Susan Berkompas, MFA

NAST Conference 2023

May 1, 2023

The annual conference for NAST (National Association of Schools of Theatre) resided in St. Louis, Missouri, at the Hyatt Regency on March 15 – 18, 2023. This is the accreditation organization with which Vanguard’s Theatre Department possesses full membership and has acquired accreditation since 2010. I was in the midst of directing my current comedy,…Read More

Theatre Arts and Community Engagement

April 23, 2018

Theatre Costume Design faculty, Associate Professor, Lia Hansen, and I attended the NAST Conference in Portland, Oregon, at the Downtown Hilton Hotel March 29 – 31, 2018. This was an important conference for two reasons. Theatre Arts is up for continued accreditation, and I also submitted a Plan Approval for a new concentration, Stage &…Read More

Susan Berkompas, MFA

Susan K. Berkompas, B.F.A./M.F.A. in Acting and Directing from CalRep; Professor Berkompas has served as Theatre Department Chair for twenty years at VU. She is member of SDC, SAG, and AFTRA. She is the recipient of the KCACTF Excellence in Education and Gold Medallion awards and is an alumnus of Directors Lab West. She has studied Shakespeare with Sir John Barton at the British American Drama Academy. She is the founder and Producing Artistic Director of American Coast Theater Company, and she serves as department chair of theatre arts at Vanguard University where she teaches acting courses. Sue has directed such shows as Othello, The Boys Next Door, Metamorphoses, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Crucible, Kiss Me Kate; Bullshot Crummond; and Life Without Parole. She has played such roles as Gertrude (Hamlet), Eleanor (The Lion in Winter), Blanche (A Streetcar Named Desire), Kate (All My Sons), Kate (Taming of the Shrew), and Velma (Chicago).

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