Laura Early Assistant Professor of Theatre Arts learly@kwc.edu 270-852-3595 Ralph Center for the Arts #105

 

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Education
Master of Fine Arts in Theatre (Performance), University of Louisville, 2006

Graduate Certificate in African-American Theatre, University of Louisville, 2006

Bachelor of Arts, Lake Forest College, Lake Forest, Illinois, 1986

Juris Doctor, Brandeis School of Law, Louisville, Kentucky, 1989

Honors and Awards
Dean’s Citation for Excellence, University of Louisville, 2006

Monetary Award from the Akers Award, The University Commission on the Status of Women, Women and Global Issues Committee for travel to South Africa, Summer 2005

Training
- Voice, Dennis Krausnick Shakespeare & Company, Techniques of “dropping in” and Shakespeare’s rhetoric

- Clown, Dennis Krausnick, Shakespeare & Company

- The Second City, Chicago, Norm Holly, Improvisation

- Actors Theatre Workshop, Zan Sawyer-Dailey, Monologue work and audition techniques

- Training in Viewpoints and Suzuki as part of theatre productions

- Distance Education, Camp Delphi, Delphi Center University of Louisville and Blackboard Exemplary Course Training from Blackboard representatives

Previous Teaching Experience

Bellarmine University, 2007 to 2011
Theatre History I and II, Introduction to Theatre, Acting, Playscript Analysis, Special Topics in Theatre: Improvisation, Directing and Interdisciplinary Course: Freshman Focus (College Skills), Voice and Acting coach for Mock Trial Team 2008

University of Louisville, 2004 to 2011
Enjoyment of Theatre, Enjoyment of Theatre (Distance Education), Honors Enjoyment of Theatre, Acting

Jefferson Community and Technical College, 2006 to 2009
Introduction to Theatre

Kentucky State Reformatory and Luther Luckett Correctional Complex, 2008
Introduction to Theatre, Introduction to Humanities

Areas of Research and Interest
Theatre for Social Change, Multimedia and Technology in Theatre, African-American Theatre

Conference Presentations
Spontaneity, Documentation and Interactivity: The Influence of Technology in Composing for the Theatre
The New Work of Composing, Thomas R.Watson Conference in Rhetoric and Composition, University of Louisville, October 16-18, 2008

Peacemaking and the Arts: Violence at War and Home
Social Justice and Engages Scholarship Regional Symposium, Anne Braden Institute for Social Justice, University of Louisville, April 4, 2008

Experience (selected)

- In 2006, directed a production of School Play by Russell Vandenbroucke, which toured internationally with performances in Moscow and Perm, Russia

- In 2005, traveled to Cape Town, South Africa to work with women from the Congo and Rwanda seeking refugee status on a playwriting project.

- Adapted Teens Sound Off for the University of Louisville Repertory Company with the permission of The Courier-Journal from the CJ's Teen Round Table.

- Narrator for Castles to the Sky, a planetarium film shown at Rauch Planetarium at the University of Louisville in 2003 and 2007.

- Assistant Director, Titus Andronicus, Dennis Krausnick, Director, Shakespeare & Company
 

- Selected directing credits include: Voice of the Fugitive produced by the Oldham County Historical Society at Actors Theatre of Louisville, Shining City and Hedda Gabler at Bellarmine University,  A Helping Hoof and Who Needs a Habitat Anyway for the University of Louisville Repertory Company
 
- Favorite roles include: Nora in A Doll House, Hecuba in The Trojan Women and the Old Shepherd in The Winter’s Tale