2021
- Jon Royal - "Anti-Racism Tools for the Academy" workshop for faculty, staff, and students.
- Arnel Sancianco - Professional Scenic Designer
- Tamiko Robinson Steele - Professional Actor
- Jeremy Gillett - Professional Actor. Guest performer for Introduction to Theatre.
- Alex Volckhausen - Professional Broadway Stage Manager
2020
- Jacqui Swift - Actor/Writer. Guest Artist for Introduction to Theatre.
- Jessica Fisch - Chicago based director. Guest Artist for Advanced Directing.
- Laura Rikard - Intimacy Choreographer, Coordinator and Educator with Theatrical Intimacy Education.
- Dan Deming - Production Manager with Cedar Point Live Entertainment to interview production
applicants for summer employment.
- Michelle Mercedes Russell - Professional Dancer. Guest Artist for Advanced Contemporary.
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Brittney Johnson - Broadway performer, including Les Miserables, Motown, and Beautiful: The Carole King Musical, and made Broadway history as the first African-American to play Glinda in Wicked.
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Hunter Ryan Herdlicka – Broadway performer in the Tony Award-winning revival of A Little Night Music and
has appeared in multiple regional theatre productions.
- Julio Agustin – Accomplished director/choreographer, Broadway & TV/Film actor, audition coach,
and author of The Professional Actor’s Handbook: From casting Call to Curtain Call.
- David E. Foster – Operations Supervisor with Cedar Point Live Entertainment to audition
actors, singers, and dancers for summer employment.
2019
- Daniel Gwirtzman - Choreographer, Performer, Instructor and founder of Daniel Gwirtzman Dance Company
- Darius Wallace - Actor, Writer, Poet. Guest Artist for Introduction To Theatre
- Heather Ondersma - Guest Director for 2019 Production of Spring Awakening
- Hannah Chase - Director of Megawatt, Instructor and Performer. Guest Artist in Improv Development
- Shawn Knight - Shawn Knight is a professional Equity actor living in Nashville, TN
- Jason Thomas Kidd
2018
- Chris Rhoton - Scenic Designer. Guest designer for 2018 production of 9 to 5.
- Jon Royal - Actor and Director. MTSU Alumni. Guest artist and contributor for TN Governors
School for the Arts.
- Melanie Mortimore - Professor of Theatre at Miami University (OH) Costume Designer
- Darius Wallace - Actor, Writer, Poet. Guest Artist for Introduction To Theatre
- George Staib - Artistic Director and founder of StaibDance
- Rebecca Steinberg - Choreographer and dance educator. Member of New Dialect dance collective
- Dorse Brown - Choreographer and performer
- Kelly Ferris Lester - Professor of Dance, University of Southern Mississippi
- Shawn Knight - Shawn Knight is a professional Equity actor living in Nashville, TN
- Marina Hunley-Graham - Artistic Director for Unto These Hills in Cherokee, NC.
- Jill McMillan - Executive Director at Arts & Business Council of Greater Nashville
- Wallace Nason
- Elizabeth Bond Lentz-Hill
- Katherine Duke Karten
- Angela Scruggs
2017
- Banning Bouldin - Nashville Native and founder of dance collective NEW DIALECT
- Elaine Bromka - Emmy Award-winning actress Elaine Bromka, with over thirty years in film, television,
Broadway and Off-Broadway
- Carolyn Conn - Associate professor of Lighting/Sound Design at Stephen F. Austin University
- Sound desginer for A Streetcar Named Desire and master class in Sound Design
- Brandon Bruce - Artistic director of Birmingham Children's Theatre - Professional Mock Audition
and Portfolio Screening
- Robin Daugherty - Agent at Talent Trek Nashville - Acting for the camera workshop
- Windship Boyd - Guest Choreographer
- Carol Ponder and Robert Keifer - writers and performers of My Father's War.
- Shawn Knight - Shawn Knight is a professional Equity actor living in Nashville, TN
2016
- Christopher K. Morgan
- Michael Lugering, master teacher of voice, movement, and acting; author of THE EXPRESSIVE ACTOR.
- Windship Boyd, professional dancer and choreographer with a classical background, recent
specialist in West African dance, creator of Papalagui
- Carol Ponder, professional actress and award-winning recording artist, co-writer and performer
for My Father's War
- Robert Keifer, multifaceted actor and director with a specialty for developing one-person shows,
co-writer and director for My Father's War
2015
- Lindsay Pierce
- Amanda K Miller
- Analia Alegre-Femenias
- Jessica Lindberg-Coxe
2014
- T. Lang
- Teena Marie Custer
- Jessie Zaritt
2013
- Angie Simmons and Amy Shelly
- Shannon Robert, scenic designer; recipient of Atlanta's 2014 Suzi Bass Award for best set design
for a musical for Mary Poppins at Aurora Theatre.
- Stafanie Batten-Bland
- Heidi Schill Clemmens
2012
- Aaron McGloin
- T. Lang
- Cynthia Gutierrez Garner
- Kanta Kochhar- Lindgren
2011
- Cynthia Gutierrez-Garner
- Holly Handman Lopez
- Tina Marie Custer
2010
- Alwin Nikolais Residency, Alberto Del Saz, Director
- Claire Porter
- Laurie Merriman
- E.E. Balcos
- Stefanie Batten-Bland
2009
- Wendy Allen
- Stefanie Batten-Bland
2008
- Ivan Pulinkala
- Mari Jo Irbe
- Sara Semonis
- Zelma Badu-Younge
- Travis Gatling
- Erica Wilson-Perkins
2007
- Zelma Badu-Younge
- Travis Gatling
- Ursula Payne
- Wrica Wilson-Perkins
2006
- Chung Fu-Chang
- Tina Marie Custer
- Ivan Pulinkala
- Zelma Badu-Younge
2005
- Heidi Clemmens
- Tina Marie Custer
- Travis Gatling
- Ivan Pulinkala
- Chung Fu-Chang
- Zelma Badu-Younge
2004
- Heidi Clemmens
- Travis Gatling
- Zelma Badu-Younge
Past Theatre and Dance Guest Artists:
- Allan Barlow, MTSU alumnus and veteran stage actor, performance of his one-man version
of A CHRISTMAS CAROL.
- Bill Bowers, mime artist and Broadway actor in THE LION KING, performance of IT GOES WITHOUT
SAYING
- Lane Davies, MTSU Theatre alumnus, TV/film and stage actor, performance and residency for ROMEO
& JULIET
- Brian O'Neil, author of ACTING AS A BUSINESS, workshop in CAREER PLANNING STRATEGIES
- Anthony Rapp, actor in RENT (stage and film), CAREER DISCUSSION session
- Nick Roesler, associate Director of Theatremakers at the National Theatre Institute of the Eugene
O'Neill Theatre Center
- Ron Hubbard, film Maker, workshop on ACTING FOR THE CAMERA
- Liz Warren, storyteller, teacher, and award-winning recording artist; performance
of AN EVENING OF IRISH FOLKS TALES
- Craig Wroe, author of AN ACTOR PREPARES TO LIVE IN NYC, master class on STARTING A CAREER IN
NEW YORK
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