Illinois Theatre

Acting Faculty — Associate Professor

MFA, Illinois State University

Specialty: Acting

Lisa Gaye Dixon has worked professionally across the country and around the globe. She began her professional career with the Steppenwolf Theatre Company in Chicago, and has also been seen on the stages of the Royal Shakespeare Company and the New Globe Theatre in London, and regionally at the Attic Theatre (Detroit), Performance Network (Ann Arbor), Lost Nation Theatre (Vermont), The Kitchen Theatre (Ithaca), Illinois Shakespeare Festival, and Milwaukee Shakespeare. Here at UIUC, Lisa has directed several popular traditional and non-traditional pieces for the Department of Theatre, all dealing with a range of social and political issues, all addressing the common threads of humanity, and the universality of experience across race, culture, class, economic and gender lines. Her areas of interest are: New Plays/Playwrights, Dance/Theatre/Music Collaborative pieces, Hip-Hop Theatre, and Shakespeare

Email: dixon1@illinois.edu