JOHN J. O’HAGAN www.johnjohagan.com

ADDRESS PHONE Merrick-Davis 157 work: (618) 374-5422 Principia College home: (618) 374-9487 cell: (618) 946-6299

EDUCATION

2005 M.F.A, Theatre Arts-Performance, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID.

1997 B.F.A., University of Idaho, Moscow, ID.

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

2013-Present Associate Professor of Theatre, Department of Theatre & Dance, Principia College

2008-2013 Assistant Professor, Department of Theatre & Dance, University of

Spring 2008 Visiting Instructor, Sabbatical Replacement, Theatre, Department of Theatre and Film, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID

Summer/Fall 2005 Instructor, Theatre, Department of Theatre and Film, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID

Summer 2006/07 Instructor, Elderhostel/Center for Shakespeare Studies Programs, Southern Oregon University, Ashland, OR • A Week at the Theatre (recurring Elderhostel class) • Introduction to Stage Combat (Center for Shakespeare Studies)

OTHER POSITIONS

2006-08 Actor, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Ashland, OR

2001-03 Instructor, Riverstone International School, Boise ID • Theatre and the Environment • Introduction to Theatre

1999-03 Director of Education, Idaho Shakespeare Festival, Boise, ID

1999 Company Manager, Idaho Theatre for Youth, Boise, ID

1998-99 Director of Education, Idaho Theatre for Youth, Boise, ID

1997-98 Office Manager, Idaho Theatre for Youth, Boise, ID

1996-03 Actor/Instructor, Idaho Shakespeare Festival/Idaho Theatre for Youth, Boise, ID

TEACHING

Year Semester Course No./Title Cr. Hrs. Enrollment 2008 Fall 1100 – Beginning Acting 3 16 2008 Fall 1100 – Beginning Acting 3 18 2008 Fall 3730 – Intermediate Acting 3 18 2009 Spring 1100 – Beginning Acting 3 18 2009 Spring 1100 – Beginning Acting 3 18 2009 Spring 3740 – Styles of Acting 3 27 2009 Fall 3730 – Intermediate Acting 3 25 2009 Fall 4820 – Directing I 3 19 2009 Fall 3720 – Movement/Combat I 2 30 2010 Spring 3740 – Styles of Acting 3 19 2010 Spring 4830 – Directing II 3 8 2010 Spring 4730 – Stage Combat II 2 24 2010 Fall 1100 – Beginning Acting 3 20 2010 Fall 3730 – Intermediate Acting 3 18 2010 Fall 3740 – Styles of Acting 3 10 2011 Spring 1100 – Beginning Acting 3 18 2011 Spring 1100 – Beginning Acting 3 20 2011 Spring 4990 – Shakespeare Workshop 3 16 2011 Fall 3730 – Intermediate Acting 3 25 2011 Fall 3720 – Movement/Combat I 2 30 2011 Fall 3740 – Styles of Acting 3 18 2012 Spring 4830 –Directing II 3 6 2012 Spring 4730 – Stage Combat II 2 19 2012 Spring 4710 – Advanced Scene Study 3 20 2012 Fall 1100 – Beginning Acting 3 21 2012 Fall 3730 – Intermediate Acting 3 19 2012 Fall 3740 – Styles of Acting 3 23 2013 Spring 1100 – Beginning Acting 3 18 2013 Spring 4990 – Shakespeare Workshop 3 11 2013 Spring 4990-12 – Stage Combat III 3 7 2013 Fall 101 –Acting I 3 20 2013 Fall 201 – Acting II 3 8 2013 Fall 491 – Auditioning… 3 6 2014 Spring 351 – Practicum 2 14 2014 Spring 260 – On Camera Acting 3 10 2014 Spring 402 – Voice Acting 3 1 2014 Spring 420 – Directing 3 6 2014 Fall 101 – Gen:FYE 3 17 2014 Fall 101B – Acting I 3 9 2014 Fall 101LA – Acting 1 3 17 2014 Fall 201 – Acting II 3 4 2015 Spring 260 – Stage Combat 3 13 2015 Spring 351B –Practicum (Cast) 2 11 2015 Spring 353B – Practicum (Staff) 2 2 2015 Spring 405C – Capstone (Lighting) 3 1 2015 Spring 420 – Directing 4 4 2015 Fall 201 –Acting II 3 16 2015 Fall 260 – Auditioning 3 6 2015 Fall 350 – Practicum (Cast) 3 38 2015 Fall 352 – Practicum (Staff) 3 5 2016 Spring 101 – Acting I 3 17 2016 Spring 301 – Acting III 3 7 2016 Spring 420 – Directing 3 5

