Meet Kerry Graves

Associate Professor of Theatre and Speech Communication; Director of Creative Stages Child Drama Program

• B.S., M.A. from Eastern Michigan University
• Ph.D. from Texas Tech University

Recent Awards and Achievements

• Member of the Board of Trustees for the Croswell Opera House
• SHU-COLA committee Conduct Board
• Task Force for Mediation and Restorative Justice
• Member of Actor’s Equity Association
• Theatre Communications Group
• The Croswell Opera House
• The Performance Network
• The Stratford Shakespeare Festival
• Phi Kappa Phi
• Alpha Psi Omega
• Awards, Publications, Gallery Shows (last 4 years) Wrote and Directed:
  • Sleeping Beauty
  • The Emperor’s New Clothes
  • No Nonsense, Please!
  • Flip-Flopped Folktales
• Directed and Choreographed
  • Flora the Red Menace
  • Christmas Celebration
• Directed
  • Tartuffe
  • Macbeth 
• Choreographed
  • A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
  • Into the Woods
  • Oliver
  • Anything Goes
• Directed and Choreographed (Croswell Opera House)
  • Hello Dolly!
  • The Sound of Music
  • Quilters
  • Thoroughly Modern Millie
  • Beehive
• Point of Pride
  • More than 15 years working as a professional actor/singer/dancer on both coasts before becoming a director, choreographer, playwright, and costume designer

Teaching Philosophy

“I left a tenured position at EMU to work at Siena because I was excited to be part of their dynamic theatre program and the creative dramatics program for children. Perhaps, even more importantly, I wanted to be a part of a university that had such outstanding liberal arts goals for their students. It means a great deal to me to share in the challenge of developing students who are well-grounded in such learning outcomes as ethical integration, diversity in community and social responsibility.”