Faculty & Staff

Laura J. Eckelman is a theatrical lighting designer, production manager, and educator. She has worked professionally with theater companies, schools, and other institutions across the country, including Yale Repertory Theatre, Studio Theatre, Theater J, Keegan Theater, Triad Stage, The Welders, Perseverance Theatre, the Bearded Ladies Cabaret, Bang on a Can’s Asphalt Orchestra, Capital Fringe, the New York Urban Theatre Festival, PTP NYC, the Byrdliffe Arts Festival, the International Festival of Arts & Ideas, University of the Incarnate Word, Connecticut College, the Bard College ...

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. Her writing has appeared in Theatre Journal, ...

 Kathryn M. Moncrief is Paris Fletcher Distinguished Professor of Humanities and Head of Humanities and Arts at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) in Worcester, MA. She was previously Professor and Chair of English at Washington College, in Chestertown, MD where she taught courses in Shakespeare, Milton, and early modern literature and culture and received the Washington College Alumni Association Award for Distinguished Teaching. She serves as co-editor of the Shakespeare Life and Times section of the Internet Shakespeare Editions and has published widely on Shakespeare and ...

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). Recently she has been a part of Company One’s CoLab as a dramaturg (2024/25), a recipient of the Next Steps for Boston Dance grant (2024/25), an artist in residence at The Rensing Center in Borseda, Italy (2022), and supported by NEFA, SC Arts Commission, Mass Cultural ...

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. Professor Rule is also a professional designer and technician, with work seen in Colorado, Illinois, Massachusetts, ...

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. During their tenure at Bridge Rep, Livy enjoyed multiple ...

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. From my work in the theater, I have ...