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Mary Jean Cowell
 Coordinator, Dance Program of Performing Arts in Arts & Sciences

Cowell's professional work began in New York City where she studied with Merce Cunningham and Alwin Nikolais, among others. She performed with the Katherine Litz Company and since then has choreographed more than 50 works which have been presented in New York, Hawaii, Tokyo, and more recently in St. ...

Expertise: contemporary dance, Japanese literature, Japanese theatre, Michio Ito, Kobe Abe

Direct contact: (314) 935-4474
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mjcowell@artsci.wustl.edu

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Christine Knoblauch-O'Neal
 Senior Artist-in-Residence, Performing Arts Department in Arts & Sciences

Christine Knoblauch-O'Neal performed for twenty years with such companies as American Ballet Theater, the National Ballet, Dancers, and the Cincinnati Ballet.

Expertise: ballet, choreography, dance

Direct contact: (314) 935-4475
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ckoneal@artsci.wustl.edu

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Bonnie Kruger
 Senior Artist-in-Residence in Performing Arts in Arts & Sciences

Kruger has designed costumes for more than 100 productions in theatre, opera and dance for companies throughout the United States and Europe.

Expertise: costume design, Baroque opera, opera costumes, costumes, opera

Direct contact: (314) 935-7522
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bjkruger@artsci.wustl.edu

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Carter Lewis
 Playwright-in-Residence, Performing Arts Department in Arts & Sciences

Lewis is playwright-in-residence at Washington University in St. Louis, prior to which he served as literary manager & playwright-in-residence at Geva Theatre in New York. He was also co-founder and playwright-in-residence for Upstart Stage in Berkeley, CA.

Expertise: playwrighting, dramaturgy, contemporary theatre, horse racing

Direct contact: (314) 935-4475
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clewis@artsci.wustl.edu

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David Marchant
 Senior Artist-in-Residence, Performing Art Department in Arts & Sciences

Marchant is an active St. Louis dancer and choreographer. In addition to his work at Washington University, he is artistic advisor to Atrek Contemporary Dance Company and on faculty at COCA (the Center of Contemporary Arts).

Expertise: contemporary dance theory, comtemporary dance technique, choreography, Alexander Technique, improvisation

Direct contact: (314) 935-4476
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marchant@artsci.wustl.edu

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Jeffery Matthews
 Senior Artist-in-Residence, Performing Arts Department in Arts & Sciences

Matthews is the Coordinator of the Acting and Directing program. He joined the faculty in 1988 and teaches courses in acting, directing,voice, speech and theatre for young audiences. Jeffery is the artistic supervisor of The Imaginary Theatre Company, the touring company of The Repertory Theatre of ...

Expertise: theatre, musicals, Alice in Wonderland, children's theatre, acting, directing, speech

Direct contact: (314) 935-4059
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jmatthew@artsci.wustl.edu

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William J. Paul
 Professor of Performing Arts in Arts & Sciences

Paul has written widely on comedy and film. He is the author of Ernst Lubitsch's Americans American Comedy, an examination of the famous German emigre director's Hollywood comedies, and Laughing Screaming: Modern Hollywood Horror & Comedy, a cultural history that looks at the rise of "grossout" comedy ...

Expertise: film, comedy, Ernst Lubitsch, comedy and horror, movie theatre architecture, "grossout" comedy

Media assistance: (314) 935-8494 / liam_otten@wustl.edu

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Christopher Pickart
 Artist-in-residence, Performing Art Departiment in Arts & Sciences

Pickart is an accomplished set designer whoe credits include more than 150 productions across the country.

Expertise: set design

Direct contact: (314) 935-5943
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cjpickart@yahoo.com

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Annamaria Pileggi
 Senior artist-in-residence of Performing Arts in Arts & Sciences

Pileggi teaches acting and movement for the actor and serves as an administrator and instructor for the Shakespeare's Globe Summer Program in London.

Expertise: acting, directing, contemporary theatre, movement, Shakespeare's Globe Theatre

Direct contact: (314) 935-4058
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apileggi@artsci.wustl.edu

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Henry Schvey
 Chair, Performing Arts Department in Arts & Sciences

Schvey has lectured and published extensively in the areas of modern European, British and American drama. Among his most significant writings are an interdisciplinary study of the Austrian expressionist Oskar Kokoschka: The Painter as Playwrite, a collection of essays on contemporary American drama, ...

Expertise: contemporary theatre, contemporary drama, American theatre, British theatre, European theatre, Oskar Kokoschka, Holocaust remebrance, …

Direct contact: (314) 935-5858
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hischvey@wustl.edu

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Cecil Slaughter
 Director, Washington University Dance Theatre

Slaughter is a 14-year veteran of the renowned Dayton Contemporary Dance Company and has worked with such notable choreographers as Alvin Ailey, Talley Beatty, Donald McKayle, Doug Varone, James Truitte and many others.

Expertise: contemporary dance, contemporary choreography

Direct contact: (314) 935-5598
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cslaught@artsci.wustl.edu

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Andrea Urice
 Artist-in-Residence, Performing Arts Department in Arts & Sciences

Urice has been directing professionally for more than 17 years. Directing and dramaturgical credits include productions for some of the nation's finest regional theaters, including Actors Theatre of Louisville, The Guthrie Theater (Minneapolis), Theatre X (Milwaukee), Steppenwolf Theatre (Chicago), ...

Expertise: play development, contemporary theatre, directing, dramaturgy

Direct contact: (314) 935-4057
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aurice@artsci.wustl.edu

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William Whitaker
 Senior Artist-in-Residence, Performing Arts Department in Arts & Sciences

Whitaker has been associated as a director and actor with many professional theatres, including City Players, The Washington Stage Guild, The Round House Theatre, The Arena Stage, The Folger Theatre and New Playwright's Theatre. He has a special interest in directing the classics and style plays, notably ...

Expertise: acting, directing, William Shakespeare, George Bernard Shaw, Oscar Wilde, Arthur Schnitzler, Federico García Lorca, …

Direct contact: (314) 935-4060
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whitaker@artsci.wustl.edu

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