Michigan Technological University

Visual and Performing Arts

Faculty and Staff Directory

Theatre Faculty

Roger Held

Department Chair, Visual and Performing Arts

Professor of Theatre, Visual and Performing Arts

Specialties/Activities

  • Directing
  • Acting: Period Styles
  • History and Literature
  • Leadership and Management
  • Play Writing
Debra Bruch
"The field is white and already to harvest, therefore, whoso desireth to reap, let him thrust in his sickle with his might, and reap while the day lasts... Whosoever will thrust in his sickle and reap, the same is called of God."
—D&C 11: 2a - 2b

Debra Bruch

Associate Professor of Theatre, Visual and Performing Arts

906-487-3281
dlbruch@mtu.edu
Walker 209E

Links of Interest

Specialties/Activities

  • Theatre History
  • Directing
  • Theory & Criticism

Mary Carol "M.C." Friedrich

Associate Professor of Theatre, Visual and Performing Arts

Specialties/Activities

  • Costume Design & Construction
  • Lighting Design
  • Scene Design
  • Color Science for Designers in Theatre

Patricia Helsel

Associate Professor of Theatre, Visual and Performing Arts

906-487-3283
helsel@mtu.edu
Walker 209A

Links of Interest

Specialties/Activities

  • Acting
  • Voice and Articulation
  • Musical Theatre
  • Audition Techniques
  • Vocal Techniques for Media and Theatre
  • Presentation

Dennis Kerwin

Lecturer, Visual and Performing Arts

906-487-2435
dakerwin@mtu.edu
Rozsa 112

Kalen Larson

Assistant Professor of Theatre, Visual and Performing Arts

Specialties/Activities

  • Technical Theatre Production
  • Scenic Design
  • Stage Mechanics
  • Rigging
  • Metal Working

Sound Faculty

Denny McKaig

Assistant Professor of Sound, Visual and Performing Arts

906-487-3118
dmmckaig@mtu.edu
Rosza 111

Christopher Plummer

Associate Professor of Sound, Visual and Performing Arts

Specialties/Activities

  • Sound Design
  • Sound System Consultation
  • Sound Mixing
  • Sound Studies

Music Faculty

Jared Anderson

Assistant Professor, Visual and Performing Arts

Specialties/Activities

  • Choral Singing
  • Contemporary Choral Music
  • Musical Theater
  • Skill Acquisition in the Large Group Rehearsal
  • Ear-Training

Michael Christianson

Visiting Assistant Professor, Visual and Performing Arts

Director of Bands

Michael Irish

Associate Professor of Music, Visual and Performing Arts

Specialties/Activities

  • Jazz Studies
  • Jazz Guitar
  • Composer/Arranger
  • Clinician/Adjudicator/Performer
  • Rhythm Section Specialist

Elizabeth Meyer

Instructor, Visual and Performing Arts

906-487-3606
ecmeyer@mtu.edu
Rozsa 206

Specialties/Activities

  • Classical music composition
  • Violin/viola performance, instruction

Joel Neves

Assistant Professor of Music, Visual and Performing Arts

906-487-2859
jbneves@mtu.edu
Rozsa 205

Links of Interest

Milton Olsson

Emeritus Professor of Music, Visual and Performing Arts

906-487-5707
miolsson@mtu.edu

Art Faculty

Jess Kane

Lecturer, Visual and Performing Arts

906-487-3096
jkane@mtu.edu
Walker 209B
Susanne Kilpela
"This above all: To thine own self be true"
—Shakespeare

Staff

Mary Ann Struthers

Mary Ann Struthers

Administrative Aide

906-487-2067
mastruth@mtu.edu
Walker 209
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