Professor Persephone S. Sextou

Professor · Leeds Beckett

Persephone Sextou is a leading expert in applied theatre for health and wellbeing.

Wellbeing Performing Arts NHS Community Digital Arts

Peter Sham

Professor of Theatre Arts · Southern Utah University

Specializing in Suzuki movement, directing and producing musical theatre, and character development for actors

Stage Direction Voice and Speech Training Directing Musical Theater Voice Over Producing

Dr Oliver Bray

Dean of School · Leeds Beckett

Oliver’s current research interests stem from his professional practice in contemporary performance and live art.

Live Art Theatre Studies

Charles Erven

Professor Emeritus of Theatre Arts · Loyola Marymount University

Professor Emeritus of Theatre Arts

Theatre Design Theatre Arts Theatre Technology

Alexis Black

Assistant Professor of Acting Movement · Michigan State University

Alexis Black is an educator, fight, movement and intimacy director, performer, and director.

Fight Choreography Intimacy Direction Theatre Performance Pedagogy Movement

Dr Alexander Kelly

Reader in Theatre & Performance · Leeds Beckett University

Dr Alexander Kelly is Co-Artistic Director of the Sheffield-based theatre company Third Angel.

Cross-Disciplinary Collaboration Documentary Theatre Autobiographical Storytelling Devising Reportage

Kevin McCluskey

Associate Professor, Theatre & Dance · University of Mary Washington

Associate Professor, Department of Theatre and Dance

Fashion Design Costume Design Dramatic Literature Fashion History

Judith Royer

Emeritus Professor of Theatre Arts · Loyola Marymount University

Emeritus Professor of Theatre Arts

Acting Dramatic Literature Playwriting Directing

Kelly Younger

Professor of English and Affiliate Faculty of Theatre Arts · Loyola Marymount University

Bellarmine College of Liberal Arts

Muppets Play Writing Drama Theatre Fairy Tales

Dionne O’Dell

Program Director, Department of Theatre · Michigan State University

Dionne O’Dell specializes in teaching Children’s Theatre, and writing and directing plays for youth and community.

Theatre Direction Stage Production Entertainment Film

Diane Benedict

Professor of Theatre Arts · Loyola Marymount University

Professor of Theatre Arts

Uta Hagen Method Stanislavsky technique Audition Technique Cold-Reading Shakespeare

Colleen Rua

Assistant Professor · University of Florida

Colleen Rua's research interests include Latinx theatre, contemporary Puerto Rican theatre, the American musical, and theatre for youth.

Theatre for Youth US Latinx Theatre The Arts as Recovery and Response to Natural and Unnatural Disaster Theatre Contemporary Puerto Rican Theatre

Philippa White

Founder and CEO · TIE Leadership

I’m passionate about helping businesses become more human.

Power of Business and Leadership Leadership Leadership Development Purpose Sustainability

Philip Gable

Professor, Psychological and Brain Sciences · University of Delaware

Prof. Gable has expertise in emotion and motivational science; our sense of time, and neuroscience

Emotional Theory Motivation Neuroscience Social Psychology Autism

Sue Metzger

Professor of the Practice, Information Systems; Faculty Director, VU Women in Tech | Villanova School of Business · Villanova University

Sue Metzger, MS, is an expert in advancing women in technology, mobile app development and entrepreneurship, and enterprise computing.

Business Advancing Women in Technology Mobile Application Development and Entrepreneurship Enterprise Computing Including the Cloud Collaborative Media

Nikki Koontz

Assistant Vice President of Marketing Communication · Southern Utah University

Specializing in branding, integrated marketing and communication planning, and crisis communication

Higher Education Marketing Crisis & Emergency Management Crisis Communication Strategic Marketing and Communications Reputation Management

Michelle Faubert

Professor · University of Manitoba, Romantic Literature & Visiting Fellow, Northumbria University

Professor of Romantic Literature in the Department of English, Film and Literature

Romanticism Representation of Suicide History of Psychiatry Historical Feminism Literature of Sensibility

Tabassum Salam, M.D., MBA, FACP

Chief Learning Officer · ChristianaCare

Dr. Salam is an internal medicine physician and chief learning officer for ChristianaCare.

Leadership Development Healthcare Management Medical Education Internal Medicine

Vincent Olivieri

Professor of Sound Design · UC Irvine

Vincent Olivieri has designed sound and composed music for theatrical productions around the world.

Composition Sound Design Theatre

Dr Jonathan A. G. Cox

Lecturer in Microbiology · Aston University

Dr Cox's research interests surround the discovery of new antibiotics & identifying the mechanisms by which those antibiotics kill bacteria.

Health Sciences Biochemistry Antibiotics Antimicrobial Resistance Micro-Organisms