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Administration and Faculty Profiles
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ROBERTA SLOAN - cHAIR Roberta Sloan is the former Chair/Artistic Director of UCF Conservatory Theatre. She was formerly Chair of the Department of Theatre, Dance and Media Arts at the University of Central Oklahoma. She received her B.S. in Theatre Education from Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois and her A.M. and Ph.D. in Theatre from the University of Michigan. She has also done post-graduate work in Voice and is a certified Fitzmaurice Voicework Associate. Dr. Sloan has directed and acted in over 200 productions. Most recently, she appeared as Ruth Steiner in Collected Stories, at Carpenter Square Theatre in Oklahoma City, and Golde in Fiddler on the Roof, at Lyric Theatre of Oklahoma. Other roles include Mrs. Vitale in Tony N' Tina's Wedding, and Dorothea in Eelemosynary. She appeared as the host of the Oklahoma Public Television network's weekly program, "Arts Encounter," and has done numerous voice-overs for commercial clients. She has also worked professionally as a television producer and Advertising Agency Creative Director. Teaching, directing and mentoring theatre students is her vocation and avocation. Her directing credits include the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival award-winning production of Angels In America, Part I and Part II, as well as shows spanning many genres of theatrical presentation. Last spring, she directed a production of The Diary of Anne Frank at the Orlando Repertory Theatre in conjunction with the Orlando Holocaust Resource Center, which was seen by hundreds of school children from central Florida.
ANTHONY HOSTETTER - ASSISTANT CHAIR In Philadelphia, Dr. Hostetter designed the set for THE MYSTERY OF IRMA VEP for Brat productions and for the world premier of TAMMY WYNETTE REMEMBERED for Media Theater. He is the Co-director for the In Other Words Project at Theater Catalyst, where he has directed two English-language premiers, including a Spanish Play, LOVE LETTERS TO STALIN (by Juan Mayorga) and the German EMMY GORING STANDS BY HER MAN (by Oliver Reese). He is also a member of the board of directors at Theater Catalyst. His first book, Max Reinhardt's Grosses Schauspielhaus, was published in 2003. He has worked at Temple University for five years, where he has technical directed thirty productions and designed scenery for SEVEN GUITARS and JITNEY. He designed the lights for the new opera VIOLET FIRE in February 2004. Before coming to Temple, he designed scenery for Randolph-Macon College and the Richmond Festival Arts. He has designed lighting at Stephens College, Stephen F. Austin State University and Theater Virginia. He has also worked professionally as a carpenter, master electrician and painter at the Richmond Ballet, Spoleto USA, Paramount's Kings' Dominion and the Richmond Festival of Arts among many others. His scholarly work has been presented at the International Federation of Theatre Research, Association of Theater in Higher Education, American Society of Theatrical Research and the Society for German-American Studies, and has been published in Theatre Design and Technology.
DANIEL P. BOYLEN - Head of DESIGN Mr. Boylen received an AB degree in English and History from Yale University, where he was involved with the Yale Dramat. He studied Anglo-Irish Literature for a year at UCD College, Dublin, Ireland, where he was involved with the Dramatic Society. Finally realizing the intensity of a theater calling, he committed himself to a career in design. Mr. Boylen has designed extensively for regional theater including Goodspeed Opera House, McCarter Theatre, Philadelphia Drama Guild, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Pennsylvania Ballet, GeVa and The Whole Theatre. Mr. Boylen has also spent a great deal of time working in African-American Theater.
ROBERT HEDLEY - HEAD OF DRAMATIC WRITING, PLAYWRITING, AND THEATER HISTORY Mr. Hedley has served as chairperson at Temple, Villanova and the University of Iowa. Best known for developing new plays, he has served as Director of the Iowa Playwrights Workshop and founded the Philadelphia Theatre Company. In addition to his activities in Theater, Mr. Hedley is Director of SCT's International Program.
DAN KERN - HEAD OF GRADUATE DIRECTING PROGRAM Dan Kern has been honored with the Los Angeles Drama Critic’s Circle Award for his direction of "Juno and the Paycock". He also received an LA Drama Critic’s Circle award for his portrayal of Leontes in "A Winter’s Tale". He's appeared in leading roles at the Mark Taper Forum, South Coast Rep, The American Conservatory Theatre, Missouri Rep and The Alabama Shakespeare Festival. Film and TV appearances include "Frasier", "Profiler", "The President’s Man", "Star Trek: Voyagers", and the award winning short film, "Me and the Big Guy". Dan is currently serving as Head of Directing for the Dept. of Theater.
