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BARBARA BOSCH, Professor and Chair
Office: 522 HN
Email: bbosch@hunter.cuny.edu
Phone: (212) 772-5149
Fax: (212) 650-3584
Areas of Specialty: Acting, Directing, American Dramatic Literature.
Educational Background: Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley; M.F.A. Southern Methodist University.
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Courses Taught: Acting (all levels), Shakespeare/Period Styles, Directing (all levels), American Realism Literature Seminar.
Recent Creative Work: Directing professionally Off and Off-Off Broadway. Regionally at the Magic Theater, Marin Theater Company, Sacramento Theater Company and at Shakespeare Festivals in California, Texas, Maine, Alaska, and Utah. She has worked at theaters in Great Britain and elsewhere in Europe.
Remarks: Professor Bosch’s acting and directing credits include work at the Williamstown Theatre Festival and the Old Globe, Wisconsin and Texas Shakespeare Festivals. She worked at the Stalhonderij and De Bochel Theatres in The Netherlands in addition to directing in England and The Czech Republic. She is the former Artistic Director of the Theater at Monmouth, the Shakespearean Theater of Maine.
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JONATHAN KALB, Professor
Office: 520D HN
Email: jkalb@hunter.cuny.edu
Phone: (212) 650-3082
Fax: (212) 650-3584
Areas of Specialty: Theater History, Dramatic Literature, Theater Criticism and Theory, Dramaturgy.
Educational Background: BA Wesleyan University; MFA, DFA Yale School of Drama.
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Jonathan Kalb (left) and Bill Clinton.
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Courses Taught: World Theater I, II, III; 20th Century Aesthetics of Theater and Film; Theater Theory and Criticism; Play Analysis; Adaptation in Theater and Film; Avant-Garde Theater; Introduction to Theater; 20th Century German Theater; Dramaturgy Research and Case Studies; Critical Writing; Theater Theory and Criticism; Play Analysis; Beckett and His Heritage; Dramaturgy Workshop; History of Avant-Garde Performance.
Selected Works:
- Books: Beckett In Performance (Cambridge UP, 1989/1991); Free Admissions: Collected Theater Writings (Limelight Editions, 1993); The Theater of Heiner Müller, Cambridge UP, 1998; Revised and enlarged paperback, 2001).
Play by Play: Theater Essays and Reviews, 1993-2002 (Limelight Editions, 2003).
- Recent Articles: "The Death (and Life) of American Theater Criticism: Advice to the Young Critic," Theater, Spring 2003; "Stardust Melancholy," American Theatre, Jan., 2003; "Marathon Mensch," Salmagundi, Summer-Fall 2002; "Through the Lens of Heiner Müller: Brecht and Beckett--Three Points of Plausible Convergence for the Future," The Brecht Yearbook 27, 2002.
Remarks: Professor Kalb was the 1990-91 winner of the George Jean Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism. He has published articles in many journals, including Performing Arts Journal, American Theatre, Theater, Theater Heute, Theater Three, Theatre Journal, TheatreForum, Modern Drama, Shaw: the Annual of Bernard Shaw Studies, The Michigan Quarterly Review, The Threepenny Review, and The New York Times. Dr. Kalb has been a theater critic for The Village Voice, and the theater critic for New York Press and is the recipient of several awards and fellowships, including a TCG-Jerome Fellowship and Fulbright-Hays and IREX grants in support of his studies in Germany.
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JOEL BASSIN, Asst. Professor
Office: 520A HN
Email: jbassi@hunter.cuny.edu
Phone: (212) 772-4228
Fax: (212) 650-3584
Areas of Specialty: Theatre Production & Management.
Educational Background: Ph.D. CUNY Graduate School; M.F.A. Rutgers University.
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Courses Taught: Theatre Production,
Theatre Management & Advance Production.
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IAN CALDERON, Professor
Office: 523C HN
Email: icaldero@hunter.cuny.edu
Phone: (212) 772-4321
Fax: (212)772-4321
Areas of Specialty: Theatre Architecture, Design and Lighting.
Educational Background: BA Hunter CUNY, MFA, Yale School of Drama.
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Courses Taught: Theatre, Concepts in Light, Theatre Architecture Design Concepts.
