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Department Chair

Annmarie Duggan
Chair/Associate Professor
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Welcome our new department chair, Annmarie Duggan. Professor Duggan has designed Off Broadway and extensively in regional theatres across the United States. Follow her on twitter at @UPTAchair. View Profile >

Full-Time Faculty

Julie Allardice-Ray
Senior Lecturer, Head of Design and Production
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Julie Allardice-Ray has designed scenery for film and television, including X-Files, Love & Other Drugs, Abduction, and most recently the 20th Century Fox Television pilot... View Profile >
Stacey Cabaj
Visiting Lecturer/Acting Director of MFA in Performance Pedagogy
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Stacey Cabaj is an actress, a voice/speech/dialect/text coach and a teacher who has worked regionally and internationally. This year, she takes on the role of Acting Director of MFA in Performance Pedagogy. View Profile >
Cynthia Croot
Assistant Professor
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Cynthia Croot is a director, writer and humanitarian activist. Her current work, City of Asylum, runs April 4-14 on the Pitt Rep stage. View Profile >
Attilio Favorini
Professor/Director of Grad Studies
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Attilio Favorini (PhD, Yale University) is author of The Gammage Project and the founding chair of the Department of Theatre Arts at the University of Pittsburgh and the founder and producing director of the Three Rivers Shakespeare Festival (1980-1992). View Profile >
Kathleen E. George
Professor
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Kathleen George is a theatre director, a teacher of playwriting and dramatic literature courses, and a fiction writer. View Profile >
Tamara Goldbogen
Lecturer/Director of Shakespeare-in-the-School
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Tamara Goldbogen teaches theatre for youth and creative drama and also serves as director of the departmental outreach program Shakespeare-in-the-Schools... View Profile >
Lisa Jackson-Schebetta
Assistant Professor
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Lisa Jackson-Schebetta holds a PhD in Theatre History, Criticism and Theory from the University of Washington. Her research interests center on histories and theories of performance and theatre in the Americas and Spain, the ethics of citizenship, and corporeality. View Profile >
Don Mangone
Associate Professor, Director of Undergraduate Studies
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Don Mangone is a member of United Scenic Artists, New York, and has designed for both theatre and dance in New York, both regionally and abroad. View Profile >
Bruce McConachie
Professor
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Bruce McConachie has chaired Pitt's Department of Theatre Arts since the 2006-07 academic year. Formerly Director of Graduate Studies, he served as interim chair during 2003-04. View Profile >
Holly Thuma
Lecturer/Acting Director of MFA in Performance Pedagogy/Head of Undergraduate Performance
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Holly Thuma’s performing credits include The Dallas Theater Center, Pittsburgh Public Theater, Jennerstown Mountain Playhouse, Quantum Theatre, Playhouse Repertory, The Jewish Theater of Pittsburgh, and films by Tony Buba and Brady Lewis. View Profile >

Teaching Artists and Adjunct Faculty

Theo Allyn Kelley
Teaching Artist-in-Residence
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Pittsburgh favorite Theo Allyn Kelly plays Jude in the Pitt Rep/Shakespeare-in-the-Schools joint production of Her Hamlet. Theo was last seen at the Pittsburgh CLO Cabaret in Girls Only. View Profile >
Ken Bolden
Teaching Artist-in-Residence
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Ken grew up near Cleveland, Ohio. After graduating from Duquesne University with a BA in English Literature, focusing on 17th and 18th century poets, he went to conservatory in England at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts. View Profile >
Claire Syler
Adjunct Professor
Before coming to Pittsburgh, Syler served as the Education Director of the Nashville Shakespeare Festival as well as on the faculties of Middle TN State University, Belmont University, and the TN Governor’s School for the Arts... View Profile >
Sam Turich
Adjunct Professor
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Sam Turich is an actor, director and playwright who has worked in films, on television, and at theaters in New York and around the country. While in New York he was an acting instructor with the New York Film Academy, Gotham City Improv Theater and School, and Theatre Direct International. View Profile >
Bria Walker
Teaching Artist-in-Residence
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The newest addition to Pitt Rep's team of teaching artists, Bria Walker is a Pittsburgh based actress, singer, and writer. View Profile >