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University of Wisconsin–STEVENS POINT COLLEGE OF FINE ARTS & COMMUNICATION DEPARTMENT OF THEATRE & DANCE DEPARTMENT OF THEATRE & DANCE LEARNING IN THE CLASSROOM, STUDIO, AND ON STAGE Gary Olsen Mark Hanson Tyler Marchant Jared Hanlin Jeffrey Stephens department chair, musical theatre directing and acting voice and movement history and lighting and sound literature design Danstage Noel Fine Arts Center 4 Drama Program 6 Dance Program 8 BFA Acting Program 12 Jim Carpenter Wendy Dolan Scott Wirtz-Olsen Stephen John Strassburg music theory costume shop scenic and prop Trovillion Smith accompanist manager design acting BFA Design & Technology Program 16 P BFA Musical Theatre Program 20 Senior Showcase 24 S Guest Artists 26 Players 28 Pam Luedtke Barb Cirmo Alan Patrick Kenney Sandy Childers dance costume shop musical theatre costume and Study Abroad 29 makeup design Application Procedures E OF CONTENT 30 BL HEATRE & DANCE AT UWS On Tour 33 TA T Scholarships and Donors 34 AIDA Photos: Doug Moore, Tom Charlesworth, John Morser, Michael Estanich Jeannie Hill Ruth Daniels Joan Karlen Drew Smalley, Gary Olsen, Matthew Crider dance dance administration dance 3 Jenkins Theatre The mission of the Department of Noel Fine Arts Center Theatre & Dance is to serve: • Over 20,000 sq. ft. • Cultural center for the region • Its majors and minors through curricular • 24-hour student access offerings and performance/production • Numerous studio and practice spaces activities that heighten intellectual, artistic, • 4 staffed computer labs (1 PC and 3 Mac) cultural, and humane sensitivities • 2 dance studios • 2 theatres • The general student population through • 1 concert hall curricular offerings and stage productions • 1 major lecture hall that engender an appreciation and understanding of the performing arts and their contribution to the cultural and aesthetic enrichment of life Noel Fine Arts Center • The university community and general central Wisconsin population through the production of quality stage performances Dance Studio Dance Studio Costume Shop Studio Theatre Noel Fine Arts Center Courtyard 4 INSPIRE, CREATE, ACHIEVE DEPARTMENT OF THEATRE & DANCE 5 Taming of the Shrew DEPARTMENT OF THEATRE & DANCE Drood BA/BS IN DRAMA • Lauren Shimulunas (2010) is a graduate Stage managers, directors, playwrights, and student in the MA program in English at the University of New Hampshire scholars are as much a part of the theatre • Amber Wuttke (2010) is a freelance as actors and designers. The designer in Chicago, currently working with BA/BS degree track offers you an Emerald City Theatre opportunity to explore your passion for In the BA/BS Drama program, you’ll be theatre in areas other than those focused mentored by exceptional faculty who have upon by our BFA degrees. The BA/BS is a wide range of professional and academic a great program for you if your interests experience and are dedicated to thoroughly include directing, theatre management, or investigating all aspects of theatre. As a teaching. With only 44 credits in theatre result of earning your BA/BS degree at courses required, the BA/BS gives you UWSP, you’ll find yourself prepared to gain the opportunity to add a second major or admission to prestigious graduate programs multiple minors. You can craft the education around the nation. Graduates from our you want with the BA/BS in Drama. BA/BS program have gone on to work in Admission to the program is by interview/ nationally recognized theatres, film studios, application only. universities, and production houses as Classes include: stage managers, artistic directors, • Directing playwrights, and teachers. • Acting Jeffrey Stephens, Program Coordinator • Playwriting [email protected] (715) 346-4706 • Script Analysis • Theatre History and Dramatic Literature • Scenic, Lighting, Costume, Brief Encounters Fiddler on the Roof and Makeup Design Whatever your interests, there are many GARY G. OLSEN opportunities available for you at UWSP. The Department of Theatre & Dance Chairperson of the Department of mounts many full scale productions in our Theatre & Dance, Gary Olsen participates RAM mainstage and studio theatres in the Noel in the orientation for all incoming Theatre & G Fine Arts Center. You will be immersed in Dance majors and minors. He has adju- RAM hands-on work behind the scenes, putting JEFFREY STEPHENS dicated for the American College Theatre G your classroom skills to the test as you Festival and served on the board of directors PRO Jeffrey Stephens is an Assistant Professor for the Midwest Section of the United States experiment with new theories of production, of theatre history and dramatic literature Institute for Theatre Technology. Gary has PRO design, and performance. as well as