PETER REYNOLDS - DIRECTOR OF MUSICAL THEATER Peter Reynolds has directed Into the Woods, Ragtime, Company, Pericles, Shakin’ the Mess Outta Misery and Beautiful Thing for Temple Theaters. As Artistic Director of Philadelphia's Mauckingbird Theatre Company he staged The Misanthrope. Peter also served as an Assistant Professor of Theatre at Villanova University and directed Baby and The Robber Bridegroom. In the Philadelphia area, he has directed for the Walnut Street Theatre, Act II Playhouse, Hedgerow Theatre, Philadelphia Theatre Company/Philadelphia Young Playwrights collaborative festivals, and he spent 2 seasons with the Lenape Regional Performing Arts Center. Peter hails from the Midwest and for 6 years served as Artistic Director of HealthWorks Theatre-Chicago, winner of the Award of Excellence in Prevention Education presented by Mayor Daley and the Chicago Dept. of Public Health as well as the Hall of Fame After Dark Award. Regionally he has worked at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Chicago Dramatists, Theatre Building Chicago, Apollo Theatre-Chicago, HotCity Theatre-St. Louis, Arrow Rock Lyceum Theatre, City of Maples Repertory, Face to Face Productions, Lillian Russell Theatre, and on the stages of the University of Illinois-Urbana/Champaign and Southern Illinois University.
DONNA SNOW - HEAD OF ACTING PROGRAM Ms. Snow is the Head of Acting, which includes the Undergraduate and Graduate Programs. She teaches Voice and Acting and served as Chair of the department for three years. She has an M.F.A. in Acting from the American Conservatory Theater and a B.A. in English Literature with a minor in Theater from the University of Washington. She has performed Off-Broadway and regionally, playing major roles at the following theaters: Long Wharf, Arena Stage, Seattle Repertory, Syracuse Stage, The Folger, GeVa, Stage West, The Pittsburgh Public Theatre, The American Conservatory Theater, Studio Arena, San Jose Repertory, George Street Playhouse, Ford's Theater, St. Louis Repertory and The Walnut Street Theatre. Ms. Snow has taught voice and acting at The American Conservatory Theater, Circle-in-the-Square, The Public Theater, New York Shakespeare Festival and at the Institute for Renaissance and Baroque Studies at the University of Maryland. She is a Master Teacher of the Fitzmaurice Voice Technique. She has taught national workshops in this technique at Fitzmaurice Intensives, at the Voice Foundation's Annual Symposium, as well as at The Workcenter of Jerry Grotowski in Italy. For Temple Theatres, Ms. Snow has directed several productions, including Translations, Uncle Vanya, The Homecoming, The Elephant Man, The Illusion, Bloody Poetry, and On The Verge. Randall Theater Workshop productions include God, Women Beware Women, Sleeping Beauty, Scenes and Revelations, Season's Greetings and Christmas on Mars.
DOUGLAS C. WAGER - ARTISTIC DIRECTOR Mr. Wager came to Philadelphia in 2003 to serve as Director in Residence for the Prince Music Theater. During his time at the Prince, he staged a series of acclaimed musical and received a Barrymore Award nomination for best direction of a musical before joining Temple Theaters in 2006 as Artistic Director. Mr. Wager's long and illustrious career spans nearly three decades including more than twenty years as a resident director and producer with the renowned Arena Stage in Washington, DC. Mr. Wager served as Arena’s Artistic Director of Arena Stage for seven seasons, from 1991 to 1998, participating in over two hundred Arena productions, beginning his distinguished career there as an intern in 1974. During his tenure, he directed over fifty plays in the main season, ranging from large-scale musicals to classics and new plays, world and American premieres, and produced over sixty productions while Artistic Director. For his work as a director in Washington, DC, Mr. Wager has received three Helen Hayes awards and thirteen nominations for Outstanding Director. He also spent several years working in Los Angeles working in film and television. His copious and nationally celebrated work as a director has been seen in New York both on Broadway and off, and regionally at major theaters across the country such as The Mark Taper Forum, The Guthrie Theater, Seattle Repertory Theatre, Pasadena Playhouse, The Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Yale Repertory Theater and the Washington Opera. For television, Mr. Wager directed the series premier and several episodes of The Lot, a single-camera period comedy/drama produced by AMC Network. He is also currently developing an independent feature film, English Majors, for production through his LLC production company, Fat Chance Films. For fall 2007, Mr. Wager adapted and directed the highly acclaimed world premiere of In Conflict, based on the book by journalist Yvonne Latty. The show was subsequently invited to the Region II Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival, as well as The Long Wharf Theater in New Haven, CT. Temple’s production of In Conflict will have its New York premiere later this season at The Culture Project.
