W. B. Worthen, Alice Brady Pels Professor in the Arts, and Professor and Chair of the Department of Theatre, is the author of several books, including The Idea of the Actor (Princeton University Press, 1984), Modern Drama and the Rhetoric of Theater (Univ. of California Press, 1993), Shakespeare and the Authority of Performance (Cambridge University Press, 1997), Shakespeare and the Force of Modern Performance (Cambridge University Press, 2002), and most recently Print and the Poetics of Modern Drama (Cambridge University Press, 2006). His new book, Drama: Between Poetry and Performance, will be published by Blackwell-Wiley later this year; he is currently writing a book on literature and performance studies. He is the editor of the Wadsworth Anthology of Drama, and of the award-winning Modern Drama: Plays, Criticism, Theory; he is the former editor of the professional journals Modern Drama and Theatre Journal, and his articles have appeared in PMLA, Shakespeare Quarterly, TDR, Modern Drama, Performance Research, Theatre Journal, and elsewhere. Professor Worthen took his B. A. at the University of Massachusetts, summa cum laude, in English in 1977, and his Ph.D. in English Literature at Princeton University in 1981. Before coming to Barnard, Professor Worthen taught at the University of Texas at Austin, Northwestern University, the University of California at Davis, the University of California at Berkeley, and at the University of Michigan, as well as being a founding faculty member of the International Centre for Advanced Theatre Studies sponsored by the University of Helsinki, Finland. He has held grants from a number of foundations, including the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Gugenheim Foundation; most recently, he is a Fellow of the "Interweaving Performance Cultures" International Research Center, Institute for Theater Studies, Freie Universität Berlin. He teaches a wide range of courses in dramatic literature and performance theory, and is affiliated with the Theatre Division of the Columbia School of the Arts, and the Columbia Department of English and Comparative Literature

Office: 506 Milbank Hall
Office Phone: (212) 854-2757
Office Hours: Mondays 12:00pm-1:00pm
E-Mail: wworthen@barnard.edu

Office: 508B Milbank
Office Phone: (212) 854-6863
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E-Mail: sgarrett@barnard.edu

Office: 505 Milbank
Office Hours: Friday 2:30-4:00 and by appointment
E-Mail: sandra_goldmark@yahoo.com

Hana Worthen is appointed Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Humanities (2008-10), becoming Assistant Professor of Theatre in 2010. After taking her B.A. in German Philology, she received the M.A. and Ph.D. (2007) in Theatre Research from the University of Helsinki, Finland. She also studied at the Charles University in Prague and the Free University of Berlin. In 2006-08 she held a research fellowship in the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures and in the Department of Theatre and Drama at the University of Michigan, while working as a dramaturg and a translator (from Finnish, German, English into her native Czech).

Her dissertation was published as Playing “Nordic”: The Women of Niskavuori, Agri/Culture, and Imagining Finland on the Third Reich Stage, University of Helsinki (2007). Her articles on modern dance and the Third Reich, on the use of political allegory as a strategy of theatrical resistance during the German occupation of Czech lands, on Czech dissident theatre in the 1970s, and on the ethics of allegory in contemporary theatre have appeared in Theatre Journal, Modern Drama, and GRAMMA: Journal of Theory and Criticism. Worthen's review article on the denial of Finland's contribution to the transnational Holocaust appeared in East European Jewish Affairs. Most recently she considers the entwined ideologies of discipline and care in the performance of medicine in the United States.

She teaches courses related to her research on performative culture and totalitarianisms (Nazism and Communism), nationalist rhetoric and the Holocaust, European drama and theatre studies, censorship and the arts, and on dramaturgy.

Office: 502 Milbank Hall
Office Phone: (212) 854-1333
Office Hours: Tuesdays 1:00 - 3:00pm
E-Mail: hw2283@columbia.edu
 

Office: 411 Barnard Hall
Office Phone: (212) 854-2724
E-Mail: pcobrin@barnard.edu

Patricia Denison teaches dramatic literature in the departments of English and Theatre, Barnard College. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Virginia and has published articles on Victorian drama, modern British drama, and American drama. Her edited collection of essays, John Osborne: A Casebook, was published in 1997, and she is currently finishing a book on Arthur W. Pinero and late-nineteenth century British drama.

