmithKline, DuPont, Rockwell Collins, Black & Decker, ARA, General Mills, Clorox, and BankAmericard.  His narration for the documentary, “The Nazi Drawings,” earned him an Iowa Motion Picture Award.  His teaching has been recognized by both the M. L. Huit Faculty Award and the Philip G. Hubbard Award for Outstanding Education.  Dr. Forsythe trained with legendary theatre director Jerzy Grotowski's Lab Theatre; the experience formed the basis for his acting/directing philosophy.  A member of Equity, AFTRA and SAG, he has published articles and reviews in a number of leading theatre periodicals, most notably Theatre Journal.  Plays he has written or translated have been performed in a variety of professional and academic theatres, nationally and internationally. He recently taught a first-ever course for professional stage directors in Venezuela.

MEREDITH ALEXANDER
Lecturer, acting and directing
MFA, University of California, San Diego
Office: 104 TB
Phone: (319) 353-2406
E-Mail: meredith-alexander@uiowa.edu

Meredith Alexander is a lecturer in acting and directing. Her professional training includes work with Kim Stanley, the late Alan Schneider, and the Old Globe Theatre Company. She has taught at UCSD, as well as San Diego State University, and at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she headed both undergraduate and graduate acting programs. Her professional directing experience includes productions in New York, Chicago, Cincinnati, and Kansas City.

SUSAN CHAMBERS
Adjunct Assistant Professor, acting
BA, Shimer College, MFA, Penn State
Office: C210 Pomerantz Center
Phone: (319) 353-5700
E-Mail: susan-chambers@uiowa.edu

Susan Chambers is an adjunct assistant professor of acting. She has taught at The University of Colorado, The University of Montana and Penn State University as well as privately for over 20 years. Her professional acting credits include television and stage work. Since coming to Iowa, Susan has directed The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas at Theatre Cedar Rapids and four plays at Kirkwood Community College, including her favorite, The Rimers of Eldritch. She acted in two seasons for the Iowa Summer Repertory Theatre, at Riverside Theatre's production of A Memory of Water and UI's production of A Dollhouse.

RALPH HALL
Lecturer, movement
MA, California Institute of Integral Studies
Office: 132 TB
Phone: (319) 353-2404
E-Mail: ralph-hall@uiowa.edu

Ralph Hall is a lecturer in movement. His interest in performing began with puppetry and summer stock theatre at Southern Oregon University in the early 1970s. After touring as a vaudeville artist for a number of years in Oregon, Iowa, and New Orleans, an interest in mime theatre led him to study with Carlo Mazzone Clementi, Etienne Decroux, and Jacques Lecoq. After graduating from Ecole Jacque Lecoq in 1981, he was hired by the Dell'Arte International School of Physical Theatre in California where he worked as teacher, school director, writer, show director, and actor with the Dell'Arte Players Company from 1982-1998. He also has performed with the San Diego Repertory Theatre and the Caravan Stage Company. Ralph holds an MA in drama therapy from the California Institute of Integral Studies. He came to UI in the fall of 1998.

JUDY LEIGH-JOHNSON
Lecturer, voice & speech
PG D.P. Voice Studies, Central School of Speech and Drama, London, UK
Office: 134 TB
Phone: (319) 353-2405
E-Mail: judy-leigh-johnson@uiowa.edu

Judy Leigh-Johnson is a lecturer in voice and speech, and vocal dialect coach for departmental productions. She has taught in Britain, Canada, and the United States, has directed student productions, and has worked as a dialect coach for theatre companies in North America. Her academic appointments include the Professional Theatre Training Program at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and the Speech Vocology Institute in Denver, Colorado. She originally trained as an actor at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London and pursued an acting career on both sides of the Atlantic, encompassing a wide variety of major roles in theatre, film, TV, radio drama, voice-overs and commercials. Favorite roles included Eliza Doolittle in Pygmalion, and the Hostess in Shakespeare's Henriad for the Bread Loaf School of English at Middlebury College in Vermont.