Full-Time Faculty Profiles
MARIE ANNE CHIMENT - costume design Marie Anne Chiment has designed sets and costumes for hundreds of productions across the nation and for productions touring around the globe. Her costumes have traveled to Japan, Germany, Italy, Spain, England and the Middle East. Marie’s US design credits include national tours of GREASE! and CAROUSEL, the Broadway musical METRO, as well as numerous designs for the Kennedy Center, Lincoln Center, the Seattle Opera, the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, the Arena Stage, Chicago Lyric Opera, the Santa Fe Opera, Actors Theatre of Louisville and the Repertory Theatre of St. Louis. Last season she was awarded the Kevin Kline Award for Outstanding Costume Design for the world premiere of the musical ACE.
charles dumas - acting Charles Dumas is the Director of the Acting in Media program. He teaches basic acting, acting for the camera, the Life and Work of August Wilson, and preparation for the profession. He recently directed MA RAINEY'S BLACK BOTTOM and DARKER FACE OF EARTH at Temple. He is a professional director, writer and actor and may be seen as recurring character on Law and Order, 100 Centre Street, Ed, All My Children.
diane gaary - speech, alexander technique, acting Diane Gaary teaches speaking voice and movement and has a particular interest in how body use affects the speaking and singing voice. With a BA in Theatre and English from Smith College and an MFA in Acting from The University of Virginia, Diane has teacher certification from The American Society of the Alexander Technique (AmSAT), Alexander Technique International, and the Lessac Institute for Voice and Body Training, as well as Feldenkrais Practitioner certification from the Feldenkrais Guild®. Diane’s training also includes classical singing, numerous theatrical voice and speech techniques, and speech pathology which she studied on the graduate level at the University of Virginia. Diane gives lectures, classes and workshops both nationally and internationally, and she maintains private studios in both Philadelphia and New York City where she teaches professional actors, singers, and dancers who work on Broadway, off Broadway, in regional theatre, and at the New York City Opera, the Metropolitan Opera, and cabaret.
kathy garrinella - movement for the actor, dance Ms. Garrinella has choreographed over 70 productions with both the Theater and Opera Departments. She served as choreographer for the Mask and Wig at the University of Pennsylvania for 10 years. She trained professionally with the American Ballet Theater, School of American Ballet, Jose Limon, Martha Graham, Hanya Holme and Mary Wigman in West Berlin among others. She danced professionally with the Judson Dance Theatre, Group Motion and Joan Kerr Company. Performance venues include Judson Memorial Church, Murray Hill Theatre, Jacob's Pillow, Pratt Institute, Akademie der Kunst in West Berlin, Forty-Second St. Theatre and the Academy of Music.
john hoey - production director, lighting design John is an instructor in Lighting Design and has worked as a lighting designer at the Arden, Wilma, and People's Light, along with the Opera Company of Philadelphia and Pennsylvania Ballet in Philadelphia. He has also worked with Luciano Pavarotti, Spoletto Festival, Actors' Theater of Louisville, New York City Opera, New York City Ballet and the film "Center Stage". He graduated from the North Carolina School of the Arts in 1989, and Temple University (MFA in Lighting Design) in 1992. He is the recipient of a Barrymore Award for his design of "Sweeney Todd" at the Arden.
david ingram - acting David Ingram is an actor and director, and teaches Graduate and Undergraduate Acting and The World of the Play. At Temple, he produces New Voices, the Theater Department's annual presentation of prize-winning plays by area high school students. He also produces and directs Shakespeare Live!, the department's touring show. On Temple's mainstage, he has directed A Streetcar Named Desire, Pulie Victorious and Romeo and Juliet. David is a member of the People's Light and Theatre Company, where he directed The Foreigner, July 7, 1994, Beauty and the Beast, Distant Fires (Barrymore Nomination, Outstanding Director and Production) and My Children! My Africa! As an actor, David has appeared in many theaters in the Philadelphia area. Favorite roles include Dodo/Chandebise in A Flea in Her Ear (Barrymore Nomination, Outstanding Actor), Mitch Albom in Tuesdays With Morrie, Antrobus in The Skin of Our Teeth and the Knight in Midons, or the Object of Affection, all at People's Light; Peter in The Pavilion and Howard in Death of a Salesman at the Arden Theater; Bottom in A Midsummer Night's Dream at the Philadelphia Shakespeare Festival; Coach Mike in Rounding Third at Theater Exile; and Marc Blitzstein in It's All True at Interact.
lynne innerst - acting, voice, speech Lynne Innerst joined the faculty at Temple in 2006, bringing with her experiences as a professional actor, acting coach, and teacher spanning twenty years. She has administered programs as Head of the Performance Program at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, and as Head of Voice and Speech at the College of Performing Arts at Point Park College and California State University at Long Beach. She is a Master Teacher and founding member of The Fitzmaurice Voice Group. She has trained teachers on the faculties of ART Harvard, Yale, New York University, and Juilliard, among others, and is especially proud of the fact that many of the young actors she has trained on both the graduate and undergraduate levels are now working professionals. Lynne has worked as an actress in film, television, regional repertory theatre and voice overs. Her professional film and television credits include work with directors Sally Field in "The Christmas Tree," Lloyd Richards in "The Piano Lesson," and David Frankel in "The Pennsylvania Miners Story." She is a member of Screen Actors Guild, Actors Equity, American Federation of Television and Radio actors, and The Voice and Speech Teacher Association. She holds an MFA from the University of Southern California and a BFA from the University of New Mexico.
