Guest Artists
The objectives and goals for the guest-artist program include providing opportunities for cultural enrichment, professional experience, and access to a larger artistic community. The program benefits the students, faculty, as well as the university and local communities. The majority of the guest-artists brought in by the department participate in public presentations, classes and seminars, talkbacks, master classes, and theatre productions that extend to the UAB and Birmingham communities.
2016
- Michael Cassara, NY casting director, held three workshops on getting cast
- Audrey Cefaly, playwright for Love is a Blue Tick Hound and many others
- Kevin Kennison
2015
- Joshua Holden, puppetry master class, puppetry coach for Avenue Q
- Robert Earl Price, playwright for The Butterfly Effect
- Eden Espinosa , master class in musical theatre
- Patti D’Beck, master class in musical theatre
2014
- Dominique Johnson, musical theatre performance master class
- Donnie Mather, movement master class, movement coach for Women of War
2013
- Abe Reybold, instructor for Musical Theatre Performance
- Melissa Bailey, choreographer for Bat Boy
- David Leong, performance/movement master class
- Jones Welsh, movement coach for Big Love and movement master class
- Nicolas Dromard, performance master class
- Julie Sanford, two-day industry casting workshop
2012
- Lexie Dorsett, instructor for Musical Theatre performance
- Frank Bradley, visiting professor and director of Don’t Trifle With Love
2011
- Rachel Burttram, acting master class
2010
- Bill Castellino, director for The Rocky Horror Show
- Steve Carmichael, lighting design for The Miser
2009
- Paul Shoulberg, winner of the 2009 Ruby Lloyd Apsey Award
2008
- Steve Carmichael, lighting designer for Cabaret
- Ken Cerniglia, open lecture on dramaturgy at Disney Theatrical Group, NYC
- Moisés Kaufman, coached student director and cast for The Laramie Project
