Experts Guide

Carroll has performed nationally and internationally as a soloist with various ballet companies in the United States, South America, China and Europe. He works with Arts4All Florida to teach Parkinson’s in Movement, a hybrid series of classes based on the Dance for Parkinson’s Disease program to help people with limited mobility, Parkinson’s or related conditions stretch and stimulate balance and sensory awareness.

Kohlmyer is co-artistic director of project agora a San Francisco-based curatorial organization that promotes creative dialogue among artists through presenting evenings of work featuring interdisciplinary collaborations. Her company has received numerous grants and commissions. In 2015, Kohlmyer and Co-Artistic Director Kara Davis were invited emerging choreographers at the prestigious Bates Dance Festival. They performed their work, Convers(at)ions, for the Different Voices Concert. In addition, the San Francisco International Arts Festival, Dance Gallery Festival and Breaking Ground, have presented their work.

Rinehart is a leading expert in theater and costume design.

Arreola has more than twenty years of professional experience as a theater and dance artist, including Grotowski's Objective Drama Project at the University of California-Irvine in 1987 and Workcenter in Pontedera, Italy until 1989. Arreola has Suzuki, contemporary dance and Butoh training and founded the experimental dance theatre company Mujeres en Ritual in 1999. She has worked as a performer, teacher, director and movement specialist in Mexico, the United States, Nicaragua, Canada, Poland and India.

Green is a USF Theatre alumna, a USF faculty member for more than 10 years and native of St. Petersburg. In addition to USF, she has taught on the voice faculties of The Actor's Center in New York, the Yale School of Drama and the Juilliard School.

Research interests include contemporary art, sculpture and extended media, political art, interdisciplinary art and the international contemporary art market.

Bugos directs the NEA Funded Research Lab, Cognition and Coordination in Music Across the Lifespan (CALM Lab) where she mentors interdisciplinary undergraduate and graduate students from across the USF campus. Her research examines the neurological basis for music perception and cognition with regard to human development, lifelong learning and cognitive transfer. Her interests have led to the development of new music education programs for healthy and clinical populations of children (Multimodal Music Training) and for adults (Keys to Staying Sharp; Piano for Parkinson’s).

Kokai is an award-winning educator, playwright, scholar and administrator and past recipient of the Presidential Excellence Award for Teaching and an award for Innovative Pedagogy through the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival Region 8 and the Association for Theatre in Higher Education. She has been recognized for her design and use of assessment in curricular and programmatic decision making.

Robison is Professor of Musicology and Early Music Ensemble director at the University of South Florida, and has been on the School of Music faculty since 1977. He teaches history surveys, graduate history seminars, symphonic literature, intercultural composers and other topics at USF. He received his Doctorate in Musicology from Stanford University in 1975, where he specialized in Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque topics with an emphasis on historical performance practices. Since 1990 his research interests have become more global through his work on contemporary composers from diverse Asian, African and Latin American cultures.

Martino is a scenic designer with extensive experience on shows at theatres across the country Her previous role in the Chicago area included work on museum exhibits, circus performances and international theatrical productions, including the 2020 West End production of The Prince of Egypt. She was also a part of the team selected to represent the United States in designing the USITT’s Emerging Artist Exhibit for the 2019 Prague Quadrennial.

Cho, renowned for exceptional vocal artistry, is an internationally acclaimed Korean soprano and a Professor of Voice who leads the USF Voice Program. She has received critical praise for performances described as "sublimely beautiful, transcendent, serene, dazzling, and heavenly" and noted for her "refined tone color and dignified sound that effectively touches the heart."

Green's areas of expertise include Acting and Theatre.

McCormick-Hutchinson joined USF Theater and Music faculty in 2023. Her responsibilities at USF include directing the Musical Theater, teaching Choral Techniques, conducting the University Singers, and co-teaching Acting the Song.

McCormick-Hutchinson earned an MA degree with an emphasis in Music Education from the University of South Florida and a Bachelor of Music Education degree with an emphasis in Piano from Florida Southern College. Prior to coming to USF she taught choral music and music theater for a total of 20 years in elementary, middle, and high schools.

Kara is a registered architect in Turkey where he worked on commissioned designs, competition entries and construction supervision. In 2013, one of his designs in Turkey, Kuscuburun Railway Station in Izmir, received critical recognition in the International Station Central Symposium & Exhibition in Istanbul and Ankara. He works at the USF SACD Design Workshop as a lead designer.

Weston is an Assistant Professor of Architecture at the University of South Florida, where he teaches graduate courses in design and technology and is currently charged with developing a state-of-the-art digital fabrication laboratory and its associated curriculum. His research focus is multi-disciplinary, combining experimental building materials, digital fabrication, and physical computing with traditional notions of making in order to generate interactive and complex physical environments. The goal of this work is to situate digital architecture between art, construction, and the environment, rather than as a mere method for technical problem solving.

Freeman is a transdisciplinary visual artist and designer whose body of work is a dynamic fusion of technology and traditional studio art practice. His creative explorations delve into themes of Blackness, social conditioning, and hybridity, employing a diverse array of mediums and techniques. Originally trained in drawing and painting, Freeman has expanded his expertise to include new media disciplines such as animation, digital modeling, 3D scanning, digital fabrication, virtual reality, and artificial intelligence.

