Faculty Profiles

(Above photo: Our Country's Good, directed by Amy Gonzales)

Department Chair
Karin Magaldi, Associate Professor, Writing and Dramaturgy
Office: LH 127D | Email: magaldk@pdx.edu | Phone: 503-725-4642

Karin Magaldi, Department Chair and Theatre program head, is also the Secondary Education Advisor. She became the Department's coordinator of dramatic writing and analysis in 1999, after teaching previously at UC Santa Cruz. Since joining the PSU faculty, she has directed several departmental productions including Hamlet, the 1603 Quarto, The Triumph of Love, Haroun and the Sea of Stories, Two Gentlemen of Verona, Much Ado About Nothing, Venus and Arcadia. Locally, she directed Spinning Into Butter for Coho Productions as well as staged readings for the Jewish Theatre Collaborative, Portland Center Stage and Profile Theatre. Her writing credits include Jack and the Bones, Consider the Ant, Air and American English versions of Hedda Gabler and A Doll's House. She is also a professional dramaturg, and has worked with various local theaters including Artists Repertory Theater, Portland Center Stage, Third Rail Repertory, the Miracle Theatre Group, CoHo Productions, and Profile Theatre. Currently, she serves on the Artistic Council for both CoHo Productions and the Miracle Theatre group. She holds an MFA in Playwriting from UCLA and an MA from UC Berkeley.

Film Program Head
Mark Berrettini, PhD, Assistant Professor, Film Studies
Office: LH 127G | Email: mberre@pdx.edu | Phone: 503-725-4623

Mark Berrettini is head of Film. He joined the Department of Theater Arts in Fall 2007 to teach core and elective courses in the Film major, including film history, theory, genre, and screenwriting. A few of his students' favorites are Hitchcock, Mocumentary and Back on the Saddle Again: Westerns Since 1960. Before coming to PSU, he served as tenured Director of Film Studies at the University of Northern Colorado, and he has also taught critical studies, digital video production, and film production at Fort Lewis College and the University of Rochester. His publications include essays on animal studies, film noir, and social difference in Camera Obscura, Cinema Journal, and Scope, and since 1995, he has been involved in film and video festival and community programming. His book Hal Hartley,  released in January 2011 by U. of Ill. Press, will be included in their Contemporary Film Directors series. He holds a Ph.D. in Film Studies from the University of Rochester, and a B.A. cum laude in Film, Television & Theatre from the University of Notre Dame.

Regular Faculty

Devon Allen, Associate Professor, Acting
Office: LH 325| Email: allendevon@pdx.edu | Phone: 503-725-4701

Devon Allen heads the Acting area in the major. Ms. Allen has acted leading roles in premieres by Lee Blessing, Charles Mee, Romulus Linney, and Naomi Izuka, in such theatres as La Jolla Playhouse, Manbites Dog(NC), Corpus Theatre(Scotland), and Cornerstone Theatre, and as a member of The Brecht Company for five years, she acted leads in Churchill, Brecht, Shakespeare, and Brenton. She has directed for the last fifteen years, staging US and NW premieres by Howard Barker, Will Eno, Caridad Svich, Marie Irene Fornes, and Tim Crouch. Devon is the founder and artistic director of OUR SHOES ARE RED/THE PERFORMANCE LAB, whose work is focused on excavating fine writers and plays rarely produced, performing rigorous and exceptional plays, developing new work, examining the process of making art, and making art with research and time as primary considerations. In 2009, the lab was chosen to participate in 21 for 21, The International Barker Festival, staging Ursula, with Ms. Allen co-directing and acting the lead role of 'Placida'. She recently participated in the Theatre for a New Audience's American Director's Project, she has taught at The Actor's Centre(London) and she is a member of Lincoln Center Directors Lab. Ms. Allen previously has taught at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, Duke University, and Muhlenberg College. She holds an MFA in Acting  from UCSD, a Certificate in Acting from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts(London), and a BFA from Syracuse University. She is a member of Actor's Equity.