PERFORMANCES, EXHIBITS, PRODUCTIONS:

Juried Performances/Exhibits/Productions - Acting:

2011 Joseph, Forgiving John Lennon, Telluride Playwrights Festival, Telluride, CO. (Invited) 2009 All roles, I Am My Own Wife, Snowy Range Summer Theatre, Laramie WY Featured Performer in Hey O Kah/Hok A Hey, () 2008 Fr. Flynn, Doubt, 3 Tall Women Productions, Moscow, ID 2007 Antonio, On the Razzle, OSF Adrian, The Tempest, OSF 2006 2nd Lord/Mariner, The Winter’s Tale, OSF 2nd Marquis/Gascony Cadet, Cyrano de Bergerac, OSF 2005 Cohen, The Underpants, Idaho Repertory Theatre (IRT), Moscow, ID. John, Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged), IRT Frank Parks, Hush: An Interview With America, IRT 2004 Jack Absolute, The Rivals, IRT Paul Sycamore, You Can’t Take it With You, IRT 2003 Michael Majeski, Valparaiso, Boise Contemporary Theatre, Boise, ID. 2000 Albert Einstein, Picasso at the Lapin Agile, Boise Contemporary Theatre

Non-Juried Performances/Exhibits/Productions:

2016 Jack Malachea, Valley of the Broken Hearts, Abundance Pictures, Albuquerque 48 Hour Film Project Robert, Hidden in this Picture, Bankside Repertory Theatre (BRT), Alton, IL. Andrew Makepeace Ladd III, Love Letters, BRT, Alton, IL. 2015 Ross Johnson, Spinning into Butter, Insight Theatre Company, St. Louis, MO. Marley, A Dickens of a Christmas, BRT, Alton, IL. Taylor Richards, Red Mission , Captured Starlight Productions, (Independent Film) Nick Bottom, Bottom Little Theatre, BLT, (Independent Film) 2013 James, Time Stands Still, Snowy Range Summer Theatre, Laramie, WY 2012 Edmund, King Lear, Wyoming Shakespeare Festival, Lander, WY, (Invited) David Boies, 8, KC/ACTF Region VII, CSU, (Invited) Staged Reading 2011 Mr. Webb, Our Town, Spontaneous Theatre Productions, Laramie, WY. Multiple Roles, Beyond Brokeback, Shepard Symposium, Staged Reading, (UW) Harry, The Understudy, Snowy Range Summer Theatre, Laramie, WY. Joseph, Forgiving John Lennon, Snowy Range Summer Theatre Multiple Roles, The Trial of Ayn Rand, Staged Reading, Telluride Playwrights Festival, Telluride, CO. (Invited) Harry, The Understudy, Off Square Theatre Company, Jackson, WY. (Invited) 2010 Palmer, Santa Fe, Staged Reading, Literary Connections Conference, Laramie County Community College, Cheyenne, WY, (Invited) This Guy, The Apology, Staged Reading, Literary Connections Conference, Laramie County Community College, (Invited) 2009 Multiple roles, The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later – An Epilogue, Staged Reading, (UW) 2007 Hamlet/others, Oregon Shakespeare Festival School Visit Program, OSF 2006 Multiple roles, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, School Visit Program, OSF Hitchhiker, Thunderbird, Black Box Series, OSF 2005 Capt. Ahab, Moby Dick, Guest Artist, University of Idaho, Moscow ID.

