Current Faculty & Staff
- Phone:
- 810-424-5307
- Email:
- snewport@umflint.edu
Theatre & Dance
Shelby Newport, M.F.A.
Shelby has designed costumes around the United States and England at various theatres including Purple Rose Theatre (Chelsea, Michigan) where she is a Resident Artist. She has also designed regionally at Flint Youth Theatre (Flint, Michigan), St. Croix Festival Theatre (St. Croix Falls, Wisconsin) and Tipping Point Theatre (Northville, Michigan). Her work has also been seen at the Turner Contemporary Museum in Margate, England and at the London Stratford Circus Arts Centre. Her film design work includes the 2009 and 2010 opening teasers for the Indianapolis 500, produced by ESPN and aired on ABC. www.shelbynewport.com.
- Phone:
- 810.762.3442
- Email:
- jehaley@umflint.edu
Theatre & Dance
Janet Haley, M.F.A.
Janet is an Artistic Associate at Michigan Shakespeare Festival, and an active member of Actors' Equity Association (AEA), the professional union for performers and stage managers. Civic Engagement is a primary value for Janet, and she specializes in original, site-specific works made with students, alumni and community partners, such as Flint Farmers' Market, Glenwood Cemetery, and Riverbank Park.
- Phone:
- 810.237.6521
- Email:
- wirwin@umflint.edu
Theatre & Dance
William Irwin, M.F.A.
William is a working member of the Actors' Equity Association with numerous credits in classical, contemporary, and musical theatre. His concentration at UM-Flint is professional actor training, directing, stage combat, voice for professional and occupational users, and comedic technique.
- Phone:
- 810.237.6546
- Email:
- scdean@umflint.edu
Theatre & Dance
Stephanie Dean, M.F.A.
Stephanie has worked internationally and regionally as a performer and director. Most recently she worked with The Other Mirror Theatre Company, based in New York. She is a member of the Association for Theatre in Higher Education, the Voice and Speech Trainers Association and is a certified teacher of Somatic Voicework (sm). She teaches musical theatre, acting, voice and movement.
- Phone:
- 810.762.3428
- Email:
- bortonli@umflint.edu
Theatre & Dance
Lisa Borton, M.F.A.
Works as a scenic artist at professional theaters including Santa Fe Opera, Cleveland Play House and Great River Shakespeare Festival (Winona, MN). Her professional design work has been seen at Hope Summer Repertory, Tipping Point Theatre and Flint Youth Theatre.
- Phone:
- 810.237.3315
- Email:
- broughn@umflint.edu
Theatre & Dance
Nicole Broughton, M.F.A.
- Phone:
- 810.238.7771
- Email:
- bwielins@umflint.edu
Theatre & Dance
Beth Freiman, M.F.A.
Beth serves as Director of Dance at U of M Flint where she has been teaching since 2002. Her teaching focuses on ballet, modern dance, and choreography. Aside from traditional dance forms, she also teaches yoga, pilates mat, and GYROTONIC®.
- Phone:
- 810.238.7771
- Email:
- emmada@umflint.edu
Theatre & Dance
Emma Davis
Emma Davis teaches Introduction to Dance, Dance Ensemble, modern dance, tap, ballet, hip hop, and is certified in Giordano jazz dance. Her research and practice emphasize dance and civic engagement, including work with incarcerated youth, persons with disabilities, and the elderly. Davis performs nationally and internationally as a back-up dancer with music artist Tunde Olaniran. Davis currently serves on the board of directors for the Michigan Dance Council.
- Phone:
- 810.931.8090
- Email:
- kendricj@umflint.edu
Theatre & Dance
Kendrick Jones, M.L.S.
Kendrick serves as the Executive Director of Shop Floor Theatre Company and CEO at SFTC Nonprofit. His work is largely dedicated to providing expressive opportunities in under-served communities.
A graduate of the Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studies at the University of Michigan, Jones obtained a Masters of Liberal Studies in Theatre and Community.
- Phone:
- 810.237.6522
- Email:
- anmorton@umflint.edu
Theatre & Dance
Andrew Morton, M.A.
- Phone:
- 810-762-3449
- Email:
- adamdill@umflint.edu
Theatre & Dance
Adam Dill, M.F.A.
Adam has worked for PlayMakers Repertory Company, Utah Shakespeare Festival, Arizona Theatre Company, Great River Shakespeare Festival, Colorado Shakespeare Festival, Dallas Children's Theatre, and Dallas Theatre Center. Adam is well versed in Costume Design, Costume Shop Management, Cutting/Draping, Tailoring, Costume Crafts, and Costume Education.
A sample of Adam’s design and construction work is available at www.adammdill.com
- Phone:
- 810.762.3316
- Email:
- dmueller@umflint.edu
Theatre & Dance
Doug Mueller, M.F.A.
In addition to Doug's many roles at UM-Flint, he annually oversees all technical elements for Flint Institute of Music’s The Nutcracker.
- Email:
- djft@umflint.edu
Theatre & Dance
Dave Thompson
- Phone:
- (810) 238-7771
- Email:
- vilier@umflint.edu
Theatre and Dance
Frances Bradley-Vilier
Retired Faculty
- Phone:
- 810.762.3349
- Email:
- lfriesen@umflint.edu
Theatre & Dance
Lauren Friesen, Ph.D
He is a recipient of the Kennedy Center Gold Medallion for "Excellence in Theatre" and the Indiana Theatre Association's award for his "Outstanding Contribution to University Theatre." His recent publications include a translation of Hermann Sudermann's The Storm Komrade Sokrates (University Press of America) and the essay "Ritual, Race and Reconciliation in Anna Deavere Smith's Play Fires in the Mirror," (Munster: LIT Verlag). His monologue "Still Waiting for Rachel" was published in Monologues for Men by Heinneman Press. He just completed the translation of a novel...But Stones Can't Speak by the holocaust survivor Carlo Ross. In April 2007, Vertigo Productions in Flint produced his latest 2-act play Rothko.
- Email:
- cmgil@umflint.edu
Theatre & Dance
Carolyn M. Gillespie , M.F.A.
Carolyn joined the UM-Flint faculty in 1987 after a dozen years at the University of Texas at Dallas. She is the recipient of a number of awards for her creative output, as well as for her teaching and service to the university and to the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival. She is a member of Actors' Equity and continues a freelance career as actor and director.
- Phone:
- 810.237.6522
- Email:
- lkletts@umflint.edu