Sarah E. Andrews-Collier, Professor, Design and Production, & Associate Dean, FPA
Office: LH 127B | Email: andrews@pdx.edu | Phone: 503-725-4603

Sarah Andrews-Collier, resident costume designer, supervises student production projects and internships, and on occasion directs. Before serving as Department Chair 2002-11, she taught and designed costumes for over 65 productions affilated with Portland State University, including The Cherry Orchard, Death of a Salesman, All in the Timing, Arcadia, Hair, Threepenny Opera, Buried Child, and Othello. She holds regional design credits, including Never the Sinner (Artist's Repertory Theater), Cloud 9 and Coyote Ugly (Portland Actors Conservatory), Tartuffe and Smoke on the Mountain (Oregon Stage Company), Never in My Lifetime (New Rose Theatre), Hedda Gabler (Lewis & Clark College), MacBeth (Pacific University), OPB, pilots and television commercials. She was awarded the Drammy for Best Costume Design by Portland Drama Critics Circle for Twelfth Night (Tygres Heart Shakespeare Company). Her directing credits include Working (PSU), The Good Times are Killing Me (PSU) and Still Life (Wilson Ctr for the Performing Arts). Also at PSU, Andrews-Collier has served as Secretary to the Faculty since 1994, and she was President of the PSU-AAUP from 1998 to 2002. She holds MA degrees from the University of London and PSU.

Glenn Gauer, Professor, Design and Production
Office: LH 123 | Email: gauerg@pdx.edu | Phone: 503-725-4643

Glenn Gauer, resident designer in the department since 1977, teaches scenic design, makeup, and theater appreciation. His experience includes scenic and lighting design, directing, technical direction, prop construction, scenic painting, and stage management. Regionally, Gauer has also worked with the Oregon Children's Theatre Company, The Musical Company of Portland, Oregon, Pamplin Theatre Company in Sherwood, Oregon, Portland Civic Theatre, and the University of Montana Department of Drama. In 2001, he received a Drammy Award for Set Design for his work on The Boxcar Children and Paint Your Wagon. He has published an original adaptation of Anton Chekov's The Three Sisters and several of his photos pertaining to the scene painting process and period furniture construction have been utilized in textbooks. He has directed numerous productions in the department and elsewhere, including Portland Civic Theatre. He holds an MFA in Design from Carnegie Mellon University.

Bruce Keller, Professor, Design and Production
Office: LH 145B | Email: kellerb@pdx.edu | Phone: 503-725-4608

Bruce Keller is Theater Arts Technical Director. He has been with the Department since 1988 as a full-time professor in the areas of technical theater, lighting design and theater history. He has done extensive work on well over 100 productions for not only PSU Two Gentlemen of Verona (2006), Fox'd (2004), and The Hostage (2003), but also for the Miracle Theatre, Portland Taiko Drummers, and several other companies. Keller designs for both theater and dance productions, and contributed his time and effort to a PSU Music Department production of The Marriage of Figaro that was awarded Best Opera by the National Opera Association in 2002. He holds an MA from Case Western Reserve University.

Dustin Morrow, Assistant Professor, Digital Film Production
Office: LH 143D | Email: d.morrow@pdx.edu | Phone: 503-725-4609

Dustin Morrow is a filmmaker, photographer, writer and media artist.  His short films have won numerous awards and been shown in venues around the world. He has written about film, pop culture, and pedagogy for a host of publications, and his photographs have been featured in a number of art and culture magazines, as well as public exhibition spaces. During the summers, Morrow teaches and produces work in Dublin, Ireland. Among his recent and upcoming projects are Laptop, a short documentary about electronic music; Firinne: Searching for Ireland, an anthology of short films focusing on contemporary Irish identity; The Marriage of Figaro, a cinematic interpretation of the classic opera, produced for Comcast Television; Ground London, a short experimental film about London’s urban landscapes; music videos for such artists as Kate Tucker and Johanna & the Dusty Floor; the feature-length musical film Everything Went Down; the cinema discussion web series Film versus Film; and the new edition of the Focal Press textbook Producing for TV and New Media.  Morrow is also collaborating with stage and screen legend Kathleen Turner on a book about acting and directing.  Learn more about Professor Morrow and his work at www.dustinmorrow.com.

