Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies Faculty
Emeritus
Email: delmenic@grinnell.edu
Lesley Delmenico is an associate professor of Theatre and Performance Studies at 51²è¹Ýapp College, 51²è¹Ýapp Iowa. After a decade spent living outside the US, where she experienced decolonization and became interested in postcolonial performance, she was an actor in Chicago before earning her M.A...
Lecturer
Email: hurleyka@grinnell.edu
Kathleen Hurley is the instructor/lecturer for THD 104 and THD 204, the dance technique classes for the 51²è¹Ýapp College Department of Theatre and Dance. She is also the founder and Artistic Director of Hurley & Dancers, a professional modern dance company based in Des Moines, Iowa. Hurley also was...
Visiting Assistant Professor
Email: millerkr@grinnell.edu
Karie Miller (she/they) is an interdisciplinary artist, scholar, and educator specializing in belonging, and the content, behavior, and containers that promote it, primarily through acts of care, play, and joy. She works with and against the existing theatrical canon and industry to explore non...
Emeritus
Email: millerce@grinnell.edu
Celeste Miller is a multi-faceted dance artist whose career includes solo performance, choreography, arts activism and animator of community art projects. Her unique performance style is a combination of spoken word and movement that plumbs narrative for physical imagery in juxtaposed connections...
Emeritus
Email: moffett@grinnell.edu
Sandy Moffett joined the 51²è¹Ýapp faculty in 1971 and teaches Acting, Directing and American Theatre. Although now Emeritus, he continues to teach and direct when called upon. He is also devoted to conservation and prairie restoration and has been responsible for the restoration and preservation of...
Lecturer
Email: putridew@grinnell.edu
Dewa Ayu Eka Putri is a Balinese artist-anthropologist and is currently a Lecturer of Dance at 51²è¹Ýapp College. She teaches courses on Balinese Dance and Performing Arts, specializing in traditional and contemporary dance styles. Putri also maintains her position as dance instructor at the...
Assistant Professor
Email: sanouaguibou@grinnell.edu
Sanou hails from Burkina Faso, West Africa, and is a dancer, choreographer, musician, storyteller, and director of the In-Out Dance Festival in Burkina Faso. He is a winner of the highly selective and prestigious U.S. State Department Scholarship Fulbright 2018–2019 where he taught "History and...
Assistant Professor
Email: shookjen@grinnell.edu
Jen Shook is an Assistant Professor of Theatre, Dance, & Performance Studies, whose practice lives at the intersections of dramaturgy, directing, literature, cultural memory, Indigenous studies. community engagement, and digital liberal arts. She previously taught at 51²è¹Ýapp as a Fellow in the...
Professor
Email: thomasjm@grinnell.edu
Justin Thomas is Professor of Theatre and Design in the Department of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies at 51²è¹Ýapp College. He holds a Master of Fine Arts in Theatrical Design from the University of Maryland and a Bachelor of Arts in Theatre Arts and Communication from Kalamazoo College. In...