D. Lance Marsh
Professor of Acting and Head of Performance
D. Lance Marsh serves as Head of Performance and as a Professor
in the School of Theatre where he teaches many of the upper division
acting courses, including Chekhov, Shakespeare, Greek Tragedy, Audition
Techniques and Comedy. Lance was the 2015 recipient of the Oklahoma City
University Outstanding Faculty Award. He directed
Cosi, which was a Region VI Finalist production in the
Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival, and was nominated (one
of only 17 shows in the country) to go to the Kennedy Center. For the
company, he has also directed
Man and Superman,
Twelfth Night,
Pride and Prejudice,
The Importance of Being Earnest (twice — once as a co-production with Oklahoma Shakespeare in the Park and Oklahoma City Rep),
Three Sisters,
Uncle Vanya,
Hamlet,
Dancing at Lughnasa,
The Trojan Women (which he also adapted),
A Midsummer Night’s Dream,
Othello,
The Merchant of Venice (a co-production with Oklahoma Shakespeare in the Park) and
The House of Atreus, a massive four-play Greek tragic
saga, for which Professor Marsh also did the adaptation. The Company
also produced his adaptation of Charles Dickens’
A Christmas Carol recently.
Lance also serves as the Associate Artistic Director for Oklahoma Shakespeare in the Park (where he directed
Misalliance and acted in
Hamlet in 2009 and directed
A Comedy of Errors in 2010,
The Seagull in 2011,
Othello in 2012,
Measure for Measure in 2013,
Macbeth in 2014, and G.B. Shaw’s
You Never Can Tell this summer. He recently acted in the Oklahoma City Theatre Company production of
A Streetcar Named Desire as Mitch.
Before coming to OCU, Lance taught at the Professional
Actor Training Program at the University of Arizona, as well as at the
University of Wisconsin-Madison, and at the University of
Wisconsin-Baraboo/Sauk County. He holds a BFA in Theatre (Acting) from
Stephens College and an MFA in Acting from UW-Madison. He was a founding
company member of the Central Works Theatre Ensemble in California, and
the founding Artistic Director of the Summerset Theatre in Wisconsin.
Before becoming a teacher, Lance spent over fifteen years
as a professional actor, primarily performing in classical plays. He has
appeared at the Berkeley Repertory Theatre, the Western Stage, the
California Shakespeare Festival, the Okoboji Summer Theatre, Next Act
Theatre, First Stage Children’s Theatre, the Milwaukee Chamber Theatre,
the Wisconsin Shakespeare Festival, the Milwaukee Shakespeare Company,
the Texas Shakespeare Festival, and the Arizona Repertory Theatre and
was a company member for 5 years at American Players Theatre. A proud
member of Actors Equity and an Associate Artist at Oklahoma City Rep, he
recently he has performed in the City Rep productions of
Our Town, Hay Fever, Moonlight and Magnolias, August: Osage County, Much Ado About Nothing, and as Mark Rothko in
Red. He is currently in the cast of
Peter and the Starcatcher, a co-production between
TheatreOCU and City Rep. He has directed professionally in California,
Missouri, Iowa, Arizona and Wisconsin and directed
The Glass Menagerie for City Rep a few years ago.
Sarah d'Angelo
Associate Professor of Acting
Sarah d'Angelo currently serves as the Head of Lower Division
Performance as well as a Professor in the School of Theatre. She teaches
all levels of acting, improvisation, and voice and dialects. While at
OCU she has directed “Crumbs from the Table of Joy,” “Another Part of
the House,” “Water by the Spoonful”, “Two Birds and a Stone”, and “The
Complete Works of Wm. Shakespeare-Abridged” as part of President Henry’s
Inaugural Celebration. Additionally, she has served as a vocal and
dialect coach for TheatreOCU and School of Music productions as well as
for City Rep, Oklahoma Shakespeare in the Park, Oklahoma Children’s
Theatre and Contemporary Theatre of Dallas. She has performed across the
country in theatres such as the Seattle Group Theatre, The New City
Theatre, Freehold, Greenstage, Theatre Schmeatre, Missoula Children's
Theatre, Oklahoma City Rep and the Skirball Cultural Center in Los
Angeles as well as in film, television and voice-overs. She is a proud
member of SAG/AFTRA and AEA. Her creative and scholarly interests
include Indigenous performance, multi-media performance, and art as
activism. She co- authored the book “Pedagogies for Student-Centered
Learning: Online and On-Ground” which published last fall.