TISCH JONES
Associate Professor, directing and theatre history
BA, University of Minnesota; MA, MFA, University of Iowa
Office: 136 TB
Phone: (319) 353-2406
E-Mail: tisch-jones@uiowa.edu

Tisch Jones has been directing professional and educational theatre for many years. Her productions include Woza Albert, The Escape; or A Leap to Freedom, The Boy King, Owners, Joe Turner's Come and Gone, Christchild, Miss lnvictus, and Gray Panthers. She has directed for Unadillo Theatre in Overprint, Stony Creek Puppet House in Connecticut, Onstage Atlanta, Iowa Summer Repertory Theatre, New Federal Theatre, Lincoln Center and the Apollo in New York. Ms. Jones adapted and staged The Drinking Gourd, by Lorraine Hansberry and Euripedes Medea at the University of Northern Iowa. She was one of the founders of the Twin Cities Black Theatre in Minneapolis, was Director of Special Arts Programs for the Connecticut State Board of Education and served as Assistant to the Dean/Artistic Director at Yale Repertory Theatre. Ms. Jones was involved in the transfer of Fences and Joe Turner's Come and Gone to Broadway. Past publications include: "Rachel: An Introduction," in Black Theatre USA, and "Interview: J.E. Franklin," in Artists and Influences. She is working on an article concerning "Theatrical Activities of Free People of Color in Antebellum New Orleans."

CAROL MACVEY
Lecturer, acting
MA, Middlebury College
Office: 202 TB
Phone: (319) 353-2420
E-Mail: carol-macvey@uiowa.edu

Carol MacVey is a lecturer in acting. Before coming to Iowa, she spent 10 years as Guest Artist Director at Princeton University where she taught in the English Department and in the Humanities Program. While teaching there she was profiled in Ken Macrorie's Twenty Great Teachers. She has been a Visiting Artist Scholar for the National Endowment for the Humanities conducting workshops throughout the U.S., Japan, and Russia. In 2001 she directed her translation of Chekov's The Seagull and in spring 2002 toured Steven Dietz's Nina Variations in Russia; in Moscow, in Melikhovo at the International Chekhov Festival, and in St. Petersburg at the Alexandrinsky Theatre. She is a theatre consultant for the Iowa Children's Museum where she frequently leads workshops in drama process. Since 1982 she has spent her summers teaching acting at Middlebury College's Bread Loaf School of English, where in 2005 she was named the Eleanor and Frank Griffith Professor of Literature. She also taught at the high school level for nine years in New Hampshire where she was named Teacher of the Year.

Design and Theatre Technology

LOYCE ARTHUR
Associate Professor, Head of Design
BA, University of Pennsylvania; MFA, New York University, member of United Scenic Artists 829
Office: 142 TB
Phone: (319) 353-2409
E-Mail: loyce-arthur@uiowa.edu

Loyce Arthur is an associate professor and Head of Design in the Theatre Arts Department. She has designed costumes for numerous productions including the US premiere of Peter Pan & Wendy at the Prince Music Theater, Philadelphia; Langston Hughes’ Black Nativity, which won a special OBIE award; Box Office of the Damned at the Classic Stage Company Theatre, New York, and The Brothers Sun and Moon at the Kennedy Center for the performing Arts, Washington, D.C. Her work at The University of Iowa includes Angels in America:The Millennium Approaches, Seascape, Wonderchild, The Magic Flute, The Learned Ladies and Joe Turner’s Come and Gone. In 2004 she designed costumes and masks for Shadows of the Reef with distinguished theatre artist Anton Juan and then was invited by Juan to design costumes for Nocturnal Wanderer and Brokenville in Athens, Greece in 2005. In 2006 & 2007 she was a guest artist at Mahogany Mas Camp in the UK working with award winning Carnival designer Clary Salandy. Research Awards include an Old Gold Award to study mask making with Donato Satori in Italy and a West African Research Association fellowship to study ritual and performance in Ghana. Other research grants have broadened her knowledge of Balinese mask traditions, East Indian Kutiyattam and Kathakali theatre forms and West African Research traditional arts and performance. In 2004 she presented her work on Trinidad Carnival at a symposium in Santiago de Cuba. She was co-director of the 2001 National Theatre Mask Conference, the first of its kind ever held in the United States. Professor Arthur is currently developing a Caribbean Carnival theatre piece and exhibit of Carnival costumes.

JAMES ALBERT
Lecturer, stagecraft
MFA, University of Iowa
Office: 35 TB
Phone: (319) 353-2413
E-Mail: james-albert@uiowa.edu

James Albert is a lecturer in theatre technology. He has worked professionally at the Missouri Repertory Theatre in Kansas City and Shakespeare in the Park in Ft. Worth. His academic teaching credits include Baylor University, Centre College, University of Northern Iowa, and Coe College, serving both as lighting designer and technical director in the above positions.

