Department of Performing Arts

MARGARET BONNELL, B.F.A.
Associate Technical Director/Scene Shop Manager
Areas include lighting, design, set and costume construction.
Email: mb645@georgetown.edu

Margaret joins Georgetown staff after spending two years freelancing at various theaters in the DC area. Previously, she has worked at community and regional theaters in Alaska, New York and Maine and has toured with Up With The People. Since arriving at Georgetown she has served as the Assistant Technical Director for Marcus Gardley’s ...And Jesus Moonwalks the Mississippi, the World Premiere of the Sojourn Theatre/GU co-production of The Race.

TOBIN CLARK, B.F.A.
Production Manager/Associate Producer
Areas include set, light, sound, and projection design, stage and production management.
Email: cdt9@georgetown.edu

Tobin Clark has been designing and teaching theater for 20 years. Toby first spent 13 years designing in Alaska. Subsequently, he joined the Georgetown staff after having spent two years as the Resident Designer and Technical Director for St. Albans School and the National Cathedral School. He has been seen on the Georgetown campus in the last year as the Light and Sound Designer for the Arena Stage/Georgetown workshop collaboration 33 Variations with Moises Kaufman. He was the image/video designer for Derek Goldman’s workshop of Right as Rain.  Off campus, he has designed lights for Perseverance Theater’s Macbeth at the National Museum of the American Indian, and at St. Albans, he designed Set and Lights for various productions, including Secret Garden, Dining Room, Measure for Measure, Jungle Book, Grease, Much Ado About Nothing and The Variety Show.

ROBBIE HAYES, B.A.
Technical Director, Lecturer
Areas of teaching include lighting, set and production design, engineering and construction.
Email: rlh24@georgetown.edu

Robbie Hayes serves as the Technical Director for the Theater and Performance Studies Program and the Davis Performing Arts Center.  He has been the Lighting Designer for The Race, Wisconsin Death Trip, Trees and Ghosts, Big Love, Eurydice, Gospel at Colonus, The Skin of our Teeth, Dream Boy, Right as Rain, Sleep, and Dr. Korczak and the Children. He has been the Scenic Designer for Anansi, Stuff Happens, and Dr. Korczak and the Children. DC Design credits include scenery for References to Salvador Dali Make Me Hot, This Storm is What we call Progress, and The Skin of our Teeth  (Rorschach Theatre where he is a company member), As American As, Neglect, and Getting Out with Journeymen Theater, Scenes from the Big Picture and lighting for The Drunkard (Solas Nua), and Crumble (Lay Me Down Justin Timberlake) with Catalyst.  Chicago area designs include work with Light Opera Works, Northlight Theatre, Rivendell Theatre Ensemble, Porchlight Music Theatre, Teatro Vista, A Red Orchid Theatre, Empire Theatre, and many others.

MAME HUNT, M.F.A.
Adjunct Professor
Areas of teaching include new play development, dramaturgy.
Email: maxwell430@hotmail.com

Mame Hunt is the Lead Dramaturg for the Sundance Theatre Lab and teaches Play Analysis at Georgetown University. In her distinguished career in dramaturgy and new play development, Ms. Hunt has worked with some of the most innovative and important theatre artists in the country including Bartlett Sher, Craig Lucas, Stew, Nilo Cruz, Donald Margulies, Anna Deavere Smith, Pamela Gien, Jon Robin Baitz, Marlane Meyer, Octavio Solis, Roger Guenveur Smith, Claire Chafee, Philip Kan Gotanda, Erin Cressida Wilson, Jose Rivera, Neal Bell, Thomas Babe, Josh Kornbluth, Kate Whoriskey, David Dower, Jo Bonney, Quincy Long, Eisa Davis, Heather McDonald, Darrah Cloud and Joseph Chaikin. She has worked at the Intiman Theatre, Arena Stage, Seattle Rep, South Coast Rep, Berkeley Rep, and the Los Angeles Theatre Center, and was the Artistic Director of the Bay Area Playwrights Festival and the Magic Theatre.

