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Faculty
Administration
Cameron Jackson
Professor Jackson, who serves as the School's Executive Director and Producing Artistic Director, holds a BFA in Acting from New York University and an MFA in Stage Management from University of Alabama. Cameron has taught at Mars Hill College, University of Tennessee, Arizona State University and most recently was a founding Director of the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center at the University of Maryland. Cameron has worked at the Virginia Stage Company, the Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival, the Southern Appalachian Repertory Theatre, the Folger Shakespeare Library, The Promenade Theatre, the Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Manhattan Theatre Club, the Clarence Brown Theatre, LaMaMa ETC, the Performing Arts Center at SUNY Purchase, the Minetta Lane, the Clurman, the Lion, Circle Rep., the Beckett, New York Theater Workshop, Riverside Players, City Hall, Ruth Eckerd Hall, Sun Valley Rep, and the Perry Street Theatre.
Dr. T. Lynn Hogan
T. Lynn Hogan is an Associate Dean for the College of Visual Arts, Theatre and Dance and a faculty member in the School of Theatre. He holds a Ph.D. in higher education administration from Bowling Green State University.
Design / Production / Management
Dale Jordan
Dale F. Jordan is the Head of the MFA Scenic Design program. Mr. Jordan has designed for many Regional Theatres such as Geva Theatre, Arena Stage, Studio Arena, San Diego Rep, San Jose Rep, Geffen Playhouse, Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, Huntington Theatre, Meadow Brook Theatre, Coconut Grove Playhouse, Cleveland Playhouse, Alley Theatre, Denver Center Theatre Company, Denver Civic Theatre, Tennessee Rep, Stage West, Asolo Theatre, Crossroads Theatre, Queens Theatre In The Park, Olney Theatre, Barter Theatre, Delaware Theatre, Long Island Stage Company, Capital Rep, Playmakers Rep, Arkansas Rep, Merrimack Rep, Portland Stage Company, Northlight Theatre, Peterborough Players, Clarence Brown Theatre, Florida Rep, Theatre Works, The American Place Theatre, Ensemble Studio Theatre, The Whole Theatre, The New Federal Theatre, The Lambs Theatre, Soho Rep, American Stage, Weston Playhouse, Berkshire Theatre Festival and Williamstown Theatre Festival.
Aaron Bollinger
Aaron Bollinger is an Assistant Professor in Technical Production. He specializes in automation, show control, and video engineering for the stage at the School of Theatre. He is currently doing extensive research on the efficiency of dynamic scenery (automated, projected, or otherwise) as it pertains to labor. Aaron has recently received grants to support this research and equipment to expand the technology of projected scenery.
Robert H. Coleman
Robert H. Coleman has contributed to well over three hundred Dance, Opera, and Dramatic Theatre productions in a wide variety of venues. Until 2001, he was Director of Production at the Opera Festival of New Jersey at McCarter Theatre in Princeton NJ. During his tenure, the Opera Festival presented several world premieres and was considered by Opera News and Money magazine to be among the top ten summer festivals in the U.S and in the top twenty worldwide.
Martha H. Cooper
Martha H. Cooper is a tenured Associate Professor of Costume Technology at FSU. A theatrical costumer for over 30 years, Martha has worked as a designer, draper, and shop manager at many professional theatres including Seaside Music Theatre, Utah Shakespearean Festival, Berkshire Theatre Festival, New Jersey Shakespeare Festival, Peach State Summer Theatre, Jekyll Island Summer Music Theatre Festival and Tennessee Repertory Theatre.
Sarah EC Maines
Sarah EC Maines began her work with Florida State University in Fall 2006 and was appointed Head of the MFA Lighting Design program in Fall 2007. Sarah received her MFA in theatrical design from University of California, San Diego. During that time she designed at several theatres throughout southern California. Her most notable works include Strindberg’s A Dream Play, Shakespeare’s As You Like It and Richard III. She has designed and assisted for regional theatres including La Jolla Playhouse, Seattle Rep, The Alley Theatre and South Coast Rep. Sarah has worked as assistant and associate designer for Tony Award winning designers Howell Binkley and Chris Parry.
