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DAVID HARRIS

Professor
harrisd@flc.losrios.edu

  • Professor David Harris comes to Folsom Lake College with a wealth of experiences in the professional theatre and motion picture industry.  In receiving his Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of California at San Diego, regularly ranked in the top five graduate programs in Theatre Arts in the USA by US News and World Report, Professor Harris’ career in the entertainment and arts industry got a jump start.  He has performed and worked alongside many artists prominent on the world and national theatre scene, including Athol Fugard, Shozo Sato, and Des McAnuff.  His career as an actor led him up and down the California coast, performing at such prominent venues as the American Conservatory Theatre La Jolla Playhouse, and the California Shakespeare Festival and appearing in popular motion pictures such as Penny Marshall’s “Renaissance Man.”  After a side trip in Beverly Hills as a law clerk for a prominent entertainment lawyer, Mr. Harris returned to his roots in performance and moved to the Sacramento area.  Extremely active since his arrival in the region, Professor Harris split his time as an Adjunct Professor at Sacramento City College and Cosumnes River College and as a local theatrical producer, director, and performer with the well-regarded group Synergy Stage and the bold new professional theatrical production company Capital Stage.  Even though David Harris began working full time for Folsom Lake College creating their Theatre and Cinema Arts program in January of 2007, he continues his work as a professional theatre artist in the community, providing examples and opportunities for his growing cadre of theatre and cinema arts students.

ian wallace

Professor, Dept Chair
wallaci@flc.losrios.edu

  • Ian Wallace joined Folsom Lake College in 2012, having worked professionally as a scenic and projection designer, collaborating with directors who include Gabor Tompa, Christopher Ashley, Mindy Cooper Grenke and Moises Kaufman. His designs have been seen internationally at venues in Toronto, London, Budapest, Romania, and the Avignon Festival in France. He has also designed for California theaters, such as La Jolla Playhouse, San Diego Rep, and, locally, for Broadway Sacramento, B Street Theater and Capital Stage. He also worked in television for several years as a set designer for the soap opera Guiding Light on CBS. He received his BFA in Drama from NYU, Tisch School of the Arts, where he had the opportunity to intern for the designer George Tsypin.  He earned his MFA in Theater Design from UC San Diego. Ian is a member of United Scenic Artist local 829.

Jennifer Provenza wallace

Assistant Professor
jennifer.wallace@flc.losrios.edu

  • Jennifer has acted Off-Off-Broadway in Women of the Wild West and Murderers Anonymous, and regionally in many plays, including The Winter’s Tale and The Importance of Being Earnest. She has starred in numerous films, including the feature, Princess Daisy, and the musical short, Diner For 2. Jennifer also enjoys directing (Nahar and The Wizard of Oz are favorites) and playwriting (Nina’s Musical Ear, The Sterling Affair). She recently published her first novel (Life Is But A Dream) about a woman who lives in two realities. She has her BFA from NYU and MFA from Brooklyn College. She is an Equity member and is proud to teach at Folsom Lake College.

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cameron hoyt

Scene Shop Foreman
hoytc@flc.losrios.edu

  • Cameron has been with Falcon Eye Theater for four years but has only recently joined the full-time staff as the theater technician and Shop Foreman. In his time with the theater, he has been a master carpenter, technical director and recently set designer designing Rhinoceros and Cyrano. Cameron received the technical theater certificate at FLC and is continuing to work on receiving his AA in theater. Cameron has almost ten years’ experience in local community theater working with locations like Big Idea Theater, B Street, Stage 9, Sutter Street Theater, and many others. He also worked with a few high school like Oak Ridge, Union Mine, and most recently helped open up the Cordova High School new theater building. Cameron is a member of IATSE local 50.  Cameron is excited to bring his passion and technical experience to the shows at FLC and to continue to inspire new students into the field of technical theater.

Peter mohrmann

Adjunct Professor
peter.mohrmann@losrios.edu

  • Peter Mohrmann is a co-founding member of Capital Stage and has been the company's Managing Director for five seasons. Also with Capital Stage, he has directed and performed in productions. As a co-founding member of Synergy Stage, he produced over a dozen productions in Sacramento since the fall of 1999, including a number aboard the Delta King. Locally, Peter has worked with Sacramento Theatre Company,

    Foothill Theatre Company, Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival, Sierra Shakespeare Festival, Sacramento Shakespeare Festival, River Stage, City Theatre, Thistle Dew Dessert Theatre, Garbeau's Dinner Theatre and The Show Below. Before returning to the Sacramento area, Peter worked with Chicago Actor’s Theatre, Kern Shakespeare Festival and Nebraska Theatre Caravan. He worked for over 10 years for the not-for-profit Sutter Medical Center, with the Chicago sports marketing company The Lazin Group, and a season-long arts management training program with the Seattle Repertory Theatre. Peter received his Masters of Fine Arts from the Theatre School/DePaul University. Peter is also an adjunct professor at Sacramento City College.

