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 Faculty Excellence, and is a Collegiate Fellow in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. In addition, this year he is Chair of the Department of Dance.

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
Director of Graduate Studies; 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 150 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) 353-2426
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, 209 River Street
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 Walking the Wire - 2008 and UI's production of A Dollhouse.

PAUL KALINA
Assistant Professor, movement
Office: 132 TB
Phone: (319) 353-2404
E-Mail: paul-kalina@uiowa.edu

Paul Kalina is an assistant professor of movement. A founding member of the Chicago physical theatre company, 500 Clown, he has performed their shows throughout the United States and England including PS 122 in New York, Steppenwolf Theatre, Lookingglass Theatre and the State Theatre in New Jersey. Paul served as Director of Clowning for Chicago Goodman Theatre's production of Animal Crackers as well as the fight choreographer and movement director for Steppenwolf Theatre's Closer and The Court Theatre's production of the Romance Cycle. He co-created the clown duo Le Pamplemousse and the critically acclaimed clown acrobatic duo, The Bumblinni Brothers. He served as supervisor of the Big Apple Circus Clown Care Unit at the University of Chicago Children's Hospital from 1999-2005. He is a graduate of the Dell Arte School of Physical Theatre and received his MFA in directing from the University of Idaho. He was the 2006 recipient of the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers National Directing Fellowship at the Kennedy Center. Prior to his arrival in Iowa, he taught acting and directing at the University of Idaho, DePaul University's School of Theatre, Second City, and the professional training program for 500 Clown. Paul is also an invited artist of Cirque du Soleil.

JUDY LEIGH-JOHNSON
Visiting Assistant Professor, voice and speech
Office: 134 TB
Phone: (319) 353-2405
E-Mail: judy-leigh-johnson@uiowa.edu

TISCH JONES
Associate Professor, directing and theatre history
BA, University of Minnesota; MA, MFA, University of Iowa
Office: 215 River Street
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: 102 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 acting in the Program of Theatre and Dance; she also 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 and has conducted workshops throughout the U.S., Japan, Russia, and India. 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, the first Americans to erform in Russia's oldest theatre. 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 Literature. She also taught at the high school level for nine years in New Hampshire where she was named Teacher of the Year. In 2006, she was a Visiting Professor at Dartmouth College where she taught and directed Dreaming Biloxi. Recently she has directed Chuck Mee's A Perfect Wedcing and Shakespeare's As You Like It for the UI Mainstage.

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 (BA, University of Pennsylvania, MFA, New York University) 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 on the executive board of the Iowa Center for Human Rights. She is also Director of the Caribbean Diaspora and Atlantic Studies Program and is developing a Caribbean Carnival theatre piece and exhibit of Carnival costumes.

JAMES ALBERT
Lecturer, stagecraft
MFA, University of Iowa
Office: 213 River Street
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.

R. ERIC STONE
Assistant Professor, scenic design
BA, Lewis & Clark College; MFA, Ohio University;
Member United Scenic Artists 829
Office: 146 TB
Phone: (319) 353-2410
E-Mail: eric-stone@uiowa.edu; Web: www.rericstone.com

R. Eric Stone is an assistant professor and scenic designer. He has designed productions in California, Illinois, Utah, and Wisconsin, with work touring to New York and beyond. He was the Chair of the Scenic Design Program for the University of Illinois at the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts (2001-2008; 10 designs, including Leonard Bernstein’s Mass, Metamorphoses, Nine, Twelfth Night); Eric was the Resident Scenic Designer at PCPA Theaterfest (1995-2001; 36 designs, including The Servant of Two Masters, The Grapes of Wrath, Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, Julius Caesar, The King & I, Cinderella, 42 nd Street, On Golden Pond, The Lion in Winter, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, The 1940’s Radio Hour); Other design credits include work as the Associate Designer for the USITT USA National Exhibition at the 2007 Prague Quadrennial; the Associate Designer for Ralph Lemon’s Come home Charley Patton; and designs for Utah Shakespearean Festival (12 productions, including Cyrano de Bergerac, Camelot, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Stones in His Pockets, My Fair Lady, Born Yesterday) Skylight Opera Theatre (4 productions, including Chicago, Floyd Collins), American Players Theatre, California Shakespeare Festival, and San José Repertory Theatre. Eric’s design for PCPA Theatrefest’s production of The Grapes of Wrath is featured in The Creative Spirit: An Introduction to Theatre . His design for the Utah Shakespearean Festival’s production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream was included in the USITT USA National Exhibition at the 2007 Prague Quadrennial. Eric is a member of the United Scenic Artists 829. Samples of his work can be viewed at www.rericstone.com.