Colleen Muscha
Colleen Muscha holds a named professorship as the Don Stowell, Jr. Professor of Costume Design and heads the MFA Costume Design program at FSU. She has designed costumes professionally at numerous regional theatres including the Milwaukee Repertory Theatre, Utah Shakespearean and the Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Cleveland Playhouse, Penn Centre Stage, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, and Asolo Theatre Company. Her New York City design credits include work at the Ensemble Studio Theatre, Equity Library Theatre and Longacre Theatre. Among the shows she has designed, include King Lear, Tempest, Brighton Beach Memoirs, Werther, The Importance of Being Earnest, Antigone, The Pirates of Penzance, The Physicists, Man of La Mancha andSweeney Todd.
David Rowell
David Rowell joined the School of Theatre faculty in January 2005. Prior to FSU, David served as the President / CEO of the Luther F. Carson Four Rivers Center for the Performing Arts in Paducah, KY, where he oversaw the completion and opening of a new 1,800 seat, $42 million performing arts center. Additionally, David has served as the Executive Director of the Mahaffey Theater Foundation; the Director of Programming and Theatre Manager for Peery’s Egyptian Theatre; Co-Director of the Office of Cultural Affairs for Weber State University and as a professional Actors Equity Association Stage Manager for 13 years including Berkshire Theatre Festival, PlayMakers Repertory Company, Actors Theatre of Louisville, McCarter Theatre Company, Creative Stages, Utah Musical Theatre, Princeton Ballet Company and others.
Performance
Fred Chappell
Fred Chappell, (Professor, Directing, Head MFA Directing) is the head of the MFA Directing Program and former Artistic Director of the Alliance Theatre in Atlanta. He was also the Artistic Director of North Carolina's The Lost Colony for twelve years. He has directed regionally at such theatres as the Kennedy Center, the Alabama Shakespeare Festival, the Walnut Street Theatre and A.C.T. in Seattle.
Kate Gelabert
Kate Watson Gelabert (Music Theatre and Movement) is an Associate Professor and Head of the BFA Music Theatre Program. She has choreographed the majority of musicals presented in the Fallon, Lab and Studio theatres since 1981 as well as several works produced by the College of Music and the Department of Dance here at FSU.
Debra Hale
Debra Hale is an Associate Professor on the Performance Faculty in the School of Theatre teaching Voice, Speech and Dialects in the BFA Acting Program. She holds a BS in Education from Indiana University and an MFA in Acting from California Institute of the Arts. She began acting in Shakespeare in Central Park, Louisville by playing Juliet in Romeo and Juliet, Bianca in Taming of the Shrew, Marina in Pericles, Mrs. Ford in Merry Wives of Windsor and Hermione in A Winter’s Tale. She is a member of Actors Equity and SAG and has worked as an actress in Los Angeles in several theatres as well as in a national commercial for Sears. She played Andrea in Andrea’s Got Two Boyfriends, which won the Drama Critics Circle award for Ensemble Performance, and ran for two years, touring the west coast.
Jean McDaniel Lickson
Jean McDaniel Lickson (Associate Professor, Performance, Head BFA Acting) is Head of the BFA Acting Program. She received her MFA in Acting from FSU/Asolo Conservatory of Acting. She came to Florida State from New York City where she appeared in Rebel Without a Cause and Moliere Improvisation.
Thomas Ossowski
Tom Ossowski (Assistant Professor, Director, Music Director) teaches in the BFA Music Theatre Program and is Artistic Director for the Post Playhouse in Chadron, Nebraska. Tom has also directed for theatres such as the Centennial Theater Festival in Connecticut, Seaside Music Theatre in Daytona Beach Florida, The Lost Colony in Manteo, North Carolina and the Bigfork Musical Theatre in Montana. His work has also taken him to Zug, Switzerland and St. Croix in the U.S. Virgin Islands.