Scott Parker, Associate Professor of Theatre Arts and University Studies, Performance
Office: LH 143E | Email: parkers@pdx.edu | Phone: 503-725-4601

Scott Parker joined the Theater Arts faculty in 1979 and teaches acting and improvisational acting classes. He has worked in the Portland theater community since 1968, performing with several semi-professional theaters in the area, as well as the renowned comedy group Waggie & Friends. He was Master of Ceremonies for the annual Oregon Museum of Science and Industry Gala (fund-raising event) - introducing The Temptations in 2002. Each Christmas Scott performs with the Oregon Trail Band in a benefit for "Friends of the Children." He also teaches in Portland State's University Studies program - an innovative, interdisciplinary general education program and he has been able to use his theater training and expertise to great advantage. Parker's last professional presentation was for the Association of Integrated Studies Conference in 2000. Parker is a member of the Screen Actors Guild and still occasionally does film and television work in the area. He holds an MA from Portland State University.

Judith Patton, Professor, Dance Studies
Office: LH 313C | E-mail: pattonj@pdx.edu | Phone: 503-725-9660

Judy Patton coordinates dance and teaches choreography, composition, and dance history.  She spent her first seventeen years  at PSU teaching in the former Dance Department where she helped develop the major, the Contemporary Dance Season and The Company We Keep, the resident performing company for the department. In the last two years of the program, she was Chair and founded her own dance company, Judy Patton/Dance. She was awarded two National Endowment of the Arts choreography grants and the Oregon Arts Commission Individual Artist Fellowship. In 1994 with the elimination of the dance program, Patton joined the University Studies program, teaching Freshman and Sophomore Inquiry and developing the high school collaboration. She served as Freshman Inquiry Faculty Coordinator and as Program Director from 2000-2006. In that capacity, she participated in a number of national projects on higher education transformation and on improving the undergraduate experience and student learning. She presents and publishes in the areas of institutional transformation, general education, learning communities, active learning pedagogies, community-based learning, reflective practice and assessment, focusing on electronic portfolios. Patton also served as Associate Dean of Fine and Performing Arts 2006-2010. She holds an MA from Reed College.

William M. Tate, Professor, Performance and Film Studies
Office: LH 127E | Email: tatew@pdx.edu | Phone: 503-725-4600

William Tate has taught in the Theater Arts Department since 1968, also serving variously as Department Chair for 14 years, Secondary Education Advisor, Graduate Advisor, and Associate Dean. He specializes in film courses at present, and also teaches dialects. Beloved by students for the unpredictable accents that sneak into his every conversation, Tate has also worked as a dialect consultant and coach for productions at Artists Repertory Theatre, Triangle Productions, and CoHo Theater. Tate's recent PSU directing credits include Blithe Spirit (2006), Tony Kushner's adaptation of Bertolt Brecht's The Good Person of Sezuan (2004), Colin Teevan's adaptation of Euripedes' IPH (2000), John Millington Synge's The Playboy of the Western World (2000), and Anton Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard (1999). Tate has directed over 30 productions, and has also performed major roles in over 25 productions including Arthur Miller's The Crucible as Deputy Governor Danforth in 2001 (a role for which he was awarded a Drammy in 2002 for Best Actor in a Supporting Role), Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee's Inherit the Wind (2002) as Matthew Harrison Brady, and in readers' theater presentations of Sean O'Casey's Shadow of a Gunman (2000) as Seamus, Arthur Laurents' Time of the Cuckoo (2001) as Renato DiRossi, and Ernest Thompson's The Constituent (2003) as the Curmudgeon. He holds an MA from the University of Birmingham, UK. He is the 2011 distinguished recipient of the PSU Hoffmann Award.

Richard Wattenberg, PhD, Professor, Theater History, Literature and Criticism
Office: LH 145A | Email: wattenr@pdx.edu | Phone: 503-725-4602

Visiting Faculty and Artists

Julie Akers, Adjunct Asst. Professor, Performance and Theater History

Julie Akers has been associated with PSU Theater Arts since 1988, guest directing, and teaching theater history, directing, and appreciation. She is a distinguished director with over 30 professional and 20 academic productions to her name, including the acclaimed 2004 PSU Mainstage production of Aristophanes' Lysistrata. Previous to her recent work at PSU, she has been a regular faculty member at New Mexico State and Willamette University, where she also served as Department Chair. Akers worked with the Haystack Program for the Arts & Sciences for PSU at Cannon Beach from 1992 to 2001 as an on-site coordinator and administrator for its six-week summer literacy, performing arts, and science program. She also spent two years (1992 to 1994) working with New Mexico State University as the co-director of an original theatrical piece with Mark Medoff involving Teens at Risk that toured the state, and as an administrator, producer, and director of a nine-day summer camp for 70 students held at the university campus. She is a member of the Portland Drama Critics Circle (Drammy Committee). She holds an MFA in Directing  from University of British Columbia. Julie currently lives in Austin, TX.