Kate Brennan
Assistant Professor of Voice
A recent transplant from NYC, Kate is a performer, educator and
creator. Kate’s teaching roster has included University of Virginia,
Temple University, St. Joseph's University, Rosemont College, and
Montgomery County College among others. Most recently, she taught in NYC
with Theatre Direct International's Broadway Classroom program, HB
Studio, and McCarter Theatre Center in Princeton. In 2012, Kate became
Artistic Director of the nonprofit theatre company BCKSEET Productions (
www.bckseet.com)
where she founded the education program, BCKSEET Ignition. BCKSEET
produced two of her original musicals: Some Assembly Required in 2010
with an accompanying cast album, and ELFuego in 2012. An Equity actor,
select credits include: Angels in America I & II (Harper, BCKSEET),
Bachelorette (Katie, Luna Theatre Co.), [title of show] (Susan,
Mauckingbird Theatre Co.) and Dead Man’s Cell Phone (Jean, Simpatico
Theatre Co.). Kate is creating a new approach to working for the artist
that cultivates the whole self called Check-In (
www.brennancheckin.com).
Check-In was piloted at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill,
at McCarter Theatre Center and at CAP21 Studios in NY last year. She
will continue to develop it with her students at OCU. Drawing from a
unique combination of Linklater Voicework, Vinyasa Yoga, Thai Bodywork
and Artistic Exercises, Check-In develops a creative habit that not only
caters to the artist's performance skills, but serves the artist
outside of the rehearsal hall. Check-In reinforces the resilience,
stamina, resourcefulness, connection, confidence, initiative, positivity
and health required to maintain a life in the arts.This summer Kate
received her Linklater Designation at the KLVC Center in Orkney, one of
two Americans selected. She has trained with Shakespeare & Company,
Tina Packer, Louis Colaianni, Kristin Linklater, Andrea Haring, Andrew
Wade, and Kimberly White among others. Kate received her 200-hr. Yoga
Teaching Certificate from Yogamaya, where she taught prior to moving to
OKC. She is also certified in Thai Bodywork. Kate holds an MFA from The
University of Virginia.
Luke Eddy
Instructor of Movement and Acting
Luke Thomas Eddy teaches Movement and Stage Combat for Oklahoma
City University’s School of Theatre. He received his MFA in Acting from
the Professional Actor Training Program at the University of Houston
and his BA in Theatre from Marietta College. Luke has performed on stage
and in films at the regional, national, and international levels,
including productions at The American Shakespeare Center, Stages
Repertory Theatre, the Texas Shakespeare Festival, the Houston
Shakespeare Festival, River City Repertory Theatre, and Oklahoma City
Shakespeare in the Park. He’s also worked at regional theaters and
universities as a director, fight director, movement coach, or dialect
coach on productions including Other Desert Cities, Into The Woods, By
The Bog Of Cats, Macbeth, The Glory of Living, Noises Off, and Spring
Awakening. Luke is a member of the Society of American Fight Directors,
the Association of Theatre Movement Educators, Actors’ Equity
Association, and is in the final stages of becoming a Certified
Feldenkrais Practitioner.
Tim Fall
Visiting Assistant Professor of On-Camera Acting
Timothy Fall is an actor, independent producer, director and writer based in Oklahoma City.
He joins the faculty after previously serving as an adjunct
professor from 2009-2013. In 2012 Fall was nominated for the
University's Outstanding Adjunct Instructor Award.
He wrote, produced and directed numerous short film
projects as part of the On-Camera Acting track he developed, one of
which, "A Complicated Matter," was selected for the deadCenter Film
Festival in 2013. Many students involved in these projects earned
SAG/AFTRA eligibility.
As an actor, Fall starred with Bob Newhart in the CBS
series “Bob”. He was a series regular on UPN’s “Pig Sty” and CBS’s “Good
Company”. Over two decades in Los Angeles he performed in more than 50
television shows and films, and continues to work in film and on stage
regionally. In OKC he has appeared at Carpenter Square, OCU and with
Oklahoma Shakespeare in the Park.
As a writer he produced two ABC pilots and worked on staff
for WB’s “Men, Women & Dogs”. Recently he wrote episodes of the TBS
comedy "Sullivan and Son" in each of its three seasons.
Dr. David Pasto
Professor of Theatre
Dr. Pasto is an actor, director, playwright, translator, and
theatre historian. He has acted and directed for many theaters in
Oklahoma, including Carpenter Square Theatre, Synchronicity Theatre, and
Oklahoma Shakespeare in the Park. His translation of a Spanish Golden
Age play, The House of Trials by Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, won the
Franklin G. Smith Award for excellence in translation and has been
published by Peter Lang Publishers. He teaches play analysis, theatre
history, acting, and directing at OCU.
