Full Time Faculty
- Office: TA 110
- Phone: 323-343-4110
- Email: [email protected]
- Faculty Website: /faculty/meredith-greenburg
- Areas of Focus: Stage Management; Production Management
- Office: MUS 243
- Phone: 323-343-4121
- Email: [email protected]
- Areas of Focus: Acting, Voice, Acting for Camera
- Office: MUS 237
- Phone: 323-343-4110
- Email: [email protected]
- Areas of Focus: Scenic Design, Costume Design
- Office: MUS 140
- Phone: 323-343-4124
- Email: [email protected]
- Areas of Focus: Technical Theatre, Design & Production
- Website: https://djctechnicaltheatre.com/
- Office: MUS 243
- Phone: 323-343-4110
- Email: [email protected]
- Areas of Focus: Dramaturgy, Playwriting, American Indian & Indigenous Theatre, World Theatre
BIOGRAPHY: Carolyn M. Dunn, MFA, PhD., is an Indigenous artist of Cherokee, Muskogee Creek, and Seminole Freedman descent on her father’s side, and is French Creole (French-Canadian, African, Tunica/Choctaw/Biloxi/Ishak) on her mother’s. Her life as a storyteller encompasses both poetry and playwriting with works about family, grief, resilience, and the landscape in all genres and in between. In addition to the award-winning Outfoxing Coyote (That Painted Horse Press, 2002), her books include Through the Eye of the Deer (with Carol Zitzer-Comfort, Aunt Lute Books, 1999), Coyote Speaks (with Ari Berk, HN Abrams, 2008) Echolocation: Poems, Stories and Songs from Indian Country: L.A. (Fezziweg Press, 2013), The Stains of Burden and Dumb Luck (Mongrel Empire Press, 2017), two forthcoming titles, The Frybread Queen, Soledad, and Three Sisters: Three Plays by Carolyn Dunn (No Passport Press, 2022) and Decentered Playwriting, coedited with Leslie Hunter and Eric Micah Holmes, Routledge, 2023). and more. Her plays The Frybread Queen, Ghost Dance, and Soledad have been developed and staged at Native Voices at the Autry, and her current work in progress is the pow wow comedy entitled Chasing Tailfeathers. Stage acting credits include The Bingo Palace, Citizen, Desert Stories for Lost Girls, Neechie-itas, Sliver of a Full Moon, and the musicals Distant Thunder and Missing Peace. She lives part-time in Los Angeles and part-time in Oklahoma with her family.
- Office: MUS 239
- Phone: 323-343-4110
- Email: [email protected]
- Areas of Focus: Acting, Viewpoints, Movement
- Faculty Website: /faculty/tanya-kane-parry
BIOGRAPHY: Tanya Kane-Parry: Director/choreographer in theatre, opera and dance. Artistic Director of Opera del Espacio. Full-time faculty in the Department of Theatre and Dance since 2001. Teaches acting, dance, Viewpoints, devising theatre and more. Credits include: I’ve Fallen/Clap Off! at Highways Performance Space; The Way Of Water at Cal State LA, Bootleg Theatre, Cal Poly Pomona, Hollywood Fringe and South Coast Rep’s SCRamble; Meet Me @ Metro II and III ; Space: The Final Frontier presented at SOSE Company Creation Festival; Private in Public at SoCal Dance Invitational Concert and World Dance Alliance-Americas in Honolulu; Triple [Inter]sect dance concert at Highways Performance Space; multiple site-specific performances - desert ruins at Llano del Rio, Downtown Art Walk, Brewery Art Walk, Echo Park Art Walk, The Series at the Standard. Additional credits include productions at Long Beach Opera, LA Phil, Festival Opera, Opera Omaha, Houston Grand Opera, Washington National Opera, Los Angeles Opera, Canadian Opera Company, Liceo Opera (Barcelona), National Opera of Bordeaux and Angels Vocal Arts. Most recent project was created collaboratively with students in the Department: Dreaming of Our Future/Soñando de Nuestro Futuro, a live-streamed performance centered on the challenges and terrorization of immigrants in the US. Tanya has lived and worked in Spain, France, the former Soviet Union, Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, Peru and Japan. She is fluent in Spanish and French and conversational in Russian and just spent the past 3 months volunteering in Poland and Ukraine supporting the Ukrainian refugees and orphaned pets suffering due to the Russian invasion.
