Kindra Steenerson Charlotte, NC ksteener@uncc.edu http://kindrasteenerson.strikingly.com/ Curriculum Vitae Education and Credentials M.F.A. Directing/Performance, 2001 Utah State University, Logan, UT Bachelor of Arts in General Theatre Studies, 1997 Utah State University, Logan, UT Fitzmaurice Voicework Intensive Training, 2015--NYC Meisner Master Acting Classes, 2016/2017 Lee Street Theatre, Salisbury, NC Graduate cognate in Women s Studies Licensed Zumba Instructor, 2012 David Dorfman Dance Company s Collaboration Workshop, 2011 Incident Report Committee Training, 2009 Illinois College, Jacksonville, IL Sexual Assault Training, 2015 Safe Alliance, Charlotte, NC Carolina Conference on Queer Youth, 2014 UNCC, Charlotte, NC Certified Civil Rights Investigator Certified Campus Victim/Survivor Advocate Professional Experience UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA CHARLOTTE, Charlotte, NC Faculty, 2017 to Present Teach Exploration of Voice and Movement as well as Acting I courses. SAGE ACTS, Charlotte, NC Founder/Executive Director, 2016 to Present Design, schedule, and deliver communication workshops for schools, businesses, and individuals, maintain the company website (sageacts.org). Present at conferences QUEENS UNIVERSITY, Charlotte, NC Faculty, 2016 to 2017 Provided instruction in General Education, which included the courses Power Plays and Politics of Identity. QUEENS UNIVERSITY THEATRE PROGRAM ASSESSMENT, Charlotte, NC Consultant, Fall 2016
Worked with institutional leadership to determine the best course of action for a fledgling department. Gathered and interpreted data, conducted interviews, delivered a detailed action plan. CATAWBA COLLEGE, Salisbury, NC Associate Professor, 2015 to 2016 Educated college students in courses for acting and directing, which included Senior Seminar, Intermediate Acting, Foundations of Movement, Directing II, Theatre History I&II, as well as Stage Speech and Movement I. Directed departmental main stage productions, advised students, and participated in departmental oversight and institutional governance. COKER COLLEGE, Hartsville, SC Assistant/Associate Professor, 2011 to 2015 Taught Acting I, II, III & IV; Directing; Stage Movement/Stage Combat; Modern Drama; Play Production; Playwriting; Freshman Seminar in Theatre; Introduction to Gender and Women s Studies; and Senior Seminar courses. Directed departmental main stage productions, advised students, and participated in departmental oversight and institutional governance. Served as leader of the Theatre Program. Co-created a focused mission statement for the Department of Dance. Music, and Theatre. Achieved tenure in 2013 and later promoted in the Spring of 2014. Crafted innovative sophomore review and production procedures for Theatre students, 2014. Recognized and Awarded pedagogy grant for Excellence in Teaching and Learning, 2014 Served as Host to the Athlete Ally Talk for Common Ground. Selected top-performing students as cast for a newly produced and filmed PSA. Revitalized the Theatre program curriculum to excel learning capabilities, which included a newly developed Gender and Women s Studies course. Governed community dialogue and audience talk-backs during the fall production of The Laramie Project, and the spring production of Spring Awakening. Chosen as finalist for the Master Professor Award in 2015. ILLINOIS COLLEGE, Jacksonville, IL Assistant Professor/TheatreWorks Program Director, 2008 to 2011 Directed the Theatre Department and supported the Gender/ Women s Studies Program functions. Taught Directing, Introduction to Women s Studies, Beginning/Advanced Acting, Introduction to Theatre, and Interrupting Rape Culture. Directed departmental main stage productions, advised students, and participated in departmental oversight and institutional governance. Founded the Prairie Center Against Sexual Assault (PCASA) Devised Theatre Troupe to encourage the collaborative creation of theatrical pieces as a campus internship, promoting rape prevention at local high schools. Instituted a campus support group for victims of sexual assault.
