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). He is currently working on two projects, one entitled Drama: Between Poetry and Performance (forthcoming, Blackwell) and a second on dramatic performance in digital culture. 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 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: Wednesday 1:00 - 2:00p
E-Mail: wworthen@barnard.edu

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

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 denial of Finland's contribution to the transnational Holocaust appears in East European Jewish Affairs.

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 and Thursday, 12:00-1:00 pm
E-Mail: pdenison@barnard.edu , pd92@columbia.edu
 

Sandra has designed scenery and/or costumes for numerous productions in New York and regionally. Recent work includes set designs with the award-winning company Transport Group, including their 2006-2007 reinterpretations of American classics The Dark at the Top of the Stairs, and All the Way Home, and the new musical Crossing Brooklyn, for which she was nominated for an American Theatre Wing Hewes Award for Best Scenic Design. Other designs include the New York premiere of Quiara Hudes' Pulitzer-nominated play, Elliot, A Soldier's Fugue, the regional premiere of The Pillowman at George Street Playhouse and productions with Keen Company, The Working Theater, The Sugan Theatre Company, Page 73 Productions, Columbia School of the Arts, The Juilliard School, Second Stage, and Yale Repertory Theatre.

At Barnard, Sandra has designed sets and/or costumes for Cloud Nine, Proof, and Twelfth Night, directed by Becky Guy. In addition to designing departmental productions and teaching, she currently serves as Assistant Chair.

Office: 505 Milbank
Office Hours: Friday 3:00-5:00pm and by appt.
E-Mail: sandra_goldmark@yahoo.com

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

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

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: 504 Milbank
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E-Mail: mm2585@columbia.edu

E-Mail: soswald@barnard.edu

Alice Reagan most recently directed Sprinkler by Katherine Ryan at DirectorFest, produced by the Drama League. Other directing credits include The Knights, adapted from Aristophanes by Rob Handel for Target Margin Theater's 2007-2008 season; Alice in War by Steven Bogart for the 2007 Summer Play Festival; Women of Trachis by Katherine Ryan at the Ohio Theatre in Soho, produced by Target Margin; A Small Hole by Julia Jarcho at The New York International Fringe Festival; Pickford with Beth Kurkjian in the Blueprint Series at the Ontological/Hysteric Theater; Dawn Powell's 1932 satire Big Night at Bates College, and workshopped Ghost Stories by Heather Dundas at the Lincoln Center Directors Lab. She received a chashama A.R.E.A. Award to direct Euripides' Alcestis on East 42nd Street. She collaborated with Performance Lab 115 on a new translation/adaptation of Brecht's Caucasian Chalk Circle through the Mabou Mines/SUITE Resident Artist Program from October 2007 - March 2008. Alice is a founding member of The Pool, a collective of international theater directors, and a Resident Artist with Performance Lab 115. Alice was a Dean's Fellow in the M.F.A. theatre directing program at Columbia University; while there she directed Machinal by Sophie Treadwell, Exit the King by Eugène Ionesco, The Vise by Luigi Pirandello, and many new plays. She has worked as a dramaturg or assistant director for Anne Bogart, Robert Woodruff, Robert Falls, David Herskovits, Lucie Tiberghien, and Anne Kauffman. She also holds an M.A. in performance studies from NYU/Tisch School of the Arts where she won the Amankulor Award. She was Artistic Associate for the 2006-07 season at Target Margin. Drama League Directing Fellow 2008. Member Women's Project Directors Lab 2008-2010. Upcoming: Caucasian Chalk Circle at the Chocolate Factory, Long Island City, June 2009.

E-Mail: areagan@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

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
Office Hours:
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, whose core company members are comprised of a group of Barnard and Columbia graduates. In the fall of 2006 she and Polybe were Resident Artists at Mabou Mines/Suite to develop The Charlotte Salomon Project: Life or Theater?, for which she also received a New Play Commission from the National Foundation for Jewish Culture. Other directing work for Polybe includes Gertrude Stein's Counting Her Dresses at the Flea Theater, The Ladies’ Auxiliary Telephone at the Tank and as part of The Brick's Moral Values Festival, Two in Two at the HERE American Living Room Festival, and Careful of Eights: Four (Five) short plays by Gertrude Stein at the American Theatre of Actors. Additional directing credits include readings of Elizabeth Emmons' Siobhan and the Ice Age, featuring Sharon Fogarty and a work-in-progress by Margot Newkirk featuring Ruth Maleczech, both at the Voice and Vision Envision Retreat 2006. At Barnard she directed her thesis, Stein’s Turkey and Bones and Eating and We Liked It, and, more recently, Joe Orton’s What the Butler Saw. In her spare time, Brater is a student in the CUNY Graduate Center's Ph.D. program in Theatre Studies.

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. Her projects with the company include: “Is this a gentleman?” (Ontological Theater ‘05); the sound/interview installation “L-shaped not more than seven feet” (TESLA/Podewil, Berlin ’05); “Evoke memories of a golden age” (Ontological Theater ‘06); “FAMOUS ACTORS” (Ontological Theater ’07); and the experimental opera “Problem Radical(s)” (Performance Space 122, ’09). Additional performances at Kunst-Station Sankt Peter (Cologne), Loopline (Tokyo), Soap Gallery (Kokura), KuLe (Berlin), Experimental Intermedia (New York), Reihe Elektronischer Musik (Bremen), Chez Bushwick (Brooklyn), Issue Project Room (Brooklyn), and Art Basel (Miami).

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).

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

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

Greg Winkler joins the Barnard Theatre Department after having worked as a Project Manager for Pook, Diemont, and Ohl Inc, a theater contracting firm specializing in the design and installation of theater rigging systems. While at the Yale School of Drama, he served as Technical Director, Assistant Technical Director, Master Electrician, and Sound Engineer on various Yale Repertory Theatre and Yale School of Drama productions. Prior to receiving his theater degree, he worked as a scenic carpenter for Atlas Scenic Studios in Bridgeport, CT, building Broadway and Off-Broadway scenery.

Greg holds an MFA in Technical Design and Production from the Yale School of Drama and a BS in Biology with a minor in Theatre Arts from Fairfield University.

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

Mike Placito joined the department in October 2008. He 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 received an MA in Critical Studies from USC and a BS in Communication from Northwestern University.

Office: 404 Milbank
Office Phone: (212) 854-2080
E-Mail: mplacito@barnard.edu