Guest Artists
Guest Artists for 2024-2025
Megan Anderson – Scenic Design for Break Burn Build
Melissa Blackall – Photography
Nolan Ellsworth – Playwright (Rabbit, Rabbit)/Guest Lecturer
Jamie Grant – Light Design for Break Burn Build
Julia Jennings – Playwright (What if this were a wedding?)/Guest Lecturer
Kareem Khubchandani – Performance Workshop
Scott McPheeters – Choreography for What if this were a wedding?
Michelle Moura – Shared Boca Cova film
Charlie Oates – Theater Workshop
Jeri Pitcher – Dance Workshop
Braxton Rae ’20 – Director for What if this were a wedding?
Seth Asa Sengal – Sound Design for Break Burn Build
Tom Truss – Acting and Performance Workshops
Shannon Wade – Playwright (Rabbit, Rabbit)/Guest Lecturer
Tara Weaver – Dance Workshop
Previous Guest Artists
kelli rae adams – Guest Lecturer/Workshop Leader
Alexis Atkinson ’15 – Dancer/Choreographer
Hannah Berry – Dancer
Melissa Blackall – Photography
Andrew Codispoti – Actor/Workshop Leader
Laura Coe – Dancer/Choreographer
Hannah Cordes – Intimacy Coordinator
Jamison Curcio – Guest Lecturer/Dancer
Nancy Farrar – Welding Instructor
The Flavor Continues – Dance Workshop Leaders
Kimberly Fletcher-Stibal – Choreographer
Roma Flowers – Projection Design
Avery Ford ’22 – Actor Comedy Improv
Janelle Gilchrist – Guest Lecturer/Workshop Leader
Jamie Grant – Light Designer
Allie James – Guest Lecturer/Workshop Leader
Ariana Karp – Director/Guest Lecturer
Christine King – Dancer/Choreographer
Tristan Koepke – Dancer/Choreographer
Jessie Laurita-Spanglet – Dancer/Choreographer
Liz Lerman – Dancer/Choreographer/Workshop Leader
Maggie Libby ’81 – Dancer/Choreographer
Eleanor Macmakin – Dancer/Choreographer
zavé martohardjono – Performance & Video Artist/Workshop Leader
Jake Meginsky – DJ
Justin Moriarty – Scenic and Light designer
Christine Nilles – Costume Designer
DeAnna Pellecchia – Dancer/Choreographer/Workshop Leader
Sherry Pineau-Brown – Dancer/Choreographer
Jeri Pitcher – Director
Seth Asa Sengal – Sound Designer
Nell Shipman – choreographer for Portland Ballet New Works
Andrea Swiderski ’20 – Stage Manager
Eliza Tilbor – Choreographer
Tara Weaver – Dancer/Choreographer
Tara Aisha Willis – Author/Dancer/Choreographer/Workshop Leader
Monica Wood – Guest Lecturer/Playwright
Albert S. Hall School
Maine Arts Academy
Portland Ballet
Rebecca Barnstaple – Lecturer
Melissa Blackall – Photography Workshop
Zach Brewster-Geisz ’94 – Sound Designer
Brandon Brown – Guest Lecturer
Kirsten Cairns – Director/Choreographer
Jamison Curcio – Guest Lecturer
Roma Flowers – Guest Lecturer
Serenity Smith Forchion – Stunt/Movement Coordinator
Wallace Gonçalves Lino – Guest Lecturer
Jamie Grant – Light Designer
Heidi Henderson ’83 – Performer/Guest Lecturer
Leo Hylton – Guest Lecturer
Terrance Karn – Percussion Accompanist
Sulu LeoNimm – Guest Lecturer, Theater of the Oppressed
Megan Mazarick – Performer
Tayte Messman ’19 – Light Designer
Betsy Miller – Guest Lecturer
Justin Moriarty – Light Designer
Kaylee Pomelow Book ’19 – Assistant Director
Glen Porter ’92 – Performer
Jory Raphael ’02 – Performer
Dustin Tucker – Scenic Design
Tess Van Horn – Director
Tara Weaver – Lecturer
Leymis Bolanos Wilmott – Choreographer/Dancer
Moira Driscoll – Actor/Director
Jamie Grant – Light Design
Teniece Divya Johnson – Intimacy Coach
Elizabeth Johnson Levine – Choreographer/Dancer/Educator
Callie Kimball – Playwright
Maddie Kurz – Choreographer/Dancer
Mali Mrozinski – Costume Design, Fall Show
Nia Nottage – Curator for Artistic Events
Anat Shinar – Performance artist/Writer/Educator
Raphael Soifer – Artist/Activist
Mariana Valencia – Contemporary Multidisciplinary Artist
Christopher Akerlind – Set Designer
Takiyah Nur Amin – Department Curriculum Consultant
Alexis Atkinson ’15 – Choreographer
Rebecca Barnstaple – Dance Lecturer
