Dunsi Dai ( he/him )
Music Circus. Bensie’s film and TV wig credits include HBO’s Three Busy Debras , Hulu’s The Jinkx and DeLa Holiday Special , and the indie feature film Potato Dreams of America .
› Professor, Scene Design › BA, Central Academy of Drama (China)
› MA, Stanford University › MFA, University of Illinois › At Webster since 1996 › daidu@webster.edu
Rayme Cornell ( she/her ) › Associate Professor, Acting › Associate Producer
Dunsi has designed scenery for off- Broadway and regional theatres across the country. His favorite designs include Rita’s Resource (Pan Asian Rep, NYC), Once Upon a Mattress (Brook Hollow Players, NY), Carmen (Trenton State Theatre, NJ), Desert Song (Hampton Playhouse, NH), West Side Story (Struthers Library Theatre, PA), Marat/ Sade (Stanford Rep, CA), Big River (Human Race Theatre, OH), and Blues in Alabama Sky (True Color Theatre, GA). In the Midwest region, his favorite designs include Wit (Repertory Theatre St. Louis), Waiting for Godot (St. Louis Black Repertory Theatre), Fiddler on the Roof (STAGES St. Louis), Hanna’s Suitcase (Metro Theatre Company), Old Wicked Songs (New Jewish Theatre), 1776 (Arrow Rock Lyceum Theatre), Two Headed (Black Cat Theatre), Remnant (Mustard Seed Theatre), Indecent (Max & Louie Productions), and Glass Menagerie (Tennessee Williams Festival). Dunsi won the Kevin Kline Award for Outstanding Set Design in 2008. He is a member of United Scenic Artists Local 829. Dunsi has been endorsed by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch as the Best Scene Designer on the 2015 Go List. Website: faculty.webster.edu/daidu
› BA, University of Nevada Las Vegas › MFA, Acting & Directing, University of Missouri Kansas City › At Webster since 2018 › raymecornell08@webster.edu Rayme has been a professional actor for over 25 years. She is a member of the Screen Actors Guild, American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, and Actors’ Equity Association. Rayme began her teaching career as an Assistant Professor in the Stage and Screen Acting program at the University of Nevada Las Vegas, where she taught in the graduate and undergraduate performance programs. Rayme was the host of the award- winning PBS show Real Moms, Real Stories, Real Savvy. She has worked in film, television, Off Broadway, and with some of the most prestigious regional theatres in the Unites States: The Old Globe, The Alley Theatre, Crossroads, The New York Acting Company, The Repertory Theatre of Saint Louis, Shakespeare Santa Cruz, St. Louis Shakespeare Co., Philadelphia Theatre Co., New York’s Primary Stages, Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Co., Arizona Theatre Co., Vineyard Playhouse, The O’Neill, Missouri Repertory Theatre, and Tennessee William Festival St. Louis. Rayme is a private coach for professionals and a Teaching Artist at the Don LaFontaine VO Lab for the SAG Foundation in LA and New York. Her clients range from network news anchors and celebrity chefs to UFC champions. Rayme is known for her extensive voice-over work. She has represented such products as L’Oreal, Ford, Dunkin Donuts, Uber, Lifetime, WE, Oxygen, USA Network, History and Discovery Channels, MTV, VH1, BET, ESPN, and many more. Her greatest role to date is that of being Brick’s mom.
Doug Finlayson ( he/him ) › Professor, Directing › Head, Directing Program › BA, Baldwin Wallace College
› MFA, Purdue University › At Webster since 1998 › finlaydo@webster.edu
Doug has been the Head of Directing at Webster University since 1998. He recently directed The Comedy of Errors at the Illinois Shakespeare Festival. Doug has worked with
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