- Office: MUS 237
- Phone: 323-343-4110
- Email: [email protected]
- Areas of Focus: Lighting Design
BIOGRAPHY: Karyn Lawrence is an Assistant Professor in Design in the Theatre Arts and Dance Department. She earned a B.A. in Drama and a B.A. in Psychology & Social Behavior from the University of California, Irvine in 2009. She earned her Master of Fine Arts Degree in Lighting Design from the University of California, Irvine in 2012. Karyn is a theatrical and entertainment lighting designer based in Los Angeles. Selected regional/local theater credits include Center Theatre Group, South Coast Repertory, La Mirada Theater, East West Players, Ebony Repertory Theatre, Boston Court Pasadena, The Pasadena Playhouse, A Noise Within, International City Theatre, Antaeus Theatre Company, and Arizona Broadway Theatre. She is the resident lighting designer for the New Swan Shakespeare Festival in Orange County. In addition to lighting for the stage, she is Radiance Lightworks’ lead lighting designer for Halloween Horror Nights at Universal Studios Hollywood. Her work has also been seen internationally in Italy, Poland, the Czech Republic, and Romania.
- Office: KH C3096A
- Phone: 323-256-7760
- Email: [email protected]
- Areas of Focus: Directing, KCACTF/Audition Prep, Acting
BIOGRAPHY: STEPHEN ROTHMAN is a Full Professor at California State University, Los Angeles’s Department of Theatre and has been named one of the University’s Outstanding Professor Award winners. He served as founder and artistic leader of the revitalized Pasadena Playhouse (the State Theatre of California). He also served as artistic director of the Sacramento Theatre Company. His directing credits include more than 100 plays in 16 different States for 40 different theatre companies. He is especially proud of his work with Deaf West Theatre where he has directed numerous American Sign Language (ASL) productions. His most recent directorial work for Deaf West was their production of AMERICAN BUFFALO which starred 2022 Academy Award-winning actor Troy Kotsur and 2021 Academy Award-nominated actor Paul Raci. For American television, he spent two seasons directing episodes of THE NEW WKRP IN CINCINNATI.
Current Part Time Faculty (FALL 2024)
- Office: MUS 239
- Phone: 323-343-4110
- Email: [email protected]
- Fall 2024 Course(s): TA 4480-01 (Unarmed Stage Combat)
- Spring 2023 Course(s): TA 4480-01 (Unarmed Stage Combat); Fall 2022 Course(s): TA 1420-01 (Acting II)
- Office: TA 110
- Phone: 323-343-4110
- Email: [email protected]
- Fall 2024 Course(s): TA 4100 (Performance Participation); TVFT 5161-02 (Acting Studio I)
- Fall 2023 Course(s): TA 4420-01 (Acting Studio); Spring 2023 Course(s): TVFT 5162-01 (Acting Studio II)
- Office: KH C5106
- Phone: 323-343-4110
- Email: [email protected]
- Fall 2024 Course(s): DANC 4000-01, 02 (Creative Dance for the Elementary Classroom)
- Spring 2024, Fall 2023, Spring 2023, Fall 2022, Summer 2022, Spring 2022, Summer 2021 Course(s): DANC 4000-01, 02 (Creative Dance for the Elementary Classroom)
- Office: KH C5106
- Phone: 323-343-4110
- Email: [email protected]
- Fall 2024 Course(s): DANC 4000-01, 02 (Creative Dance for the Elementary Classroom)
- Spring 2024, Fall 2023, Spring 2023, Fall 2022, Summer 2022, Spring 2022, Summer 2021 Course(s): DANC 4000-01, 02 (Creative Dance for the Elementary Classroom)
- Office: TBD
- Phone: 323-343-4110
- Email: [email protected]
- Fall 2024 Course(s): TA 4390-01 (Arts Management)
- Fall 2023 Course(s): TVFT 5170-01 (Theatrical Production & Management); Fall 2022 Course(s): TA 4390-01 (Arts Management)
- Office: KH C5106
- Phone: 323-343-4110
- Email: [email protected]
- Fall 2024 Course(s): TVFT 5500-01 (MFA Seminar)