RENEE BELL
Visiting Assistant Professor, stage makeup
Office: 209 River Street
Phone: (319) 335-2700
E-Mail: renee-bell@uiowa.edu

Renee M. Bell (Costume Designer) is teaching Theatre Crafts, Stage make-up and Elements of Design here at The University of Iowa. Most recently she was the Costume Shop Manager at Barrington Stage Company where she also designed 2 show Seussical and My Scary Girl. Other Favorite Design Credits include Good (Manhattan Theatre Source), Once upon a Mattress, Children of Eden, Fiddler on the Roof (Weathervane Playhouse), Anything Goes (Brooklyn Players), and Merrily we Roll Along (The 45 th Street Theatre). She has worked as a Milliner on such Broadway shows as Mary Poppins, The Color Purple, and The Pajama Game. She was the Assistant Costume Coordinator for the Radio City Christmas Spectacular. She has worked on 4 productions with the Drama Desk and Obie Award winning Transport Group. She holds an MFA in Design from The University of Iowa.

BRYON WINN
Director of Theatre, Lighting and Sound Design;
Associate Professor
BA, Weber State University; MFA, The University of Iowa
Office: 148 TB
Phone: (319) 353-2411
E-Mail: bryon-winn@uiowa.edu; Web: www.bryonwinn.com

Bryon Winn is an Associate Professor of Design and Director of Theatre for the Department of Theatre Arts at the University of Iowa. He has designed lighting and scenery for theatre, dance, and corporate events. This includes over 40 premiere productions of new plays. His theatre design work has been seen at Portland Stage Company, Trinity Rep, Theatre de la Jeune Lune, Axis Theatre, Intersection for the Arts, Miranda Theatre Company, Utah Musical Theatre, Cornell College, Middlebury College, Riverside Theatre and Iowa Summer Rep.  Bryon is a recipient of a Collegiate Teaching Award and is a member of United Scenic Artist 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
Office: 211 River Street
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, Chair of American Studies, 2008-2011
BA, Dartmouth College; MA, Brown University; Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison
Office: 718 JB, 201 River Street
Phone: (319) 353-2402
E-Mail: kim-marra@uiowa.edu

Kim Marra is professor of theatre history and chair of the American Studies Department. She is also a member of the advisory committee of the Sexuality Studies Program. Her book Strange Duets: Impresarios and Actresses in the American Theatre, 1865-1914 (The University of Iowa Press Studies in Theatre History and Culture Series, 2006) won the 2008 Joe A. Callaway Prize for Best Book on Drama or Theatre conferred biennially by NYU’s Department of English. 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), all for the University of Michigan Press. Her new book project is entitled “Fashioning the Thoroughbred Ideal: Show Women and Show Horses on American Stages, 1865-1930.” She 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, as well as on the Publications Committee of the American Theatre and Drama Society (ATDS). She is a former Secretary of the American Society for Theatre Research (ASTR) and a former member of both the Executive Committee of ASTR and the Executive Board of the ATDS. She has been Book Review Editor as well as an Editorial Board member of Theatre Survey.

SYDNÉ 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).

Stage Management

JAMES P. BIRDER
Lecturer, Head of Stage Management
MFA, Carnegie-Mellon University
Office: 136 TB
Phone: (319) 353-1814
E-Mail: james-p-birder@uiowa.edu

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: 202 TB
Phone: (319) 335-3906
E-mail: david-mcgraw@uiowa.edu

David McGraw ( BA, College of the Holy Cross; MA, Goucher College) is a lecturer in stage management and arts management for the Division of Performing Arts, Interdepartmental Studies, and the John Pappajohn Entrepreneurial Center. Since 2003, Mr. McGraw has served as the Production Stage Manager for both the Theatre Arts Department and the Iowa Summer Rep. 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 has also served 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.

• Rebecca Tritten, Scheduling and Facilities Services Manager
• Hillary Foster, Academic Coordinator and Assistant to the DEO
• Judith Moessner-Lambert, Director of Marketing
• David McGraw, Production Stage Manager
• Ojin Kwon, Theatre Technical Director
• Mike Nolte, Carpenter
• Barbara Croy, Costume Shop Assistant Manager
• Eric Burchett, Lighting and Sound Supervisor

REBECCA TRITTEN
Scheduling and Facilities Services Manager
Office: 107 TB
Phone: (319) 335-0078
E-Mail: rebecca-tritten@uiowa.edu

Rebecca is the Scheduling and Facilities Services Manager of the Theatre Arts Department at The University of Iowa and also serves as the Company Manager for Iowa Summer Rep during the summer season.  She is a recent graduate of The University of Iowa where she earned her MFA in Stage Management. Recent Stage Management credits at UI include Into the Woods, The Brothers Dellapina, The Puzzle Locker and In the Blood.  Beyond Iowa City, Rebecca has worked as the Management Assistant for New York Stage and Film and as the Artistic Administrator for Seattle Repertory Theatre.  Rebecca is a native of Iowa and considers the Midwest her home.

JUDITH MOESSNER-LAMBERT
Director of Marketing
Office: 009 River Street
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

HILLARY FOSTER
Academic Coordinator and Assistant to the DEO
Office: 107 TB
Phone: (319) 335-2700
E-Mail: hillary-foster@uiowa.edu

BARBARA CROY
Costume Shop Assistant Manager
Office: 1630 SA
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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