Proposed and coordinated the Improv Connection and built a new course entitled Interrupting Rape Culture. Directed 1-2 departmental main stage productions each year UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA WILMINGTON, Wilmington, NC Faculty, 2004 to 2008 Contributed substantially to the Theatre, Women s Studies, and Graduate Liberal Studies programs. Provided instruction in Introduction to Theatre; Acting for Non-Majors; Introduction to Women s Studies; Sexuality and Gender; Understanding and Interrupting a Rape Culture; Seminar in Women s Studies; Freshman Seminar. Developed three new courses, which included Images of Women in Art and Theatre and Sexuality and Gender for the Women s Studies Program; as well as the Understanding and Interrupting a Rape Culture course within the Graduate Liberal Studies Program. Directed departmental main stage production of Southern Girls. Constructed and organized the Seahawk Scene Stealers Summer Camp for community outreach. Co-founded the weekend-long Gender of Art Festival to join multi-departmental faculty, staff, and students. CAPE FEAR COMMUNITY COLLEGE, Wilmington, NC Adjunct Professor, 2004 to 2005 Oversaw instruction for the Theatre Appreciation, Beginning Acting, Oral Interpretation, and Play Production Studio classes under the Art and Humanities Department. MESA COMMUNITY COLLEGE, Mesa, AZ Adjunct Professor, 2002 to 2004 Supervised the Women s Studies and English Departments with strategic instruction for Women and Society, and First Year Composition courses. Drafted the Women s Studies Mission Statement for Mesa Community College s Women s Studies Program. Designed a web-based course in Women s Studies to support a student in Israel. CHANDLER-GILBERT COMMUNITY COLLEGE, Gilbert, AZ Adjunct Professor, 2003 to 2004 Taught across the Theatre, Film, and English Departments, which included Acting I&II, Film Analysis, Cotemporary Cinema, First Year Composition, and Play Production Studio. ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY, Tempe, AZ Adjunct Professor, 2001 to 2003 Educated students of the Theatre Department in the Introduction to the Art of Acting, Fundamentals of Acting, Introduction to Theatre, and Play Production Studio. UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY, Logan, UT Lecturer, 2000 to 2001 Strategically instructed Introduction to Theatre, Apprenticeship, Beginning Acting I&II, and Script Analysis courses.
Presentations and Papers 2017 Acting for Dancers & Fitzmaurice Workshops Presenter, American College Dance Association Conference, Johnson C. Smith University 2017 Paper "Hashtags to Harmony: Autodrama as a Tool for Accessing Empathetic Responses in Diversity Training, Annual Meeting of Diversity in Organizations, Communities & Nations Research 2016 Carolina Queer Youth Conference, Presenter 2016 SC Kinship Care Conference 2016 Hashtags to Harmony: Using Meisner and Auto Drama to Create Understanding and Empathy, Workshop Presenter SETC 2014 to 2016 Evolution Talent 2014 Combat design for Theatre Charlotte s production of To Kill a Mockingbird 2014 Rockin Your Rehearsals With Rasaboxes, Workshop Presenter, SETC 2014 KCACTF Respondent Training, SETC 2013 Academic Rigor in Secondary Arts Education, SCTA Convention Panelist 2013 Eradicating Emphatic Arms!: Laban and Meisner in Auditions, Workshop Presenter, SETC 2012-Safe Ground Ally Training Workshop 2012 GWS Program Proposal & Faculty Karaoke, Coker College 2012 Theatre as a Transforming Agent of Rape Culture, NOPE Conference 2011 Sexual Assault Education Presentation, Campus Life staff, Coker College 2011 Unarmed Conflict, South Carolina Theatre Association Annual Convention, Winthrop University 2009 Recognizing and Supporting Victims of Sexual Assault, Illinois College Symposium 2009 Reality, Responsibility and Rape : Educational Institutions