Webster University Sargent Conservatory of Theatre Arts

Renee Garcia (she/her) • Assistant Professor, Costume Design • BA, Florida State University • MFA, University of Missouri–Kansas City

to second-year movement, he teaches the second-year acting sequence. As an actor, he has worked extensively in St. Louis and throughout the country. St. Louis venues include The Municipal Opera of St. Louis (more than 43 productions), the Shakespeare Festival of St. Louis (16 seasons), The Repertory Theater of St. Louis, Mustard Seed Theatre, The New Jewish Theatre and the Variety Children’s Theatre. Regional credits include work at the Starlight Theatre in Kansas City, Wisconsin Shakespeare Company and the Colorado Shakespeare Festival. In Chicago, he has worked with The Apple Tree Theater, Chicago Shakespeare Repertory, Lifeline Theatre and Pegasus Players. He has developed several new plays for the former St. Louis One-Act Play Festival. He is a recipient of the William T. Kemper Excellence in Teaching Award and a graduate of Webster University’s Global Leadership Academy (2016). Gary is a member of Actor’s Equity. He obtained his certification in Pilates through Pilates Unlimited in 2006, and in 2019, he completed the prestigious National Alliance of Acting Teachers-Teacher Development Program. Gad Guterman (he/him) • Associate Professor, Theatre History • Department Chair • BA, Cornell University • MA, New York University • PhD, The Graduate Center, City University of New York • At Webster since 2011 • gadguterman95@webster.edu Gad is the author of Performance , Identity , and Immigration Law: A Theatre of Undocumentedness . The book considers how contemporary U.S. theatre has presented so-called undocumented immigrants and how legal labels participate in processes of identity. Gad’s essays have appeared in Theatre Survey , Theatre Journal , Contemporary Theatre Review , the Journal of American Drama and Theatre and in the edited collections American Multicultural Identity , Theatre

• At Webster since 2022 • reneegarcia@webster.edu

Renee Garcia is a professional costume designer (Local USA 829) who has designed for more than 30 theatre, dance and film productions. She has designed costumes for Metro Theatre Company, Moonstone Theatre Company, Arkansas University, Charleston Stage Company, Lake Dillon Theatre Company, Riverside Theater Shakespeare Festival, Unicorn Theater, Coterie Theater, Brick Monkey Theater Ensemble, portOPERA and for the independent movie Burning Man . Garcia’s costume designs for As You Like It were displayed in the USA National Exhibit in the 2015 Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space. The PQ is the world’s largest performance design exhibit in the world, often compared to the Olympics or World’s Fair for designers. Her designs were also displayed in the Vestuario a Escena MX, AC’s international exhibit, Scenic Costume Design, at the National Center for the Arts in Mexico City in 2022. Garcia’s awards include the USITT Fellows Early Career Member Mentoring Assistance Award, the USITT Ezekiel Board Choice Winner and the USITT Ezekiel Award of Outstanding Achievement for her costume designs in As You Like It . Before teaching at Webster, Garcia taught costume design at the University of Southern Maine, Ohio University and Oklahoma State University.

Gary Glasgow (he/him) • Professor, Acting

• BA, Vanderbilt University • BFA, Webster University • MFA, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

• At Webster since 1993 • glasgoga@webster.edu

Gary Glasgow has been a faculty member in the Conservatory of Theatre Arts at Webster University since 1993, where, in addition

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