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
Alisa Belflower
Alisa Belflower teaches courses on Musical Theatre, singing, and serves as Musical Director, Coach, and/or Director. She has worked on over 100 musical productions. Alisa earned a Masters degree and completed doctoral course work at the University of South Carolina. From Furman University, she holds a Bachelor of Music and a Bachelor of Arts in French. She was an opera apprentice to Mme Joan Van Praag in Paris, France, where she also studied theatre.
Alisa is the current Governor of Nebraska’s National Association of the Teachers of Singing and is active as a respondent for the Kennedy Center’s American College Theatre Festival. Her recent research has been in contemporary Musical Theatre, which has led to artistic exchanges with award-winning musical theatre composers. Under her direction, UNL has produced the premieres of five new musicals in the last six years.