and the Problem of Authority 2007 What Are You Talking About!? : Gender and Communication, University of North Carolina Wilmington Library Personnel Publication Three entries, The Emperor Jones, Krigwa Players, and The Minstrel Tradition published in Oxford University Press Encyclopedia of African-American History, Paul Finkelman, editor, 2008. Scholastic Activities Member, QUEENS UNIVERSITY, Diversity Council (2017) Chair, UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA CHARLOTTE, Part-Time Faculty Committee (2017 to Present) Faculty Advisor, COKER COLLEGE, 1 in 4 No More Student Club, (2013-2014) Faculty Advisor, COKER COLLEGE, Student Production Board (2012-2015) Member, COKER COLLEGE, Safe Ground Ally (2012-2015) Trainer, COKER COLLEGE, Sexual Assault Awareness Training (2012-2014) Member, UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA WILMINGTON, Freshman Learning Communities (2005-2007) Member, QUEENS UNIVERSITY, Common Read Selection Committee (2016 to 2017)
Member, CATAWBA COLLEGE, Hobgood Scholarship Committee (2016) Choreographer, LEE STREET THEATRE, The Parchman Hour (2016) Member, CATAWBA COLLEGE, Sexual Assault Task Force, (2015) Member, CATAWBA COLLEGE, Academic Policies Committee (2015) Member, COKER COLLEGE, Celebration of Academics Planning Committee (2015) Member, COKER COLLEGE, Provost Scholarship Committee (2015) Search Committee Member, COKER COLLEGE, Department of Dance, Music, and Theatre (2015) Member, Celebration of Academic Excellence Committee (2014 to 2015) Chair, COKER COLLEGE, Student Development Committee (2014 to 2015) Faculty Advisor, COKER COLLEGE, Common Ground - a gay/straight alliance (2014 to 2015) Member, COKER COLLEGE, Hearing Officers Panel (2014 to 2015) Organizer/Keynote Speaker, COKER COLLEGE, Take Back the Night (2014) Search Committee Member, COKER COLLEGE, Communication Program (2014) Peer Evaluator, COKER COLLEGE, Professor Kristen Hapke (2014) Faculty Advisor, COKER COLLEGE, The Vagina Monologues and A Memory, a Monologue, a Rant, and a Prayer (2014) Member, COKER COLLEGE, Honors Program Steering Committee (2013 to 2014) Committee Member, COKER COLLEGE, Student Development (2013 to 2014) Internship Advisor, COKER COLLEGE, (2013 to 2014) Search Committee Member, COKER COLLEGE, Dance Program (2013) Guest Artist, COKER COLLEGE, The Trojan Women, (2013) Staging, COKER COLLEGE, I Love You, You re Perfect, Now Change, (2013) Search Committee Member, COKER COLLEGE, Theatre Program (2013) Ad Hoc Committee Member, COKER COLLEGE, Workload Reorganization (2013) Independent Study Instructor, COKER COLLEGE, Dramaturgy (2013) Member, COKER COLLEGE, Committee for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (2012 2013) Director, COKER COLLEGE, Spring Awakening (2013) Instructor, COKER COLLEGE, Dramaturgy Independent Study (2012) Volunteer, COKER COLLEGE, House Calls (2012) Search Committee Member/Facilities Manager, COKER COLLEGE, Department of Dance, Music, and Theatre (2012) Acting Mentor, COKER COLLEGE, You re a Good Man, Charlie Brown (2011) Diversity Seminar Member, ILLINOIS COLLEGE, (2010 to 2011) Fine Arts Board Chair-Elect, ILLINOIS COLLEGE, (2010 to 2011) Fine Arts Board Member, ILLINOIS COLLEGE, (2009 to 2011) Regional Respondent, KENNEDY CENTER AMERICAN COLLEGE THEATRE FESTIVAL (2009 to 2011) Rape Crisis Volunteer, PRAIRIE CENTER AGAINST SEXUAL ASSAULT (2009 to 2011) Member, ILLINOIS COLLEGE, Gender and Women s Studies Committee (2009 to 2011) Organizer, WALK A MILE IN HER SHOES, (2009 and 2011) Judge, ILLINOIS COLLEGE, Homecoming Follies (2009 to 2010) Senior Thesis Advisor, ILLINOIS COLLEGE, Gender and Women s Studies Program (2009 to 2010) Member, ILLINOIS COLLEGE, Student Life Committee (2010) Member, ILLINOIS COLLEGE, Community/Civic Engagement Committee (2010) Judge, ILLINOIS COLLEGE, Literary Society (2009) Assistant to Director, ILLINOIS COLLEGE, NEH Summer Seminar - The Frontier Experience in the American Midwest: Greater Illinois to 1860, (2009) Director of Performing Arts, THE IMAGINE FOUNDATION (2008 to 2009) Faculty Advisor, UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA WILMINGTON, S.T.A.G.E. Company (2006 to 2008)
