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 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 Saugatauk, 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 and has
created several entertaining
educational musical theatre programs for the Eastern’s
touring company Encore.
Professor Stevens is the past president of the Michigan Theatre
Association and the current president of the Michigan Legacy
Art Park, a 30-acre sculpture park in Northwest Michigan. In
2004 he was recipient of the E Ray Scott Michigan Artist Prize
for career.
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