Dr. Pamela D. Chabora

Associate Professor
Theatre Performance

E-Mail: Pamela.Chabora@ndsu.edu
Office: 133 Askanase Hall
Phone: 231-6657
Acting, Voice, and Movement

Degrees:

• Ph.D., Michigan State University (Performance Training, Minor in Voice)
• M.A., University of Kentucky (Performance, Minor in Voice)
• B.A., Berea College (Musical Theatre)

Dr. Pamela D. Chabora is a faculty member at NDSU with a focus in performance training, teaching four levels of Acting, three levels of Voice and Movement, Development of Musical Theatre, Stage Combat, and the Business of Acting. As a specialist in musical theatre, Chabora also directed the NDSU Musical Theatre Troupe for seven years. In her twenty–five years as a specialist in actor training, she has served as a Master Teacher of Acting at the University of New Hampshire Department of Theatre and Dance, as Head of Performance at Susquehanna University, at the University of Toledo’s Department of Theatre, Film, and Dance, and at the University of Maine at Fort Kent.

With extensive background in directing and choreography for educational and professional theatre, Chabora most recently directed and choreographed the American classic productions of Floyd Collins, A Chorus Line and Fiddler On The Roof at the North Dakota State University’s Festival Concert Hall for which she was selected NDSTA’s 2004 North Dakota Creative Artist of the Year. She has received six separate ACTF Meritorious awards from the American College Theatre Festival for Directorial Concept and Ensemble work and was nominated for the Moss Hart award for Children’s Theatre. In conjunction with many of the productions she’s directed, symposium and educational colloquia have been coordinated and presented. For example, in Spring 2002, Chabora brought Pulitzer prize winning playwright, Tony Kushner, to NDSU for the debut of his unpublished adaptation of Good Person Of Sezuan and to participate in a Symposium on Theatre as a Socio-Political Tool.

In addition to a thriving career in educational theatre, Chabora has maintained a parallel career in professional theatre as an actress, singer, and director/choreographer. Her theatrical credits range from Juliet in Star-Crossed Lovers (a new musical ) in NYC to Miss Julie from Strindberg’s Miss Julie. In recent years, she has portrayed Eulalie Shinn in The Music Man and Mrs. Mattie McDowell in The Stephen Foster Story in Bardstown, Ky. Chabora returned to the Stephen Foster company for two more summers to play Miss Lynch in Grease and to portray Eliza Foster, mother to Stephen.

Chabora’s most recent performance venture has been her portrayal of Emily Dickinson in the one woman show The Belle Of Amherst, which has toured nationally and throughout the upper midwest for the past five years. Chabora also spent this past year working and training with Cirque Du Soleil as a Human Personage (Clown) in Las Vegas. Chabora has just enjoyed her second season with Theatre West Virginia, playing the roles of Sarah McCoy in Hatfields and McCoys, Delia Morgan in Honey On The Rock, Mrs. Mayor in Seussical and the Evil Stepmother in Cinderella. She also serves as Master Teacher and Coordinator for the Professional Training Program for Interns at Theatre West Virginia.

Chabora maintains a high profile in national and international theatre organizations. In addition to serving as chief officer for the Acting Program of the Association of Theatre in Higher Education and Mid-west Representative for the Association of Theatre Movement Educators, Chabora has served for five years as editor for THE BEAT, a publication of the Acting Program addressing cutting edge training techniques for actors. Chabora is a proud member of the Communication, Speech, Theatre Association of North Dakota (CSTAND).

As a certified master teacher/practitioner of both the Lessac Voice/Movement System and of the Alba Emoting technique, Chabora continues to research the application of neuropsychology to self –use training for actors. Her article “Emotion Training and the Mind/body Connection: Alba Emoting and the Method” can be found in the recent publication, The Method Reconsidered. In summer 2006, Chabora was invited to New York to study as a Master Teacher of Acting at the Actor’s Center with Olympia Dukakis, Slava Doglachev from the Moscow Art Theatre, and Rob Clare from the Royal Shakespeare Company.

For more information contact Kay Beckermann, (701) 231-9564
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