Katheryn Bilbo

Associate Professor

Artistic Director / Theatre: Performance

Education

• M.F.A. Performance; University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2009
• B.F.A. Acting; Stephen F. Austin State University, 1996

Courses Taught

• Acting I
• Advanced Acting
• Oral Interpretation
• Periods and Styles
• Playwriting
• Theatre Appreciation
• Theatre Capstone
• Theatre History I & II
• Voice/Movement

Academic Interests

• Theatre History
• Sound Design
• Classical Acting
• Stage Movement
• Shakespeare

Scholarly Activity

• Annually directs Theatre Northwest Mainstage production(s) – Past productions include: Much Ado About Nothing (2023), The Imaginary Invalid (2022), Clue (2021), Good Kids (2020), Macbeth (2019), Still Life with Iris (2018), The Learned Ladies (2017), Legally Blonde – The Musical (2016), Reckless (2015), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (2015)
• Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE), Chicago, IL. Paper presentation: “Oleanna and Title IX: The Spectacular Labor of Regulating Sexual Harassment in Academia” (2016)
• Dialect/vocal coach for mainstage and Lab Series (student-directed) productions.
• Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE, Las Vegas, NV. "Strength Through Scars: Elective Mastectomies as Acts of Defiance in the Playwriting and Life of Oni Faida Lamplay" - Paper presentation. "Revolutionary Bodies - Performative Acts of Protest" - Panel presentation. (2018)
• "How to Teach a Play: Essential Exercises for Popular Plays" Book chapter: - Othello (Methuan 2020)

• Journal of Speech and Theatre Education, "Connecting with and Impacting Students: Understanding and Integrating Immediacy Behaviors in Communication and Performance Learning Environments" - Co-author. (2019) 

• Speech and Theatre Association of Missouri (STAM), Osage Beach, MO. "Embracing Difference and Empowering Voice - Examining Privilege and Finding Equity in Communication and Performance Learning Environments" - Co-panelist. (2019

Student Group Advisement

• University Players
• KC/ACTF

Other Professional Experiences

• Actors’ Equity Association (AEA) – 1998-present
• • Professional regional theatre credits include Milwaukee Repertory Theater, Milwaukee Chamber Theater, Next Act Theatre, Madison Repertory Theatre, New American Theatre, and The Shakespeare Project
• Regional commercial and voiceover experience includes:
  • Madison’s CW, Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, American Family Insurance, Midwest Family Broadcasting, Raven Software, TDS Video/Tilt Media, and Blame Society Productions
• New Play Development
  • Wisconsin Wrights 2007-2009 (Normal Human Beings, Choke Cherry Corners Tavern)
  • Milwaukee Repertory Theater 1994-1995 (Six Characters in Search of an Author)
  • Madison Repertory Young Playwrights Program 2008-2009 (Teaching Artist)
• Lon Morris College, Jacksonville, TX – Assistant Professor of Voice and Performance
• PEOPLE Program, Madison, WI – Theatre and Drama Internship Instructor
• kidsActing, Austin, TX – Instructor/Director
• PACE Center for Girls, Jacksonville, FL – Drama, English and Journalism Teacher