Office: 412 Barnard Hall
Office Phone: (212) 854-8375
Office Hours: Tuesday 12pm-1pm and Wednesday 1pm-2pm
E-Mail: pdenison@barnard.edu , pd92@columbia.edu
 

Office: 504 Milbank Hall
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E-mail: rguy@barnard.edu

Office: 504 Milbank Hall
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E-mail: betsy@bluehilldesign.com

Rob Bundy was Artistic Director of Stages Repertory Theatre in Houston Texas for ten years (1996-2006), where he produced over 100 plays and directed 30. Also, while in Houston he directed for the Alley Theatre and the Houston Shakespeare Festival.

In New York, Rob has directed at Rattlestick Theatre The Pearl Theatre, Lincoln Center Institute, Circle Repertory Lab, and The Blue Light Theatre Company. Rob has also directed at numerous regional theatres including Actors Theatre of Louisville, Florida Studio Theatre; Meadowbrook Theatre; Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, TheatreWorks; Pacific Repertory Theatre; and the Chautauqua Theatre Company.

Rob has taught and/or directed at numerous training programs nationwide including The Juilliard School; Barnard College, Southern Methodist University; American Academy of Dramatic Arts and Washington D.C.’s Shakespeare Theatre. He was the Associate Artistic Director at Hartford Stage Company, 1992-1994. For the past fourteen years Rob has been an on-site evaluator for the National Endowment for the Arts and has served on numerous NEA and TCG grant panels.

Office: 504 Milbank
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E-Mail: rbundy@barnard.edu

Gary Chernyhovsky graduated from the B. V. Shchukin School of Theater in Moscow and has been a director with the Vakhtangov Theater since 1977. For many years he has combined his professional work with teaching courses in directing, acting, and stage movement at the Shchukin School Theater. He has also worked as a guest director for many of the leading theaters of Moscow, including the Mossovet, Mayakovsky, and Lencom Theaters.

In a career that spans over 30 years, Gary has directed over fifty plays, including Princess Turandot by Carlo Gozzi, Zoyka's Apartment by Mikhail Bulgakov, The Cherry Orchard and The Seagull by Anton Chekhov, and The Three Penny Opera by Bertolt Brecht. As a Visiting Director, Gary directed a number of plays in Paris, France, Florence, Italy, and Manila, the Philippines.

Gary has taught courses in theatrical directing and stage acting at Lee Strasberg Theater Institute, Harvard University, and Dartmouth University. Each class culminated in a final theatrical production of a play: Vampilov's The Elder Son at Lee Strasberg, Chekhov's The Marriage Proposal at Harvard, Chekhov's The Three Sisters at Dartmouth.

Since 2005 Gary has served as the Artistic Director of The Snow Show at Slava Polunin Theater, which has toured in the UK, Spain, Mexico, Korea, China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan.

E-Mail: arculture@earthlink.net

The work has been produced in NYC at The Kitchen, PS122, Creative Time, Dance Theater Workshop, St. Marks Danspace, and Artist Space, at the Institute for Contemporary Art in London UK, the Time Festival Ghent and Szene Festival Saltzburg in Europe, among others. Her work has been awarded New York State Council on the Arts Theater and Composer Commissions, a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Choreography, a "Bessie" Award, numerous grants and artist residencies. Her current project URBAN RENEWAL is in development for production at PS122 in NYC.

  She has collaborated and performed with many artists in theatre, dance, performance, film, sound and media including Richard Foreman, John Kelly, John Jesurun, Karole Armitage, Martha Clarke, Dancenoise, Heinz Emigholz, Todd Haynes, Sheila McLaughlin, Jem Cohen, Diller+Scofidio among many others, and most recently with the international multi-media touring projects DEAD CAT BOUNCE with video artist Chris Kondek,  and SUPERVISION with The Builders Association. 

Kyle has taught undergraduates and graduates in theater, dance and art departments at New York University, Bennington, Sarah Lawrence College, Antioch, Cooper Union, and conducts workshops for professionals in the US and Europe. She is on the faculty of Movement Research in NYC.

