Welch, Kathy

Kathy Welch

Lecturer

Start Year: 2016

Music and Stage and Screen Arts
Office: B2 Kleinpell Fine Arts
Phone: 715-425-4151

Email: kathy.welch@uwrf.edu

Education:

• University of Hawai'i at Manoa, Ph.D.
• University of North Carolina - Greensboro, M.A.
• University of Minnesota, B.S.

Courses Taught:

• Introduction to Theatre and Drama
• History of Theatre
• Collaborative Problem Solving for Stage and Screen
• Directing for Stage and Screen
• Acting I and II
• Dance Appreciation
• American Musical Theatre
• History of Theatre
• World of Puppetry
• Youth Theatre
• Improv
• Asian Theatre
• Devised Theatre
• Creative and Scholarly Research
• Sustainability from Perspective of the Arts

Dr. Kathy Welch has been an instructor in the Music, Stage and Screen Arts since 2017. 

In addition to her academic credentials, Kathy has extensive experience in professional theatre. She worked in technical theatre and stage management in Minnesota and Boston at several theatres including the Guthrie, the Huntington Theatre Company (where she had the honor of running sound for the first professional production of August Wilson’s “Piano Lesson,”) and North Shore Music Theatre. As director, actor, and playwright, Kathy’s work has been seen in Wisconsin, Minnesota, California, Bulgaria and Hawai’i. Kathy’s work writing and acting in Hawai’i garnered two Po’okela Awards from the State Theatre Council. 

Kathy was the recipient of the Japanese Ministry of Education Grant (Monbusho,) and lived in Japan for 2 1/2 years studying traditional performing arts and conducting research for her doctoral dissertation, “Construction, Conventions, and Aesthetics of Scenery in the Kabuki Theatre.”  

Kathy is Artistic Director of the Twin Cities-based theater company, Green T Productions. Under her artistic leadership, Green T was named the U.S. nominee for the Uchimura Prize, a Japanese award for promoting Japanese Theater outside of Japan and received an Ivey Award.