Theatre and Drama – Badger Talks – UW–Madison

Aly Amidei

mreinfeldt — Wed, 16 Nov 2022 16:26:10 +0000

Aly Amidei is a costume designer and playwright focusing on new works and re-envisioned classics. Recently, her research has been on improving access and inclusion in costume design practices and theatre pedagogy for people with disabilities. As a playwright, she has written stage adaptations for theatre for young audiences as well as horror plays, audio dramas, and immersive theatre. A future area of research for her is on immersive theatre and the growing complexity of costume design for video games.

Susan Brantly

mreinfeldt — Mon, 03 Mar 2025 20:09:51 +0000

Susan Brantly is a professor of Scandinavian Studies at UW-Madison. She specializes in 19th-century Scandinavian literature and culture and the author, Isak Dinesen. She has worked as a consultant for the Broadway sequel to Ibsen’s A Doll’s House and for the LMIGroup to help discover the stories behind a recently discovered painting by Vincent van Gogh. She has been featured on Wisconsin Public Radio and Wisconsin Public Television.

Baron Kelly

jbedermann — Mon, 01 Feb 2021 18:27:27 +0000

Baron Kelly is a four-time Fulbright Scholar who has worked nationally and internationally on Broadway, regional theatre, and in television and film. He trained at London’s Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts and holds a Ph.D. in Theatre from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is widely published author and sits on numerous editorial boards including The Harold Pinter Review and the Comparative Drama Conference.

Unavailable for spring 2024.

Jean Laurenz

jbedermann — Thu, 26 May 2022 15:29:11 +0000

Jean Laurenz is a trumpet player specializing in classical and contemporary chamber music. She is also a singer, actress, film maker, and producer of interdisciplinary multi-media art and music shows. She has performed with Adele, Kanye West, and various classical institutions around the world.

Sandy Peterson

mreinfeldt — Tue, 14 Feb 2023 20:30:49 +0000

Dr. Sandy Peterson earned her PhD in Interdisciplinary Theatre Studies and has been teaching theatre for cultural and social awareness for over a decade. She uses theatre to engage audiences in dialogue about meaningful and sometimes sensitive subject matter, to encourage students to explore and experience difference, and to empower and transform communities.

Megan Reilly

mreinfeldt — Fri, 03 Feb 2023 17:03:28 +0000

Megan Reilly is an assistant professor of lighting and media design at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her designs have been seen nationally in Texas, Arkansas, San Francisco, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Minneapolis, and Madison, and also internationally in Dublin, Edinburgh, and Portugal. She researches and writes on immersive theatre and immersive technologies, and is currently working on a VR project about performance artist Adrian Howells. In 2022 Megan was a fellow with Odyssey Works, studying experience design methods and creating a one-time, one-audience member performance that stretched over three days. She is also the co-head of the Digital Media Commission within USITT.

Amy Zelenski

mreinfeldt — Fri, 27 Jan 2023 16:21:55 +0000

Amy B. Zelenski, PhD, is an Associate Professor and the Director of Education Innovation and Scholarship for the Department of Medicine in the School of Medicine and Public Health at UW- Madison. She designs curriculum and teaches improv, communication, empathy, teamwork, and self-awareness skills to medical professionals. Her research focuses on teaching physicians how to engage in empathic behaviors with their patients, learners, and interprofessional colleagues and how building skill in empathic behavior can increase the quality of patient care and decrease healthcare provider burnout and personal distress.