Creative Work: Joe Papp's Public Theatre, Lincoln Center, O'Neill Center, La Mama ETC, The Museum of the City of New York, Mayor's Office for Cultural Affairs, Kennedy Center, Pratt Institute, MIT Media Lab, The Government of Jamaica, USC, American Playhouse, PBS, Sundance Institute and other cultural institutions.
Remarks: As a Hunter alumnus he has over 100 national and international theatre and television productions to his credit. On Broadway he designed That Championship Season, Timbuktu, Paul Robeson, The Art of Dinning, Trelawney of the Wells, Man in the Moon Marigold, Sticks and Bones, The Dance of Death, among others, and has been nominated for two Tony Awards, the Drama Desk Award, and the Maharam Award. His work has been seen on London's West End and he is a member of the Society of British Theatre Designers. As a guest of The People's Republic of China he designed Eugene O'Neill's Anna Christie in Beijing. For over a decade, at the O'Neill's Center he produced the New Drama for Television developing works that later aired on ABC network. He also produced television interviews; Katherine Hepburn with Dick Cavett, Ethel Merman with Gene Shallit and Helen Hayes with Leonard Harris.
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MIRA FELNER, Professor
Office: 520B HN
Email: mfelner@hunter.cuny.edu
Phone: (212) 650-3338
Fax: (212) 650-3584
Areas of Specialty: Acting practice and theory, directing practice and theory, theatre history, mime, masks.
Educational Background: Ph.D, New York University; Diplome d’Etudes Theatrales, Sorbonne.
Courses Taught: Acting (all levels), Shakespeare, Acting: Period Styles, Theatre History.
Selected Publications: Free to Act: An Integrated Approach to Acting, 2nd edition (Allyn and Bacon, 2003), Apostles of Silence: The Modern French Mimes (Fairleigh Dickinson UP, 1985).
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Remarks: Prof. Felner has acted and directed in the United States and France and headed a French language theatre in New York for several years. She is a specialist in mime and studied in Paris with Jacques Lecoq. She taught the first movement course affiliated with the Sorbonne’s Institut d”Etudes Theatrales. She has written extensively on movement in actor training. Her book Apostles of Silence was named “Outstanding Academic Book in Theatre, 1985-86” by Choice magazine. Her book Free to Act explores the physical base for acting technique. She is the American consultant editor of the Bloomsbury Theatre Guide.
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CLAUDIA ORENSTEIN, Assoc. Prof.
Office: 520H HN
Email: corenste@hunter.cuny.edu
Phone: (212) 772-4642
Fax: (212) 650-3584
Areas of Specialty: Asian Theatre, Interculturalism, Political Theatre, Puppetry.
Educational Background: BA University of Southern California; Ph.D. Stanford University.
Courses Taught: Introduction to Theatre, World Theater I and II, Asian Theatre, Theatre of Protest, Puppetry and Performing Objects Onstage, Women in Theatre, Playmaking Workshop.
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Selected Publications & Creative Work:
- Book: Festive Revolutions: The Politics of Popular Theatre and the San Francisco Mime Troupe (Univ. P of Mississippi, 1999)
- Articles: “Revolution Should Be Fun: A Critical Perspective on the San Francisco Mime Troupe” in Radical Theatres: Group Theatres of the 1960s and Their Legacies (U of Michigan P, forthcoming); “Collective Creation and Cross Cultural Exchange” in Mime Journal (forthcoming); “A Taste of Tibet: The Nuns of Khachoe Ghakyil Ling and the Theatre du Soleil” Asian Theatre Journal Vol. 19, No 1 (Spring 2002); “Agitational Performance, Now and Then” Theater. Vol. 31, No 3 (2001); “Dancing on Shifting Ground: The Balinese Kecak in Cross-Cultural Perspective,” Theatre Symposium, Vol. VI (August 1998).
- Directing: The Bruegel Tiptych--Collective collaboration based on the life and work of Pieter Bruegel coinciding with an exhibit of Bruegel’s work at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Sept. 2001. Prof. Orenstein is currently Associate Editor of Asian Theatre Journal.
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MICHAEL E. RUTENBERG, Professor
Office: Hunter North 523B
Email: playact@earthlink.com
Phone: (212) 772-4231
Fax: (212) 650-3584
Areas of Specialty: Playwriting, Acting and Directing.
Educational Background: BA Brooklyn College; MFA, DFA in Directing and Dramatic Criticism, Yale School of Drama.
