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PHIL
SIMMONS
Assistant
Professor of Musical Theatre & Dance
103D Quirk Building
734.487.0033
psimmon2@emich.edu
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Degrees
MFA—Acting (Secondary concentration, Playwriting), The
University of Georgia, 1992
BA—Theatre & English, Oklahoma State University, 1988
Professional Associations/Memberships
Actors Equity Association
Representative courses taught
CTAR 106: Introduction to Performing Arts
CTAR 150: Introduction to Theatre
CTAR 158: Fundamentals of Acting
CTAR 457: Musical Theatre Audition
CTAR 461: Musical Theatre Acting
CTAR 471: Musical Theatre Workshop
DANC 103: Tap I
DANC 101: Jazz I
DANC 178: Musical Theatre Dance I
DANC 178: Musical Theatre Dance II
DANC 422: Dance Workshop
Advising
Musical Theatre, minors
Dance, majors and minors
Theatre Arts, majors and minors
Faculty Sponsor, Dance Forum
Faculty Mentor, LGBT Resource Center
Biography
Phil Simmons spent the 15 years prior to coming to Eastern as
a working actor, singer, dancer, and casting assistant in New
York City. He is proud to have performed opposite comic great
Rip Taylor as Hysterium in the Broadway First National Tour of
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum and to performed
with Tony Award winner Ron Holgate in the Broadway First National
Tour of The Man of LaMancha. He has played fellow Oklahoman Will
Rogers in The Will Rogers Follies, Ozzie in the European Tour
of On the Town, has sung the music of Andrew Lloyd Webber on
International Tour of The Best of Broadway. Phil is a Bob Fosse
specialist and teaches dance master classes all over the country.
His passion is training students to be career performers who
don’t
just survive, but who thrive in the crazy business called “show.”
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