Full-Time Faculty
Our full-time faculty is comprised of educators and theatremakers with a wide range of experiences. For a full, up-to-date list of artists working at Webster’s Sargent Conservatory of Theatre Arts, please visit our website or scan the QR code below.
Little Town, an ensemble-based sketch comedy troupe, and Oregon Children’s Theatre. He has directed for St. Louis Shakespeare Co., Metro Theatre Co., the Tennessee Williams Festival St. Louis, YoungLiars and the Shakespeare Theatre in Washington, D.C. Jef served as movement director for the Great River Shakespeare Festival for four years and for YoungLiars Theatre Co. where he is a company member. In the spring of 2022, he completed his training as an Alexander Technique teacher at Soma Studios in Minneapolis. Joanna Battles (she/her) • Associate Professor, Acting, Voice & Speech • Head of Recruitment for Performance • BFA, Acting, New York University • MFA, Acting, Brown/Trinity • Certificate, Fitzmaurice Voicework™ • Certification, Yoga Buzz 200 hour, emphasis in trauma informed practice • Certification, Seven Pillars Acting Technique • At Webster since 2013 • joannabattles07@webster.edu Joanna is a professional actor and director, as well as a voice, speech and dialect coach for theatre and film. Since moving to St. Louis in 2013, Joanna has worked extensively as a Dialect Coach at the Repertory Theatre St. Louis, New Jewish Theatre, St. Louis Actor’s Studio and the MUNY. In addition to serving as a Text Coach for St. Louis Shakespeare Festival, Joanna acted in the Shakespeare in the Streets production of Ghosts of Maplewood , and directed the Educational Tours of Macbeth , Hamlet , Julius Caesar and Romeo and Juliet . At the Conservatory, Joanna most recently directed Alice Birch’s Revolt. She said. Revolt again . During the 2023-24 school year, Joanna participated in the third certification class for Seven Pillars
Jef Awada (he/him)
• Professor, Movement • Head, Performance Programs • BFA Acting, Emerson College • Certificate, Professional Training Program, Dell’Arte School of Physical Theatre • MFA Performance Pedagogy, University of Pittsburgh • Certificate, Alexander Teacher Training, Soma Studios • At Webster Conservatory of Theatre Arts • since August 2006 • jeffreyawada43@webster.edu Jef is a director, movement coach and teacher. His interest in diverse perspectives on movement training has led him to study traditional commedia dell’arte with Giovanni Fusetti, Suzuki technique with Yukihiro Goto, clown with Philippe Gaulier and Ronlin Foreman and Russian scenic movement with Andrei Droznin. Prior to earning his MFA, Jef worked as an actor in New York and around the country. Highlights include: New Works festivals at P.S. 122 and The American Livingroom Series at HERE in New York City, co-founder/performer/writer of Scary
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