Faculty and Staff
Director
Paul Steger
Design
Laurel Shoemaker
Ed Stauffer
Janice Stauffer
Sandy Veneziano
Film & New Media
Richard Endacott
Steve Kolbe
Sharon Teo
Performance / Directing
Alisa Belflower
Stan Brown
Carrie Lee Patterson
Harris Smith
Virginia Smith
Theatre Studies
Ian Borden
William Grange
Production Staff
Brad Buffum
Ann Watson
Bryan Ruhs
Office Staff
Todd Cuddy
Marilyn Duba
Julie Hagemeier
Faculty Emeritus
Shirley Carr Mason
Tice Miller
Adjunct Faculty & Guest Artists
Bob Bonaventura
Sasha Dobson
Judith K. Hart
Sarah Imes
Jeff O'Brien
Ahna Packard
Ian Borden

An actor, director, scholar and Certified Teacher of Stage Combat with the SAFD, Ian teaches a variety of classes from Scripts in Performance to Stage Combat. Recent acting credits include Act a Lady and Vino Veritas at the Nebraska Repertory Theatre, True West for the Angels Theatre Company and A Midsummer Night's Dream as well as Macbeth for Pigeon Creek Shakespeare in Michigan. He has directed a myriad of shows, including The Good Doctor and Bloody Poetry for the Carson School, and is looking forward to directing Twelfth Night in 2010.
His scholarship ranges from ancient Greek and Renaissance theatre to modern theories of performance. Fight Direction credits extend from theatres in Canada all the way to the Bahamas, and he is the founder of the Lincoln Assassination Stage Combat Workshop. Ian has a Master of Fine Arts in Acting and Directing from the University of Missouri-Kansas City and a PhD in Theatre Studies from Florida State University.








