MFA Performance Pedagogy
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Name | Thesis Title | Specialties | Current Position | |
| 2002 | Sheila McKenna | Acting, Dialects, Voice, Directing, Improvisation, Experimental Theatre | Professor and Associate Artistic Director, Conservatory Theatre, Point Park University |
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| 2002 | Doug Mertz | Acting, Directing, Voice | Director of Education and Outreach at Citadel Theatre | ||
| 2002 | Tavia LaFollette | Assistant Professor, Towson University |
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| 2003 | Holly Thuma | Acting, Directing, Voice | Associate Professor, Syracuse University |
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| 2004 | Jennifer Juul | Acting and Voice | Practitioner Lessac Research & Training Institute |
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| 2005 | Rick Kemp | Acting, Directing, Cognitive Science, Theatre, and Performance | Professor, Indiana University of Pennsylvania | ||
| 2006 | Jeffrey Awada | "Push/Pull and Plasticity: The Development of Physical Curiosity and Imagination" | Acting, Directing, Movement | Associate Professor, Webster University | |
| 2008 | Thomas Aulino | "Approaching American Comedy: Documentation of the Course Design of a University Theatre Department Class in the Acting Style of Mid-20th Century American Comic Plays" | Acting, Performance Styles, Acting Shakespeare | ||
| 2008 | Chaya Gordon-Bland | Acting Shakespeare, Mask, Movement, Stage Combat | Associate Professor, University of South Dakota |
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| 2010 | Tom Pacio | "Musical Theatre Performance: Documentation of the Course Design of a University Theatre Department Class in the Acting Style as Heightened Text" | Acting, Directing, Voice, Movement | Interdisciplinary Arts Coordinator, Vassar College | |
| 2012 | Elizabeth Mozer | "Embodied Acting-A Synthesis of the Actor Training Approaches of Sanford Meisner and Stephen Wangh" | Acting, Directing, Devising, Movement | Associate Professor, Binghamton University, SUNY |
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| 2012 | Michael Mueller | "Theatrical Violence: When Words Fail Building Stage Violence into Actor Training" | Acting, Fight Choreography | Full-Time Faculty, Fullerton College |
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| 2014 | Ric Walker | "Improvisation for Actors" | Acting, Comedy, Improvisation, Acting for Camera, Storytelling | Assistant Professor, Columbia College |
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| 2014 | Katherine Sweeney | Acting | Masters of Science Nursing Program, Duke University |
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| 2016 | Julian Stetkevych | "Creating a Character: A Psychophysical Approach" | Acting, Voice, Movement, Physical Theatre, Directing | Assistant Professor, Elon University |
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| 2015 | Rachel DeSoto Jackson | "Teaching Boal, Inspiring Change: Applying Theatre of the Oppressed in the Classroom" | Applied Theatre, Social Justice Theatre, Latinx Theatre and Performance | Associate Professor, Indiana University of Pennsylvania | |
| 2017 | José Pérez IV | "The Athletic Actor: Contact Improv, Capoeira, and Grotowski-Based Actor Training in Conversation" | Acting, Fight Choreography | Simulation Educator, VA Pittsburgh Hospital | |
| 2018 | Brittany Bara | "Voice and Movement I: Explorations on Connection" | Acting, Voice, Movement, Musical Theatre | Assistant Professor of Theatre and Music Theatre, Viterbo University | |
| 2018 | Teisha Duncan | "Actor as Storyteller: From Neutral Mask to Spoken Word Poetry" | Acting, Musical Theatre, Mask, Puppetry, Storytelling | Artist-in-Residence at Skidmore College | |
| 2020 | Meg Pryor | "Connection in Chaos: Creating and Embodying Your Story through Movement" | Acting, Musical Theatre, Devising, Trauma and Theatre | ||
| 2020 | Sean Cook | "Stage to Screen: Pivoting from Traditional Theatrical Education Using Selected Techniques of Michael Chekhov" | Acting, Acting for the Camera, Directing |
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Sylvia Center for the Arts
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