SARAH MARSHALL
Adjunct Professor
Areas of teaching include acting.
Email: marshals@georgetown.edu

Sarah Marshall has been teaching acting at Georgetown for 17 years. As  a professional guest artist, she appeared in Dream Boy and Right As Rain at Georgetown. Sarah has performed in over 75 productions in area theaters including Arena Stage, Shakespeare Theatre, Woolly Mammoth Theater, Round  House, Studio, Signature, Flger, Stage guild and the Kennedy Center’s Program for Young Audiences. She has been nominated 14 times for the Helen Hayes awards, winning in 1989 for her role in Baby With the Bathwater at Round House Theatre. She has also taught at Studio Theater, Woolly Mammoth Theater, Round House Theater, Source Theater, Berkshire Theater Festival and is on the faculty at the Duke Ellington School of the Arts. She is a member of the Actors Equity Association, Screen Artists Guild, Association For Television and Radio Artists.

DAVID MUSE, M.F.A.
Adjunct Professor
Areas of teaching include Acting Directing.

The Associate Artistic Director for the Shakespeare Theatre Company, David Muse has previously directed four productions for the Company including an all-male Romeo and Juliet, Julius Caesar, which was featured as part of the Roman Repertory at Sidney Harman Hall, the inaugural Youth and Family Series production of On the Eve of Friday Morning, and the 2006 Free For All production of Pericles at Carter Barron Amphitheatre in Rock Creek Park. Muse served as assistant director for the mainstage productions of Othello, Lady Windermere’s Fan, The Tempest, Pericles and Macbeth. His regional credits include Studio Theatre’s Secondstage production of Frozen and The Intelligent Design of Jenny Chow (Helen Hayes Nominations for Outstanding Director and Outstanding Resident Play), Frankie and Johnny in the Claire de Lune at  Arena Stage and The Bluest Eye at Theatre Alliance, among others. Additional credits include Swansong by Patrick Page at the New York City Summer Play Festival and multiple events for the Onassis Public Benefit Foundation.  Muse was recipient of a 2006 DC Mayor’s Arts Award for Outstanding Emerging Artist and the National Theatre Conference Emerging Artist Award. He is a graduate of Yale University and the Yale School of Drama.

JENNIFER NELSON, M.F.A.
Adjunct Professor
Areas of teaching include Improvisation for Social Change, new play development.
Email:jnelzzon22@yahoo.com

Jennifer L. Nelson is the former Producing Artistic Director of the African Continuum Theatre, which she led for eleven years. She has worked in professional theatre for thirty-six years as an actress, administrator, educator, playwright, producer and director. She served two terms as President of the League of Washington Theatres and is currently a board member of Theatre Communications Group (TCG), the national association of not-for-profit theatres.

For African Continuum Ms. Nelson produced twenty-six plays, including several world premieres. In addition to extensive directing for African Continuum, she has directed at many theatres throughout the Washington DC area, including Ford’s, Round House, Woolly Mammoth, Everyman (Baltimore), Rep Stage, Theatre of the First Amendment, Source, Imagination Stage, Young Playwrights and Tsunami.  Ms. Nelson has also directed at Manhattan Class Company in New York City, the Mark Taper Forum and LATC in Los Angeles, Penumbra in Minnesota, Oregon Shakespeare and the Fulton in Pennsylvania. She has also directed at University of Maryland at College Park, University of Maryland Baltimore County and University of South Carolina.

Prior to her directing career Ms. Nelson was for twenty years an actress then Associate Artistic Director of the Living Stage Theatre, the community outreach arm of Arena Stage.  Living Stage was devoted to working with underserved audiences including children, the incarcerated, the disabled and the elderly.

TED PARKER
Lecturer; Technical Adviser to Co-curricular Theater Groups
Areas of teaching include theatrical design, technical theater, theater production.
Email: tsp2@georgetown.edu

Ted Parker has been working in the performing arts in Washington for over 30 years. He has worked at Arena Stage, the Washington Theatre Club, the Kennedy Center, Ford’s Theatre, The Washington Opera and The Washington Performing Arts Society. He has designed scenery and lighting for over 40 local educational, community and professional productions. He co-founded The Actors’ Center, was active in the formation of the Cultural Alliance, and served on the boards of several arts institutions, including Library Theater and Arlington Dance Theatre. He was Project Director for the creation of TicketPlace for the Cultural Alliance, and has taught at American University and several local high schools, and consulted with numerous Washington arts groups. He served for two years on the Multi-media Panel of the DC Commission on the Arts. He lives in a restored Victorian house in Chevy Chase with his wife of 40 years. They have three daughters and 7 grandchildren.