Jeanie Sholer
Adjunct Professor
Jeanie Cooper Sholer has been teaching Acting, Improvisation
and Makeup at OCU since 2007. She has taught at UCLA, OSU, and Webster
University. She has been a proud member of Actor's Equity Association
for 34 years and is also a member of SAG and AFTRA. Jeanie has performed
title roles at Lyric Theatre which include SWEET CHARITY, MAME,
IRENE,UNSINKABLE MOLLY BROWN AND ANNIE GET YOUR GUN. Other roles include
Daisy in DRIVING MISS DAISY, Boo in LAST NIGHT OF BALLYHOO and Grandma
in GRAPES OF WRATH at City Rep. Last spring she played E.M. Ashford in
OCTC's production of WIT. She was also a solo performer with the OKC
philharmonic's ELIS ISLAND, A DREAM OF AMERICAL. She has performed at
South Coast Rep, The Direct Theatre, St Louis Rep and Boulder Playhouse.
She studied with Uta Hagen at the H B Studio in New York. Her
improvisation training is from The Second City in Chicago. Her degree is
from UCLA. Jeanie directed THE FARNSWORTH INVENTION and IT'S A
WONDERFUL LIFE: A LIVE RADIO PLAY at OCU. Jeanie is a Certified Acting
Teacher with the National Michael Chekhov Association and has taught two
Acting Intensive Workshops. She has done numerous voice overs for
national and regional television commercials, has appeared in several
feature films, television series and commercials. Jeanie lives in Edmond
with her husband, Chris. They have one daughter, Jane.
Hal Kohlman
Adjunct Professor
Hal Kohlman teaches acting and directing at OCU and has done so
since 2009. Previously he taught acting, play analysis, and makeup at
UCO. He holds a BA in English Literature from Rice University and a MFA
in Directing for the Stage from the University of Texas at Austin. He
also spent three additional years studying theatre history, theory and
criticism at the University of California in Santa Barbara. Between
degree programs he spent a summer working with and learning from the
National Theatre of Great Britain. Hal works locally as a director and
actor for the many community theatres in the area but most especially,
he has worked continuously with Oklahoma Shakespeare in the Park since
1998 where he has performed in over 35 productions and directed three.
Notable roles include Macbeth, Scrooge, Prospero, Leontes, Lord Capulet,
Shylock, and currently, King Lear. Hal was recently inducted into
Oklahoma Shakespeare in the Park's Hall of Honor. He has been married to
Lou Ann for over twenty years and has a son that he can't stop talking
about named Ivan.
Stephen Wrentmore
Adjunct Professor
Stephen Wrentmore is a British-born theatre director,
passionate about the transformational power that theatre has on our
lives. Until recently he was Associate Artistic Director of Arizona
Theatre Company where he also lead on Learning & Education vision
and deployment. He has directed and taught professionally across the
world, predominantly Shakespeare and contemporary plays in both
non-profit and commercial theaters. At ATC he has directed The
Importance of Being Earnest, Freud’s Last Session, Jane Austen’s Emma,
The Great Gatsby, Macbeth and Copenhagen. Mr. Wrentmore was also the
founder and curator of Café Bohemia, ATC’s new play reading series, for
which he has directed Albatross by Matthew Spangler, Los Matadores by
Silvia Gonzalez S., Hunka by Larissa FastHorse, Used to Was (Maybe Did)
by Brian Dykstra, Kill Shakespeare by Anthony Del Col & Conor
McCreary and a new adaptation of War of the Worlds by Carrie J. Cole,
after H.G. Wells. In New York Mr. Wrentmore directed readings of Used to
Was (Maybe Did) at the Lark Play Development Center and Archipelago by
Caridad Svich at Primary Stages. In the U.K., productions include
Loveplay by Moira Buffini, Picasso’s Women for the Ambassador Theatre
Group, Richard Hurford’s Bedevilled at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield
and the world premiere of Howard Barker’s Wounds to the Face. He was
Artistic Director of The Byre Theatre in Scotland where he directed,
amongst other plays, Not about Heroes, The 39 Steps, The Twits, Loot,
Translations, Private Lives and Vincent in Brixton. International
highlights include The Cripple of Inishmaan by Martin McDonagh and Far
Away by Caryl Churchill at Meyerhold Theatre, Moscow and Theatre5, Omsk;
The Lieutenant of Inishmore by Martin McDonagh at the National Theatre,
Kosovo; The Country by Martin Crimp at National Theatre in Belgrade,
Serbia; Para Venezuela in Tromso, Norway. Mr. Wrentmore has worked as a
consultant for Tate Galleries in London to explore and articulate their
ethos to learning and spent 2010 as a visiting academic at Hertford
College, Oxford University, developing a thesis on cathedrals of
culture. Recent publications include an essay in Caridad Svich edited
collection, Innovation in Five Acts. Mr. Wrentmore studied at Cambridge
University and the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, and is a
graduate of the Clore Leadership Programme.
