- Faculty
- P. Dunne
- J. Gonzalez
- P. Graham
- M. Greenburg
- S. Herrera
- T. Kane-Parry
- N. Kupka
- S. Kwan
- T. Larkin
- H. Lee
- S. Mason
- S. Rothman
The faculty and staff of the department of Theatre Arts and Dance are outstanding educators who combine their dedication as teachers with their lives as artists, scholars, and theatre professionals in the vibrant cultural life of Los Angeles. Students find an interdisciplinary environment that supports student-faculty interaction and collaboration, one that fosters partnerships with the venues and organizations that make L.A. a world capital of arts, entertainment and research.
Pamela Dunne
pdunne@calstatela.edu
323.343.4123
Jose Gonzalez
jgonzal7@calstatela.edu
323.343.4128
Paul Stuart Graham
pgraham@calstatela.edu
323.343.4112
Meredith Greenburg
mgreenb@calstatela.edu
323.343.5124
Tanya Kane-Parry
tkanepa@calstatela.edu
323.343.6684
Nancy Kupka
nkupka@calstatela.edu
323.343.5125
San San Kwan
sskwan@calstatela.edu
323.343.5127
Theresa Larkin
tlarkin@calstatela.edu
323.343.4103
Hae Lee
hlee@calstatela.edu
323.343.4122
Susan Mason
smason@calstatela.edu
323.343.4113
Stephen Rothman
srothma@calstatela.edu
323.343.4130
Pamela Dunne, PhD, teaches creative dramatics, children’s theatre, and directs children’s theatre productions. She is widely recognized in the field of Drama Therapy as a therapist, author and teacher. Her campus productions targeted for young audiences frequently tour to local schools.
Pamela Dunne
pdunne@calstatela.edu
323.343.4123
José Cruz González, MFA, a 2006 Outstanding Professor, teaches playwriting and directing. His youth and adult plays have been produced by numerous theatres including the Mark Taper Forum, Denver Theatre Center, Teatro Visíon, Childsplay, Metro Theatre, Actors’ Theatre of Louisville, Cornerstone, and Childsplay. He was awarded a 2004 TCG/Pew National Theatre Residency grant, and a 1997 NEA/TCG Theatre Residency Program for Playwrights. He has written for PAZ, the Emmy Award nominated television series produced by Discovery Kids for The Learning Channel. He created and ran South Coast Repertory’s Hispanic Playwrights Project 1986-1996. He is Associate Artist with Cornerstone Theater (CA), and Playwright in Residence with Childsplay (AZ).
Jose Gonzalez
jgonzal7@calstatela.edu
323.343.4128
Paul Stuart Graham, MFA, teaches arts management. For over 21 years Mr. Graham has worked in the professional theatre community as a theatre owner/producer, a regional theatre artistic producing director, commercial theatre producer, and theatre educator/administrator/consultant. Mr. Graham has co-produced shows Off Broadway, as well as in Boston and London, and has co-produced with Eric Clapton, Cameron Mackintosh and the late Roger L. Stevens of the Kennedy Performing Arts Center, among others. Mr. Graham has been the owner-producer of the historical Red Barn Playhouse in Michigan, Artistic Producing Director of the Massachusetts Repertory Company, the Managing Director of the California Repertory Company at the Edison Theatre and the Producing Director of the Actors Co-op, Hollywood. Mr. Graham is an alumnus of the University of Massachusetts, Boston University School of the Arts and California State University, Long Beach. Mr. Graham is an Associate Consultant with Michael G. Dolence & Associates.
Paul Stuart Graham
pgraham@calstatela.edu
323.343.4112
Meredith Greenburg, Faculty Production Manager for Theatre Arts and Dance, teaches stage management. She is a professional stage manager, producer of theatrical special events, and has created numerous internship opportunities for CSULA students through her work with L.A. Opera and the Center Theatre Group.
Meredith Greenburg
mgreenb@calstatela.edu
323.343.5124
Meredith Greenburg Faculty Web Page
G. Shizuko Herrera, Scenographer and Technical Director, teaches courses in stagecraft and design: costumes, scenery, lighting, and makeup. She has received several awards and nominations for her professional design: LA Ovation in Lighting, Backstage Garland in Lighting, and a Lester Horton nomination for Excellence in Dance Lighting. She is currently the KC/ACTF Region VIII, Circuit 2 Design Adjudicator.
