Department Chairs
Faculty
Paul Amandes
Instructional Areas
Paul has been teaching for Columbia College Chicago for the 30 years. His favorite subjects include: Playwriting, Writing for Musical Theatre, and Acting.
Brittany Anderson
Instructional Areas
Movement, Physical Theatre, Physical Comedy, Acrobatics, Dialects and Vocal Training, Devising
Quenna Barrett
Karen Berger-Nolte
Instructional Areas
Stage Makeup, Multi-Media Makeup, Wig Dressing
Kristi Bramlett
Instructional Areas
Acting, Musical Theatre, Theatre Foundations, Theatre Making, Physical Approaches, Ensemble Building, Laban, and Stanislavsky
Trey Brazeal
Daryl Brooks
Michael Brown
Instructional Areas
Physical Theatre; Devised Theatre; Collaborative Creation; Clown and Comic Theatre; Movement; Mask Performance; Lecoq-based approaches to Actor Training
Jeremy Cohn
Instructional Areas
Acting, Voice, Movement, Alexander Technique, Classical Text
Heather Gilbert
Instructional Areas
Live Entertainment Lighting, focused in theatre and dance, additional interest in Concert. Collaboration for Theatre Designers and Directors, Period Styles, Intro to Design.
JulieAnn Graham
Instructional Areas
JulieAnn's classes are a unique blend of Bartenieff Fundamentals ( a movement re-education looking at patterns of ease and connectivity), Improvisation, Laban, Yoga, meditation, and devised theatre.
Sami Hussain Ismat
Instructional Areas
Directing, Devising, Total Theatre, Applied Theatre, Performance Art, Embodied Research & Writing, Documentary Practices, Decolonization Practices, Modern Philosophy, Ethnography, New Media, Arab Theatre, Global Drama, Ethics of Constructing Contemporary Acting & Performance.
Joe Janes
Instructional Areas
Sketch comedy writing, satirical essays, stand-up, physical comedy, comedy history.
Donterrio Johnson
Halena Kays
Lori Klinka
Instructional Areas
I love teaching many different acting classes. I also teach Speaking Out which is a public speaking class.
Anne Libera
Instructional Areas
Comedy Writing and Performance, Improvisation
James Maize
Cyndi Maxey
Instructional Areas
I teach a presentation (speaking) and communicating course in the Theater Department called Speaking Out. I designed the course, coauthored one of the texts, and supply updated adjacent articles each new term.
Timothy McCain
Instructional Areas
Playwriting--Theater Arts--Physical Theater--Devised Theatre--Text Analysis--Dramaturgy--Acting
Emily McConnell
Clare Nolan
Instructional Areas
Special Interests: The Viewpoints, Contact Improv, the work of Augusto Boal, the work of Kristin Linklater & Patsy Rodenburg, the acting/theatremaking methodologies developed by companies such as Rash Dash, Theatre Complicite & Frantic Assembly. Integrating Voice/Movement/physically-based approaches with more classic Stanislavski-based acting approaches to give students an increasingly kinesthetic experience and approach to the work, Solo Performance (writing & performance- 25 + years experience), Exploring the Relationship with Audience, Collaborative Teaching Across Disciplines, Non-Naturalistic Theatre (served as Artistic Director, Literary Manager, Blind Parrot Productions- focus on non-naturalistic theatre & company-developed work).
Scott Olson
Instructional Areas
All levels of Acting classes including Foundations II, Scenes Performance & Analysis, Advanced Acting Workshop, Character & Ensemble, Intro to Audition
Grace Overbeke
Instructional Areas
Comedy Studies, Theatre for Social Change, Jewish Performance, Theatre History
Brian Shaw
Instructional Areas
Acting, Community Arts Practice, Theater Research
Stephanie Shaw
Instructional Areas
Creating new work with Solo Performance Artists. Instructor for Directing B.A.
Catherine Slade
Instructional Areas
Voice and Performance Vocal Education Through Poetry Sound Sense And Text Memories and Breath
Carolyn Sullivan
Kendra Thulin
Instructional Areas
Voice and Language, Shakespeare, Modern Poetic, Vocal Technique, Theatre Foundations, Accents and Dialects
Jessica Dean Turner
Richard Walker
Instructional Areas
Improvisation Comedy Performance Acting Silent Comedy Stand UP Character Work On-Camera Comedy Writing Storytelling
Wendi Weber
Instructional Areas
Meisner Technique, Viewpoints Technique, On-Camera Work, New Play Development, Auditioning, Realism, Shakespeare
Albert Williams
Instructional Areas
Theatre history, text analysis, musical theatre history, Chicago theatre history, theatre in Chicago, musical theatre
