Professor Josh Machamer is the Chair of the Theatre and Dance Department at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo. Prof. Machamer teaches courses in directing, theatre history, global theatre and performance, senior project and first year seminar. Outside of his...More
Professor Josh Machamer is the Chair of the Theatre and Dance Department at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo. Prof. Machamer teaches courses in directing, theatre history, global theatre and performance, senior project and first year seminar. Outside of his department, Prof. Machamer has extensive university experience in a variety of areas, such as General Education, The Cal Poly Foundtion Board, College and University Curriculum, International Programs, the Academic Senate, and Cal Poly's Center for Expressive Technologies. In the field of international education, he has served several times as a participating faculty and resident director on Cal Poly's London Study Global Program. Prof. Machamer has extensive college/university and professional directing credits, as well as production experience within the American television and film industry. He has particpated as an invited artist a the University of Birmingham, UK, and on more than one occasion with the London-based Complicite. Prof. Machamer has written several articles for the Pasadena Playhouse and the Old Globle Theatre, as well as been published within the International Journal of the Humanities and Local-Global: Studies in Comunity Sustainability. Prof. Machamer currently serves as the editor and curator of the Arts in Society Book Series: Immersive Theatre – Engaging the Audience. Prof. Machamer has also performed on stage with the Pacific Conservatory Theatre (PCPA) in productions of God of Carnage, Hairspray, Enron & Shipwrecked! He received his MFA in Directing from Pennsylvannia State University and his BA in Theatre Arts and English from Whittier College. Prof. Machamer is the recipient of Cal Poly San Luis Obispo's University Distinguished Teaching Award. Currently, Prof. Machamer is also a member of te Central Coast Performing Arts Center Commission, a campus and community advisory board for the Performing Arts Center located on the Cal Poly campus.
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