Steve Amen, Adjunct Professor, Digital Documentary Production
Office: LH 313C| Email: samen@opb.org | Phone: 503-725-4605

Steve Amen is Executive Producer and host of OPB's acclaimed series Oregon Field Guide, the highest rated, locally produced program among PBS stations nationwide. Steve Amen has been with OPB for more than twenty years. Prior to that, he spent seven years in commercial news as a producer, reporter, executive producer and news director. Since joining OPB, Amen has headed up numerous documentary projects including a PBS Frontline documentary, the "Oregon Story" series and HBO's "Teen Killers: A Second Chance". His projects have received one national and seven regional Emmy Awards as well as awards from CINE, The New York Film Festival and The American Film/Video Festival.

Lorraine Bahr, Adjunct Asst. Professor, Performance
Office: LH 313D| Email: lorrainebahr@comcast.net | Phone: 503-725-4693

Lorraine Bahr began teaching in Theater Arts in 2000, specializing in Acting. She has previously served as Associate Artistic Director of the Sowelu Theater, and was a member of its resident acting company, and she has performed locally at Artists Repertory, Theatre Vertigo, and Stark Raving Theatre in numerous productions including The Treatment, The Swan, The Adding Machine, Lion in the Streets, and The Beauty Queen of Leenane. Her playwriting credits include A Life Alone (a Drammy Award nominee), Bottomless, Count Time Count Time, and This Train. Bahr was awarded the Kernodle Playwriting Award for The Great Escape of Charlie Stone. Her directing credits include Fen, The Choice, Rumi and Malaria for various Portland theaters. In addition to performing, writing, and directing, Bahr has taught Playwriting Residencies for Literary Arts, Inc., Writers in Schools, and in two Oregon State Prisons through Sowelu's Inmate Outreach Program, which she created and administered. Her performance work has earned her two Drammy Awards. She holds an MFA in Acting from U. of Wisconsin, Madison.

Thom Bray, Adjunct Asst. Professor, Writing
Office: LH 313C| Email: pdxbray@gmail.com | Phone: 503-725-4605

Thom Bray has been teaching Writing for Television classes at PSU for the past seven years. Prior to that, he was a writer/producer on network comedy and one hour dramatic shows, including Designing Women and Nash Bridges. Mr. Bray has been a professional actor for over 40 years, and has appeared in many films, hundreds of hours of television, and on the stage.  He was a CAPS Fellow in play-writing in 1984.  He holds a BA in Theatre from Hofstra University and a Masters in Teaching from Pacific University. He is a member of the Writers Guild of America, the Screen Actors Guild, and the American Federation of Radio and Television Artists.

C. Sue Brower, PhD, Adjunct Assistant Professor, Film Studies
Office: LH 313C | Email: csbrower@comcast.net | Phone: 503-725-4605

Sue Brower has been with Theater Arts since 1995, specializing in the areas of film and media. She has developed a number of new courses for the department including "We're in the Money: Gangster Films & Musicals," "The 70's Film & Television Renaissance," "Stardom, Celebrity and Meaning," "Hitchcock," and "Anatomy of a Movie I/II." Brower has spoken at many conferences and served as a guest lecturer for the University of Texas at Austin several times. In November of 2000, she presented "Broadcasting That's Good for You: Promoting PBS as a Healthy Alternative" at an NCA pre-conference on Media discourse in Seattle, WA. Brower is a published writer whose pieces include several entries in The Encyclopedia of Television, articles for Texas Medicine, Wide Angle, and Cinema Texas, and is working on a new project entitled "The Big Time: Gangster films, Backstage Musicals, and the Other American Dream." She was the recipient of several awards ranging from the Local Impact Grant from the Portland Public Schools Foundation in 1997 to the Professional Development Award from the University of Texas Office of Graduate Studies in 1986. She holds a Ph.D in Radio/TV & Film from the University of Texas.

