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| Dr. Pamela D. Chabora is a faculty member at NDSU with a focus in performance training, teaching four levels of Acting, three levels of Voice and Movement, Development Of Musical Theatre, Stage Combat, and the Business of Acting. As a specialist in musical theatre, Chabora also directs the NDSU Musical Theatre Troupe. In her twenty years as a specialist in actor training, she has served as a Master Teacher of Acting at the University of New Hampshire Department of Theatre and Dance, as Head of Performance at Susquehanna University, at the University of Toledo’s Department of Theatre, Film, and Dance, and at the University of Maine at Fort Kent. |
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| With extensive background in directing and choreography for educational and professional theatre, Chabora most recently directed and choreographed the American classic productions of A Chorus Line and Fiddler On The Roof at the North Dakota State University’s Festival Hall Theatre for which she was selected NDSTA’s 2004 North Dakota Creative Artist of the Year. She has received six separate ACTF Meritorious awards from the American College Theatre Festival for Directorial Concept and Ensemble work and was nominated for the Moss Hart award for Children’s Theatre. In conjunction with many of the productions she’s directed, symposium and educational colloquia have been coordinated and presented. For example, in Spring 2002, Chabora brought Pulitzer prize winning playwright, Tony Kushner, to NDSU for the debut of his unpublished adaptation of Good Person Of Sezuan and to participate in a Symposium on Theatre as a Socio-Political Tool. |
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| In addition to a thriving career in educational theatre, Chabora has maintained a parallel career in professional theatre as an actress, singer, and director/choreographer. Her theatrical credits range from Juliet in Star-Crossed Lovers (a new musical ) in NYC to Miss Julie from Strindberg’s Miss Julie. Recently, she has portrayed Eulalie Shinn in The Music Man and Mrs. Mattie McDowell in The Stephen Foster Story in Bardstown Ky. Chabora returned to the Stephen Foster company for two more summers to play Miss Lynch in Grease and to portray Eliza Foster, mother to Stephen. Chabora’s most recent performance venture has been her portrayal of Emily Dickinson in the one woman show The Belle Of Amherst which has toured throughout the Upper Midwest for the past three years. Chabora now serves as Artistic Director for the LaMoure Summer Music Theatre in Grand Rapids, N.D. |
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| Chabora maintains a high profile in national and international theatre organizations.In addition to serving as chief officer for the Acting Program of the Association of Theatre in Higher Education and Mid-west Representative for the Association of Theatre Movement Educators, Chabora has served for five years as editor for THE BEAT, a publication of the Acting Program addressing cutting edge training techniques for actors. Chabora is currently President of the Communication,Speech, Theatre Association of North Dakota (CSTAND). |
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| As a certified trainer/practitioner of both the Lessac Voice/Movement System and of the Alba Emoting technique, Chabora continues to research the application of neuropsychology to self –use training for actors. Her article “Emotion Training and the Mind/body Connection: Alba Emoting and the Method” can be found in the recent publication, The Method Reconsidered. In summer 2006, Chabora was invited to New York to study as a Master Teacher of Acting at the Actor’s Center with Olympia Dukakis, Slava Doglachev from the Moscow Art Theatre, and Rob Clare from the Royal Shakespeare Company. |
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