Kate Beaver – Maine Music & Health
Kathleen Brown – Costume Design, Fall Show
Dan Burson – Playwriting & Dramaturg Lecturer
Kathryn Butler ’17 – Photographer & Choreographer
Cassils – Visual Artist, Activism Lecturer
Erin Charpentier, member of Weird Allan Kaprow – Activism Lecturer
Coleman Collins – Designer
Ping Chong Company – Performance Art Workshop
Rafa Esparza – Activism Lecturer
Meghan Frederick – Choreographer
Kevin R. Free – Director, Guest Lecturer
Kirsten Greenidge – Playwriting
Matthew Harris – Actor
Heidi Henderson ’83 – Choreographer
Tyrone Henderson – Actor
Theresa Incampo – Activism Lecturer
Shakia Johnson – Choreographer
May Joseph – Cultural and Environmental Lecturer
Madeline Kurtz – Choreographer
Albert Mathias – Composer
Ellen Maynard – Choreographer
Delaney McDonough – Choreographer
Sarah Oppenheim – Dance Lecturer
Chris Ogden – Videographer
Bari Robinson – Actor/Teaching Artist
The Black School – Art and Activism Lecturers
Christina Soriano – Dance Lecturer
Lise Soskolne (W.A.G.E.) – Advocate for the Arts
Soza Artists – Performance Artists
Alex Strada – Performance Artist
Tetonic Theater – Devised Theater Workshop
Curtis Thomas – Dancer
Tanin Torabi – Performer/Choreographer/Film Artist
Urban Bush Women (Samantha Speis) – Choreographer
Andrei Malaev-Babelis – Master Class, The Demidov Acting Technique
Toby Vera Bercovici – Intimacy Choreography
Matthew Cumbie – JanPlan, Moving Towards Change: Dance and Civic Engagement
Lynne Conner – Guest Lecturer
COMPAGNIE DYPTIK Dance Company – Master Class, French Hip Hop
Scott Elliot – Guest Lecturer
Kevin R. Free – Guest Director, Fall Play
Janice Gardner – Guest Lecturer
Jamie Grant – Lighting Design
Marcela Guerrero – Guest Lecturer
Allie James – Master Class, Hip Hop
Dana Legawiec – Master Class, Performing with Masks
Chris Ogden – Videography
Seth Asa Sengel – Sound Design
Sally Wood – Master Class, Stage Combat
Kelly Bartnik – Guest Lecturer
Toby Vera Bercovici – Guest Director
Magnus Pind Bjerre – Guest Lecturer
Kathryn Butler ’17 – Guest Lecturer/Performer
The American Shakespeare Company – Master Class, Acting
Katie Cristine Conrad – Guest Performer
Dance Exchange – Guest Lecturer
Nancy Farrar – Guest Lecturer, Welding
Molly Gawler – Guest Lecturer, Modern Dance
Sara Gibbons ’15 – Guest Lecturer
Jamie Grant – Lighting Design
Tessa Hauptman – Guest Composer
Rene Johnson – Guest Stage Manager/Board Operator
Stacey Koloski – Guest Lecturer (Fringe Theater)
10 Hairy Legs – Guest Lecturer
Delaney McDonough – Guest Lecturer
Angela Jepson Marks – Master Class, Stage Combat
Justin Moriarty – Lighting Design
End of Men – Guest Lecturer/Performer
Noe Montez – Guest Lecturer
Chris Ogden – Videography
Joanna Patterson – Guest Lecturer
Caitlin Scholl – Guest Composer
Sarah Stefana Smith – Guest Lecturer
Steven Stratford – Guest Lecturer
Michaela Wirth – Lighting Designer
Emma Ayres and Old Flame – Guest Lecturer / Music for The Annotated Taming: Or, Out of the Saddle, into the Dirt
Kelly Bartnik – Guest Lecturer
Caroline Bicks – Guest Lecturer
Daniel Bilodeau – Scenic Designer for The Annotated Taming: Or, Out of the Saddle, into the Dirt
Melissa Blackall – Professional Photography
Zach Brewster-Geisz ’94 – Sound Designer for Scenes from an Execution
Kathryn Butler ’17 – Assistant Choreographer/Stage Manager for The Dog
Matt Cost – Light Design for Scenes from an Execution
Michaela Denoncourt (Wirth) – Light Design for The Passion Project
Jeff Earickson – Professional Photography
Katherine Ferrier – Guest Lecturer
Colleen Fitzgerald – Guest Lecturer, performer of Ndemeh
Jim Forbes – Master Carpenter
Marjorie Gallant – Stage Management Mentoring and Graphic Design
Sara Gibbons ’15 – Choreographer for The Dog
Jeannine Haas – Guest Lecturer, Death Wings residency