Shiz Herrera
sherrer@calstatela.edu
323.343.4120
Tanya Kane-Parry (Director/Choreographer): BFA in Acting from NYU (Circle-in-the-Square and the Experimental Theatre Wing), MFA in Directing, UMass/Amherst. Teaches Acting, Voice (Linklater and Roy Hart) and Viewpoints. Has worked, lived and taught in Paris, Moscow, Barcelona, Argentina, Mexico and Israel. Professional work includes post-modern adaptations of classical theatre and opera, and original multimedia dance/theatre works. Credits include: The Cure by Richard Foreman, Hamletmachine by Heiner Mueller, The America Play by Suzan-Lori Parks, Dr. Faustus by Marlowe, Supreme Being by Richard Foreman, Romeo and/y Juliet(a), a bilingual adaptation of Shakepeare’s text. Recent productions include Tosca Jumps, a multimedia adaptation of Puccini’s opera (EdgeFest, Highways Performance Space, Luckman Intimate Theatre) and Bizet’s opera Carmen at Pacific Repertory Opera. Additionally, Tanya works as an Assistant Director at LA Opera (Lotfi Mansouri and The Merry Widow; Darko Tresjnak and The Broken Jug/The Dwarf; Robert Wilson and Madame Buttefly).
Tanya Kane-Parry
tkanepa@calstatela.edu
323.343.6684
Tanya Kane-Parry Faculty Web Page
Nancy Kupka, teaches all courses related to dance education. She has authored three textbooks on dance education: “Dancing Core Curriculum in the Elementary Classroom,” “Multicultural Approaches to Dance,” and “Cross-Cultural Themes in Dance.” She presents workshops and performances that illuminate her original method of teaching core elementary curriculum through dance/movement/music/visual arts/creative writing experiences.
Nancy Kupka
nkupka@calstatela.edu
323.343.5125
SanSan Kwan, PhD, teaches graduate seminars in theory and Asian theatre, and undergraduate classes in performance studies and dance history and theory. Her scholarship focuses on performance studies, dance studies, and Asian/Asian American studies. She has published articles in several journals, and is also the co-editor of the anthology "Mixing It Up: Multiracial Subjects," which both theorizes and personalizes the mixed race experience. She was a Fulbright scholar to Taiwan in 2000-2001 where she researched material for a book in progress, “Kinesthetic Ethnicity: Dance, Movement, and City Space in the Chinese Diaspora.”
SanSan Kwan
sskwan@calstatela.edu
323.343.5127
Theresa Larkin, MFA, teaches directing, acting, professional training, Shakespearean textual performance, and emotions. She is a professional producer, director, actress, arts manager, and non-profit consultant. Currently she is Producing Artistic Director of “The Artists’ Collective,” a non-profit multi-media theatre company based in Los Angeles, which specializes in revitalized classics (not deconstructions, but conceptual versions) and new works regarding culture, activism and historical persons of note.
Theresa Larkin
tlarkin@calstatela.edu
323.343.4103
Theresa Larkin Faculty Web Page
Hae Kyung Lee teaches modern technique classes and choreography. She is an award- winning choreographer whose professional troupe, Hae Kyung Lee and Dancers, includes Cal State L.A. students and graduates. She’s performed internationally. She has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts Choreography Fellowship, the California Arts Council Fellowship, Los Angeles Individual Artist Fellowship, the Los Angeles County Arts Commission, the James Irvine Foundation Choreography Fellowship, and the National State County Partnership.
Hae Lee
hlee@calstatela.edu
323.343.4122
Susan Mason, PhD, Director of Graduate Studies, teaches graduate seminars, theatre history, literature, criticism, and dramatury. She works professionally as a dramaturg and has published over twenty articles and book chapters and a book on San Francisco Mime Troupe. She was a Fulbright lecturer in the Netherlands (1993) and has recently been awarded a Fulbright to Japan (2009).
Susan Mason
smason@calstatela.edu
323.343.4113
Stephen Rothman, MFA, teaches directing and directs department productions. He is an award winning professional director for stage and television. He has been artistic director of The Pasadena Playhouse, and the Sacramento Theatre Company. His television credits include two seasons directing the cult classic “The New WKRP in Cincinnati.” As a stage director, he works around the country at such theatres as the Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Florida Stage, The Asolo State Theatre, and Chicago’s Organic Theatre.
Stephen Rothman
srothma@calstatela.edu
323.343.4130