Faculty & Staff

Genre Studies, Industry and Business

Collaborative Arts Production
Screendance
Identity/Roots
Post-Colonial Theories
Embodied Research

Theatre as a healing tool for individuals, communities and society

Musical Theatre
African-American Theatre

Creative Engagement Methods for Youth

Documentary filmmaking, books and films for children and YA.

Contemporary US Performance, Representations of Race in Popular Culture.

Examining Global Access in Theatre and Dance Curriculum
Equal Access to Arts Education in Global Communities

Audio Storytelling/Podcasting
Community-Based Theatre
Applied Theatre

Pete & James - Development of a new musical. Selected as Semifinalist National Musical theatre Conference for 2023 - Moving to Finals April 2023. Director and Co-Producer - Selected and hosted by Theatre 4the People to complete a 10 day workshop at “The Barn” Summer 2022. Selected to have a second workshop...

Scenic, Lighting, and Projection Design for live events, Material Culture

WellnessDance - Empathy, Contemporary Classroom Culture

-Using acting pedagogy to teach empathy across multiple disciplines.
-Investigating the differences in breathing requirements for
singing and dance and creating a technique which bridges the "breath gap" for musical theatre performers.
-Semiotic significance of stage dialects within a production.

Song Analysis Using Scansion Techniques:
The music/underscore/accompaniment to Musical Theatre songs can give the actor clues towards characterization and story just as Shakespeare’s poetic structure does. I am interested in forming musical analysis techniques that allow actors to scan songs like...

Preservation and presentation of historic dance works

Training highly vetted BFA acting students to work as professional actors across production platforms. Achieving a level of professional confidence and craft in a four-year BFA liberal arts degree that equals an MFA level degree. By means of a rigorous, sequential curriculum taught by industry professionals...

esports, business of video games, game development

Dramaturgical research.

Design for Live Entertainment
Lighting Design
Collaborative Art

New Technology in Cinema
Emerging Narrative Forms

Theatre
Movement
Dance
Martial Arts

dance advocacy, aesthetics, somatics practices, world dance, contact improvisation

JayWAN’s work imagines a hybrid approach between choreographic practice as a source of performative social interactions and the theatrical arts as a medium for social change. As a bicultural Indonesian American artist who lives in two different dance aesthetic worlds (Hip-Hop culture and Contemporary...

Women in Film
Underrepresented Demographics in Film

Women's issues and themes in theatre and film, Portrayal of military members and families and the lives of military families, Shakespeare

Howard University selected speaker August Wilson's Traditional/Non Traditional Casting
Native American Spirituality
Yoruba Spirituality
African Diaspora Cause and Effects
US Education Trends
Curriculum k- 12, to College - Best Practices for Learning
Learning Styles
AVID Prep Curriculum

Repertory Theatre Practices and Theatrical Automation.

The intersection of fashion and politics in the court of Louis XVI & Marie Antoinette. Also the general patterning and construction techniques used in the construction of clothing the 18th and 19th centuries.

Women in Theatre, Religion in Theatre, Gender Studies in Theatre

Collaboration, Lighting and Projection technology, Dance Lighting Technology, Multimedia Technology, Projection and Video Technology, Lighting History, Production Management