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Theatre
Faculty
 Harold
K. McCay, Jr.
Professor of Theatre 1977
1987, M.F.A., University of Massachusetts
1975, M.A., University of Northern Colorado
1971, B.A., Eastern Kentucky University
Faculty
of the Theatre Department/Scene & Lighting Designer
Mr. McCay
has been a faculty member of Theatre at Lewis University since 1977. He obtained
his BA from Eastern Kentucky University. He holds an MA from the University of
Northern Colorado and an MFA from the University of Massachusetts. He is a member
of the United States Institute of Theatre Technology.
Harold has designed and built over 60 productions at the Philip Lynch Theatre.
Some of his favorite designs include: Into the Woods, Jesus Christ Superstar,
Crimes of the Heart, Dark of the Moon, Noises Off, and Inspecting Carol, in which
the set was designed to collapse at the end of the play. He has designed and
built the productions of Oliver and Guys and Dolls for Theatre Connection productions
at the Rialto Square Theatre in Joliet. He has directed for the Philip Lynch
Theatre stage The Iceman Cometh, Hedda Gabbler, and the world premiere of Almost
Paradise. When not designing and building sets, Harold can be seen playing guitar
at the Lewis University Coffee House.
Harold McCay's email address mccayha@lewisu.edu
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Jo
Slowik
Philip Lynch Theatre Manager
Jo Slowik became the Philip Lynch Theatre Manager in
June of 1999. She has served as an adjunct faculty member
teaching Theatre Appreciation since 1997. Jo graduated from
Lewis in 1988 and went onto receive her MFA from Northern
Illinois University in DeKalb. Prior to coming to Lewis,
she was the box office production manager for the professional
children’s theatre company, AlphaBet Soup Productions.
She is a founding board member of the Heritage Theatre Company formed in 1996
in cooperation with the Lewis University Alumni Association. With Heritage
Theatre Company, Jo has directed two outdoor Shakespeare shows and appeared
in Agnes of God and Love Letters. She served for three years as the director/production
manager for the elementary education touring production of the original script,
Illinois, Illinois! Some of Jo’s stage credits include Blanche in A Streetcar
Named Desire, Rosalind in As You Like It, Masha in The Three Sisters, Dorine
in Tartuffe, Dottie in Noises Off, and Antigone in Antigone for which she received
an Irene Ryan nomination at the American College Theatre Festival. Jo married
her college sweetheart, Ted, and they now reside in Joliet with their two children,
Hannah (8) and Noah (5).
Jo
Slowik's email address slowikjo@lewisu.edu
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Kevin Trudeau,
Assistant Professor of Theatre 1999
1997, Ph.D., Theatre Arts, University of Oregon
1992, M.F.A., State University of New York at Stony Brook
1989, B.A., St. Louis University
Faculty of the Theatre Department
Kevin Trudeau received his Ph. D. in Theater from
the University of Oregon in 1997, as well as a MFA
in Dramaturgy from the State University of New York
at Stony Brook in 1992. His major areas of interest
include Native American performance, dramaturgy, dramatic
adaptation, turn of the century avante garde theatre,
and contemporary non-realistic drama.
He has taught at the university of Oregon as a Graduate Teaching Fellow, and
at Western State College in Gunnison, Colorado before coming to Lewis. He has
worked as a dramaturg on over twenty productions, including The Grapes of Wrath,
The Tempest, God’s Country, and The Good Person of Setzuan. He as worked
as a dramaturgy intern at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago. His directing credits
include Eleemosynary, The Baltimore Waltz, Twelfth Night, On the Verge and
Oleanna.
Kevin Trudeau's email address: trudeake@lewisu.edu |
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Keith White
Associate Professor of Theatre 1994
1991, M.F.A., Northern Illinois University
1977, B.A., Lewis University
Chair of the Theatre Department/Director of Program
Mr. White has been a full-time faculty member since
1994. He received his BA in Speech Education from Lewis
University and his MFA in Acting from Northern Illinois
University. After his graduation from Lewis, Mr. White
became a company member of the Indianapolis Ballet
Theatre and worked professionally for two years at
Chicago’s Candlelight Dinner Playhouse. In 1980,
he returned to Lewis where he served as the department’s
theatre manager for eleven years.
He has directed over 30 productions at the Philip Lynch Theatre including One
Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Into the Woods, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor
Dreamcoat, and The Crucible. A founding member of the Lewis alumni troupe,
the Heritage Theatre Company, he has directed Romeo & Juliet and Romp.
As an actor, he has performed the lead roles in My Fair Lady, Amadeus, and
Camelot at Lewis; The Music Man at the Rialto Square Theatre, and Tom and Tony
in The Glass Menagerie and West Side Story at NIU. Mr. White teaches acting,
directing and Voice & Diction.
Keith White's email address whiteke@lewisu.edu
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