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Dr. Jean K Wolski

Professor/Interim Chair

Office: 2084 - Doudna Fine Arts Center
Phone: 217-581-5919
Fax: 217-581-6027
Email: jkwolski@eiu.edu

Dr. Wolski has been teaching theatre for over thirty years, and has been a member of Eastern’s faculty since 1993. As an undergraduate, she double majored in Music and Theatre at the University of Northern Iowa. She earned her Master’s degree from the University of Iowa in Performance Studies, with an emphasis in Voice and Movement, and her Ph.D. from Michigan State University in Children’s Theatre and Creative Dramatics. She is active in the Association of Theatre Movement Educators, having served for twelve years as editor for the biannual newsletter, ATME News, as a board member for the new ATME digital kinetic journal, and working as a mentor for new movement faculty across the country. Dr. Wolski has worked as a director and/or choreographer on numerous productions including Cole, As You Like It, Wiley and the Hairy Man, Dancing at Lughnasa, Translations, La Histoire du Soldat, and Medea. When not at the theatre, she can be found in tap class, exploring lighthouses, at Michigan State sporting events, or, whenever possible, in Ireland.

Frequently Taught Courses

Stage Movement
Performing Voice
Topics in Acting
Topics in Movement
Dialects
Stage Makeup

Education

B.A. Music and Theatre - University of Northern Iowa

M.A. Performance Studies -University of Iowa

Ph.D. with an emphasis in Youth Theatre and Creative Dramatics -Michigan State University

Professional Organizations

Association of Theatre Movement Educators
Society of American Fight Directors
Voice and Speech Trainers Association
Association for Theatre in Higher Education
American Alliance for Theatre and Education

Research

Irish Theatre
Stage Movement & Choreography
Dialects

Publications

Original Plays for Children:
      SMILES GO UP - FROWNS GO DOWN
      STUPID MARCO
      THE PLIGHT OF PUMPERSNEE
      FELICITY FREEPLE IS SOOO MEAN TO PEOPLE 

Articles:
      "Batting Practice"   ATME NEWS, Spring 2008, Vol. 16, No. 1
      "A Final Word...."    ATME NEWS, Fall 2010, Vol. 18, No. 2

Editor:
      ATME NEWS: 1998-2010
Editorial Board:
      ATME DIGITAL KINETIC JOURNAL
      YOUTH THEATRE JOURNAL
      STAGE OF THE ART

Conference Presentations

"Seventeenth Century Period Movement"
                Kansas State Theatre Conference

"Movement for the Actor: an Introduction to Laban Effort-Shape Movement"
                American College Theatre Festival

"Irish Treble Reel"
               American College Theatre Festival

"Scenes, Songs, Sonnets, & Soliloquies"
                Shakespeare tour throughout the state of Michigan

Funding & Grants

Summer Research & Creative Activity Grant:
     JAMES JOYCE'S THE DEAD: preliminary production research (with David Wolski)

Redden Grants for:
      Facecasting & Mask Making
      Stage Combat Materials
      Teaching of Musical Theatre

Michigan Council for the Humanities Grant:
      Funding a children's theatre tour of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan

Michigan State University Departmental Fellowship for Overseas Study:
      THE GRIPS Theatre of West Berlin
     
National Endowment for the Humanities Grant:
      Funding for an experimental team-taught course introducing the arts & humanities to students enrolled in technical programs.
WORKSHOPS & TRAINING:
      MASKS - A National Conference: Workshop training in the building of and performance with various types of masks
   
      Workshop training in Children's Theatre and Creative Dramatics with Brian Way

      "Interpretation of Shakespeare": Workshops with the Royal Shakepeare Company

      Dance/Movment Training in Ballet, Tap, Jazz, Modern, Laban, and Period Movement

EIU Faculty Laureate 2003

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