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Michael Tick
Chair and Professor; Producing Artistic Director, Swine Palace
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received his M.A. in Performance Studies from Northwestern University
where he studied under Robert Breen and Frank Galati. While completing
the Ph.D. at New York University, he studied acting with Sanford
Meisner of the Neighborhood Playhouse and directing with Adrian
Hall and Richard Jenkins of the Trinity Repertory Company. His
areas of specialization are directing and American Theatre. Before
joining LSU in 1999, he was the founding chair of the Virginia
Governor's School for the Arts, a regional training program associated
with Old Dominion University, the Virginia Opera, and the Virginia
Stage Company in Norfolk. He has taught and directed at the University
of Rhode Island, Northwestern University, Harvard University,
Rend Lake College (Illinois), The University of the Virgin Islands
(St. Thomas), and Bretton Hall College/The University of Leeds
(England). As director, his favorite productions include When
You Comin' Back, Red Ryder? (with Oscar award-winner Marlee
Matlin) at NYU; Seesaw: the Musical, and Merrily We
Roll Along at the Wells Theatre—Virginia Stage Company; Mother Courage and Craig Lucas' Blue Window at the
GSA Theatre. For LSU and Swine Palace, Tick has recently directed The Exonerated, An Inspector Calls, and The Heidi
Chronicles, which is scheduled to tour Shanghai and Beijing
in 2007. For the past several years, he has served as mentor and
planner for the ATHE Leadership Institute. |
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Voice: 225/578-3531
Fax: 225/578-4135
E-mail:mtick1@lsu.edu
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