and serving as the Executive Wig Designer for Seven Ages’ production of Mozart , L’Opera Rock in Beijing, China. Instagram: @DennisMIlamBensieWigs
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
Rayme Cornell (she/her) • Associate Professor, Acting • Associate Producer
• MFA, Purdue University • At Webster since 1998 • finlaydo@webster.edu
• 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
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 the festival since 1989, directing The Merry Wives of Windsor , Pericles , Hamlet and Romeo and Juliet . Other recent work includes Company at Insight Theatre Company, Eleemosynary at Mustardseed Theatre Company and Time Stands Still at New Jewish Theatre. Long associated with New Jewish Theatre, Doug’s directing projects for the company include The Sunshine Boys , The Whipping Man , Via Dolorosa , Lost in Yonkers , Lebensraum and Way to Heaven . In 2008, he won the Kevin Kline Award for Best Director of a Play for New Jewish Theatre’s Kindertransport . Doug has directed around the country for Court Theatre in Chico, California; Evidence Room in Los Angles; Wheeler Opera House in Aspen; Belfry Theatre in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin; New American Theatre in Rockford, Illinois; and Madison Rep in Madison, Wisconsin. Doug started his career in Chicago. From 1983–88, he served as Associate Artistic Director to Robert Falls and Richard E.T. White at Wisdom Bridge Theatre in Chicago, where he directed Painting Churches , The Immigrant , ‘Night Mother, Hunting Cockroaches and Circe & Bravo. Doug received the 2018 William T. Kemper Award for Excellence in Teaching at Webster University.
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