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Theatre and Dance graduates work in a variety of institutions, fields and disciplines. The following is a sampling of alumni of the Performance as Public Practice program.
Abimbola Adelakun, Ph.D. 2017, Assistant Professor, Department of African and African Diaspora Studies, The University of Texas at Austin
Angela Ahlgren, Ph.D. 2011, Ahlgren Consulting, LLC
Oluwabukola Aluko-Kpotie, Ph.D. 2011, Executive Director, Lagos Museum and Research Centre; Director, Designs for Life Social Enterprises
Dotun Ayobade, Ph.D. 2016, Assistant Professor, Performance Studies and African American Studies, Northwestern University
Yunina Barbour-Payne, Ph.D. 2024, Rising Scholar Fellow, Department of Drama, University of Virginia (winner of UT's 2025 Outstanding Dissertation Award)
Heather Barfield, Ph.D. 2012, Director of Finance and Operations, Austin Creative Alliance; Associate Artistic Director, VORTEX Repertory Theatre; Adjunct Professor, Drama, Austin Community College
Jane Barnette, Ph.D. 2003, Professor, Department of Theatre, University of Kansas
R. Scott Blackshire, Ph.D. 2018, Director of the McCall School of Visual and Performing Arts, School of Visual & Performing Arts, Coker University
Paul Bonin-Rodriguez, Professor, Music, Theatre & Drama, Entrepreneurship & Leadership
Chase Bringardner, Ph.D. 2008, Chair and Professor, Department of Theatre and Dance, Auburn University; President of the Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE)
Margaret Brooker, M.F.A. 2009, Professor, Dance, Southern Mississippi University
Zoë Crabtree, M.A. 2017, Content Specialist, Mount Holyoke
Clare Croft, Ph.D. 2010, Associate Professor, American Culture, and Faculty Director of Arts Research/Creative Practice, University of Michigan
Jessica Del Vecchio, M.A. 2010, Assistant Professor of Theatre, James Madison University
Christina Gutierrez Dennehy, Ph.D. 2013, Assistant Professor, Theatre History and Theatre for Youth, Western Washington University
Zachary Dorsey, Ph.D. 2007, Assistant Professor of Theatre and Theatre Arts Coordinator, School of Theatre and Dance, James Madison University
Michelle Dvoskin, Ph.D. 2010, Associate Professor and Theatre Program Coordinator, Department of Theatre and Dance, Western Kentucky University
Christin Essin, Ph.D. 2006, Professor, Theatre History, Department of Theatre, Vanderbilt University
Denise Forbes-Erickson, Ph.D. 2013, Assistant Professor, African American Theatre and Dramatic Literature, Department of Theatre and Dance, Sacramento State University
Natalie Goodnow, M.F.A. 2015, Associate Program Director, Creative Action, Austin
Thomas Graves, M.F.A. 2008, Co-Producing Artistic Director, Rude Mechs, Austin
Nicole Gurgel-Seefeldt, M.F.A. 2012, Performer; Communications Manager and Editor, Alternate Roots Journal
Rebecca Hewett, Ph.D. 2010, Executive Director of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation
Lindsay Hockaday, M.A. 2010, Associate Producer, Elevator Repair Service, New York
Kelly Howe, Ph.D. 2010, Associate Professor of Theatre, Loyola University Chicago; Former President of Pedagogy and Theatre of the Oppressed, Inc. (PTO)
Jill Inderstrodt, M.A. 2009, Associate Professor, Ivy Tech Community College
Kristen Jackson, M.A. 2014, Connectivity Director, Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
Je Hye Kim, Ph.D. 2007, Assistant Professor, Ewha Womans University Center for General Education, Seoul, South Korea
Jennifer Kokai, Ph.D. 2008, Associate Professor and Theatre Program Coodinator, Weber State University
Kristin Leahey, Ph.D. 2012, Resident Dramaturg, Northlight Theater, Skokie, IL
Erica Lies, M.A. 2008, Oral Historian, Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin
Natasha Lindsay, Ph.D. 2017, Assistant Professor, Department of Theatre, Central Washington University
Michael Love, M.F.A. 2020, Assistant Professor, Dance, Ursinus College
Shelly Manis, Ph.D. 2010, Lecturer IV, Sweetland Center for Writing, University of Michigan
Lindsey Mantoan, M.A. 2010, Assistant Professor of Theatre, Linfield College
Nicole Martin, Ph.D. 2015, Assistant Professor, Women's and Gender Studies and Director of Inclusive Excellence and Diversity Education, University of Kentucky
Nikiko Masumoto, M.A. 2010, Organic peach farmer and author, Masumoto Family Farm
James McMaster, M.A. 2014, Assistant Professor, Gender and Women's Studies and Asian American Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Marcus McQuirter, Ph.D. 2012, Chair and Professor of Drama, Department of Drama, Austin Community College
Sarah Meyers, M.F.A. 2009, Associate Professor and Chair of Theater Arts, Department of Theater, Augsburg College
Erica Nagel, M.F.A. 2011, Deputy Director, New Jersey Theatre Alliance
Chuyun Oh, Ph.D. 2015, Professor, Dance Theory, School of Music and Dance, San Diego State University
Agatha Oliveira, Ph.D. 2019, Assistant Professor in the Department of Corporeal Art at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
Jesse O’Rear, Ph.D. 2020, Visiting Assistant Professor, ACES Fellow in Performance Studies, Texas A&M University
Eleanor Owicki, Ph.D. 2013, Assistant Professor, Department of Theatre, Drama and Contemporary Dance, Indiana University
Jack Isaac Pryor, Ph.D. 2011, Associate Professor of Integrative Arts and Head of the Theatre Program, Penn State Abington
Rudy Ramirez, M.A. 2017, Associate Artistic Director, The VORTEX Theatre, Austin; founder of Avante Theatre Project
Alexis Riley, Ph.D. 2023, Postdoctoral Fellow, Theatre & Dance, University of Michigan
Ramón Rivera-Servera, Ph.D. 2003, Dean of the College of Fine Arts, The University of Texas at Austin
Mason Rosenthal, M.F.A. 2020, Post-M.F.A. Fellow in Applied Performance at Virginia Tech
Roén Salinas, Ph.D. 2016, Artistic Director, Aztlan Dance Company, Austin
Margaret Savilonis, Ph.D. 2004, Associate Professor, English and Theatre Arts, University of New Haven
Susanne Shawyer, Ph.D. 2008, Associate Professor of Theater, Elon University
Fadi Skeiker, Ph.D. 2009, Professor of Theatre, and Chair of the Department of Theatre and Visual Arts Department, Fordham University.
Tamara Smith, Ph.D. 2011, Competition Administrator, Nova Scotia Public Service Commission
Amy Steiger, Ph.D. 2006, Assistant Professor of Theater, St. Mary's College of Maryland
Mary Katherine Stickel, M.A. 2009, Drama Teacher, Linz International School, Austria
Meg Sullivan, M.F.A. 2007, Executive Artistic Director, The Manton Avenue Project, Providence
Susan Gayle Todd, Ph.D. 2009, Producing Artistic Director, Austin Scottish Rite Theatre
Katelyn Hale Wood, Ph.D. 2014, Associate Professor of Theatre History, Department of Drama, University of Virginia