DEBRA KIM SIVIGNY, M.F.A.
Costume Shop Manager, Lecturer
Areas of teaching include costumes and properties construction and design, costume history and material culture.
Email: debsivigny@gmail.com

Debra Kim Sivigny (Costume and Props Artisan) has designed for various DC/Baltimore companies, most notably: The Kennedy Center Theatre for Young Audiences, Shakespeare Theatre Company Academy of Classical Acting, Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, Theater J, Studio Theatre Secondstage, Olney Theatre, National Players, Everyman Theatre, Baltimore Shakespeare Festival and Imagination Stage.  She has also designed for the Colorado Shakespeare Festival.  Most recent projects include: Twelfth Night for Middlebury College where she worked as a guest artist (fall 08) and Maria/Stuart with Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company.  She will be designing costumes for both Pentecost and Lysistrata in the spring of '09.  She is a company member of Rorschach Theatre. She has an MFA in design from the University of Maryland and a BA from Middlebury College.  She is also a proud member of USA Local 829.

IRINA TSIKURISHVILI
Adjunct Professor
Areas of teaching include choreography.
Resident Choreographer, The Synetic Theater
Email: irinadance@aol.com

Irina Tsikurishvili graduated from the Tbilisi Chabukiani Ballet School, and performed as a principal dancer and mime in numerous productions at the Georgian State Pantomime Theater. From 1993-95, she served as choreographer for the Mimodrama Theater in Saarbrücken, Germany. For the Stanislavsky Theater, she choreographed and performed in numerous productions, including The Little Tragedies, The Idiot, Le Malade Imaginaire, Faust, and Don Quixhote.

She received the prestigious Helen Hayes Awards for Choreography in 2000 and 2001 for her work on The Idiot and Faust, and has also received nominations for The Little Tragedies, and Don Quixote. For Synetic Theater, she has choreographed Hamlet…the rest is silence, Host and Guest, Salomé, The Crackpots, The Master and Margarita and has performed in each of these productions, including the title role of Salomé. For her work on Hamlet…the rest is silence, she received the 2003 Helen Hayes Award for Choreography; she was also nominated for the same award for Host and Guest. Irina was nominated for the 2004 Helen Hayes Award for Choreography for Salomé. Most recently, Irina won the 2006 Helen Hayes Award for Choreography in Frankenstein, and has received three Outstanding Choreography Nominations for 2007, as well as a nomination for Outstanding Lead Actress.


KAREN ZACARIAS, M.F.A.
Adjunct Professor
Areas of teaching include playwriting and new work development.
Email:kz34@georgetown.edu

Karen Zacarías' plays have been produced throughout the United States, Canada, Europe and the Caribbean. Recent productions include The Book Club Play and How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents at Roundhouse Theatre and Legacy of Light at Arena Stage. Her play The Sins of Sor Juana was the winner of the Charles MacArthur Award for Outstanding New Play at the 2000 Helen Hayes Awards, and the 1998 National Hispanic Playwrights' Project at South Coast Repertory (Costa Mesa, Calif.). She is also winner of the 1998 D.C. Mayor's Award for Outstanding Emerging Artist and a finalist at the Eugene O'Neill National Playwrights' Conference and the Jane Chambers National Women's Playwrights' Competition.

Among her other produced plays are The Bare-chested Man, Blue Buick in My Driveway and A Rope Through the Fixture. Her plays for young people include the long-running hit The Magical Piñata, Choosing Nine, The 13th Summer of William and Pilar and a new adaptation of Ferdinand the Bull. She has had commissions from Woolly Mammoth Theatre, South Coast Repertory and Imagination Stage. Zacarias is the founder and artistic director of Young Playwrights' Theater, a non-profit organization dedicated to fostering literacy, dialogue and conflict resolution through playwriting in inner-city schools. She earned a master's in playwriting from Boston University studying with Nobel laureates Derek Walcott and Elie Wiesel. Born in Mexico, she currently lives with her husband, Rett, in Washington, D.C., and Oaxaca, Mexico.