Master Classes

With Premiere Stages, the Department of Theatre offers master classes with theatre professionals several times each year. The Premiere Artists series brings high-profile professional artists to the Kean University campus to actively engage students and the campus community. Artists teach students in intensive, carefully crafted master classes and participate in interactive question-and-answer sessions with students and members of the local and surrounding communities. Artists have included:

Academy Award-winning actress Olympia Dukakis

Tony Award-nominated actress Daphne Rubin-Vega

Emmy Award-winning actress Kim Zimmer

Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-nominated playwright
Lee Blessing

Broadway performers Kevin Chamberlin, Bill Bowers,
Garrett VanderMeer, Ray Wills, and Ray McLeod

David Letterman Props artisan Barbara Taylor

Illusionist Peter Samelson