Faculty and Production Staff

Tim Kane, M.F.A.

About

Tim teaches acting, audition techniques, coordinates the senior acting showcase, and serves as the faculty advocate for departmental productions.

Professional acting credits include: An Iliad, Othello, All My Sons, Harvey, One Man, Two Guvnors, and 11 other production at Court Theatre, Hamlet, Tug of War: Civil Strife, Comedy of Errors, A Flea in Her Ear, Nell Gwynn and 20 other productions at Chicago Shakespeare Theatre, the Midwest premiere of Blood and Gifts  at Timeline Theatre Company, Buried Child, Hamlet, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Arms and the Man at Writers’ Theatre), as well as productions at The Royal Shakespeare Company, The Goodman Theatre, Steppenwolf Garage, and Northlight Theatre:  Regional credits include work at: The Mark Taper Forum, Illinois Shakespeare Festival, Peninsula Players, & Notre Dame Shakespeare. TV credits include: Chicago, P.D., Empire, and Chicago Fire.

Awards include: 2012 Joseph Jefferson Award & five nominations, 2012 Chicago Magazine’s Best Actor, Newcity’s 2014: 50 People Who Really Perform in Chicago, and 2007 After Dark Award

Degrees

M.F.A., Northern Illinois University

B.S., Ball State University

Research Interests

Acting and Theatrical Intimacy