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KEN
STEVENS
Professor
Theatre & Arts Administration
103 Quirk Building
734.487.1153
ken.stevens@emich.edu
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Degrees
MA—Arts Administration, University of Cincinnati, 1968
BA—Political Science, University of Cincinnati, 1966
Professional Associations/Memberships
Association of Arts Administration Educators
Americans for the Arts
Representative Course Taught
CTAR 158: Fundamentals of Acting
CTAR 150: Introduction to Theatre
CTAR 427: Grant and Proposal Writing
CTAR 463: American Musical Stage
CTAR 452: Arts Management
CTAR 454: Law Public Policy and the Arts
CTAR 453: Marketing the Arts
CTAR 313: Contemporary Issues: Community Cultural Development
CTAR 314: Case Studies: Event Planning
CTAR 496: Career Seminar
Advising
Arts Management, major and minor
Arts Administration, MA
Theatre Arts, major and minor
CMTA Comprehensive, major and minor
Theatre Arts, MA
Biography
Ken Stevens came to Eastern from Cincinnati where he co-founded
the Showboat
Majestic and served as a Rockefeller Fellow at Playhouse in the
Park and the University
of Cincinnati. Professor Stevens created EMU’s musical
theatre minor and the graduate
and undergraduate programs in arts management for which he now
serves as advisor. He
has directed over one hundred musicals and plays at Eastern and
for stock and regional
theatres. His professional credits include Associate Producer
of Cherry County Playhouse
in Traverse City, Producer of the Red Barn Theatre in Saugatuck,
and Director at Actor’s
Repertory Theatre in Las Vegas.
He is a ten-time recipient of the Faculty Recognition Award and
winner of the Gold
Medallion Award and the Teaching Innovation Award. He has developed
educational
programs linking the arts with the study of math, science, geography
and history. . Other
programming innovations that he originated and directed include
the Prime and Players Dinner Theatre, The Depot Town Center Dinner
Theatre, the Beaux Arts Festival and
Ball, and the touring Encore musical company.
Professor Stevens is the past president of the Michigan Theatre
Association and the
Michigan Legacy Art Park. In 2004 he was awarded the E Ray Scott
Michigan Artist
Prize for career accomplishments in the arts.
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