Kristi Shamburger

Interim Chair & Associate Professor

Kristi Shamburger
(615) 898-2641
Room 205, Boutwell Dramatic Arts Building (BDA)
MTSU Box 43, Murfreesboro, TN 37132

Degree Information

  • MFA, University of Nevada, Las Vegas (1996)
  • BM, Baldwin Wallace University (1991)

Biography

Kristi Shamburger joined the MTSU faculty in 2010 and is an Associate Professor of Theatre & Dance.  She has her Bachelor of Music (Music Theatre) from Baldwin-Wallace College in Berea, Ohio and her MFA in Musical Theatre from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.  She is an AEA performer and has worked in such regional theatres as Skylight Opera Theatre (Milwaukee, WI.,) Lyric Opera Cleveland (Cleveland, OH.,) St. Michael's Playhouse (Colchester, Vt.,) The Odyssey (Los Ange...

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Kristi Shamburger joined the MTSU faculty in 2010 and is an Associate Professor of Theatre & Dance.  She has her Bachelor of Music (Music Theatre) from Baldwin-Wallace College in Berea, Ohio and her MFA in Musical Theatre from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.  She is an AEA performer and has worked in such regional theatres as Skylight Opera Theatre (Milwaukee, WI.,) Lyric Opera Cleveland (Cleveland, OH.,) St. Michael's Playhouse (Colchester, Vt.,) The Odyssey (Los Angeles, CA., ) and more. She taught theatre and musical theatre courses and choreographed for Middle Georgia College, Huntington University and Belmont University before joining the MTSU theatre faculty. Kristi has had the pleasure of directing such musicals as Sweeney Todd,  9 to 5, Peter Pan, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat and Les Miserables while at MTSU! She currently serves as the advisor to our Musical Theatre Performance minor students and teaches Musical Theatre Performance, Musical Theatre Performance II, Musical Theatre Reviews,  Musical Theatre History, and Voice for the Actor.  She is a certified instructor of the Expressive Actor Technique and explores this technique with students in the Voice for the Actor classes and in workshops across the Southeast. 

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