Juried Productions - Directed/Choreographed:

2015 Director, Guys and Dolls (Principia College) Director, Our Country’s Good (Principia College) 2014 Director, Hush: An Interview with America (Principia College) 2013 Director, Twelfth Night (University of Wyoming) 2012 Fight Director, Marat/Sade (UW) 2012 Director, The Beaux’ Stratagem (UW) 2010 Director, Fuddy Meers (UW) 2009 Director, The Crucible (UW) Co-Director, Six Songs from Ellis (UW) (Selected to perform at KC/ACTF Regional Festival, University of Reno, 1st alternate for National ACTF, Kennedy Center, Washington, D.C.) Assistant Director, Hey O Kah/Hok A Hey (UW) 2008 Director, Body of an American, Student Written One Act Festival (UW) (Selected to perform at KC/ACTF Regional Festival, University of Idaho) Director, Twelfth Night, Idaho Repertory Theatre (IRT), Moscow, ID.

Non-Juried Productions - Directed/Choreographed:

2014 Director, Mary Stuart, Wyoming Shakespeare Festival, Lander, WY (Invited) 2013 Director, Stones in His Pockets, Snowy Range Summer Theatre, Laramie, WY 2012 Director, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Theatre West, Western Nebraska Community College, Scottsbluff, NE Fight Director, King Lear, Wyoming Shakespeare Festival, Lander, WY (Invited) 2011 Director, Beyond Brokeback, Shepard Symposium, Staged Reading produced in conjunction with “Out West”, (On campus) Director, Rent, Theatre West, Western Nebraska Community College, Scottsbluff, NE Director, An Evening with Tennessee Williams, Staged Reading, Off Square Theatre Company, Jackson, WY. (Invited) 2010 Director, Three Days of Rain, Snowy Range Summer Theatre, Laramie, WY Fight Director, Ernestine Shuswap Gets Her Trout, (On campus) Fight Director, A Coupla White Chicks Sitting Around Talking, Snowy Range Summer Theatre, Laramie, WY Fight Director, Private Lives, Snowy Range Summer Theatre, Laramie, WY 2009 Director, The Underpants, Snowy Range Summer Theatre, Laramie, WY Fight Director, Macbeth, Shakes in ChyWy, Cheyenne, WY (invited) 2007 Director, How to Eat Like a Child, Oregon Conservatory for Performing Arts, Ashland, OR. 2006 Director, Treasure of the Caribbean, Oregon Conservatory for Performing Arts 2003 Director, Moss Gown, Idaho Shakespeare Festival School Tour, ISF, Boise, ID. 2002 Director, Jack Frost, Idaho Shakespeare Festival School Tour, ISF 2001 Director, Fiddler on the Roof, College of Idaho, Caldwell, ID

KC/ACTF Production Respondent: Region III 2014 A Flea in Her Ear, Western Illinois University 2013 Bat Boy: The Musical, Western Illinois University Region VII 2012 Richard III, University of Northern Colorado Becoming, Boise State University 2011 US, Western Washington University 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Los Medanos College Rent, University of Colorado, Boulder Flowers for Algernon, Western Wyoming Community College 2010 Sir Patient Fancy, University of Northern Colorado A Streetcar Named Desire, Boise State University The Passage, College of Idaho Dead Man’s Cell Phone, College of Idaho The Music Man, Western Wyoming Community College Cabaret, University of Colorado, Boulder 2009 The Director’s Cut, Western Wyoming Community College Coyote on a Fence, Laramie County Community College Chess, University of Northern Colorado 2008 The Crucible, Western Wyoming Community College Beanie and the Bamboozling Book Machine, Laramie County Community College The Exonerated, Washington State University

Additional Respondent Service: 2012 Region VI, Irene Ryan Audition Preliminary Round Auditor, University of Oklahoma Performance Adjudicator, Utah Shakespeare Festival, High School Fest 2009-2012 Region VII Irene Ryan Audition Respondent, Region VII Festival, Arena Performance Adjudicator, Wyoming High Schools State Drama Festival