Morris is a dance educator, researcher and choreographer. She has been invested in the field of dance education for more than twenty years and holds two terminal degrees in dance – an MFA degree in Dance Performance and Choreography and a PhD in Dance Studies. She is a regular presenter at regional, national and international dance conferences, a reviewer for multiple key dance journals in the field and has a wide variety of published work.

Foley received his B.A. in English and a minor Spanish from Bates College, and his MFA in Dance from the University of Washington where he performed in the works of several of the 20th century's major choreographers, including Mark Morris, Alwin Nikolais, Stephen Petronio, Hanya Holm, Michio Ito, Dore Hoyer and Bill Evans. As a dancer, he has performed throughout the United States, Europe and Asia in the companies of over two dozen choreographers including Doug Elkins, Kevin Wynn, Seán Curran, Donna Uchizono, Eun Me Ahn, Joy Kellman, Ruby Shang, Ben Munisteri, and Roberta Garrison.

Halflants is a professor of architecture at the USF School of Architecture & Community Design and a principal at Halflants + Pichette Architects. Halflants has worked as a project designer with the Polshek Partnership in New York, drawing designs for theaters and offices in Manhattan and for the Spencer Museum in Kansas. Working in a joint venture with Arata Isozaki’s Tokyo office, he was on the design team for the Brooklyn Museum addition.

Mason jumps out of airplanes, and her practice incorporates photography, craft and performance to expose how individual responses to collective trauma are shaped. Other work has focused on appropriating visual mediation following afflictive events such as the Rodney King beating or undocumented U.S./Mexico border crossings in order to draw awareness to systems of violence and power. In an installation titled “Love Letters/White Flag: The Book of God” (2009-2016), Mason hand embroidered Eric Harris’ journal entries leading up to the Columbine High School massacre on vintage handkerchiefs.

Finelli's expertise includes performance theory, theatre history, Caribbean theatre, great performances on film and sport as performance. His publications include the textbook Sound for the Stage, the book Worlds Away, electronic courseware, reviews and over 300 articles and software reviews. His academic research has been published in Theatre Journal, Performing Arts Resources, Southern Theatre and other academic journals. His theatre consulting practice has collaborated on the recent renovation of the Fort Homer Hesterly Armory into an event center, transforming a building that hosted Elvis Presley, John F. Kennedy and professional wrestling into a state-of-the-art theatrical venue.

Nuñez began her professional career in 1978 at Ballet Internacional de Caracas under the direction of Vicente Nebrada and Zhandra Rodriguez. She has danced as a soloist and principal dancer of Ballet Internacional de Caracas, Ballet Nuevo Mundo, Ballet Teresa Carreño, Cleveland Ballet, and Ballet San Jose Silicon Valley. Zhandra Rodriguez, former principal dancer of American Ballet Theater, was her most influential teacher and coach, together with Lidija Franklin, Jose Pares, Vicente Nebrada, Hector Zaraspe, and Julio Lamas. She has performed in Spain, Italy, Germany, Greece, France, Russia, Romania, Austria, Hungary, China, Japan, Taiwan, and in North, Central, and South America and worked with renowned choreographers such as Balanchine, Choo San Goh, Alvin Ailey, Agnes de Mille, Terry Orr, Judith Jamison, Jhon Butler, Elisa Monte, Carlos Orta, Dennis Nahat, Ulisses Dove, Vincente Nebrada, Hans Van Mannen, Hector Zaraspe, Flemming Flindt and Margo Sapington.

Dulaney studies the history and design of workforce housing in the U.S, design and representation through drawing and photography and design pedagogies and methodologies. He was an architect with Bohlin Cywinski Jackson in Pittsburgh, Smith Dalia Architects in Atlanta, Ray Huff Architects in Charleston, S.C., and other firms. His work has appeared in regional, national and international juried venues.

Lehmker is a freelance dancer and choreographer currently based in the Tampa Bay area, where she is an active member of the dance community. She has worked with Charles Gushue/Gushue Moving Arts, Xan Burley + Alex Spring/the Median Movement and Meredith Monk, as well as university faculty.

Lee is a teacher, pianist, researcher, author and administrator. She, is the founder of Ars Nostra and performs piano duo music commissioned by renowned contemporary composers. Her work is featured in music labels including Ravello, Centaur, Capstone, Navona and Albany . She is founding Editor of the Cultural Expressions in Music Monographs Series.

Howard is an expert in artistic production, public art, socially-engaged art practice and community engagement. She researches the intersection of art, social and environmental justice and has contributed across USF Institute of Research in Art platforms including the Contemporary Art Museum, Graphicstudio, and the Public Art Program to produce, commission, and exhibit contemporary artists’ projects.

Sabia can discuss heat resilience and urban planning, tree canopies, cooling centers and extreme heat as it relates to social vulnerability.

Fung is a professor of music education and founding director of the Center for Music Education Research. He coordinates the Ph.D. program and teaches graduate courses in social psychology, measurement and evaluation, statistics, qualitative research, philosophical and historical issues and music in higher education.