WILLIAM MOSER
Assistant Professor, design
Office: 146 TB
Phone: (319) 353-2410
E-Mail: wfm1@earthlink.net

William Moser is an assistant professor of design. He has designed sets and/or costumes for such New York theatre companies as Naked Angels, Willow Cabin Theatre, and the Jean Cocteau Repertory. He has designed new works for writers such as Terrance McNally, Craig Lucas, and John Robin Baitz. Other New York credits include Il Re Pastore (NY Chamber Opera), The Comedy of Errors (Judith Shakespeare Company) and Arms and the Man (Theatre by the Blind). William has been associate designer or assistant on over twenty Broadway shows, countless regional theatres, and numerous national tours including Broadway: A Class Act, Urban Cowboy; the musical, Judgment at Nuremburg, The Rainmaker, Into the Woods, 42nd Street. For regional theatres: Old Globe Theatre, Chicago Shakespeare Theatre, Pittsburgh Public Theatre, The Guthrie Theatre, the Huntington Theatre, with national tours of Jekyll and Hyde, The Gin Game, and The Belle of Amherst. His work at The University of Iowa includes The Shape of Things and Far Away. William is a member of United Scenic Artists 829.

LAURA THUDIUM ZIEGLOWSKY
Adjunct Associate Professor, makeup
Office: 475 LC
Phone: (319) 353-2411
E-Mail: laura-thudiumzieglowsky@uiowa.edu

Laura Thudium Zieglowsky is a Ph.D. candidate and Research Assistant in Social Foundations of Education and an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Theatre Department at the University of Iowa.. Her doctoral focus is in the sociology of education and is currently working on her dissertation titled: “The Show Must Go On!: A Descriptive Single-Site Case Study of Dignity in the Workplace Among Academic Theatre Collaborators.” Prior to working on her Ph.D., Laura worked as a professional and academic costume designer and makeup artist. She is the author of a textbook for theatre entitled: Stage Makeup (Thudium, L., 1999. NY:Backstage Books).

BRYON WINN
Associate Professor, design
BA, Weber State University; MFA, The University of Iowa
Office: 148 TB
Phone: (319) 353-2411
E-Mail: bryon-winn@uiowa.edu

Bryon Winn is an associate professor of design. Recent projects include Fences, True West, American Buffalo and the premiere of Women and the Sea for the Portland Stage Company, Annie for Trinity Repertory Company, Measure for Measure for the Bread Loaf School of English, The Goat for Riverside Theatre, and Sylvia for Iowa Summer Rep. Bryon was recently appointed Director of Theatre at The University of Iowa. He is a member of United Scenic Artists 829.

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Playwriting, Dramaturgy, Dramatic Literature

ART BORRECA
Head of Playwrights Workshop; Associate Professor, dramaturgy, dramatic literature
BA, Oberlin College; MFA, DFA Yale School of Drama
Office: 126 TB
Phone: (319) 353-2401
E-Mail: art-borreca@uiowa.edu

Art Borreca is associate professor of dramatic literature and dramaturgy and head of the playwriting and dramaturgy programs. He has worked as a dramaturg with a number of leading theatre artists, including Athol Fugard, Wole Soyinka, Theodora Skipitares, David Gothard, and Naomi Wallace in such venues as the Yale Repertory Theatre, New York Theatre Workshop, LaMama ETC, Oxford Stage Company in the U.K., and T.P.T (Theatre Project Tokyo) in Japan. His research interests include contemporary British and American theatre, new play dramaturgy, and political dramaturgy. His articles and reviews have appeared in TDR (The Drama Review), Modern Drama, and Theatre Journal; as well as in several books, including Dramaturgy in American Theatre, What is Dramaturgy? and Approaching the Millennium: Essays on Angels in America. Professor Borreca is a contributor to the forthcoming Norton Anthology of Drama and is at work on a comprehensive study of the British history play since World War II.

KATE ASPENGREN
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Playwriting
MFA, The University of Iowa Playwrights Workshop
E-Mail: kathryn-aspengren@uiowa.edu

A 1994 Playwrights Workshop graduate, Kate Aspengren has four plays (Dear Mrs. Martin, Mother's Day, House of Wonders, and Flyer) published by Samuel French. Kate's plays have been produced by Actors Theatre of Louisville, the New American Comedy Festival, Six Figures Theatre Company (NY), and 3Graces (NY). Two of her plays have been translated for European production. She is a founding member of the Kingston Springs Writers Group and holds an annual playwriting residency at Tower Hill School in Wilmington, Delaware. Kate has also taught playwriting at Grinnell College, Coe College, and Cornell College. She is co-director of the UI's annual ten-minute play festival.

