2006 - Henry Muttoo

Widely recognized as one of the Caribbean’s leading theatre practitioners, and arguably the region’s finest theatre designer, Henry Muttoo is a rare talent with a multiplicity of artistic skills: he is an award-winning actor, theatre director and designer, carnival designer, painter, writer, editor and amateur calypso historian. Henry directed Errol John's Moon on a Rainbow Shawlin November 2006. For Henry Muttoo's complete biography, visit: http://theatre.arts.usf.edu/GuestArtistsBurdines_HenryMuttoo.htm

2001 – Mike Finn

Irish playwright directed the workshop production of his play Ellis Island. Mike Finn is an actor and playwright and an Honorary Fellow of the University of Iowa. He is a founder member of Island Theatre Co. (in Ireland) for whom he has appeared in over twenty productions. Ellis Island tells of American History. It is the story of the personal and common experiences shared by European immigrants as they search for freedom, opportunity and new beginnings in America.

1998 – Badja Djola

Guest lecture in voice coaching and acting presented Acting in Theatre and Film. Mr. Djola spoke on his experiences as an actor in both film and theatre. He has starred and co-starred in such films as: Rosewood, Mississippi Burning & Night Shift; and theatre in: Dancing on the Moonlight, Southern Rapture, & How High the Mountain.

1998 – Russel Craig (set and costume designer)

Guest instructor/lecturer from London that presented his lecture: The influence of British Opera Design on British Theatre Design. Also, Russell Craig hosted a workshop in mask making and mold making techniques.

:: http://www.theatricaldesigners.co.uk/person39.html

1996 – Francis Matthews – Consultant for the stage adaptation of the novel, Huckleberry Finn

The Huckleberry Finn Project was a 2 to 3 week intensive summer workshop with a group of students adapting Twain’s Huckleberry Finn into a stage play. The students did a reading of the work that they had completed at the conclusion of the workshop. Francis completed the work over the remainder of the summer and fall and produced the work as the Christmas Holiday show at the Greenwich Theatre opening early Dec. 1996. Two students from USF went on internship for approx. 8 weeks with the development of the production at Greenwich serving as Assistants to Francis. TheatreUSF designer and instructor Barton Lee joined the Greenwich production for approximately 2.5 weeks leading up to opening and assisted where possible in the final preparation of the production (working primarily with technical production aspects of the show and as a general assistance in support of the production).

1994 – Co-directors, Paul Massie and LeRoy Mitchell Jr. (actor/director) – Guest artists for the TheatreUSF production: My Children! My Africa.

Mr. Mitchell Jr. was a Tampa actor that appeared in numerous musicals as well as straight plays. He played the character Mr. M (in My Children! My Africa) in Tampa, Atlanta and took the production on tour to Wales and Dublin.

1993 – Robert Wierzel – Lighting Designer for lit TheatreUSF’s production of TinTypes.

This TheatreUSF alumni is faculty member at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. He has worked with artists from diverse disciplines and backgrounds, in theatre, dance, new music and opera, on stages throughout the country and abroad.

:: http://design.tisch.nyu.edu/object/WierzelR.html