andrew laine - technical director, technical theater Originally from Central New York, Andrew Laine began his professional theatre career in Austin, Texas, where he worked as a stagehand, rigger and technical director. During this time, he worked with IATSE Local 205, Austin Musical Theatre, Ariel Dance Theatre, Fabulous and Ridiculous Theatre Company, Sharir + Bustamante Dance Works, among others. He joined the Technical Direction program at the University of Texas at Austin in the fall of 1999 and completed his MFA in 2002. While at school, Andrew studied structural design, set and lighting design, robotic lighting technologies, taught basic stagecraft and production laboratory classes and worked with various companies and organizations outside of the university. Most recently he has been teaching at Abington Friends School in Jenkintown, PA. Andrew joined the faculty at Temple University’s Department of Theater in 2006 as the technical director. Andrew currently teaches Technical Theater Production, Propcraft and Advanced Technical Practices.
kimmika williams-witherspoon - theater arts, literature, playwriting Williams is a scholar, performance artists and playwright. Winner of the Provost's Art Grant (2003); the $50,000 PEW Charitable Trusts Fellowship in the Arts for Scriptwriting (2000); the 1999, and the DaimlerChrysler "Spirit of the Word" National Poetry Competition (1999); Williams is the author of nine books, magazine and newspaper articles, has had more than 17 of her plays produced in professional theater and continues her work as a Cultural Anthropologist and Theater Historian. She holds an MA and PhD in Anthropology, MFA in Playwriting, Graduate Certificate in Women's Studies and a B.A. in Journalism.
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Theater Staff Profiles
KAREN AUSTIN - OFFICE SUPERVISOR Karen Austin has been an employee of Temple University for over thirty years. She started at the Medical School, and since then has work in various offices and schools throughout the University. Karen is a graduate of Community College of Philadelphia and is currently completing her undergraduate degree in Education here at Temple. She is the author of a children’s story book, which is to be released early this spring 2008.
SCOTT BRAUN - DIRECTOR OF PR & MARKETING Scott Braun is a 2005 Alum of Temple University’s Department of English. Scott began his professional career in Los Angeles at an entertainment public relations firm specializing in film and music, working with major motion picture studios and clients ranging from film executives and popular music acts to emerging composers and screenwriters. Having returned to Philadelphia in 2007, Scott is excited to bring his experience and enthusiasm for the field to Temple Theaters, and continues to freelance as a press release and biography writer and consultant for clients throughout the entertainment industry.
CHRISTOPHER CAPPELLO - ASSISTANT TECHNICAL DIRECTOR Mr. Cappello has worked for most of the major theaters in the Philadelphia area. His passion for technology in theater has engaged him in collaborating to transform Temple Theaters into the foremost undergraduate and graduate program in Philadelphia.
CARROLL MACE - COSTUME SHOP SUPERVISOR Ms. Mace has supervised the shop and costume construction at Temple for more than 20 years. The Pennsylvania Ballet, PhilaDanco, Philadelphia Drama Guild and Philadelphia Theatre Company have all made use of her expertise. Ms. Mace has designed the costumes for Philadelphia premieres of A Lie of the Mind and The Day Room for Temple Theaters. She has also designed costumes for the Bermuda National Youth Theater, as well as numerous historical dramas including the 1989 recreation of Washington's Inaugural Journey for the United States Bicentennial Commission. She holds a BA from Tulane University.
JENNIELYNN STREED - HEAD CUTTER/DRAPER, ASSISTANT COSTUME SHOP SUPERVISOR Since receiving her MFA in 1984, Ms. Streed has worked as a freelance artist, primarily in the Philadelphia area. She spent 15 years as the Assistant Costume Director at the Opera Company of Philadelphia. At the same time she served as the cutter/draper for numerous productions with the Pennsylvania Ballet, the Philadelphia Drama Guild, Wilma Theater, Arden Theater, Curtis Institute of Music and Villanova University. As a member of Local 52, she has worked on the films Beloved, Age of Innocence and Cast Away.
JULIE WATSON - STITCHER, FIRST HAND Julie Watson holds a B.F.A. in Fibers from Tyler School of Art and an M.F.A. in Costume Design from Temple University. For the past several years she has worked as a costume technician for the Opera Company of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Ballet, and various theaters in the Philadelphia area. She has also served as Assistant Wardrobe Supervisor for Pennsylvania Ballet.
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