Priscilla Lindsay Named New Theatre & Drama Chair

July 2010

Priscilla Lindsay, BA ’71, MA ’72 (theatre & drama), has just been named chair of the Department of Theatre & Drama, a post she will take up in the fall. In addition to continuing to teach in the department, Greg Poggi, chair from 2005-2010, has assumed the new role of Senior Advisor to Dean Kendall, to launch a study of program opportunities at U-M in arts administration and leadership. For the past 30 years, Ms. Lindsay has been with the Indiana Repertory Theatre, as director, actor, and associate artistic director. She also teaches and directs IRT’s Summer Conservatory for Youth. She has been involved in more than 80 productions at the IRT, including featured roles as an actor in Doubt, Driving Miss Daisy, and, her admitted favorite, a one-woman show as British housewife Shirley Valentine, voted, incidentally, by IRT subscribers as their favorite in the theatre’s history. Along with her theatrical talents, she is a renowned voice-over commercial artist. Ms. Lindsay was previously on the faculty of the University of Missouri-Kansas City. She has returned to her alma mater on a number of occasions to direct productions, most recently last fall’s Tartuffe.

Read more about her in the fall 2010 issue of Michigan Muse.