Faculty

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Edgar Landa

Edgar Landa is a faculty member at the USC School of Dramatic Arts and the School’s resident fight/violence instructor and fight director. He is a…

Kathleen Dunn-Muzingo

Kathleen Dunn-Muzingo

Kathleen Dunn-Muzingo is a certified Arthur Lessac Voice and Body Trainer with an additional Certification in Phonetics-A Physical Approach into Accent-Dialect Acquisition under Louis Colaianni.…

Paula Cizmar

Paula Cizmar is a professor of theatre practice in dramatic writing at the USC School of Dramatic Arts. She is an award-winning playwright and librettist…

Debra De Liso

Debra De Liso

Debra De Liso has been a faculty member at the USC School of Dramatic Arts since 2002. She is a critically acclaimed and award-winning actor,…

Frank Catalano

Frank Catalano is a faculty member of the USC School of Dramatic Arts and has served as an executive at Lorimar Studios, Beverly Hills Playhouse,…

Tom Buderwitz

Tom Buderwitz

Tom Buderwitz is a faculty member at the USC School of Dramatic Arts. He is a scenic designer who has designed for South Coast Repertory,…

Robert Bailey

Robert Bailey

Robert Bailey is a faculty member at the USC School of Dramatic Arts. He teaches directing and acting at USC and has staged over a…

Jeremiah O'Brian

Jeremiah O’Brian

Jeremiah O’Brian is a faculty member at the USC School of Dramatic Arts. His exceptionally diverse background – from gritty nuts-and-bolts firefighting to film and theatre…

Luis Alfaro

A renowned playwright, performance artist, producer and director, Alfaro is the director of the MFA in Dramatic Writing Program and a MacArthur “genius” fellow.

Meiling Cheng

Meiling Cheng

Noted performance art critic and poet, Cheng has been published widely in both English and Chinese.