BA Sarah Lawrence College, MFA candidate Rensellaer Polytechnic Institute.

Office: 504 Milbank
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E-Mail: kyledecamp@earthlink.net

Email: charisegreene@gmail.com

Sharon's teaching credits include New York University's Experimental Theater Wing, Colby College, ME, SITI Company, Voice & Vision at Bard College, in Ireland at the The Abbey Theater and for the Wexford Arts Council, ACT NOW in Vienna, Austria, and CAL State Summer Arts program as well as serving as mentor at Mabou Mines/Suite Resident Artist Program. She holds an MA from University College Dublin's Drama Centre and a BA from Emerson College in Boston, MA.

Email: sharon@maboumines.org

Julia Jordan is the author of DARK YELLOW which was produced by Michael Imperioli at Studio Dante this past summer. TATJANA IN COLOR won The Francesca Primus Prize, was short-listed for the Susan Smith Blackburn Award, included in Best Plays by Women 1997. Other plays include ST. SCARLET, BOY and SUMMER OF THE SWANS, a play for children. All four were produced in NYC during the 2003-2004 season. Other works for children include Guitar with music by Duncan Sheik and Walk Two Moons with music by Lucas Pappaelias, as well as the book to the musical SARAH,PLAIN AND TALL which won a Kleban Award and an ATT Onstage award. Larry O’Keefe and Nell Benjamin wrote music and lyrics. She is currently working on the book of a new musical EVER AFTER to be directed by Doug Hughes. Her short film THE HAT, which she wrote and directed, premiered at Sundance and was the most played short shown on IFC in 2001-2002. She also wrote the book to The Moscow Circus’s Winter Queen tour. Juilliard Playwright Fellow, Manhattan Theater Club Fellow, Member of New Dramatists and the Dramatists Guild. She holds an M. Phil. in Creative Writing from Trinity College, Dublin and teaches advanced playwriting at Barnard.

E-Mail: juliaj2000@mac.com

E-Mail: sm555@columbia.edu

This season Mileaf will direct the New York premiere of  Lee Blessing’s BODY OF WATER at Primary Stages and is collaborating with performance artists, Dawn Saito and Elizabeth Hess on a dance/performance piece about human trafficking.

Office: 503 Milbank
Office Hours: Wednesday mornings, 9am-9:50am or by appointment
E-Mail: mm2585@columbia.edu

E-Mail: pmustamaki@gmail.com

E-Mail: soswald@barnard.edu

Rita Pietropinto is a graduate of Columbia College and Columbia School of the Arts Graduate Program in Acting. As an actress, she has appeared on and off Broadway and in television and film. She is the Chair of the Performing Arts Department at the Marymount School, where she teaches speech and drama and has directed dozens of classical and musical productions. She has taught acting and advanced acting for Columbia's Summer Session program, and has worked as a teaching artist for Manhattan Theater Club and the Theater Development Fund Arts in Education program. She studied directing at the Royal Court Theater in London, England and is a company member of Thirteenth Night Theater Company.

Office: 504 Milbank
Office Hours: Wednesday 2:15-3:15pm
E-Mail: pietropint@aol.com

Ivan Talijancic is the artistic co-director of WaxFactory, a New York-based international multidisciplinary performance group he co-founded in 1998. WaxFactory established itself as one of the most internationally active multidisciplinary groups to emerge from the New York downtown scene, creating new performance and film/video works featuring an innovative blend of physical performance, audio-visual/architectural/fashion design and an integrated use of new media and technology and performing at leading venues around the world, including the ICA/Institute of Contemporary Arts (London, UK), the Gulbenkian Museum (Lisbon, Portugal), SommerSzene (Salzburg, Austria), OLTRE90 (Milan, Italy), FIT/Festival Internacional de Teatro (Caracas, Venezuela), MESS (Sarajevo, Bosnia), Cankarjev Dom (Ljubljana, Slovenia), Adelaide Festival (Australia), and Zürcher Theaterspektakel (Switzerland), among others.

