Andrea Urice

Senior Lecturer
Acting/Directing
(314)935-4057
aurice@artsci.wustl.edu
 
Andrea Urice is a senior lecturer and director in the Performing Arts Department. Urice teaches acting, directing and creativity courses and is actively involved in the new play development program. She also serves as an instructor for the Shakespeare's Globe Summer Program in London. Urice is a recipient of Washington University's College of Arts and Sciences Excellence in Teaching Award. PAD directing credits include Churchill's Cloud Nine, Mee's Big Love, Beckett's Endgame, Sontag's Alice in Bed, Dove's The Darker Face of the Earth and the premiere productions of American Storm, Kid Peculiar and civil disobedience by playwright-in-residence Carter W. Lewis. This season Urice is directing Naomi Wallace's play The Trestle at Pope Lick Creek. Professional directing and dramaturgical credits include Actors Theatre of Louisville, The Guthrie Theater, Milwaukee's Theatre X, Steppenwolf Theatre, The Goodman Theatre and Organic Theatre. Directing credits for the Repertory Theatre of St. Louis include last season's premiere of Carter Lewis' play Ordinary Nation, a production that garnered four Kevin Kline Award nominations. In addition Urice has directed two productions with the Repertory Theatre's touring Imaginary Theatre Company. She has served as guest director and teacher at the University of Virginia, the University of Nevada-Las Vegas, Luther College and Elmhurst College. Urice received her MFA in Directing from the University of Virginia where she was a Jacob Javits Fellow in Humanities.
 
Robert Henke
Department Chair
Mary-Jean Cowell
Coordinator, Dance
Sean Savoie
Coordinator, Design & Tech
Jeffery Matthews
Coordinator, Acting/Directing
Angela Bengford
Design & Tech
Lisa Campbell
Musical Theatre
Ron Himes
Theatre Studes
Julie Jordan
Theatre Studies
Bonnie Kruger
Design & Tech
Carter Lewis
Playwright-in-Residence
David Marchant
Dance
Christine Knoblauch-O'Neal
Dance
Annamaria Pileggi
Acting/Stage Movement
Henry Schevy
Theatre Studies
Cecil Slaughter
Dance
Andrea Urice
Acting/Directing
William Whitaker
Acting/Directing
Annelise Mertz
Professor Emerita
 
Technical Staff
Sallie Durbin
Costume Shop Supervisor
Mike Loui
Scene Shop Foreman
 
Adjunct Faculty
Sally Brayley Bliss
Honorary Lecturer
Henry Claude
Musical Director
Jane Lapotaire
Distinguished
Artist-in-Residence
Susan Volkan
Performance Art
 
Office Staff
Cynthia Kahn
Assistant to the Chair
Rebecca Nathanson
Administratrive Assistant