CONTRACTS & GRANTS Proposals accepted as PI 2015 Devising Workshop, Research Assistance Award, Principia On-campus Summer Research Assistance Program, $6,792 2013 Winter Wonderland Workshop, Faculty Development Award, $500 2012 Advanced Actor Combatant Ellbogen Center for Teaching and Learning Professional Development Grant, $2000

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS AND ACTIVITIES

Actor’s Equity Association Actor/Combatant, Society of American Fight Directors Association for Theatre in Higher Education

HONORS AND AWARDS

2013 Certificate of Merit, for Directing, Twelfth Night, Kennedy Center/America College Theatre Festival, Region VII 2012 Certificate of Merit, Fight Direction, Marat/Sade, Kennedy Center/America College Theatre Festival, Region VII 2010 Extraordinary Merit in Teaching Award, College of Arts & Sciences, University of Wyoming Distinguished Achievement in Direction, Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival National Selection Team, Six Songs from Ellis, KC/ACTF Region VII Festival, University of Nevada-Reno, Reno, NV 2009 Certificate of Merit for Directing, Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival Region VII, The Crucible, University of Wyoming College of Arts & Science Student Council “Thumbs up Award” University of Wyoming 2005 Outstanding Faculty Award, DSS Academic Assistance Programs, University of Idaho, Moscow ID 2003 Excellence in Arts-Education – Mayor’s Award, Boise, ID

PAPERS PRESENTED/SYMPOSIA/INVITED LECTURES/PROFESSIONALMEETINGS/WORKSHOPS

2015 Hitting the Target (The Actor & the Target), KC/ACTF Region III, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee 2012 Stage Combat as Actor Training Wyoming Educators of Secondary Theatre (WEST) Fall Conference, Wheatland High, Wheatland, WY Making the Most of 90 Seconds, Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival (KC/ACTF) Region VII Festival, Colorado State University Hitting the Target, KC/ACTF Region VII Festival, Colorado State University 2011 High School Teacher Theatre Intensive, Wyoming Arts Council/Wyoming Educators of Secondary Theatre (WEST), Instructor, , Casper, WY. Devising, Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival (KC/ACTF) Region VII Festival, Humboldt State University Sing Fully! Acting and Singing Technique Exposed, Co-presenter with Dr. Patrick Newell, KC/ACTF Region VII Festival, Humboldt State University Dorking: Intellectual Improv for Effective Teaching, Ellbogen Center for Teaching and Learning, Co-presenter, (On campus) Sing Fully! Acting and Singing Technique Exposed, Co-presenter with Dr. Patrick Newell, Colorado Thespian Festival, Denver, CO 2010 Working from the Target, Kennedy Center/American College Theatre Festival (KC/ACTF) Region VII Festival, University of Nevada- Reno Acting Your Vocal Technique, Co-Presenter with Dr. Patrick Newell, UW, KC/ACTF Region VII Festival, University of Nevada- Reno Acting Your Vocal Technique, Co-Presenter with Dr. Patrick Newell, UW, Southeastern Theatre Conference (SETC), Lexington, KY 2009 Cracking Shakespeare’s Code, KC/ACTF Region VII Festival, University of Idaho Hitting the Target (The Actor & the Target), KC/ACTF Region VII Festival, University of Idaho Eye on the Ball (Backwards & Forwards), KC/ACTF, Region VII Festival, University of Idaho Acting Out: Working from the Target, Co-presenter with Rhea Ramey, Rutgers University, Teaching Creativity Conference: What the Academy Can Learn From Entrepreneurs, Inventors and Artists, On-campus. (As part of the conference the workshop was also presented at WYOTech as well as East and Central High Schools in Cheyenne.) Cracking Shakespeare’s Code, Capital Shakespeare Festival, Boise, ID (Invited) Working from the Target, Colorado Thespian Conference, Denver, CO 2008 Cracking Shakespeare’s Code, Colorado Thespian Conference, Denver, CO 2005 Motors: Stanislavski’s Method of Physical Action, University of Idaho 2003 Improvisation in the Classroom, Idaho Commission on the Arts, Arts Matters Conference, Boise, ID