Directing highlights: site-specific installation/performance LADYFROMTHESEA at the Old American Can Factory in Brooklyn, praised by Ballet-Tanz Int'l as the "most innovative production in 2001"; Sarah Kane's CLEANSED; and …SHE SAID (based on Marguerite Duras) which premiered in 2005 in co-production with Cankarjev Dom (Slovenia), and was subsequently presented at the ICA London, Act French festival (New York) and at the International Theatre Festival in Venezuela; and WILD ANIMUS, a multimedia spectacle commissioned by Too Far (San Francisco,) which toured to over 50 cities in Europe, US, Canada and Australia in 2006 and 2007.

He has taught and been artist-in-residence at several institutions in the US and abroad including NYU, CUNY, Brown, Towson University, Gulbenkian Foundation (Portugal), Fundateneo (Venezuela), Brooklyn Arts Exchange and HERE, and was a recipient of a year-long Performing Arts Fellowship at Akademie Schloss Solitude in Germany, where he developed 39 FRAMES, subsequently presented as an innovative performance event, unfolding simultaneously on the Internet, television and in the public realm over a two-week period and in more than 30 locations throughout the city of Salzburg, Austria, commissioned by SommerSzene festival.

Most recently, Ivan staged X, a video-opera (at Zürcher Theaterspektakel and La Batie - Festival de Geneve in Switzerland) and BLIND.NESS (PRELUDE 08 festival, and PS122, New York), which is currently touring internationally. Upcoming projects include QUARTET v4.0, to be presented in February 2010 as part of the Lincoln Center Performing Arts Library's Performing Revolution festival; and a new work based on a Chekhov classic, titled PULL YOURSELF TOGETHER!, commissioned by Les Subsistances (Lyon, France) in 2010/2011.

MFA, directing, Columbia University. BA, Theatre, UC San Diego.

E-Mail: ivan@waxfactory.org

Wendy Waterman served for a number of years as Chair of Voice and Music for the Musical Theater studio program for Tisch School of the Arts at NYU and was instrumental in the development of that curriculum for the actor who sings. Her vocal coaching credits include Primary Stages, The Guthrie Theater, The Hartford Stage, CenterStage, The Acting Company, The Chautauqua Theater Company, the Eos Orchestra , and television’s The Guiding Light. She is the dialect consultant to the Broadway, Las Vegas and National Tour companies of MAMMA MIA! She had the pleasure of working with Zoë Wanamaker in preparation for last season’s AWAKE AND SING! She has directed NINE, TOP OF THE WORLD, and I CAN’T KEEP RUNNING IN PLACE, and POSTCARDS. Her acting credits include the British Premiere of FOLLIES; the premiere of SULLIVAN AND GILBERT; RUDDIGORE; THE BEGGAR’S OPERA; several Rodgers and Hammerstein productions, and cabaret performances. She is a member of the faculty at The Juilliard School -- Drama Division. Ms. Waterman trained with Larry Moss, Charles Nelson Reilly, Eleanor Steber and Arthur Lessac.

Office: 504 Milbank
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E-Mail: WatermanWendy@aol.com

Ralph Zito is a graduate of Harvard University and The Juilliard School Drama Division. He has been a member of the Juilliard faculty since 1992, and has served as Chair of the Voice and Speech Department there since 1999. He has served as voice, text and dialect consultant for professional productions on and off Broadway (including, most recently Awake and Sing! and The Light in The Piazza) and at major regional theatres across the country (including Shakespeare Theatre Company, Arena Stage, The Goodman Theatre, and Centerstage). He was Artistic Associate of the Chautauqua Conservatory Theater Company at the Chautauqua Institution from 1998 until 2004.

