The graduate faculty consists of those members of the department who make decisions about admission, curriculum, and other matters pertaining to the graduate programs. They also chair and sit on individual committees for M.A. and doctoral students. Students are assigned an advisor upon admission and can then later change advisors according to individual needs. Students in other programs are often surprised to find out how readily available are the faculty in this program to consult with a student or undertake independent study. Most of the faculty members whose names are listed below also teach graduate seminars on a regular basis. Other faculty in Dramatic Art and faculty members from other departments also occasionally sit on committees. As of 1999, faculty members from other campuses within the UC system may sit on committees for doctoral students.
Leo Cabranes-Grant, Assistant Professor, teaches Spanish and Latin-American drama and theatre history and "minority" theatre. He is also a playwright and director.
Selected publications: Los usos de la repetición: Lope de Vega y una poética de lo tragicómico (forthcoming). Essays in journals such as Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, Celestinesca, Profession, and Romance Review.
Education: B.A. University of Puerto Rico; Ph.D. Harvard University
E-mail address: cabranes@dramadance.ucsb.edu
Catherine Cole,,Associate Professor, teaches contemporary critical theory, feminism, African theatre, and performance studies. Her book Ghana's Concert Party Theatre (2001) received a 2002 Honorable Mention for The Barnard Hewitt Award for outstanding research in theatre history from the American Society for Theatre Research. The book was also selected as a 2002 finalist for the African Studies Association's Herskovits Award for best scholarly work on Africa published in English. Cole's current research is on performance in contemporary South Africa.
Selected Publications: Ghana’s Concert Party Theatre (Indiana University Press, 2001); articles in Africa, Critical Inquiry, Theatre Journal, African Theatre, and Research in African Literatures; Served as primary researcher on two documentary films: Stage-shakers! (Indiana University Press 2001) and passing girl; riverside – an essay on camera work (Documentary Educational Resources 1997).
Recent Seminars:Technologies of the Gendered Body, African Theatre and Performance, Postcolonial Theory, Historiography and Methodology, Feminist Theories of Gender and Performance. Cole is the recipient of a 2001 UCSB Academic Senate Distinguished Teaching Award.
Recent Productions: Author of Out on a Limb (2001), an award-winning play commissioned and produced by Dramatic Women Theatre Company; created in collaboration with choreographer Christopher Pilafian a dance theatre piece entitled Five Foot Feat for Center Stage Theater (2001); acted with the Jaguar Joker's Concert Party at the National Theatre in Ghana.
Education: A.B. Occidental College; PhD Interdisciplinary Program in Theatre and Drama, Northwestern University. Also trained with Playwrights Horizons, Ensemble Studio Theatre, and with directors Frank Galati, Robert Moss, Travis Preston, and Patrick Tucker.
E-mail address: cole@dramadance.ucsb.edu
Jody Enders, Professor and Faculty Graduate Advisor. Medieval literature, theater history, history of rhetoric, performance theory, interrelations of law and literature.
Selected Publications: Author of numerous articles on early drama, epic, romance, and lyric poetry in such journals as PMLA, Rhetorica, Olifant, Modern Language Quarterly, Exemplaria and Comparative Drama. Her Medieval Theater of Cruelty (Cornell, 1998) explores the interplay among torture, rhetoric, and aesthetics. Read her latest, Death by Drama and Other Medieval Urban Legends, published in 2002 by the University of Chicago Press.
Education: Ph.D. University of Pennsylvannia.
E-mail address: jenders@french-ital.ucsb.edu
Naomi Iizuka, Professor. Teaches playwriting. She is currently working on commissions from Actors' Theatre of Louisville, the Children's Theatre Company of Minneapolis, the Kennedy Center and the Mark Taper Forum.
Selected Productions: Author of 36 Views produced by Joseph Papp Public Theatre and Berkeley Repertory Theatre, War of the Worlds produced by the Brooklyn Academy of Music and the Edinburgh Festival, Language of Angels produced by Campo Santo + Intersection for the Arts in San Francisco, Polaroid Stories produced by Actors' Theatre of Louisville, Skin produced by Dallas Theatre Center and Soho Repertory Theatre.
