Faculty & Staff

Sarah Lucie
Assistant Teaching Professor, Humanities and Arts - HUA

Phone: +1 (508) 8315000 x6098

Sarah Lucie earned her PhD in Theater and Performance from The Graduate Center, City University of New York, and MA in Performance Studies from New York University. Her research approaches contemporary performance and digital art through new materialism, ecocritical theory, and posthumanism. Her current book project, Acting Objects: Staging New Materialism, Posthumanism and the Ecocritical Crisis in Contemporary Performance, explores the critical eco-conscious potential of the human–non-human relationships on the contemporary stage. ...

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Alexandria Nunweiler
Alexandria Nunweiler  (She/her)
Adjunct Teaching Professor, Humanities and Arts - HUA

Alexandria Nunweiler is an active choreographer, educator, and arts administrator based in Boston, MA. She holds a BA in Dance (Winthrop University, Rock Hill, SC), MSc in International Business (Hult International Business School, Boston, MA & Shanghai, China) and 200 hour RYT certification (Jenny Lane Yoga, Beverly, MA). ...

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Peter M. Rule
Peter M. Rule  (He/They)
Assistant Teaching Professor, Humanities and Arts - HUA

Phone: +1 (508) 8315000 x5116

Peter M. Rule is a theatrical scenographer, and their interests center on the interaction of design areas: they are fascinated by puppetry; practical and unconventional lighting; live and field-recorded sound; and expressionist scenery. Their scholarship is influenced by an interest in New-Historicist, Postcolonial, and Marxist literary theory, and they have taught dramaturgical seminars encouraging students to consider literary theory as an essential part of theatrical practice. ...

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Olivia Scanlon
Adjunct Teaching Professor, Humanities and Arts - HUA

Livy Scanlon (they/she) is a Worcester-based theatre professional working as a producer, director, actor, and teaching artist. They currently serve as artistic director of The Hanover Theatre Repertory (THT Rep) and managing director of the Jean McDonough Arts Center (JMAC). International and regional credits include Prague Shakespeare Company, Urbanite Theatre, Central Square Theatre, Commonwealth Shakespeare, Trinity Rep, Asolo Rep, Paper Mill Playhouse, Hartford Stage and Bridge Rep, which Livy founded and helmed for five years. ...

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Steve Taylor
PR - Professor, The Business School

Phone: +1 (508) 8315000 x5557

My research is focused in two areas: Organizational aesthetics takes seriously the idea that management is as much an art as it is a science, and applies art-based scholarship and practice to management and organizations. Reflective practice is the ability to analyze our own actions and learn from that how to be more effective, ethical, and artful as managers and leaders. At the heart of my work as a researcher and teacher, is my own practice as a playwright. My plays have been performed in England, France, Poland, Canada, New Zealand, Italy, and the USA. ...

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Student Staff Opportunities

Squad 

WPI Theatre employs a team of student workers (called Squad) who support WPI Theatre facilities and productions. Interested? Contact Technical Director Katie Hamilton.

 

Administrative and Archival Work

Students also engage in administrative and archival work, as WPI Theatre office staff. Interested? Contact Professor Laura Eckelman