Robert Amsden

  Robert Amsden

 

Education

  • Ph.D., Bowling Green State University
  • M.A., Indiana University
  • B.A., University of Toledo

 

Current Courses Taught

  • Beginning Acting
  • FYS:  Masks and Faces
  • Acting II:  Mask Improvisation Workshop
  • Theatre and Drama I: Ancient and Medieval Europe and Asia
  • Theatre and Drama III: European Modern to Contemporary

 

 

 

Awards and Honors

  • Nominee for Certificate of Merit from the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival, Region III in Production Staff Excellence (scenery & lighting) for Imaginary Invalid, 2009
  • Underkofler Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching (Alliant Energy Foundation), 2008
  • Certificate of Merit from the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival, Region III in Directing for A Plague of Angels, 2008

 

 

Recent Production Credits

ACTING

  • The Prisoner of Zenda, Colonel Sapt, 2011
  • Leaving Iowa, Dad, 2011
  • If These Walls Could Talk, Alvan Bovay, 2010
  • 12 Angry Jurors, Juror #8, 2010
  • The Curious Savage, Dr. Emmett, 2009
  • Rehearsal for Death, Herb Grant, 2008
  • Laughing Stock, Vernon, 2007

DIRECTING

  • The Ash Girl, 2012
  • Cripple of Inishmaan, 2011
  • Eurydice, 2010
  • Anatomy of Gray, 2008
  • Arcadia, 2008
  • A Plague of Angels, 2007

 

Specialized Training

  • Council of Independent College’ Summer Seminar, Song Culture of Athenian Drama, 2012
  • Milwaukee Repertory Summer Conservatory in Acting Shakespeare, 2009
  • NEH Workshop in ‘Asian Cultures through Theatre’, 2006
  • Kutiyattam student  with Madame Sathi Devi of Margi company. Trivandrum, Kerala, India,  March 2004

 

 

 

Areas of Interest

  • Acting/Directing
  • Masks & Actor Movement
  • Ancient Greek Theatre
  • Henrik Ibsen and Modern Theatre
  • Kutiyattam (Ancient Indian Theatre)
  • Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival