Michigan Technological University

Visual and Performing Arts

Faculty and Staff Directory

Theatre Faculty

Roger Held

Department Chair

Professor of Theatre

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

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

Specialties/Activities

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

Patricia Helsel

Assistant Professor of Theatre

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

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

Kalen Larson

Assistant Professor of Theatre

Specialties/Activities

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

Denny McKaig

Assistant Professor of Sound

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

Christopher Plummer

Associate Professor of Sound

Specialties/Activities

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

Music Faculty

Michael Irish

Associate Professor of Music

Specialties/Activities

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

Jared Anderson

Assistant Professor

Specialties/Activities

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

Joel Neves

Assistant Professor of Music

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

Links of Interest

Nicholas Enz

Director of Bands

906-487-2825
njenz@mtu.edu
Rozsa 204

Links of Interest

Specialties/Activities

  • Wind Conducting
  • Jazz
  • Rehearsal Pedagogy
  • Clinician/Adjudicator
  • Saxophones

Milton Olsson

Emeritus Professor of Music

906-487-5707
miolsson@mtu.edu

Elizabeth Meyer

Instructor

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

Specialties/Activities

  • Classical music composition
  • Violin/viola performance, instruction

Art Faculty

Mary Ann Beckwith
"Artistry is not bounded by the arts. I tell my students that as they become more confident in their own creativity it will make them a better engineer, mathematician, or forester."

Mary Ann Beckwith

Professor of Art

Specialties/Activities

  • Watercolor
  • Watermedia art
  • Experimental texture and media techniques

Susanne Kilpela

Lecturer

906-487-1467
sqkilpel@mtu.edu
Walker 209c

Staff

Steven Dobbs

Steven Dobbs

Administrative Aide

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