Lee Stille

Professor Interpretation, Performance Studies & Theatre Arts, Co-Director of Theatre

121 Quirk

734-487-6846

lstille@emich.edu

Degrees

• PhD - Theatre Arts, University of Minnesota - Minneapolis, 1996
• MA - Oral Interpretation, Eastern Michigan University, 1983
• BS - Speech Communication, Illinois State University, 1981

Professional Associations/Memberships

• Association for Theatre in Higher Education
• National Communication Association (Theatre & Performance Studies divisions)
• Voice & Speech Trainers Association

Representative Courses Taught

• CTAO 205 - Voice & Articulation
• CTAO 405 - Voice & Dialects
• CTAO 418/419 - Performing Shakespeare I & II
• CTAO314/514 - Performing Drama
• CTAO 400/500 - Performing Prose & Poetry
• CTAR 450/544 - Theatre History I
• CTAR 455/530 - Dramaturgy
• CTAR 601 - Performance Inquiry

Advising

• Theatre Arts, major and minor
• CMTA Comprehensive, major and minor
• Theatre Arts, MA
• Interpretation & Performance Studies, MA

Biography

Dr. Lee Stille has taught at Eastern Michigan University in the CMTA areas of Interpretation/ Performance Studies and Theatre Arts since 1996.  A specialist in the fields of voice, speech & dialects, text analysis, and performance of literature (especially Shakespeare), Dr. Stille’s professional experience has closely mirrored these interests.  His work includes nearly twenty five years of individualized voice/speech/dialect training with more than 200 clients (actors, performance artists, ESL students, comedians, teachers, politicians and lawyers) and consultation/coaching with over 75 theatre productions.  An accomplished stage director of more than 30 productions, in 2010, Dr. Stille received EMU’s prestigious Ronald W. Collins Distinguished Faculty Award for Creative Activity.  His directing projects span original adaptations of drama, poetry, and fiction (Shakespeare’s Hamlet, Cornelius Eady’s Brutal Imagination, Christy Brown’s Down All The Days, and D.H. Lawrence’s The Fox), re-interpretations of classics, (Moliere’s Imaginary Invalid, Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure and The Tempest—for which he was awarded EMU’s 2007 Artistic Recognition Award), seminal works of modern and contemporary theatre (Jarry’s Ubu Roi, Ibsen’s Miss Julie, Overmyer’s On The Verge and Kushner’s Angels In America Ii: Perestroika) and hard-hitting socio-political commentaries (The Exonerated and Branding The Bull).  As an actor, Dr. Stille’s work has been featured in critically recognized and award winning local productions of Equus, Jack Goes Boating, The Laramie Project, A View From The Bridge,  and Dr. Seward’s Dracula.  His current research interests center in the field of voice, speech and dialect training, dramaturgy and performance of Shakespeare.  Dr. Stille has presented at conferences for the Association for Theatre in Higher Education, National Communication Association, Central States Communication Association, and Michigan Association for Speech Communication.