COMMITTEES/SERVICE

Principia College: Department: Chair, Theatre and Dance Department, Fall 2014 College: Creative Arts and Communication Unit Head, Spring 2015- General Education Committee Joint Faculty/Staff Strategic Initiative Champion, K-16 Arts Programming

University of Wyoming: Department: Assessment Committee, Chair, 2012 Technical Director Search Committee, 2011 BFA Admission Standards Review Committee, 2011 Guest/Visiting Artists Committee (Chairperson), 2008-2011 University: Student Interaction Committee, Member 2010-11, Chair 2012

STUDENT ADVISING/GRADUATE SUPERVISION

Principia College: AY 2015-16 Undergraduate Advisees - 7 AY 2014-15 Undergraduate Advisees - 4 AY 2013-14 No advising activity

University of Wyoming: AY 2012-13 Undergraduate Advisees – 13 Senior Honors Project Mentor - 2 AY 2011-12 Undergraduate Advisees –16

GRADUATE STUDENTS:

University of Wyoming: Graduate Committee Memberships (excluding those chaired): __1__# MS/MA (thesis)

OTHER ACTIVITIES/ACCOMPLISHMENTS

2015 Founding Member Bankside Repertory Theatre, Alton, IL. 2012 Judge of Election, Albany County, Wyoming Stage Combat Consultant, Cyrano de Bergerac, Thermopolis High School, Thermopolis, WY Reader, KC/ACTF Region II One Act Play Competition Reader, KC/ACTF National Full Length Play Competition Scholarship Director, Department of Theatre and Dance Undergraduate/Transfer Recruitment: KC/ACTF Region VII Festival, Colorado State University North Texas Theatre Auditions, Colin College, Plano, TX Colorado Thespian Festival, Denver, CO. Wyoming State Drama, Riverton, WY Skills Proficiency Renewal, Recommended Pass, Broadsword, Society of American Fight Directors 2011 Promotion Review, Professor Bud Coleman, University of Colorado, Boulder Official UW Invitee to Wyoming Convergence Conference, Cody, WY. Reader/Adjudicator, KC/ACTF Region III Full Length Play Competition Scholarship Director, Department of Theatre and Dance Undergraduate/Transfer Recruitment: KC/ACTF Region VII Festival, Humboldt State University Kentucky Governor’s School of the Arts, Louisville, KY Colorado Thespian Festival, Denver, CO. Wyoming State Drama, Riverton, WY. 2010 Scholarship Director, Department of Theatre and Dance Visiting Scholar Sponsored, Paul Kalina, Assistant Professor of Movement, University of Iowa Society of American Fight Directors (SAFD) Recognition – Quarterstaff, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID Reader/Adjudicator, KC/ACTF Region VI Full Length and One Act Play Competition Undergraduate/Transfer Recruitment: KC/ACTF Region VII Festival, University of Nevada-Reno Colorado Thespian Conference, Denver, CO. Wyoming State Drama, Casper, WY 2009 Scholarship Director, Department of Theatre and Dance Achieved recognition as Recommended Actor/Combatant by Society of American Fight Directors (SAFD) at the National Stage Combat Workshop, University of North Carolina School of the Arts Undergraduate Recruitment: Colorado Thespian Conference, Denver, CO Capital City Shakespeare Festival, Boise, ID Southeastern Theatre Conference, Lexington, KY Wyoming State Drama, Casper, WY. 2008 Scholarship Director, Department of Theatre and Dance Acting Coach, Midsummer Night’s Dream Ballet, (On campus) Active undergraduate recruitment: 15th Annual North Texas Drama Auditions, Collin College, Plano, TX Texas Thespians State Festival, Fort Worth, TX Colorado Thespian Conference, Denver, CO