FACULTY - Stage Management

Ron Schaeffer (Research Associate Professor of Stage Management) is the production manager for the UMKC Theatre. He teaches directing, stage management courses and supervises stage management for all departmental and professional productions. He has extensive directing and stage management credits, including stage manager of the original production of Hair on Broadway for nearly three years, two seasons at Lincoln Center including A Cry of Players with Anne Bancroft and Frank Langella, and the Bernstein Mass which opened The Kennedy Center. Mr. Schaeffer has directed for the Unicorn, Quality Hill Playhouse and the 39th St. Theatre in Kansas City, as well as for various summer theatres. He  directed Dead Guilty at the Krannert Center at the University of Illinois and Boeing-Boeing for the Okoboji Summer Theatre in IA.  He also directs a show for the UMKC Theatre each year. Mr. Schaeffer was brought to the Rep by Patricia McIlrath in 1980 and has served under three more Artistic Directors, George Keathley, Peter Altman and now Eric Rosen.

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