INTRODUCTION
Dr. Wolski has been teaching theatre for close to forty years, and has been a member of Eastern’s faculty since 1993. As an undergraduate, she double majored in Music and Theatre at the University of Northern Iowa. She earned her Master’s degree from the University of Iowa in Performance Studies, with an emphasis in Voice and Movement, including work with the Royal Shakespeare Company, and KuKuRiKu, a Grotowski-based performance art group. She received her Ph.D. from Michigan State University focusing on Children’s Theatre and Creative Dramatics, as well as work in acting and directing. Dr. Wolski is active in the Association of Theatre Movement Educators, having served for twelve years as editor of ATME News, ATME’s biannual newsletter, as a board member for the ATME digital kinetic journal, and as a mentor for new movement faculty across the country. Dr. Wolski has worked as a director and/or choreographer on numerous productions including Cole, As You Like It, Wiley and the Hairy Man, Philadelphia, Here I Come, Translations, James Joyce's The Dead, La Histoire du Soldat, and Medea. She is currently working with her husband, David, on a book, The Fifth Province: Transcending Irish Politics through Theatre. When not at the theatre, she can be found in tap class, exploring lighthouses, or, whenever possible, in Ireland.
My EIU Story
WORKSHOPS & TRAINING:
MASKS - A National Conference: Workshop training in the building of and performance with various types of masks
Workshop training in Children's Theatre and Creative Dramatics with Brian Way
"Interpretation of Shakespeare": Workshops with the Royal Shakepeare Company
Dance/Movment Training in Ballet, Tap, Jazz, Modern, Laban, and Period Movement
EIU Faculty Laureate 2003
Education & Training
- B.A. Music and Theatre - University of Northern Iowa
- M.A. Performance Studies -University of Iowa
- Ph.D. with an emphasis in Youth Theatre and Creative Dramatics -Michigan State University
Conference Presentations
"Seventeenth Century Period Movement"
Kansas State Theatre Conference
"Movement for the Actor: an Introduction to Laban Effort-Shape Movement"
American College Theatre Festival
"Irish Treble Reel"
American College Theatre Festival
"Scenes, Songs, Sonnets, & Soliloquies"
Shakespeare tour throughout the state of Michigan
Publications
Original Plays for Children:
ANYTHING CAN BE
STUPID MARCO
THE PLIGHT OF PUMPERSNEE
FELICITY FREEPLE IS SOOO MEAN TO PEOPLE
Articles:
"Batting Practice" ATME NEWS, Spring 2008, Vol. 16, No. 1
"A Final Word...." ATME NEWS, Fall 2010, Vol. 18, No. 2
Editor:
ATME NEWS: 1998-2010
Editorial Board:
ATME DIGITAL KINETIC JOURNAL
YOUTH THEATRE JOURNAL
STAGE OF THE ART
Funding & Grants
CU Release time for work on The Fifth Province: Transcending Irish Politics through Theatre (with David Wolski)
Summer Research & Creative Activity Grant:
JAMES JOYCE'S THE DEAD: preliminary production research (with David Wolski)
MACBETH: preliminary production research (with David Wolski)
Redden Grants for:
Facecasting & Mask Making
Stage Combat Materials
Teaching of Musical Theatre
Michigan Council for the Humanities Grant:
Funding a children's theatre tour of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan
Michigan State University Departmental Fellowship for Overseas Study:
THE GRIPS Theatre of West Berlin
National Endowment for the Humanities Grant:
Funding for an experimental team-taught course introducing the arts & humanities to students enrolled in technical programs.
Frequently Taught Courses
Stage Movement
Performing Voice
Topics in Acting
Topics in Movement
Dialects
Stage Makeup
Research & Creative Interests
Irish Theatre
Shakespeare
Stage Movement & Choreography
Dialects
Professional Affiliations
Association of Theatre Movement Educators
Society of American Fight Directors
Voice and Speech Trainers Association
Association for Theatre in Higher Education
American Alliance for Theatre and Education
Stage Directors & Choreographers Society