Leslie France-Patterson
A professional actor and a highly regarded acting teacher, France has worked in film, television, and theater for more than fifteen years. She starred in the recent Echelon Pictures theatrical release Confession of a Florist where her "soulful performance" (Variety) garnered rave reviews.
Robert Radkoff Ek
Rob Radkoff Ek has worked as an Actor, Fight Director, or Director at many theatres across the United States, including The Old Globe Theatre in San Diego, and The Goodman and Steppenwolf Theatres in Chicago. As a Fight Director, he has choreographed everything from historically accurate mass battle scenes for outdoor drama to slapstick comedy within intimate theatre settings. His expertise in areas of Movement for Actors, Mask, Psychophysical Acting, and Stage Combat have made Radkoff Ek a sought after trainer of Physical Theatre in both professional and academic environments.
Michael Richey
Michael Richey (Professor Performance) in addition to teaching Acting and Voice, has directed School productions; some of his credits are No Place to Be Somebody, Little Mary Sunshine, The Fantasticks, Macbeth, The Miser (designed by Desmond Heeley),The Apple Tree, The Killing of Sister George, A Chorus Line, Merrily We Roll Along, The Glass Menagerie, and A Doll’s House. For Theatre Southeast, Dr. Richey directed A Streetcar Named Desire, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and Steel Magnolias.
Kris Salata
Kris Salata is a theatre director, researcher, and scholar. He holds an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the Technical University of Warsaw, Poland, an M.A. in Theatre Arts from San Diego State University, California, and a Ph.D. in Drama and Humanities from Stanford University, California
David Turner
David Turner teaches Performance I, Audition Techniques, and the Encounters Workshop for BA Theatre Majors. David received his BA in Theatre from FSU and his MFA in Acting from Southern Methodist University, graduating with the exclusive Bob Hope Award for Acting.
Theatre Studies
Natalya Baldyga
Natalya Baldyga is an Assistant Professor of Theatre Studies at Florida State University’s School of Theatre. She holds a B.A. from Middlebury College, an M.A. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and a Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities.
Mary Karen Dahl
Mary Karen Dahl (Professor, Theatre Studies; Head of MA/PhD Theatre Studies Program) is Professor of Theatre at Florida State University and Head of the MA and PhD in Theatre Studies. She has a longstanding interest in the relationship between performance and politics. Her book Political Violence in Drama: Classical Models, Contemporary Variations was selected a Choice Outstanding Academic Book for 1987. Related essays include "Postcolonial British Theatre: Black Voices at the Center" inImperialism and Drama (ed. Gainor) for Routledge(1995); "Stage Violence as Thaumaturgic Technique" in Violence in Drama (ed. Redmond) for Cambridge UP (1991); and "State Terror and Dramatic Countermeasures" in Politics and Terror in Modern Drama(eds. Orr and Klaic) for Edinburgh UP (1990).
Dan Dietz
Dan Dietz’s plays include Dirigible, Blind Horses, Tilt Angel, tempOdyssey, Americamisfit, and The Sandreckoner, and have been seen in New York, Los Angeles, and points in between.tempOdyssey received a rolling world premiere from the National New Play Network in 2006-07, premiering at Curious Theatre (Denver, CO), Studio Theatre (Washington, DC), Phoenix Theatre (Indianapolis, IN) and New Jersey Rep (Long Branch, NJ). The play was also named a finalist for the 2007 PEN USA Literary Award in Drama.
Irma Mayorga
Irma Mayorga is an artist/scholar/activista in theater and an Assistant Professor in Theatre Studies in Florida State University's School of Theatre. She holds a B.A. in Theater Arts from the College of St. Benedict, an M.F.A. in Costume Design from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and a Joint Ph.D. in Drama and the Humanities from Stanford University. From Stanford, she also holds the distinction of attaining the first Ph.D. by a Latina/o in the Drama Department's history.
Elizabeth Osborne
Elizabeth Osborne has a Ph.D. in Theatre and Performance Studies from the University of Maryland, College Park, an M.F.A. in Dramaturgy from Brandeis University, and a B.A. in Theatre from Illinois Wesleyan University.
