Dr. Roberta Sloan is the founding Dean of the College of Fine Arts and Mass Communication, Sam Houston State University in Houston, Texas. She is a recipient of the Kennedy Center Bronze Medallion for service to the Kennedy Center/American College Theatre Festival. She was Professor of Theatre and Chair at the Department of Theatre, Temple Unversity. She was Chair of the Department of Theatre, Dance, and Media Arts at the University of Central Oklahoma for nine years, developing the program from serving 7 majors when she began, to 165 when she moved in 2004 to the position of Chair and Artistic Director of the Conservatory Theatre at the University of Central Florida. She directs productions ranging in style from cutting-edge contemporary to classics, and directed the first university productions of Angels in America, Parts I and II, which won multiple awards from the KCACTF. She has directed and/or acted in over 200 plays, most recently playing Ruth Steiner in Collected Stories at Carpenter Square Theatre in Oklahoma City and directing The Laramie Project at UCO. She has presented Fitzmaurice workshops at the Southwest Theatre Association Convention in Oklahoma City, the American Alliance for Theatre and Education Conference in Minneapolis, and at various Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival meetings. Roberta is an Addy Award-winning commercial television producer and her documentaries have won first place awards in various competitions. She has produced two videos of Fitzmaurice Voicework, and in summer 2003 taught her second Semester at Sea while traveling round the world.
PhD and MA University of Michigan; BS Northwestern University. Specializations: Acting, Private coaching , Directing Languages: English
