The Faculty of Today

Faculty in the Arts
Concentrations: Dance/Theater, Music, Visual Arts

Jill Becker, Associate Professor of Dance. Favorite Course: Body Learning: Alternative Approaches and Advanced Technique and Repertory. Jill recently bought a beautiful house in Yellow Springs. She also performed in a Richard Boll Memorial Concert in New York City and performed here in Yellow Springs with fellow faculty members in the Antioch Theatre and at the Herndon Gallery in South Hall.

Louise Smith ’77, Professor of Theatre. Favorite Course: Autoperformance. Louise writes: “I help students make twenty minute solos about themselves to perform for the community. This term I am teaching women playwrights and am loving it.” Last year, while on sabbatical, Louise wrote the summer musical for YS Kids Playhouse, Gaston Boudreaux, Cajun Robin Hood, which had an environmental theme. She also directed Endurance, the story of the Shackleton adventures, which she wrote the previous year for Andy’s Summer Playhouse in New Hampshire. Endurance will be touring in the Dayton area this spring. The cast includes 13 kids ranging in age from 9 to 15.

This fall Louise worked with Antioch alum Ellen Maddow ’71 on her play Painted Snake in a Painted Chair at LaMama E.T.C. in New York City. The play received good reviews in the New Yorker and the NY Times. Louise directed Carlyle Brown’s solo play Fula from America, which was presented by the Center for Independent Artists in Minneapolis and will be performed at Alabama Shakespeare’s Southern Writers’ Conference in February. Louise was also featured in Gravel, a short film directed by local filmmaker Steve Bognar and one of fifty films out of 4,000 entries in the most recent Sundance Film Festival.

Louise is developing a new solo work, Sacrificum Intellectus, and is also working on a play/pageant to be presented at the beginning of Antioch’s yearlong sesquicentennial celebration.

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