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Jaime Leigh Gray, Assistant Professor, History and Culture
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MK Hughes, Assistant Professor, Scenic Design
M.K. is a graduate of Southern Illinois University with an MFA in Scenic Design for the Theater. She was previously Visiting Faculty in scenic Properties and Design at the University of Pittsburgh, Adjunct Instructor of Paints and Scenic Design at Point Park University in Pittsburgh, and Adjunct Faculty in Scenic Design at Marywood University in Scranton, Pennsylvania.
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Jacob Juntunen, Professor, Dramatic Theory, Criticism, and Playwriting
Jacob Juntunen is a playwright and theatre scholar whose work focuses on theatre’s role in forming national imagined communities, paying particular attention to marginality.
His first book, Mainstream AIDS Theatre, the Media, and Gay Civil Rights: Making the Radical Palatable, was published by Routledge (2016). It shows ideological change over time by examining receptions of plays with an AIDS focus from 1985-2000. It intervenes in the notion that mainstream theatre, because it relies on capitalism, must be inherently conservative. He published related research in three different McFarland anthologies, two articles on HowlRound.com, and an article in the journal Peace and Change. He also gave invited talks on the subject at Adam Mickiewicz University (Poznań, Poland), Ohio University, and SIU. Based on this work, he was named the 2016 James Fisher Fellow in the American Theatre and Drama Society (ATDS).
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Phone: 618-453-5741
Office: Comm 1033B
Personal Website: JacobJuntunen.com
Short Plays: RiposteToTheWorld.blogspot.com
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Darryl Kent Clark, Associate Professor, Musical Theater Dance
DARRYL KENT CLARK, BA, Columbia College, MFA, SUNY College at Brockport, brings a total of over thirty years’ experience as a dancer, actor, choreographer, director and teacher to his position as Assistant Professor of Musical Theater Dance at Southern Illinois University Carbondale.
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H.D. Motyl, Associate Professor, Director School of Theater and Dance
Radio, Television, and Digital Media
H.D. Motyl is an Associate Professor at Southern Illinois University Carbondale, where he teaches media production and writing for TV. His feature-length documentary about professional rodeo cowboys called Cowboy Christmas was honored as Best Feature Documentary at the Madrid International Film Festival and as Best of the Fest for Faculty Documentary at the Broadcast Education Association’s Festival of Media Arts.
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Phone: 618-453-6992
hdmotyl@siu.edu
Segun Ojewuyi, Professor/Head of Directing
Ojewuyi's international career as a Theater director/Critic/Actor and Scholar has covered parts of Africa, Europe, the Caribbean, America and the Mediterranean. His directing credits include the major playwrights of world drama - Shakespeare, Soyinka, Becket, Wilson, Miller, Brecht, Grass, Chekov, Ibsen, Fugard to list a few. His productions have been on stage in some of the very top Theaters of the world - the Birmingham Rep, Liverpool Playhouse, Everyman Theater Liverpool, Yale Repertory Theater, Public Theater Pittsburgh, Balhaus Theater in Berlin, the Oregon Shakespeare, St. Louis Black Rep., Habima Theater in Tel Aviv and the National Theater in Lagos, Nigeria, directing the National Troupe of Nigeria, amongst many others, garnering strong international reviews.
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Jaemin Park, Assistant Professor, Lighting and Sound Design
Jaemin is a native of South Korea and began his career as a lighting designer in 2005 by designing the opera "La Traviata" in South Korea. He has designed more than 100 productions in various genres such as plays, musicals, operas, and dances.
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jaemin.park@siu.edu
Office: Comm Bldg 1033
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Susan Patrick Steinfeldt, Professor, Voice and Speech Specialist
Susan Patrick Steinfeldt recently made her stage debut at Play2C Theater in Berlin. Her NYC resume includes Ensemble Studio Theatre, Currican Theatre, HB Playwright's Foundation, La MaMa ETC as well as annual appearances in the legendary Rev. Al Carmines' Christmas Rappings.
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Jane Pivovarnik, Assistant Professor of Practice, Costume Design
Jane Pivovarnik is the costume shop manager for SIU’s Theater Program.
Originally from Springfield, IL, Jane was previously the assistant costume shop manager at PCPA. She has also worked as a draper for Portland Opera, Portland Center Stage, Northwest Children’s Theater, Western Oregon University, the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, and Mcleod Summer Playhouse. She has also worked on costumes for Glimmerglass Opera and Signature Theater, DC. She has designed costumes for PCPA and Allan Hancock Community College. She has a BS in Fashion Design and Merchandising and an MFA in Costume Design from Southern Illinois University Carbondale.
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Mark Varns, Professor Emeritus
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Matthew Williams, Assistant Professor, Performance and Movement
Matthew C. Williams choreographed Will Ferrell’s Broadway debut, You’re Welcome America. Off-Broadway credits include Rooms and the revival of Carrie, the musical. Matthew went on to direct Carrie, the musical at Montclair State University. Matthew was the assistant director to Casey Nicholaw on the Broadway production All About Me.
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Wendi Zea, Associate Professor, Costume Design
Wendi R. Zea is an associate professor in costume design, teaching design, period styles, costumes construction, play reading and a variety of costume crafts classes, including dyeing, fabric modification, wigs and millinery.
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wzea@siu.edu
Phone: 618-453-7592
Office: Comm 2238
Personal Website: wendizea.com