Margaret Chapman, Instructor, Costumier
Office: LH5 | Email: margchap@pdx.edu | Phone: 503-725-4610

Margaret Chapman, the Costume Shop Manager, is an award wining costume designer and teacher. She is Resident Costume Designer, Oregon Children's Theatre Company, and a freelance costume designer in the Portland Metro area. She is Portland Civic Theatre Guild Endowment Committee Chair. She received the 2009-10 OTAS Award fr "Oliver" Costumes at Lakewood Commmunity Theatre, and she is a member of USITT. In addition to PSU, she also teaches costume curriculum at PCC/Sylvania. She holds an MA from Portland State University.

Edwin Collier, Adjunct Professor, Film Directing and Acting
Office: LH 313C | Email: colliere@pdx.edu | Phone: 503-927-3594

Ed Collier is a long-standing associate of the PSU Theater Arts department, focusing on film and acting/directing for the camera. Ed has recent acting credits with Imago Theatre and Artists Repertory Theatre, as well as Longview Stage Works, and has worked in professional film, television, radio, and theatre since 1965. Ed recently appeared in PSU productions, in 2009 in Working, and in 2004 as Frosch in Die Fledermaus for PSU Opera Theatre. He is Emeritus Professor at Pacific University, having served there for 25 years as Director of Theatre (1978-2003), and he was Director of Theater for Clatsop Community College (1975-1978). Ed's directing credits include nearly 100 productions, most recently Twelfth Night, The Mikado, Sweeny Todd, and The Changeling. He was a founding member of the American Theater Company, the first Equity theater company in Oregon, in residence at PSU from 1968-70. He toured Asia in leading roles with the USO, and he also spent a two-year stint as a documentary film writer for the Boeing Company in Seattle during the 1960's. He is an established musician, having worked with Seattle Codfish Company, Mike Mandell and the Trippers, The Weekenders, and The Midnighters. From 1975 to 1992 he was the spokesperson for the G.I. Joe's chain of stores. He is an alumni of PSU, and a member of the Screen Actors Guild/ American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG/AFTRA).

Amy Gonzalez, Adjunct Assistant Professor, Directing
Office: LH 127F| E-mail: TBN | Phone: 503-725-4674

Amy Gonzalez is a stage director and educator.  She has directed productions for professional regional theatre companies, including 10 productions for TheatreWorks Silicon Valley, and productions for the Denver Center Theatre Company, San Jose Repertory Theatre, and San Diego Repertory Theatre.  She has directed for El Teatro Campesino, New Mexico Repertory Theatre, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco, Eureka Theatre Company, Teatro Vision, Los Angeles Actors’ Theatre, and many more. Amy has directed for numerous play development programs, including at South Coast Repertory Theatre, Midwest PlayLabs, New Dramatist, and San Jose Rep, and served as Literary Manager for the Eureka Theatre Company in San Francisco where Angels in America was developed and premiered.  Amy has served on Portland’s Drammy Committee and is on the Board of Directors at the Miracle Theatre Group.  She is the recipient of the Dean Goodman Award for Outstanding Direction, and the Los Angeles Women’s Theatre Festival’s Integrity Award.  She was an NEA/TCG Directing Fellow in residence at the Mark Taper Forum and the Arena Stage’s Living Stage.  She has served as assistant director to notable directors, such as Arthur Penn, Charles Marowitz, and Luis Valdez.   Amy taught for ten years for Foothill College’s Theatre Conservatory program in California, courses in directing, acting, Shakespeare, and advanced acting styles, including Restoration Comedy, and directed many productions there, including Shakespeare, classics and contemporary plays. She has also taught for the California State University Summer Arts Program (Theatre of New Voices, a course in collaborative creation).  She holds an MFA in Directing from the University of Washington in Seattle, and is a member of SDC (Stage Directors and Choreographers Society), the stage directors union.

Gordon Hayes, Adjunct Assistant Professor, Design
Office: LH 127F| E-mail: coyotesly@yahoo.com

Gordon Hayes has worked at PSU since 1996, specializing in stage make-up, acting, voice, and puppetry. Hayes has extensive experience as a director, actor, and set designer. His directing credits include An Evening of Original Works, You Can't Take It With You, The Tavern, Spoon River Anthology, The Hostage, The Real Inspector Hound, and The Importance of Being Earnest. Some of his notable roles include Vagabond in The Taver, Paul in Carnival, Captain in Dames at Sea, and Barnaby in Matchmaker. Hayes has special training as a vocalist, as well as on the trombone, bass, and guitar. Hayes has been published twice, once for photography and once for poetry. He holds an MFA degree from University of Montana.

