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Linda Wallner Bell holds an M.F.A. and B.F.A. in Art with a concentration in Graphic Design, from Auburn University, Alabama. Her degree in Arts Education comes from Essex Community College in Baltimore, Maryland, where she also attended Towson University. Ms. Bell performs professional communications work. She manages the public contact areas of the production arm of the theatre department, coordinating print and web base communication functions while targeting and developing external audiences . She creates and designs, season brochures, production programs, posters, other textural and visual materials plus produces television commercials. She oversees publicity and promotion for the department; works closely with Auburn University Campus Communicators and serves as curator for the Telfair Peet Theatre Art Gallery.

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Adriane Bennett joins the Auburn University Theatre Department as Staff Technical Director after serving as Technical Director, Scenic Artist and Properties Artisan for Shakespeare & Company in Lennox, MA and most recently as Technical Director for the Adirondack Theatre Festival in Glens Falls, NY. Adriane received her M.F.A. in Technical Direction from the North Carolina School of the Arts in 2004, and has extensive professional experience in theatre, film, opera, and dance productions in skills ranging from master carpenter to scenic, sound, and lighting design.

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Zandra joined the Department in 2003 as Office Administrator. She is responsible for payroll and accounting in the Department of Theatre. She previously has served Auburn University at the College of Veterinary Medicine where she was a key contributor to the business office and medical records departments of Auburn's prestigious veterinary teaching hospital. A valued co-worker, her amiable and outgoing personality is valued by all who meet her. Zandra is currently working on a B.S. in Business Management at Southern Union Community College and is a graduate of Opelika State Technical College and Auburn High School. She is active in her church and community, the wife of Terence Davis and is the proud mother of three wonderful daughters.

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Philippa Gordon B.F.A., Utah State University, M.F.A. University of Iowa. Pip has designed sets and lighting for over 200 productions and events, including professional work for the Actors Theatre of Louisville Humana Festival of New American Plays, Childrens Theatre of Minneapolis, and Iowa Public Television. She has worked with Broadway designers Marc Wies, Craig Miller, and Ken Billington. She has collaborated with national and international playwrights Naomi Wallace, Arthur Kopit, Jane Martin, and Naomi Izuku.

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Daydrie Hague (AEA SAG AFTRA) is currently Co-Director of the BFA Performance program at Auburn University where she teaches Acting and Voice. In addition, she has served as a faculty member in the Human Odyssey program, an interdisciplinary course that examines the historical interconnections between science and the humanities in the acquisition of human knowledge. She has taught English as a Second Language at Hostos College in the Bronx and Effective Speech at NYU. Professional Acting Credits include three seasons as a resident company member at the Alley Theatre in Houston and regional performances at the George St. Playhouse, Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, TheatreVirginia and the Dorset Theatre Festival. Off B’way credits include Provincetown Playhouse, Vineyard Theatre Lab, Equity Library Theatre and New Dramatists developing new work by John Patrick Shanley. In England, she has appeared at Alan Ayckbourne’s Stephen Joseph Theatre in the Round in Scarborough. Daydrie serves as a theatre consultant to the National Science Foundation’s Advance program, which seeks to advance the academic careers of women in Science, Math and Engineering. Directing credits include Taking With, Three Sisters, Hay Fever, Mother Hicks, The Shape of Things, The Member of the Wedding and Speak Truth to Power, Voices from Beyond the Dark. She is currently a regional editor for VASTA VOICE and an Associate Editor for the International Dialects of English Archive, as well as serving a small private clientele of broadcasters and transgendered persons.

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Robin Jaffe serves as Faculty Technical Director and Production Manager for AU Theatre and has worked extensively as a designer and technical director for university productions and events since his arrival in 1992. From 1995-2004 he served as master electrician and rigger for over 45 productions produced at the Opelika Performing Arts Center. Mr. Jaffe has been a member USITT since 1982 and is a member of the Health and Safety and Technical Production Commissions. He serves on the Auburn Chapter of the AAUP as Listserv Director and Web Master and is an adhoc executive committee member. He has served on many of the standing University and Senate committees including Safety, Multicultural Diversity, Concessions Board, Persons with Disabilities, and Scheduling and Calendar committees. Mr. Jaffe received his BA in Theatre Arts from Thomas Edison State College in New Jersey and his M.F.A. in Technical Production from Memphis State University. Before joining the Auburn faculty, Mr. Jaffe served as Technical Director at Drexel University in Philadelphia, PA, at Arizona State University in Tempe, AZ and at Mud Island Amphitheatre in Memphis, TN. He is presently creating a technical theatre web site theatretechguy.com to answer technical theatre questions, and is developing a podcast web site for an original playwright competition called tigertheatrecafe.

