Professor of Theatre

Ph.D. University of Nebraska-Lincoln
M.F.A. in Acting/Directing, Southern Illinois University-Carbondale

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Since 1992, she has been teaching stage movement, acting, directing, and performance courses at Eckerd. Eckerd College directing credits include Passion Play (Part One), The Gamester, Iphigenia, Rain. Some Fish. No Elephants., A Midsummer Night's Dream, Our Town, The Dining Room, As You Like It, The Boys Next Door, Fuddy Meers, and A Streetcar Named Desire. She received a Kennedy Center/American College Theatre Festival Meritorious Award for Excellence in Direction for Iphigenia and for A Midsummer Night's Dream. During the summer, she works as an Artist-in-Residence/Guest Director at the Central Coast Shakespeare Festival in San Luis Obispo, California, where she directed The Tempest, As You Like It, The Gamester, Treasure Island, Richard III, Macbeth, Cyrano de Bergerac, Romeo and Juliet, As You Like It, The Taming of the Shrew, Hamlet, and The Merchant of Venice and performed the role of Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing. In April 2010, she earned a 200-hour Yoga Teacher Training Certification from Ananda Expanding Light Retreat near Nevada City, California. For the Fall 2012 semester, Professor Totten served as Director of the London Study Centre, where she taught The British Seminar and Acting: Shakespeare. Professor Totten holds an MFA in Acting/Directing from Southern Illinois University and a Ph.D. in Theatre from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.