Selected Publications: 36 Views (American Theatre); Polaroid Stories (Dramatic Publishing), War of the Worlds in Humana Festival 2000, The Complete Plays (Smith and Kraus), Language of Angels (Theatre Forum), Skin in Out of the Fringe (Theatre Communications Group), Tattoo Girl in From the Other Side of the Century (Sun and Moon Press), Aloha, Say The Pretty Girls, in Humana Festival 1999, The Complete Plays (Smith and Kraus).
Education: B.A. Yale University, M.F.A. in Playwriting, University of California, San Diego.
E-mail address: niizuka@dramadance.ucsb.edu
William Davies King, Professor, teaches theater history, dramatic theory, and dramatic literature, specializing in English and American, as well as ancient Greek drama. Among American topics his interests range from melodrama to avant-garde performance, from the classic or canonical to the utterly obscure and subversive. He is currently at work on a book about Agnes Boulton and a study of the portrayal of darkness and sixth sense on the 19th-century English stage, encompassing performances of mesmerism, spiritualism, and science, as well as drama.
Selected Publications: "A Wind Is Rising": Correspondence of Eugene O'Neill and Agnes Boulton (2000); Writing Wrongs: The Work of Wallace Shawn (1997); Henry Irving's "Waterloo": Theatrical Engagements with Arthur Conan Doyle, George Bernard Shaw, Ellen Terry, Edward Gordon Craig, Late-Victorian Culture, Assorted Ghosts, Old Men, War, and History (winner of the Joe A. Calloway Prize for Best Book on Theatre, 1993).
Recent seminars: Greek Tragedy in Performance, Translation, and Adaptation; The Roots of Broadway; The Group Theatre and Its Legacy; Dramatic Theory from Aristotle to Nietzsche; Tragicomedy; Eugene O'Neill; Melodrama.
Education: B.A., Yale; M.F.A in Dramaturgy, Yale School of Drama; D.F.A. in Dramatic Theory and Criticism, Yale School of Drama.
E-mail address: king@dramadance.ucsb.edu
Carlos Morton, Professor, is an internationally-recognized playwright who has worked with the San Francisco Mime Troupe, the New York Shakespeare Festival, the Denver Center Theatre, and the Puerto Rican Traveling Theatre. He is the author of several books, including The Many Deaths of Danny Rosales and Other Plays, and Johnny Tenorio and Other Plays.
Education: B.A., University of Texas, El Paso; M.F.A, UC San Diego; Ph.D., University of Texas, Austin.
E-mail address: carlos.morton@chicano.ucsb.edu
Judith Olauson, Senior Lecturer SOE and Director of the BFA Acting Program.
Selected Publications: American Women Playwrights 1930-1970.
Recent Productions: Hotel Paradiso, Electra
Recent Seminars:
Education: Ph.D. University of Utah
E-mail Address: JLTourney@aol.com
Frank W. D. Ries, Professor, studied dance under Marina Svetlova, Sir Anton Dolin, John Kriza, and Maryon Lane of the Royal Ballet. He was regisseur to Nicolas Beriozoff on such ballets as Swan Lake, Romeo and Juliet and Ondine. He has performed in the U.S. and Europe and has choreographed musicals, revues, and operas. His degrees include a B.A. and M.A. Honours degrees from Cambridge University, England and an M.S. in ballet and Ph. D. in theatre from Indiana University. His works have been published in Dance Magazine, Dance Scope, Ballet Review, and Dance Chronicle. His book, "The Dance Theatre of Jean Cocteau," was published by UMI Press and his recent reconstruction of the Costeau/Nijinska ballet "Le Train Bleu" for the Oakland Ballet made the front cover of Dance Magazine, was praised by Anna Kisselgoff of the New York Times for "shrewd sophistication," and named "The Best Ballet of 1989" by the SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE. He serves as a member of the faculty of the UC Intercampus M.A. in Dance History.