Member, UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA WILMINGTON, Women s Studies Advisory Board (2007 to 2008) Member, UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA WILMINGTON, Undergraduate Thesis Committee within the Criminal Justice Department (2007) Recruiter, UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA WILMINGTON, Seahawk Saturday Major s Fair (2006) Recruiter, UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA WILMINGTON, Southeastern Theatre Conference (2006) Faculty Advisor, UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA WILMINGTON, The Vagina Monologues (2005 and 2006) Member, UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA WILMINGTON, Curriculum Committee (2005) Women s Studies Advisory Board Member, MESA COMMUNITY COLLEGE (2002 to 2004) Professional Associations Association of Title IX Administrators (ATIXA) National Organization of Women Advisory Board Member, MOB Theatre Company Board Member, Illinois Fine Arts Series Member of the Women s Studies Advisory Board, UNCW Advisory Board Member, The Art of Theatre: Then and Now (Downs, Wright, and Ramsey) published by Thomson Wadsworth, 2007 Board Member, Ensemble Theatre Company Selected Professional Directing Experience Dixie Swim Club Lee Street Theatre Salisbury, NC 2017 Hairspray Ohio Valley Summer Theatre Athens, OH 2017 On the Verge Catawba College Salisbury, NC 2015 Metamorphoses Coker College Hartsville, SC 2014 Recent Tragic Events Carolina Actors Studio Theatre (co-direction with Michael Simmons) Charlotte, NC 2013 Spring Awakening Coker College Hartsville, SC 2013 The Laramie Project Coker College Hartsville, SC 2012 The Complete Works of William Shakespeare Abridged Coker College Hartsville, SC 2012 Medea Illinois College, Mainstage Jacksonville, IL 2010 Summer Nights!: A Musical Review Northwest Children s Theatre Portland, OR 2010 The Last Days of Judas Iscariot Illinois College, ICEBOX Theatre Jacksonville, IL 2010 Anon(ymous) Illinois College, Mainstage Jacksonville, IL 2009
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare Abridged The Brown Coat Pub and Theatre Wilmington, NC 2008 Southern Girls University of North Carolina Wilmington Wilmington, NC 2007 Kiss and Tell Hale Centre Theatre Gilbert, AZ 2003-2004 The Importance of Being Earnest Chandler-Gilbert Community College Chandler, AZ 2003 Heat Arizona State University Tempe, AZ 2002 The Last of the Red Hot Lovers Ensemble Theatre Scottsdale, AZ 2002 Telling Tales Egyptian Theatre Center Park City, UT 2001 Selected Acting Experience Professional: The Realistic Joneses Jennifer Jones Lee Street Theatre 2018 Salisbury, NC Thanks, But No Thanks Janetta Buckingham Lee Street Theatre, 2016 Salisbury, NC Angels in America The Angel Carolina Actors Studio Theatre Charlotte, NC 2014 State of SC PSA film Lead (Parent) Florence, SC 2014 The Trojan Women Hecuba (Guest Artist) Elizabeth Boatwright Coker Performing Arts Center, Hartsville, SC, 2013 Television Commercial Principal Voice Ashley Home Furniture Store Champaign, IL 2009 Italian American Aunt May Bona Fide Theatre Co. (revival) Reconciliation Wilmington, NC 2008 The Hollow Henrietta Old Lyric Repertory Company Logan, UT 2004 Enchanted April Lady Caroline Old Lyric Repertory Company Logan, UT 2004 JB Sarah Guest Artist, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 2003 Director: Marshall Mason Durang/Durang Ginny/Marsha Ensemble Theatre Scottsdale, AZ 2002 The Last of the Elaine Navazzio Ensemble Theatre Red Hot Lovers Scottsdale, AZ 2002