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Dan LaRocque currently serves as Chair of Auburn University Theatre and is a member of the National Executive Committee of the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival in Washington, D.C. Dan has extensive directing experience and has also appeared as an actor professionally in resident theatres throughout the country including San Diego's Old Globe Theatre, Houston's Alley Theatre, Richmond's Theatre Virginia, and with the Utah, North Carolina, Illinois, and Alabama Shakespeare Festivals. In England, he appeared at Alan Ayckbourn's Stephen Joseph Theatre in the Round and his New York credits include appearances on All My Children and Guiding Light. His one-act play, Man Woman Flower published by Playscripts, Inc. has been produced professionally Off Broadway at the Harold Clurman Theatre in New York and by the West Coast Ensemble Theatre in Los Angeles, and has enjoyed an extensive amateur production history in The United States, Canada, Australia and England.

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Heather May holds a Ph.D. in Theatre and Drama from Indiana University (Bloomington), as well as an M.A. in Drama from Washington University (St. Louis), and a B.A. in Drama from Grinnell College. Prior to her appointment to the faculty of Auburn University, she taught at Grinnell College and Indiana University. Dr. May has served as Artistic Associate for ShatterMask Theatre (St. Louis), Associate Artistic Director for Orthwein Theatre (St. Louis), and has directed productions ranging from Tartuffe at Grinnell College to Why We Have a Body at The Theatre Conspiracy in Washington, DC. She has also worked as the Camp of the Arts Director for the Jewish Community Center in St. Louis; administered, taught, and directed at a variety of arts camps; and has a background in modern dance. She is also an Actors' Equity Association stage manager. Dr. May's research interests include nineteenth- century American minstrelsy, issues of race and gender in the theatre, and contemporary forms of non- realism. When she is not in rehearsals or in the classroom, Dr. May can often be seen out running - she qualified for the past two U.S. Women's Olympic Trials Marathons.

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Dr. Miller received his Ph.D. in Theatre from Wayne State University and taught at Wayne State and Western Illinois before coming to Auburn in 1974. He served as Chair of the Theatre Department from 2000- 2001 and received Emeritus status on his retirement in 2002. Dr Miller has directed many memorable musicals and dramas during the course of his distinguished Auburn career, and has taught acting, directing, theatre history, and in the Honors College. Dr. Miller currently teaches Introduction to Theatre.

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Tracy Oleinick holds a B.A. in Speech and Theatre from the University of Iowa and an M.F.A. in Costume Design from the California Institute of the Arts. Tracy serves as costume designer for the department and has published extensively on costume history issues, most recently in The Cutters Research Journal. Tracy has created dozens of extraordinary designs for the department, and for a variety professional theatres. Prior to joining the Auburn faculty, she was costume designer at the City University of New York for more than fifteen years.
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Dr. Phillips holds an M.A. and a Ph.D. in Theatre from the Ohio State University, and a B.A. in Theatre from Ohio Wesleyan University. An alumnus of the Neighborhood Playhouse School of Theatre in New York City, Dr. Phillips is the co-author of the text book Introducing Theatre (with Joy H. Reilly), and has published scholarly work in Theatre Studies and Theatre History Studies. Areas of scholarly interest include the relationship of the British periodical press to the Victorian stage, and contemporary British and American drama.

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Chris Qualls received his BA in Communication Studies/Film from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and his MFA in Acting from the Alabama Shakespeare Festival. Professor Qualls teaches Directing, Voice, and Acting in the BA Program at Auburn and Professional Preparation (e.g., auditioning, on-camera acting) in the B.F.A. Performance Program. He has also taught at the ASF Academy and has worked as a voice-over actor for the past twenty years. His clients have included the U.S. Army, Hardee's Corporation, and Caterpillar Tractor. He recently appeared as Camillo in The Winter's Tale and Grumio in The Taming of the Shrew at the Alabama Shakespeare Festival, and as Vladimir Lenin in Tom Stoppard's Travesties at Iowa Summer Rep. Professor Qualls has directed The Tempest, The Flea in Her Ear, and A Midsummer Night's Dream: The Jukebox Musical on the Telfair Peet Mainstage, and will be directing The Complete History of America (abridged) this summer and Urinteown: The Musical at Auburn in the Spring of 2009.

Professor Qualls is interested in the oral histories of Alabama and the South, specifically as they relate to social justice and civil rights. Beginning in the fall of 2008 his students will interview Alabamians through service learning projects and develop short performance pieces based on those interviews and student reflective journaling. These pieces will be developed into works of theatre and film that will be submitted to international conferences and festivals as well as online venues. Theatre is a collaborative art form that builds community, inspires empathy, and lends itself to experiential learning, civic engagement, and political awareness.

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Marjorie Teeter serves as the Box Office Manager and Director of Outreach for Auburn University Theatre. She joined the department in 1993 and has been a valued asset ever since. She attended Boston University and created MBBT & Associates, a conferences and events planning business, prior to working in the Theatre Department. As Box Office Manager, she is responsible for sales operations, maintaining the mailing list, and assisting with audience development. In addition, she supervises the Box Office lab students, house manager and ushers. She organizes tours of the building and coordinates special performances for high schools.

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