the coordinator of the BA/BS served on numerous university committees program in drama. He earned a PhD in Recent Graduates Include: including Faculty Senate, General Education theatre history at The Ohio State University. • Lydia Graboski-Bauer (2008) recently Program Review Committee and the completed her MFA in the design program Dr. Stephens has taught all eras of DRAMA University Technology Committee. at Southern Methodist University theatre history. He served as MA program Gary Olsen, Department Chair • Rebecca Hengstenberg (2007) is a coordinator at Oklahoma State University [email protected] (715) 346-4429 DRAMA professional director in New York City where he also taught dramatic theory and who has also worked with playwright research methods. Brian Dykstra • Dan Klarer (2010) is a member of the Dr. Stephens was Director of Theatre at Plimoth Players, an Elizabethan acting Dakota Wesleyan University and has taught company in Plymouth, MA theatre appreciation at DePaul’s Theatre • Jaime Nunn (2010) has begun graduate School and theatre history at Northern studies in Social Work at UW-Milwaukee Illinois University. His research area is Russian and Soviet theatre. 6 INSPIRE, CREATE, ACHIEVE 7 INSPIRE, CREATE, ACHIEVE BA/BS IN DANCE In UWSP’s Dance Program, you will immerse UWSP’s Dance Program will prepare you to DANCE FACULTY create and innovate in the field of dance. yourself in a dynamic culture of focused Jeannie Hill, Assistant Professor of Dance, Pamela Luedtke, Lecturer, teaches ballet Graduates of the UWSP dance program training, expanding your technical and teaches tap, jazz, composition and theatre and modern dance technique. For nine are performing with regional, national, stylistic range while honing anatomical dance in addition to choreographing for years, she was a soloist for the Mary and international dance companies and efficiency. You’ll join a community Danstage and the fall musical. She has Anthony Dance Theatre in New York City. choreographers. Alumni have opened their engaged in artistic experimentation and enjoyed a varied international performing In addition to her modern dance training own dance studios, become artistic directors contemporary inquiry that is culturally and teaching career and continues her in the techniques of Martha Graham and of their own organizations, and are training relevant and historically grounded, preparing affiliation with Chicago’s Jump Rhythm Jazz Hanya Holm, she is certified in Educational in nationally accredited graduate programs. you to communicate, contribute, and lead as Project as an artistic advisor, choreographer, Kinesiology (Brain Gym). Her choreography a global citizen artist. and guest performer. She holds a BA in has been performed in New York, Classes include: Joan Karlen, Program Coordinator theatre from the University of Vermont and Washington D.C., California, and Wisconsin. • Ballet [email protected] an MFA in dance from the University of Pamela is also founder and director of the • Modern (715) 346-3982 Wisconsin—Milwaukee, Peck School of Point Dance Ensemble. • Jazz the Arts. Jeannie founded Point Tap Festival John Strassburg provides accompaniment • Tap in 2010, a three-day summer workshop for ballet, tap, and modern classes • Theatre Dance that brings tap dancers together from using piano, percussion, and electronic • Composition across the country. instrumentation. As a composer, he • Movement Analysis and Theory Michael Estanich, Assistant Professor of arranges and records music for students, • Teaching Theory and Practice Dance, teaches modern dance, composition, faculty, and regional dance companies. John • Dance History dance pedagogy, movement analysis, teaches piano to students of all ages in a • Career Seminar and dance history. Michael earned his private studio, plays solo gigs for special events, and participates as a keyboardist in • Interdisiplinary Seminar/Digital Video MFA from The Ohio State University and Editing/Camera Dance his BFA from Denison University. His Central Wisconsin area bands. creative research currently examines You will have opportunities each year to ideas of space, architecture, landscape, perform in a variety of venues –Jenkins and habitation often resulting in dances Theatre, our new black box studio theatre, supported by sculptural environments. RAM and state-of-the-art convertible dance RAM Michael’s performance credits include G studios/performance labs. You will also G Molly Shanahan/Mad Shak, Cerulean have the opportunity to participate in the Dance Theatre, Rebecca Rosen, Melanie American College Dance Festival Association JOAN KARLEN Bales, Bebe Miller, and a reconstruction PRO (ACDFA) conferences and present PRO Joan Karlen, Dance Program Coordinator and of Mark Morris’ acclaimed choreography research at the National