Alethia Moore-Del Monico, Adjunct Assistant Professor, Costume Design and History                                     Office: LH 313D | E-mail: alethia.mooredelmonaco@pdx.edu | Phone: tbn 

Alethia Moore-Del Monico has taught at PSU since 2011, specializing in costume design and history. She is resident designer at Linfield College, and has designed costumes as well at Chapman University, Shakespeare Orange County and Southern Oregon University. She holds an MFA in Costume Design from UC Irvine.

Jim Iorio, Adjunct Assistant Professor, Performance
Office: LH 313D| E-mail: jimiorio@aol.com| Phone: 503-725-4693

Jim Iorio is a professional actor/director newly-arrived in Portland from New York City. He was recently on Broadway in A View from the Bridge (with Scarlett Johansson & Liev Schreiber), Off-Broadway in A Stone Carver (with Dan Lauria), in Kaos at the New York Theatre Workshop, directed by MacArthur Award-winner, Martha Clarke and in Flesh and the Desert at the NYC Summer Play Festival. He has appeared in over 40 Equity productions, playing leading roles at major regional theatres nationwide, including companies such as the Guthrie Theatre, Utah Shakespeare Fest., Arizona Theatre Co., San Jose Rep, Missouri Rep, and many more. His directing credits include the New York International Fringe Festival, the Abingdon Theatre (NYC) and the Asolo Theatre. Television/film work includes: Law & Order (all versions), Leverage, Queens Supreme, The Street, Another World, One Life to Live, Loving, Going the Distance  and Petty Crimes.  He holds an MFA from New York University’s Graduate Acting Program and studied at the Moscow Art Theatre. Locally, he has appeared at Portland Center Stage as Benedick in Much Ado About Nothing, Halliwell in O Lovely Glowworm and performed in JAW 2004 and JAW 2011.

Valory Lawrence, Adjunct Assistant Professor, Performance
Office: LH 313D| Email: valory@pdx.edu | Phone: 503-725-4693

Valory Lawrence has been teaching at PSU since 2003, teaching acting and auditioning, as well as her own course "How 2B Funny." Her directing credits include Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat for TASO/PSU, Hanging On for the Estrogen Festival, The Pajama Game for Coeur d'Alene Summer Theater--a production that won Best Musical Inland Northwest in 1999--and The Family Continues for PSU. Lawrence has been involved with Longview Parks and Recreation weeklong Acting Daycamps in 2000 and 2001, as well as teaching programs specializing in acting for elementary aged children. Lawrence has also served as an assistant director and stage manager on several productions for the Coeur d'Alene Summer Theater. Lawrence's acting credits include Jenny Diver in ThreePenny Opera, Outlaw/Panthina in Two Gentlemen of Verona, and Bev Davies in Graceland for PSU, as well as numerous other productions. She also has experience with stand-up comedy, voice-overs, and in television and film. Her writing credits include The Second Act Lounge, Bad Days, and The Princess and the Pea. From 2000 to 2003, Lawrence hosted the Women of Note Concert, a fundraiser for the local In Other Words bookstore, as well as writing and performing comedic songs for the annual event. She holds an MA from PSU.

Michael O'Connell, Adjunct Assistant Professor, Voice and Acting
Office: LH 127F | Email: mike.s.oconnell@comcast.net | Phone: 503-725-4674

Michael O'Connell joined the department in 2003 teaching acting and voice. O'Connell has served as a program director and teacher for Portland Center Stage and Vision & Voices since 2002, taught and performed with the Artists Repertory Theater, Actors to Go from 2000 to 2001, and worked as a private acting coach both in Portland and New York City since 1998. O'Connell's directing credits include One for the Road (2001) with the Profile Theater Project and Secret Hope (1999) for Theater Outrageous in New York City. He has performed in Another Fine Mess for Portland Center Stage, The Middle Watch for Theater Outrageous, and Lear Rex for La Mama, as well as television work on Unsolved Mysteries and As the World Turns. His film credits include Why Don't You Dance?, The Last Innocent Summer, and Kaarismo's Opening. He is a member of the Actors Equity Association, the Screen Actors Guild, and the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists. He holds an MFA from U. of Missouri, KC.

