Instructional Areas: Carin has been teaching in Chicagoland for the past 22 years. Her favorite subjects include: Acting on Camera, Realism/Naturalism, and Acting Shakespeare.
Department Chairs
Faculty
Paul Amandes
Associate Professor
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.
Adrian Azevedo
Adjunct
Flora Bare
Adjunct
Karen Berger-Nolte
Adjunct
Instructional Areas
Stage Makeup, Multi-Media Makeup, Wig Dressing
Kristi Bramlett
Adjunct
Instructional Areas
Acting, Musical Theatre, Theatre Foundations, Theatre Making, Physical Approaches, Ensemble Building, Laban, and Stanislavsky
Justin Brill
Assistant Professor of Instruction
Instructional Areas
Acting, Musical Theatre Performance, Musical Theatre Scene Study, Audition Techniques for Musical Theatre, direction of Departmental Productions
Michael Brown
Associate Professor
Instructional Areas
Physical Theatre; Devised Theatre; Collaborative Creation; Clown and Comic Theatre; Movement; Mask Performance; Lecoq-based approaches to Actor Training
Jesse Carlo
Assistant Professor
Instructional Areas
Acting, Musical Theatre, Theatre Studies
Scott Davis
Adjunct
Brian Duncan
Adjunct
Andrea Dymond
Adjunct
Gregory Geffrard
Adjunct
Heather Gilbert
Associate Professor
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
Adjunct
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.
John Green
Director Graduate Program
ProfessorInstructional Areas
Guided Reading and Research in the MFA in European Devised Performance Practice. Stage Directing in the BFA/BA undergraduate programs in Directing.
Jermaine Hill
Assistant Professor
Instructional Areas
Acting for the Musical Theatre Stage, Musical Theatre Performance Practice, Music Direction for the Musical Stage, Vocal Pedagogy, Voice for the Actor
Norm Holly
Adjunct
Sami Ismat
Adjunct
Instructional Areas
Directing, Devising, Performance Art, Acting, Writing, Installation, Photography, Film.
Precious Jennings
Adjunct
Victoria Johns
Adjunct
Rasean Johnson
Adjunct
Lori Klinka
Adjunct
Instructional Areas
I love teaching many different acting classes. A also teach Speaking Out which is a public speaking class.
Anne Libera
Assistant Professor
Instructional Areas
Comedy Writing and Performance, Improvisation
Khalid Long
Assistant Professor
Instructional Areas
Courses Taught: THEA106: Global Drama THEA107: American Drama THEA201: Theatre History and Inquiry THEA202: Traditions of World Theatre THEA211: African American Theatre and Performance THEA320: Dramaturgy Future Courses: THEA180: Introduction to Theatre Studies THEA280: Theories of Performance Studies
Cyndi Maxey
Adjunct
Instructional Areas
I teach a presentation (speaking) and communicating course in the Theater Department called Speaking Out. I designed the course and it is the only area I am interested in teaching .
Timothy McCain
Adjunct
Instructional Areas
Playwriting--Theater Arts--Physical Theater--Devised Theatre--Text Analysis--Dramaturgy--Acting
Emily McConnell
Adjunct
Courtney O'Neill
Adjunct
Grace Overbeke
Assistant Professor
Instructional Areas
Comedy Studies, Theatre for Social Change, Jewish Performance, Theatre History
Tommy Rivera-Vega
Adjunct
Brian Shaw
Professor
Instructional Areas
Acting, Community Arts Practice, Theater Research
Carin Silkaitis
Allen and Lynn Turner Chair
ProfessorInstructional Areas
Carin has been teaching in Chicagoland for the past 23 years. Her favorite subjects include: Acting on Camera, Realism/Naturalism, and Acting Shakespeare.
Catherine Slade
Adjunct
Instructional Areas
Voice and Performance Vocal Education Through Poetry Sound Sense And Text Memories and Breath
Carolyn Sullivan
Adjunct
Sonita Surratt
Adjunct
Kendra Thulin
Associate Professor
Instructional Areas
Voice for the Actor, Voice and Language, Voice and Text, Shakespeare, Theatre Foundations, Shaw/Coward/Wilde, Accents and Dialects
Amy Uhl
Associate Professor
Instructional Areas
Theatre, Music, Dance, Service Learning, New Works, Devised work
Richard Walker
Assistant Professor
Instructional Areas
Improvisation Comedy Performance Acting Silent Comedy Stand UP Character Work On-Camera Comedy Writing Storytelling
Albert Williams
Associate Professor of Instruction
Instructional Areas
Theatre history, text analysis, musical theatre history, Chicago theatre history, theatre in Chicago, musical theatre
David Woolley
Professor of Instruction
Instructional Areas
Stage Combat, Shakespeare, History