Courses Taught: Playwriting, Method Acting, Directing.
Recent Publications & Creative Activity: Free verse translation and adaptation of Seneca’s Oedipus (Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers Inc., 1999). Three staged readings during 2002 - 2003 of Misha Shulman’s The Fist at the Public Theatre of South Florida, and the Delray Beach Playhouse, Florida.
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Remarks: Dr. Rutenberg is a member of the famed Actors Studio where he has developed new plays for public presentation. An active professional director in New York City, he has directed at The American Theatre of Actors, The West Bank Cafe, The Theatre for the New City, and The Corner Loft Theatre. Regionally, Dr. Rutenberg has directed at the Deertrees Summer Theatre in Maine, The Monticello Playhouse in New York State, and the Silo Circle Theatre in North Carolina. He is a member of the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers, the Dramatists Guild, the Theatre League of South Florida, and the Mystery Writers of America, having written and directed A Polite Case of Murder. Professor Rutenberg has been guest director at Dartmough College and at the Annual Theatre Festival in Key West, Florida. Recently, he taught master classes in playwriting at The Caldwell Theatre and the Hollywood Playhouse, also in Florida. On October 21, 2003 his play The Candidate opened at Love Creek Productions in New York City. On January 23, 2004, Dr. Rutenberg directed the world premiere of The Fist, a powerful drama depicting the Israeli/Palestinian conflict, at the Public Theatre of South Florida. Then on March 25, 2004 he will direct the New York premier of The Fist at Theatre For The New City in New York City. He has recently been awarded a Fulbright to Israel as Writer/Artist-in-Residence beginning February 1, 2005.
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ALAN SIKES, Asst. Professor
Office: 520H HN
Email: asikes@hunter.cuny.edu
Phone: (212) 772-4246
Fax: (212) 650-3584
Areas of Specialty: Avant-Garde Theatre, Theatre History,
Educational Background: Ph.D., University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, M.F.A., University of Wisconsin-Madison, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
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Courses Taught: Introduction to Theatre, Graduate Theatre History,
Avant-Garde Theatre,World Theatre History
Recent Publications & Creative Work:
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LOUISA THOMPSON, Asst. Professor
Office: HN520C
Email: lthomp@hunter.cuny.edu
Phone: (212) 650-3517
Fax: (212) 650-3584
Areas of Specialty: Set and Costume Design.
Educational Background: BFA Rhode Island School of Design, MFA Yale School of Drama.
Courses Taught: Set Design, Costume Design, Visual Elements, Intro to Theatre, Theatres and Movie Palaces, New Play Workshop.
Recent Creative Work: Set and costume design for Molly's Dream at Soho Repertory Theatre; set and costume design for First in Flight at Theaterworks USA.
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Selected Creative Work: Set design for [sic] at Soho Rep (Obie & Hewes Award); No. 11 at McGinn/Cazale Theater (Blue and White); Convenience and Tomato Plant Girl (Geva Theatre); Baby With the Bathwater (Triad Stage and Soho Rep); People are Wrong (P.S. 122); The Ladies (Dixon Place and The Civilians); 21 Dog Years: Doing Time @ Amazon.com (The Cherry Lane Theatre); Canard, Canard, Goose (The Civilians); The Great Men of Science (The Empty Space); Garden (Geva Theatre); The America Play (Actors Express); Tulpa (Target Margin); The Cherry Orchard (SALT Theatre). Costume design for Tex Arcana Waltz (Basic Grammar); Ciao and Company (Barrington Stage Company); Leaving Queens (Portland Stage Company); Once Five years Pass (The Julliard School and Bard College).
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BILL WALTERS, Asst. Professor
Office: HN523A
Email: bwalters@hunter.cuny.edu
Phone: (212) 650-3701
Fax: (212) 650-3584
Areas of Specialty: Acting, Directing, Movement.
Educational Background: BA Oberlin College, MFA - Southern Methodist University.
Courses Taught: Directing, Acting II, Acting: Departures from Realism.
Recent Creative Work: Directing - Adaptation of the Oresteia at the Shanghai Experimental Theatre, Shanghai, China; Infrared by Mac Wellman at Theatre X, Milwaukee. Choreography--In walks Ed at Southern Repertory Theatre, New Orleans.
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