Office: 503 Milbank Hall
E-Mail: rzito@barnard.edu

Jessica Brater is a proud alumna of the Barnard College Department of Theatre, where she has worked in various capacities since 2000. Brater is also the founding Artistic Director of Polybe + Seats (www.polybeandseats.org), whose core company members are comprised of a group of Barnard and Columbia graduates. Her directing work for Polybe has been supported with grants from the Brooklyn Arts Council, the Mental Insight Foundation, the Foundation for Jewish Culture, and the Jerome Foundation as part of the Resident Artists Program at Mabou Mines/Suite. Polybe + Seats has presented work at HERE Arts Center, Dixon Place, Mabou Mines ToRoNaDa Studio, and the Flea Theater as well as at a number of non-traditional theater spaces such as Brooklyn Fire Proof, The Brooklyn Kitchen, and the Greenpoint Reform Church. Brater is a doctoral student at the CUNY Graduate Center program in Theatre Studies, where she received the Cohn-Lortel award for international travel and research.

Office: 507 Milbank Hall
Office Phone: (212) 854-2079
Office Hours: by appointment
E-Mail: jbrater@barnard.edu

Kara Feely is a writer, director, designer, and performer for experimental theater and interdisciplinary performance. Her work draws inspiration from experimental writing and music composition strategies, and combines a variety of materials, from found text fragments and landscapes of objects, to recorded interviews and radio broadcasts. In 2004 she co-founded the theater-music performance group, Object Collection, with composer Travis Just. Projects she has written and directed for the company include: “Is this a gentleman?” (Ontological Theater ‘05); the sound/interview installation “L-shaped, not more than seven feet” (Podewil, Berlin ’05); “Evoke memories of a golden age” (Ontological Theater ‘06); “FAMOUS ACTORS” (Ontological Theater ’07); the experimental opera “Problem Radical(s)” (Performance Space 122 ’09), and “Gun Sale” (Prelude Festival '09 and on tour throughout Japan). Her work has been presented at numerous performance spaces and galleries, including: Kunst-Station Sankt Peter (Cologne), Loopline (Tokyo), KuLe (Berlin), Experimental Intermedia (New York), Reihe Elektronischer Musik (Bremen), Chez Bushwick (Brooklyn), Issue Project Room (Brooklyn), and Art Basel (Miami). Additionally, her texts have been published in Antennae #7, a journal of experimental writing and performance, and PLAY A JOURNAL OF PLAYS issue 4. This spring Kara will co-write and direct "The Geometry" at the Chocolate Factory Theater, a new opera composed by radical Irish composer Jennifer Walshe.

Kara has also worked extensively as a costume designer for theater and dance in New York, Los Angeles and abroad. Her designs have appeared at Dance Theater Workshop, MASS MoCA, the Athens Festival, the Baryshnikov Arts Center, St. Ann's Warehouse, the Kitchen, the Merce Cunningham Studio, and the Ivan Franko National Theater (Kiev). She has also designed many productions at Barnard since joining the department in 2005.

Kara received her BA in Theater and Art History from Barnard College in 1999 and is currently pursuing an MA from Columbia University part-time, where she is researching American experimental performance. She manages the costume shop for the Theater Department, and mentors students in design.

Office: 228 Milbank
Office Phone: 4-2609
E-Mail: kfeely@barnard.edu

Mike Placito previously served as a Faculty Assistant at the University of Southern California and was an Annenberg Graduate Fellow at the USC School of Cinema-Television. He took his MA in Critical Studies from USC and a BS in Communication from Northwestern University. He is currently pursuing an MS in Media Studies at Brooklyn College.

Office: 236 Milbank
Office Phone: (212) 854-2080
E-Mail: mplacito@barnard.edu

Greg Winkler serves as the Technical Director for the Barnard College Department of Theatre and also teaches Technical Production for Barnard College. Prior to joining Barnard, Greg worked as a Project Manager for Pook, Diemont, and Ohl Inc., a theater contracting firm specializing in the design and installation of permanent theater rigging systems.

During his summer months, Greg works for Hudson Scenic Studios, Inc., a custom scenic fabrication shop serving the Broadway and entertainment industry, as an automation and hydraulics technician. He is also a member of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE) Local 74.

Greg received his M.F.A. in Technical Design and Production from the Yale School of Drama in 2005 and a B.S. in Biology with a minor in Theatre Arts from Fairfield University in 1999.

Office: 20 Milbank Hall
Office Phone: (212) 854-6026
Office Hours: by appointment
E-Mail: gwinkler@barnard.edu