About the Theatre Department

About the Department of Theatre

Get to know the faculty, staff, and history of Theatre at Kean.

Kean's Department of Theatre is staffed by a dedicated team of professionals, passionate about educating the next wave of theatre artists, educators, and scholars.

Department Staff and Specialists
Full Time Faculty
Adjunct Faculty
Guests and Masterclasses
History of Theatre at Kean

Office Staff and Department Specialists

Current Office Staff and Technical Specialists pictured below.

Collette Kennedy

Theatre Department Office Administrative Assistant

Lorelle Lane

Academic Specialist - Theatre Department Office Assistant

Mason Horne

Student Office Assistant

Lauren Mcloughlin

Costume Shop Supervisor; THE 3320 Costume Construction

Zack Gage

Theatre Department Assistant Technical Director

Full Time Faculty

Current full time faculty pictured below.

Professor E. Teresa Choate, PhD

Professor Josh Feliciano-Sanchez Moser

Past Directing and Performance Faculty

Zella Fry, J. L. Lowenstein, Jay Teran, James Murphy, Ernest Wiggins, Anna DeMers

Past Design and Technology Faculty

Bill Baycraft, Richard Turick, Nadine Charlsen, Margaret (Peggy) Dunn, Josh Langman

With Gratitude to past English Department Faculty: Lenore Vaughn-Eames, Sybil Browne, Ruth Kane, Matthew Dolkey, Estelle Ritchie, and W. John Bauer.

Adjunct Faculty

Our adjunct specialists teach courses across our curriculum in design, dance, singing, and performance. Current faculty pictured below.

Professor Lizzy Brooks

Acting for the Camera; Advanced Acting for the Camera

Professor Charlie Del Risco

APA Performer's Presence; APA Senior Acting Showcase

Professor Alex Gonzalez

APA Ballet Techniques; Foundations of Ballet

Professor Heather Harrington

APA Technique and Theory of Modern; Dance History; Dance Composition

Professor Kathleen Kelly

Introduction to Theatre; Acting 1: The Actor Prepares

Professor Peggy Samuels

Stage Management Class; MainStage Stage Management mentor

Professor Tylie Sheider

Plays on Page and on Stage; Issues in Theatre

Professor Stephanie Silver-Silberstein

Acting 1: The Actor Prepares

Theatre Adjunct Stephanie Silver-Silberstein

Professor Susie Speidel

Scene to Song; Intro to Theatre; Acting 1: The Actor Prepares; Theatre Administration

Professor Marissa Wolf

Introduction to Theatre; Improvisation; Senior Seminar; Senior Portfolio

Professor John Wooten

Playwrighting; Acting as a Profession BFA capstone; Premiere Stages Artistic Director; Kean University Vice President of Arts Programming

Professional Guests

Our proximity to NYC and our relationships with Premiere Stages and Kean Stage allow us to organize guests who offer masterclasses and performance opportunities to our students. Some recent Highlights below.

History of Theatre at Kean

Theatre at Kean has a long and rich history. For an overview of our history and development, from the earliest days of theatre as a campus student organization to our current department and season structure, please check out the document linked below, originally published in part as the playbill for the 2009 review Encore! A Kean Theatre Retrospective directed by Professor Holly Logue.