- Spring 2024 Courses: TA 3120-01 (Dev. of World Theatre II), TVFT 5202-01 (Thriving in the Industry), TVFT 5300-01 (Production Activity); Fall 2023 Courses: TVFT 5300-01 (Production Activity), TVFT 5430-01 (Narrative Live Space); Spring 2023 Courses: TA 3120-01 (Dev. of World Theatre II), TA 4450-01 (Principles of Directing), TVFT 5500-01 (MFA Seminar); Fall 2022 Course(s): TA 4100-01 (Peformance Participation); TVFT 5161-02 (Acting Studio I); TVFT 5500-01 (MFA Seminar)
- Office: ZOOM
- Phone: 323-343-4110
- Email: [email protected]
- Fall 2024 Courses: TA 1520-01 (Intro to Theatre); TA 3140-01 (Staging Violence);
- Summer 2024 Course: TA 1520-01 (Intro to Theatre); Spring 2024 Courses: TA 1520-01 (Intro to Theatre), TA 3140-01 (Staging Violence); Fall 2023 Courses: TA 1520-01 (Intro to Theatre), TA 3140-01 (Staging Violence); Summer 2023: TA 1520-01 (Intro to Theatre); Spring 2023 Courses: TA 1520-01 (Intro to Theatre), TA 3140-01 (Staging Violence); Fall 2022 Course: TA 1520-01 (Intro to Theatre)
- Office: TA 110
- Phone: 323-343-4110
- Email: [email protected]
- Fall 2024 Course(s): TA 4490-01 (Management Practicum)
- Spring 2024 Courses: TA 3390-01 (Stage Management), TA 4490-01 (Management Practicum); Fall 2023 Course(s): TA 1500-01 (Theatre Analysis), TA 4490-01 (Management Practicum); Spring 2023 Course(s): TA 3390-01 (Stage Management), TA 4490-01; Fall 2022 Course(s): TA 4490-01 (Management Practicum)
- Office: TA 110
- Phone: 323-343-4110
- Email: [email protected] (TBA)
- Fall 2024 Course(s): TA 4100 (Performance Participation - Director Mojada)
Recent Part-Time Faculty
- Office: TA 110
- Phone: 323-343-4110
- Email: [email protected]
- Fall 2023 Course(s): TVFT 5221-01 (Writing a Short Film)
- Office: TA 110
- Phone: 323-343-4110
- Email: [email protected]
- Fall 2023 Course(s): TA 4100-01 (Performance Participation)
- Office: TA 110
- Phone: 323-343-4110
- Email: TBD
- Fall 2023 Course(s): TA 4100-01 (Performance Participation)
- Office: TA 110
- Phone: 323-343-4110
- Email: [email protected]
- Spring 2023 Course(s): TA 1303-01 (Costume Support Lab); TA 1330-01 (Intro to Costumes)
- Office: TA 110
- Phone: 323-343-4110
- Email: [email protected]
- Spring 2023 Course(s): TA 4100-02 (Performance Participation)
- Office: TA 110
- Phone: 323-343-4110
- Email: [email protected]
- Fall 2023 Course(s): TVFT 5265-01 (Acting for Camera)
- Office: MUS 234
- Phone: 323-343-4110
- Email: [email protected]
- Fall 2022 Course(s): TA 1520-02 (Intro to Theatre); TVFT 5264-01 (Acting for the Stage)
- Spring 2022 Course(s): TVFT 4440-01 (Acting for Camera)
- Office: TA 110
- Phone: 323-343-4110
- Email: [email protected]
- Spring 2023 Course(s): TA 3480-01 (Viewpoints)
- Office: KH C5106
- Phone: 323-343-4110
- Email: [email protected]
- Spring 2024, Fall 2023, Fall 2022, Spring 2022, Fall 2021, Fall 2020, Spring 2020 Course: DANC 1000-01 (Beginning Ballet)
- Office: TA 110
- Phone: 323-343-4110
- Email: [email protected]
- Fall 2022 Course(s): TVFT 5300-01 (Performance Participation)
- Office: TA 110
- Phone: 323-343-4110
- Email: [email protected]
- Fall 2022 Course(s): TA 1302-01 (Lighting Lab); TA 1320-01 (Intro to Lighting)
- Office: MUS 239
- Phone: 323-343-4110
- Email: [email protected]
- Spring 2023 Course(s): DANC 2450P-01 (Special Topics: Yoga)
- Fall 2022 Course(s): TA 1400-01, 02 (Acting: Agency for Social Change); TVFT 5141-01 (Movement I)
- Office: TA 110
- Phone: 323-343-4110
- Email: [email protected]
- Fall 2023 Course(s): TVFT 5275-01 (TV Production)
- Office: KH C5106
- Phone: 323-343-4110
- Email: [email protected]
- Fall 2023 Course(s): TA 4000-01,02 (Creative Drama for the Elementary Classroom)
- Fall 2022, Fall 2021 Course(s): TA 4000-01, 02 (Creative Drama for the Elementary Classroom)