DARE CLUBB
Associate Professor, dramatic literature
BA, Amherst College; MFA, DFA, Yale School of Drama
Office: 130 TB
Phone: (319) 353-2403
E-Mail: dare-clubb@uiowa.edu

Dare Clubb is an associate professor of playwriting. He has taught playwriting at Princeton University, Barnard College, and the Bread Loaf Graduate School of English at Middlebury College, and dramatic literature and theory at the New School for Social Research in New York City. He was playwright-in-residence at the Juilliard School from 1985-87. His plays have been performed at the Yale Repertory Theatre, the Actors Theatre of Louisville, Juilliard, and the O'Neill National Playwrights Conference. His original play Oedipus was produced by the Blue Light Theater Company at the CSC Theater in New York City and received an Obie award in 1999.

KIM MARRA
Professor, theatre history, dramatic literature
BA, Dartmouth College; MA, Brown University; Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison
Office: 128 TB
Phone: (319) 353-2402
E-Mail: kim-marra@uiowa.edu

Kim Marra is professor of theatre history and director of graduate studies. She teaches quarter-time in American Studies and serves on the steering committee of the Sexuality Studies Program. She is the author of Strange Duets: Impresarios and Actresses in American Theatre, 1865-1914 (2006, The University of Iowa Press Studies in Theatre History and Culture Series). For the University of Michigan Press, she co-edited Passing Performances: Queer Readings of Leading Players in American Theater History (1998) and Staging Desire: Queer Readings of American Theater History (2002), The Gay and Lesbian Theatrical Legacy: A Biographical Dictionary of Major Figures of the American Stage in the Pre-Stonewall Era (2005). She is the current secretary of the American Society for Theatre Research and serves on the editorial boards of The University of Iowa Press, the Theatre in the Americas Series of Southern Illinois University Press, and Theatre History Studies. She is a former member of both the executive board of the American Theatre and Drama Society and the Executive Committee of the American Society for Theatre Research, and has been Book Review Editor as well as an Editorial Board member of Theatre Survey.

SYDNE MAHONE
Associate Professor, playwriting and dramatic literature
B.A. Douglass College; M.T.A. Rutgers University
Office: 132 TB
Phone: 319-384-3286
E-Mail: sydne-mahone@uiowa.edu

Sydné Mahone is associate professor of playwriting. She also teaches quarter-time in the African American Studies Program. She is the editor of Moon Marked and Touched By Sun: Plays By African American Women (TCG, 1994); and With Ossie and Ruby: In This Life Together (William Morrow, 1998). Recent affiliations include the Sundance Institute Theatre Lab in Utah and Going to the River, a festival of black women writers at Ensemble Studio Theatre in New York. She was the director of play development at Crossroads Theatre Company from 1985-1997 where she served as production dramaturg for many new plays including works by Rita Dove, August Wilson, Ntozake Shange, George C. Wolfe, Leslie Lee, Aishah Rahman, Don Evans, Pearl Cleage, Richard Wesley, and Dominic Taylor. Special projects at Crossroads: staff producer of the annual Genesis Festival of New Voices, a celebration of cutting-edge, alternative styles in African American drama; and founder of Sangoma, the Women's Company. Research awards include scholar-in-residence at the Getty Research Institute and guest dramaturg sponsored by the Pew/TCG National Theatre Artist Residency Program, hosted by Brown University's Rites and Reason Theatre. She has been a panelist for many playwriting awards including the NEA, Rockefeller Foundation, and TCG. She has taught at Dartmouth College, New York University - Tisch School of the Arts, and the University of Wisconsin-Parkside. She is a member of the board of directors for Literary Managers & Dramaturgs of the Americas (LMDA).

