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LEE STILLE
Professor Interpretation, Performance
Studies & Theatre
Arts
Co-Area Head Theatre Arts
121 Quirk Building
LStille@emich.edu
734-487-6846
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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 Course 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), reinterpretations
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.
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