Victoria Parker Pohl, Adjunct Assistant Professor, Performance
Office: LH 127F| Email: parkerv@pdx.edu | Phone: 503-725-4674

Victoria Parker-Pohl is a writer, director, and actor with over twenty-five years experience as a theater instructor.  Her skills evolve from extensive experience facilitating learning for diverse populations, including a wide range of professional clients as well as Portland's underserved and adjudicated youth. Victoria has developed and implemented arts-connection programs in conflict resolution, risk-orientation, team-building, interpersonal communication and creativity. Her most recent theater activities include a role in the Arts and Lecture series VERB, playing several roles in Ursula K. LeGuin's Earthstories; a variety of directing projects locally and in Cannon Beach, Oregon; ongoing mentoring/directing and acting with The Haven Project; and adjudicating for Portland's Drama Critics Circle Drammy Award Committee. She taught Freshman Inquiry courses at PSU 2001-09. With a masters in theater from PSU and a BA in interdisciplinary arts with a special focus on northwestern ecology and environmental studies, Victoria has long enjoyed blending her deep interest in natural science with the arts and humanities.

Jonah Ross, PhD, Adjunct Assistant Professor, Film Studies
Office: LH 313C | Email: jonahr@pdx.edu | Phone: 503-725-4605

Jonah Ross joined Theater Arts in 2006 to teach film courses. Previously he has taught at the University of California, Berkeley, where he did his graduate training. His interests include the use of rock music in film, expanded upon in his dissertation The Rock Soundtrack in Contemporary American Film, and the road movie, the subject of a course he teaches at PSU. Other courses he has taught or has in development include Indy Films of the '80's Martin Scorsese, "European Directors," and Existentialism in Film. He presented a paper on Martin Scorsese/Mean Streets/Be My Baby at a Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference. Jonah has also written film, music, and book criticism for The Twin Cities Reader and Citysearch7.com. He holds a Ph.D. in film studies from UC Berkeley.

Joan Scott, Adjunct Assistant Professor, Dance Technique
Office: LH 127F | Email: joan_eileen@msn.com | Phone: 503-725-4674

Joan Scott joined PSU in March 2004, specializing in modern dance. Previously she taught at the Repertory Dance Theatre, Salt Lake Community and many other venues in Seattle and Salt Lake City. Currently she teaches in Oregon Ballet Theatre's Outreach program. Scott has danced for many companies and independent choreographers in Seattle and Salt Lake City in productions such as Everything to Me, Linger, and Coming Unglued in Seattle. Her choreography experience includes ...ergo sum, a dance about being human and CyCles, a lecture/demonstration on dance and periodization, both performed at the Marriott Center for Dance. She also choreographed Period, a dance for seven women about the cyclical nature of life, which was performed in The Proving Ground at the Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center. Scott has received numerous honors including the Modern Dance Departmental Scholarship and The Ballet Teaching Emphasis Certificate with Distinction from the University of Utah in 1996 and 1997. She holds an MFA in Dance from the University of Utah.

Bryan Sebok, Adjunct Assistant Professor, Film Studies
Office: LH 313C | Email: sebok@lclark.edu | Phone: 503-725-4605

Bryan Sebok is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Rhetoric and Media Studies at Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon.  His research focuses on convergence in Hollywood and technological change.  He is also a filmmaker and producer, and is currently in pre-production on a feature documentary shooting in Portland.

Emeriti Faculty

Professor Jack Lee Featheringill

Professor Asher B. Wilson - In Memoriam (1920-2006)

In Memoriam

Carolyn Holzman

We are very sad to report the untimely passing of longtime Theatre and Film faculty member  and PSU alum, Carolyn Holzman on August 5, 2011.  Carolyn Holzman taught movement/ choreography in the Theater Arts Department since 1984. She previously instructed drama courses at Portland Community College, Portland Metro Performing Arts, Felida School in Vancouver, WA, and Multnomah Educational Service District. Her directing/choreographing credits include Hot Flashes the Musical, Iph, Coppelia, and 10 Seconds that can Change Your Life. Holzman was also a performer, having done acrobatic dance, trapeze, and comedy for the professional touring company Do Jump Movement Theater from 1980 to 1995 and performing original movement theater for Portland Mime Theater from 1977 to 1988. She received many grants and awards such as Oregon Arts Commission, Collins Foundation, and Rose E. Tucker Charitable Trust funding for the project Mime Speaks in 1984, and the Kellogg Award from the PSU English Department in 1995.

An Enemy of the People by H. Ibsen (transl. Jerry Turner)