Simon Williams, Professor and Chair, teaches theatre history, dramatic literature, and the history of opera. He specializes in the European theatre of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, but has also published in the field of Irish drama and in a variety of topics relating to the performance of opera. He is currently writing a history of Romantic acting and is converting a series of lectures he gave at the Bayreuth Festival into a book on Wagnerian music drama. He is also collaborating with colleagues from other universities on a history of world theatre. He recently directed the UCSB Opera Theatre in Benjamin Britten's The Turn of the Screw (1998), Mozart's La finta giardiniera (1999), Massenet's Werther (2000). and, in February 2002, he will be directing Humperdinck's Hansel and Gretel.
Selected presentations/publications: German Actors of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries (Greenwood, 1985); Shakespeare on the German Stage: 1588-1914 (Cambridge, 1990) (Outstanding Academic Book, Choice, 1991); Richard Wagner and Festival Theatre (Greenwood, 1994).
Recent Seminars: Sturm und Drang and Romanticism in the Theatre, The Early Modern Drama; Theatre of the Enlightenment, Theatre in Fiction and Drama.
Education: BA (Hons.) in English Language and Literature, Kings College, University of London, 1964; Certificate of Education, Institute of Education, University of London, 1965; MA in European Literature, University of East Anglia, 1971; Ph.D. in European Literature, University of East Anglia, 1974
Career: has taught at universities in Sweden, Iran, Libya, and Canada, including University of Regina (1973, 1974-75), University of Alberta (1975-1979), Cornell University (1979-1984).
E-mail address: sjwill@dramadance.ucsb.edu or simonwilliams@cox.net
Lee Bliss (English; Renaissance drama), Edward Brannigan (Film Studies), John Chapman (Dance; Dance history, ballet), Francis Dunn (Classics; Greek Tragedy), Paul Hernadi (English; Modern drama), Michael O'Connell (English; Renaissance drama), Diane Holly (Dramatic Art, Costume), Frank Ries (Dance; Musical theatre history), Mark Rose (English; Shakespeare), Jo-Ann Shelton (Classics; Roman drama), Ronald Tobin (French; 17c French Theatre, Moliere), Charles Wolfe (Film studies).
Professors Emeriti:
Stanley Glenn, Ph.D., Stanford University
Theodore W. Hatlen, Ph.D., Stanford University
Peter Lackner, Ph.D. Institute for Theatre Studies, Freie Universitat, Berlin
Peter Mark, M.S., The Juilliard School
Robert Potter, Ph.D., Claremont Graduate School
William R. Reardon, Ph.D., Stanford University
Leland K. Strasburg, M.F.A., University of UtahGuest faculty in the past have included:
Sanja Nikcevic, Arthur Horowitz, Katherine Mezur, Brian Hansen, William Storm, Wilhelm Hortmann, Sally Harrison-Pepper, Carol Sorgenfrei, Jerzy Grotowski, Simon Trussler, Charles Marowitz, David Jones, Georgi Para, William Glover, Frank Condon, Albert Takazauckas, Al Ruscio, and John Cleese.
Drama
Irwin Appel, Diploma (M.F.A. equivalent), The Juilliard School, Associate Professor, acting/directing
Risa Brainin, B.F.A., Carnegie-Mellong University, Assistant Professor, acting/directing
James Donlon, B.A., Humboldt State University, Lecturer, movement
Dianne Holly, M.A. San Diego State University, Lecturer SOE, costume design
Jay M. Jagim, M.F.A., University of Connecticut, Associate Professor, scenic design
Michael Morgan, B.F.A., New York University School of Arts, Lecturer SOE, voice
Vickie Scott, M.F.A., University of California, Los Angeles, Lecturer SOE, lighting design
Thomas Whitaker, M.F.A., Carnegie Mellon University, Associate Professor, acting/directingDance
John V. Chapman, Ph.D., C.N.A.A., Associate Professor, dance history
Nancy Colahan, Lecturer, modern
Valerie Huston, B.F.A., University of Utah, Lecturer, ballet
Delila Moseley, M.A., University of California, Santa Barbara, Lecturer, modern
Stephanie Nugent, M.F.A., Cal State University, Long Beach, Assistant Professor, modern
Jerry Pearson, B.A., University of Minnesota, Professor, modern
Christopher Pilafian, B.F.A., Juilliard School, Lecturer, modern
Tonia Shimin, Royal Ballet School, London, Professor, modern