LISA D'AMOUR
Visiting Associate Professor
MFA, UT Austin
Office:
Phone:
E-Mail:

Lisa D'Amour is a playwright and multidisciplinary artist who often creates site-specific work with her close collaborator Katie Pearl. Recent projects include, Bird Eye Blue Print, created for a vacant office space in the World Financial Center in Lower Manhattan (commissioned by Brookfield properties for the Word of Mouth Festival, 2007); STANLEY (2006), a solo performance she created for her brother Todd to perform (HERE Arts Center, 2006); Tale of a West Texas Marsupial Girl , a children's musical commissioned by Children's Theater Company; The Cataract , a play directed by Katie Pearl at the Women's Project; LandMARK: 24 Hours @ the Stone Arch Bridge, a 24-hour collaborative performance on the Stone Arch Bridge in Minneapolis; and Nita & Zita , which received a 2003 OBIE Award and toured in 2005 to the Contemporary Arts Center (New Orleans), the Walker Arts Center (Minneapolis), and HERE Arts Center (NYC). Lisa has received fellowships from the Jerome and McKnight Foundations, and grants from NYSCA, the Multi Arts Production Fund and the Minnesota State Arts Board to create her work. She is the recipient of a 2005/6 Playwrights' Residency from Theater Communications Group to write Hide Town, which premiered at Infernal Bridegroom Productions (Houston) in 2006. Lisa received her M.F.A. in playwriting from UT Austin. She is a core member of the Playwrights' Center, a former resident artist at HERE and a recent alumna of New Dramatists, the nation’s oldest nonprofit center for the development of talented playwrights.

Stage Management

JAMES P. BIRDER
Lecturer, Head of Stage Management
MFA, Carnegie-Mellon University
Office: 37 TB
Phone: (319) 353-1814
E-Mail: ElMono773@aol.com

James P. Birder is a lecturer in stage management. He is a director and
Equity stage manager who has worked nationally and internationally in
ballet, drama, modern dance, musicals, jazz, and rock 'n roll. His NY
credits include the tours of Mame, Nunsense, Man of La Mancha, For Colored
Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When The Rainbow is Enuf, Sugar Babies,
and Sophisticated Ladies. For Radio City Music Hall, Mr. Birder served as a
stage manager for the Myrtle Beach production of The Radio City Christmas
Spectacular starring the Rockettes. He has served as the production stage
manager and lighting designer for the Milwaukee Ballet and Nikolais/Louis
Dance Companies; as lighting designer for the Dave Brubeck Quartet; and as
an art director for Landmark Entertainment Group's Japanese Theme Park,
Harmony Land. Mr. Birder is the resident director of Music Theatre in Green
Bay, Wisconsin, and he heads the graduate stage management program at The
University of Iowa. He is a past executive board member of the Stage
Manager's Association (SMA) in New York, and is a former vice-commissioner
for the United States Institute of Theatre Technology (USITT) where he
served as coordinator of the Stage Management Mentor Project (1996-2002).
Mr. Birder is a recipient of the Bud Yorkin Award in directing.

DAVID MCGRAW
Lecturer, Department Stage Manager
BA, Holy Cross College; MA, Goucher College; MFA, University of Iowa
Office: 34TB
Phone: (319) 335-3906
E-mail: david-mcgraw@uiowa.edu

David McGraw is a lecturer in stage management. He also teaches arts management for the Division of Performing Arts, Interdepartmental Studies, and the John Pappajohn Entrepreneurial Center. Mr. McGraw has served as the Production Stage Manager for both the Theatre Arts Department and the Iowa Summer Rep for the past four years. A proud member of Actors' Equity Association, Mr. McGraw has also stage managed for the Arizona Repertory Theatre, Capital Repertory Theatre, Geva Theatre Center, Oldcastle Theatre, Perishable Theatre, StageWorks on the Hudson, Vilar Center for the Arts, White River Theatre Festival, and the Yale Repertory Theatre. He is currently serving as the Second Vice Chair of the Stage Managers Association.

Administrative and Technical Staff

Staff members in Theatre work closely with the staff of the Division of Performing Arts. Administration, finance, production management, and electrics personnel are all led by highly experienced Division staff. Staff members who work primarily in theatre are listed here.

