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Theater Arts Faculty
- Chair, Department of Performance, Play & Design
- Professor, Theater Arts
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Dramaturgy, Theater History, Monster Studies,Theory & Critical Studies and Dramatic Literature.
- Professor, Theater Arts
- Lighting design, projection design and scenic design; theatrical, fringe, industrial and themed entertainment design; computer aided drafting, electronics and automated fixtures
- Professor, Theater Arts
- Set design for theater, dance, opera, and film, Drawing for the designer. Model-making and color theory. Drafting. Broadway Musicals.
- Professor, Theater Arts
- Movement training for actors, circus and clown traditions, Indonesian dance and performance
- (she/her/hers)
- Assistant Professor, Theater Arts
- Expertise: Voice, Speech, Accents, Dialects, Devising, Acting, Shakespeare, Archetypes, Text
- Pronouns: She/They
- Affiliated Faculty, Theater Arts
- Professor of Literature
- Director, Shakespeare Workshop
- Director, Undergraduate Program in Literature
- Associate Professor
South Asian and US postmodern dance, choreography, critical dance studies
Transgender studies, gender and sexuality, race and ethnicity, Latina/o studies, media and cultural studies, ethnography of media, feminism, queer theory, multimedia production, Latin American studies - Colombia and Venezuela, citizenship and social participation, Social Documentation, colonial historiography.
- Acting Assistant Professor of Costume Design
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Theatrical Design. Diversified and Intersectional Pedagogy in Theatrical Design. Latinx and Latin American Indigenous Theatre, and Performance. Theatre for social change. Theatre for Young Audiences and Theatre for the Very Young Audiences. Computer-aided design and digital media. Illustration, drawing, and rendering techniques.
- Distinguished Professor of Theater Arts
- Pronouns: she/her/hers
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Theater and Film Producing, Creative Entrepreneurship, Dramaturgy, Theater History and Dramatic Literature & Shakespeare
- Professor, Theater Arts
- Dance theory and technique, cognitive dance studies
Professional Experience:
Boston Ballet, Boston, MA
Houston Ballet, Houston, TX
American Ballet Theater II, New York, NY
Rebecca Wear is a performance director who specializes in new play development.
PhD Candidate in Theater, Dance and Performance Studies, UC Santa Barbara
MA, Theater and Dance, UC Santa Barbara
BA, Theater and Women's and Gender Studies, Middlebury College
- Professor, Theater Arts
Directing, crossmedia performance, post-dramatic theater theory and practice, documentary
theater directing and dramaturgy.