Derek Jackson – Stage manager, g e e l
René Johnson – Guest Lecturer/performer of g e e l / Stage manager for The Passion Project
Shakia Johnson – Guest Lecturer, Hip Hop Workshop
Dana Legawiec – Guest Lecturer, Death Wings residency
Thomas Lue ’16 – Graphic Design for How to Start Over
Catherine McCurry – Sound Design for The Annotated Taming: Or, Out of the Saddle, into the Dirt
Delaney McDonough ’13 – Choreographer
Donna McNeil – Guest Lecturer
Justin Moriarty – Light Design for Break, Burn, Build and Quicksand
Chris Ogden – Videography for the Portland Ballet Project and Quicksand
Aimee Petrin – Guest Lecturer
Myka Plunkett – Guest Lecturer, Death Wings residency
Sarah Pope – Dancer for The Dog
Jenna Reigel – Choreographer for Quicksand
Edward Rice – Guest Lecturer
Carolyn Sadeh – Guest Lecturer, Death Wings residency
Nell Shipman – Guest Lecturer / Choreographer for the Portland Ballet Project
Ezekial Steward – Dancer for The Dog
Kari Wagner-Peck – Guest Lecturer/performer of Not Always Happy
Melissa Blackall – Professional Photography
Andrew Cao – Director/Choreographer
Heather Crocker – Light Design for The Master Builder
Jeff Earickson – Professional Photography
Kimberly Grigsby – Lemonade Stand Musical Theater Workshop
Gordon Jee – Graphic Design for Lost with You
Chris Kent – Videographer for Lost with You
Daniel Kent – Sound Design for The Master Builder
Donna McNeil – Guest Lecturer
Justin Moriarty – Light Design for the Fall Dance Concert
Nell Shipman – Ballet Masterclass
Ken Urso – Director for Lemonade Stand
Riley Watts – Guest Lecturer
Colin Whitely – Sound Engineer for Lost with You
Melissa Blackall – Professional Photography
Brother(hood) Dance – Dance Workshops
Peter Brown – Director for In the Garden of Live Flowers
Katie Bucklin – Costume Stitcher for the New Works Festival
Jeff Earickson – Professional Photography
Jim Forbes – Master Carpenter for the New Works Festival
Hio Ridge Dance – Dance Workshops
Jay Lehrhaupt – Light Design for Haroun and the Sea of Stories
Carmen Mandley -Fight Choreography Workshop
Justin Moriarty – Light Design for To Hip Hop with Love
Jenna Riegel – Guest Lecturer/Dance Workshop
Simon Thomas Train – Guest Lecturer
Jessie Fisher – Meisner Masterclass
Brendan Gawel – Clowns without Borders Workshop
Kevin James – Scenic Artist for The Servant of Two Masters
Steve Kidd – Workshop/Actor for Sighs/Omelas
Justin Moriarty – Light Design for the Fall and Spring Dance Concerts
Jak Peters – Staged Reading of In the Garden of Live Flowers
Susan Douglas Roberts – Dance Workshop
Hans Indigo Spencer – Musical Improvisation Workshop
Justin Moriarty – Light Design for the Spring Dance Concert
Maggie-Kate Coleman – National Theatre Institute Workshop
Kendra Portier – Dance Workshop
Robin Sanders – Hip Hop Masterclass
Andrew Cao – Dance Workshop
David Pleasant – Rhythm and Motion Workshop
Lisa Viola – Dance Workshops
Student Clubs
Colby College has many student-led clubs that offer additional opportunities for performance of all types. Please visit this page for more information!
Work-Study
The Department of Performance, Theater, and Dance offers paid work-study positions in the following areas during the academic year:
- Costume Shop
- Office Assistant
- Research Assistants
- Scene Shop
- Social Media Assistants
- Videographers
Position Vacancies are announced on Colby’s Student Employment Web Site.
For more information contact the Performance, Theater, and Dance Department Academic Administrative Assistant, Kate Pestana, at [email protected] or by phone at 207-859-4520.
Alumni
Hey Performance, Theater, and Dance and Performing Arts graduates… We miss you!
Send us an email at [email protected] and let us know what you’re up to!
Looking for someone specific? Try searching for your classmates at Colby’s official alumni site.