• Denise Matthes, Department Secretary
• Judith Moessner-Lambert, Director of Marketing
• David McGraw, Production Stage Manager
• Ojin Kwon, Theatre Technical Director
• Mike Nolte, Carpenter
• Ronald Zieglowsky, Scene Shop Supervisor
• Bonnie Jenkins, Costume Shop Manager
• Barbara Croy, Costume Shop Assistant Manager
• Eric Burchett, Lighting and Sound Supervisor

DENISE MATTHES
Theatre Secretary
Office: 107 TB
Phone: (319) 335-2707
E-Mail: denise-matthes@uiowa.edu

Denise Matthes is the theatre department chair's secretary, and the department office manager and secretary. She has an associates degree from Hawkeye Community College, Waterloo, Iowa, as an executive secretary. Prior to working at the Theatre Department, Denise worked at UIHC in Pediatrics as the division director/department secretary for Pediatric Gastroenterology. She is a past recipient of the Mary Louise Kelly Staff Staff Excellence award, and an honorary member of Darwin Turner Action Theatre.

JUDITH MOESSNER-LAMBERT
Director of Marketing
Office: 27 TB
Phone: (319) 335-3213
E-Mail: judith-moessner@uiowa.edu

Judith Moessner is the Marketing Director for the UI Division of Performing Arts. Previous positions include Theatre Relations Director for the UI Department of Theatre Arts and Marketing Director for the Old Creamery Theatre Company. Also a choreographer, dancer and actor, Ms. Moessner co-founded the Iowa City-based dance/theatre/visual arts collaborative company, Travelers.

OJIN KWON
Theatre Technical Director
Office: 107 TB
Phone: (319) 353-2413
E-Mail: ojin-kwon@uiowa.edu

Ojin Kwon is Technical Director for the Theatre Arts Department. He received his MFA from the Yale School of Drama, where he served as Technical Director and Master Electrician. He also served as Assistant Technical Director at the Yale Repertory Theatre. In the United States he has worked at the Hudson Scenic Studio in New York, at the Guthrie Theatre and the Minneapolis Children’s Theatre. In Korea he served as Technical Director at Yongin University and for the Seoul Ballet Theatre.

MIKE NOLTE
Carpenter
Office: 184C TB
Phone: (319) 335-2700
E-Mail: michael-nolte@uiowa.edu

Bio coming soon...

RON ZIEGLOWSKY
Scene Shop Supervisor
BA, Wartburg College; MFA, University of Iowa
Office: 184C TB
Phone: (319) 353-2412
E-Mail: ronald-zieglowsky@uiowa.edu

Ron Zieglowsky supervises and builds scenery and properties for all University Theatre productions, as well as training students and teaching technical theatre courses. Mr. Zieglowsky has designed, directed, and taught at the secondary and post-secondary levels.

BONNIE JENKINS
Costume Studio Supervisor
BA, Textiles and Clothing, University of Iowa
Office: 1A TB
Phone: (319) 353-2431
E-Mail: bonnie-jenkins@uiowa.edu

Bonnie Jenkins, costume studio supervisor, has coordinated the execution of costumes for every major University Theatres production, including the University of Iowa Summer Repertory Theatre productions, since 1972. Bonnie has taught costuming, millinery, crafts, and fabric modification skills, and has trained students in the art of costume production.

BARBARA CROY
Costume Shop Assistant Manager
Office: 1A TB
Phone: (319) 335-2702
E-Mail: barbara-croy@uiowa.edu

Barbara J. Croy joined the Theatre Arts staff as Costume Tailor in the fall of 2005. She came to the University of Iowa in 1999 as an-over hire  stitcher, draper and 1st Hand  in the theatre costume shop, bringing with her twenty years experience in designing and creating garments and accessories for theatre and private individuals. She has designed and created costumes for Theatre Cedar Rapids, Blackhawk Children’s Theatre, Cedar Rapids Opera Theatre, Happiness Inc. Show Choir, Nolte Dance Academy, and female impersonators.  Barbara has a bachelor’s degree in educational theatre from Bowling Green State University.

ERIC BURCHETT
Lighting and Sound Supervisor
Office: 220 TB
Phone: (319) 335-2423
E-Mail: eric-burchett@uiowa.edu

Eric Burchett is the Electrics and Sound Supervisor for the Division of Performing Arts. He is also a published playwright and co-director of Theater Department's Ten Minute Play Festival. Eric graduated from the University of Iowa in 2004.

Emeritus Faculty

Faculty members who have retired after many years of service to the University of Iowa often remain active in the department. We presently have three Emeritus Faculty members.

Cosmo Catalano
Emeritus Professor of Acting and Directing, and former Chair of the Theatre Arts Department

David Schaal
Emeritus Professor of Playwriting and Dramatic Literature

David Thayer
Emeritus Professor of Design, and former Chair of the Department

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