Current Faculty & Staff
- 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 an Artistic Associate at the Michigan Shakespeare Festival and member of Actors' Equity Association, the Society of American Fight Directors, the Voice and Speech Trainers Association, and the Upright Citizen's Brigade Theatre in New York City. His teaching focuses on acting with a special interest in comedic technique.
- Phone:
- 810-424-5307
- Email:
- snewport@umflint.edu
Theatre & Dance
Shelby Newport, M.F.A
Professionally designs costumes for productions at Purple Rose Theatre Company, Tipping Point Theatre, and Flint Youth Theatre. www.shelbynewport.com
- 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 Cleveland Play House and Great River Shakespeare Festival (Winona, MN)
- 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:
- adesola@umflint.edu
Theatre & Dance
Adesola Akinleye, Ph.D
- Phone:
- 810.238.7771
- Email:
- emmada@umflint.edu
Theatre & Dance
Emma Davis
Emma Davis is a dancer, choreographer, and educator. She currently performs with musical artist Tunde Olaniran and is the founder and director of the Flint Dance Collaborative. She is an Apprentice Artist with Shop Floor Theater Company and has performed with companies that include Ann Arbor Dance Works, Vertical Ambition Dance Company and the University of Michigan-Flint. Ms. Davis is currently pursuing an MA in theatre culture with an emphasis on community dance.
- 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.adammichaeldill.wix/com/costumes.
- Phone:
- 810.762.3315
- 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.
- Phone:
- 810.237.6522
- Email:
- kendricj@umflint.edu
Theatre & Dance
Kendrick Jones, M.L.S.
Kendrick has over 15 years of project management, leadership, training and fund raising experience. He has lectured on management practices, employee relations, product marketing and theatre; developed and led self sufficiency, literacy and conflict resolution training courses for at-risk teens and adults; and taught college courses at the university level; Leading teams of up to 50 people, he has consistently led projects from inception to delivery. Kendrick is also the Executive Director of Shop Floor Theatre Company.
- Phone:
- 810.424.5554
- Email:
- anmorton@umflint.edu
Theatre & Dance
Andrew Morton, M.A.
Andrew is an award-winning playwright and community artist. He is the Artistic Director of Shop Floor Theatre Company.
- Phone:
- 810.237.6522
- Email:
- samrich@umflint.edu
Theatre & Dance
Samuel J. Richardson, M.F.A.
Currently serves as the Education Manager at Flint Youth Theatre and teaching Directing for Young Audiences (THE 321) in the department of Theatre & Dance.
- Phone:
- 810.237.6522
- Email:
- lkletts@umflint.edu
Theatre & Dance
Linda Letts
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.