Meet Us
Staff
Katelyn Arata
Administrative Support Coordinator I
- Location: Shasta Hall 104
- Phone: (916) 278-3569
- katelynarata@csus.edu
- Pronouns: she/her/hers
Stephanie Conrad
Performing Arts Technician
- Location: Shasta Hall 104
- Phone: (916) 278-7211
- sconrad@csus.edu
- Pronouns: she/her/hers
- CV / Bio
Tasa Gleason
Performing Arts Technician
- Location: Shasta Hall 104
- Phone: (916) 278-6384
- tasa.gleason@csus.edu
- Pronouns: she/her/hers
- CV / Bio
- Specialty & Interests: Costume Design; Costume Construction; Hair & Make-up
Drew Lenox
Production Manager
- Location: Shasta Hall 104
- Phone: (916) 278-5994
- lenox@csus.edu
- Pronouns: he/him/his
- CV / Bio
- Specialty & Interests: Stage Management, Production Management, Arts Administration, Business & Operations, Contracts, Film Editing, Cinematography
Daniel Neeland
Technical Director
- Location: Shasta Hall 104
- Phone: (916) 278-6368
- daniel.neeland@csus.edu
Kristina Rodriguez
Equipment Technician
- Location: Shasta Hall 104
- Phone: (916) 278-7724
- kristina.rodriguez@csus.edu
Audrey Walker
Costume Shop Manager
- Location: Shasta Hall 104
- Phone: (916) 278-6384
- audrey.walker@csus.edu
Carol Wang
Administrative Support Coordinator II
- Location: Shasta Hall 104
- Phone: (916) 278-6617
- carol.wang@csus.edu
Tenured/Tenure-Track Faculty
Lorelei Bayne
Professor
- Location: Shasta Hall 112
- Phone: (916) 278-7721
- baynel@csus.edu
- Pronouns: she/her/hers
- CV / Bio
- Specialty & Interests: Dance History, Theory & Criticism, Choreography
Michelle Felten
Vice Chair, Theatre & Dance Department
- Location: Shasta Hall 104
- Phone: (916) 278-6280
- mfelten@csus.edu
- Specialty & Interests: Acting, Voice & Movement, Audition Technique, Shakespeare
Megan Brunsvold Mercedes
Assistant Professor
- Location: Shasta Hall 104
- Phone: (916) 278-6702
- m.brunsvoldmercedes@csus.edu
- Pronouns: she/her/hers
- CV / Bio
- Specialty & Interests: Contemporary, Composition, Improvisation, Jazz, Tap, Dance Cultures of America, Dance Science & Somatics, Creative Dance for Children
Philip Flickinger
Chair, Dept. of Theatre and Dance
- Location: Shasta Hall 106
- Phone: (916) 278-7033
- philip.flickinger@saclink.csus.edu
- Specialty & Interests: Modern/Contemporary Dance, Choreography, Dance Cultures of America
Stephen Jones
Assistant Professor
- Location: Shasta Hall 106
- s.c.jones@csus.edu
- Specialty & Interests: Scenic and Lighting Design and Technology; Race in Set Design/Technology and Scenography
Lecturers
Nhan Ho
Lecturer
- Phone: (916) 278-6369
- nhan.ho@csus.edu
- Specialty & Interests: Advanced Jazz, Hip Hop
Nicole Limon
Lecturer
- Phone: (916) 278-7715
- nicole.limon@csus.edu
- Specialty & Interests: Multicultural Perspectives in American Theatre, Introduction to Theatre
Nicole Manker
Lecturer
- Phone: (916) 278-2803
- manker@csus.edu
- Specialty & Interests: African-Caribbean Dance, Dunham Technique
Christine Nicholson
Lecturer
- Phone: (916) 278-5785
- nicholsonjc@csus.edu
- Pronouns: she/her/hers
- CV / Bio
- Specialty & Interests: Directing, Theatre History, Irish and British Theatre, Shakespeare, Acting/Appreciation of Acting
Osvaldo Ramirez
Lecturer
- Phone: (916) 278-5785
- oramirez@csus.edu
- CV / Bio
- Specialty & Interests: Mexican Folklorico Dance
Amy Walker
Lecturer
- Phone: (916) 278-5785
- amy.walker@csus.edu
- Pronouns: she/her/hers
- Specialty & Interests: Multicultural Puppetry, Children's Theatre, Appreciation of Acting, Experimental Theatre, Immersive Theatre
Nichol Lazenby
Lecturer
- Specialty & Interests: Contemporary/Modern Dance, Choreography, Pilates/Dance Conditioning, Dance History, Dance Cultures of America, and Jazz technique
Casey McClellan
Lecturer
- casey.mcclellan@csus.edu
- Pronouns: he/him/his
- Website
- Specialty & Interests: Introduction to Theatre, Voice and Movement