Mark Steensland

Adjunct Professor
steensm@crc.losrios.edu

  • Mark Steensland self-published his first book while in fourth grade and has been telling stories ever since—some of them true. He became a professional journalist before graduating high school, writing about movies for such magazines as Prevue, American Cinematographer, and Millimeter. He holds a bachelor's in film studies from UC Santa Barbara, a master's in creative writing from CSU Sacramento, and an MFA in screenwriting from Chapman University. His award-winning films have played in festivals around the world. His novel for young readers, Behind the Bookcase, was published in 2012 by Random House. His novel for adults, The Special, was published in 2018 and has been made into a feature film. He most recently wrote Jakob’s Wife, starring Barbara Crampton.

jamie van Camp

Adjunct Professor
vancamj@flc.losrios.edu

  • Jamie Van Camp is a Theatre-Maker and educator with physical theatre training from Canada, and Graduate-level training at Dell'Arte International. He is also a recipient of the Leadership U One-on-one grant funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation provided by Theatre Communications Group. Jamie has directed, performed, & taught nationally & internationally for over 15 years. He believes theater should be accessible to everyone & has a distinct focus on bringing professional theater to rural areas. Jamie has trained in Shakespeare, Commedia Dell’ Arte, Clown, Acrobatics, and more. As Artistic Director of See The Elephant, Jamie is focused on bringing exceptional theatre experiences to rural areas and creating platforms for artists in our region.

Graham Sobelman

Adjunct Assistant Professor
grahamsobelman@gmail.com

  • Graham Sobelman is a music director, pianist, and composer residing in Northern California.  His music direction credits include Forbidden Broadway, I Love You, You’re Perfect, ...Now Change (Broadway Sacramento); 35mm, Songs for an Unmade Bed, Passion, Tell Me On A Sunday, Little Fish, Celebration, It’s Only Life, tick, tick…BOOM!, They’re Playing Our Song, [title of show] (New Helvetia Theatre); Tell Me On A Sunday (Ensemble Theatre Company), Ruthless, A Christmas Carol (Sacramento Theatre Company); Mr. Burns, Pippin, Flora The Red Menace, & The Who’s Tommy (UC Davis); john & jen (Hillbarn Theatre); A New Brain (Cosumnes River College); Pippin, Hair, The Who's Tommy (Folsom Lake College).  

    Graham also conducted Gregg Coffin’s rightnextto me at B Street Theatre and has worked with children’s programs at Music Circus since 2000. He enjoys accompanying master classes and has had the honor of playing for Jonathan Groff, Sutton Foster, Megan Hilty, Laura Bell Bundy, Rachel Bay Jones, Betsy Wolfe, Natalie Weiss, Jessica Phillips, Rory O'Malley, Jared Gertner, Stafford Arima, & many others. He started local cabaret series Graham-A-Rama in 2009 & has released (with Maggie Hollinbeck) Another Shade of Blue (covering the entirety of Joni Mitchell’s 1971 masterpiece, Blue) and Jane Kenyon Sessions: Volumes One, Two, Three, & Four  (consisting of poems by Jane Kenyon that Graham musicalized for Maggie). Graham also composed songs with lyricist Emily Melander and released an EP of those five songs called Reach (featuring vocalists Omari Tau, Dani Hansen, & Maggie Hollinbeck). Other recordings include This Is Ain't Betty (featuring original music he co-wrote with Meleva Steiert) and A Sunday Polaroid (featuring Nanci Zoppi and cellist Tim Stanley performing songs from the musical Tell Me on a Sunday).

    Additionally, as a composer, Graham has written Love Is Eternal (a song-cycle with British lyricist David Kent), a trio of choral pieces premiered by Sacramento choral ensemble RSVP (A Dozen Fires Alight) with lyricist Omari Tau, & many other art songs using the poems of Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, William Shakespeare, and others.  He has also written underscoring for A Tale of Two Cities and Orlando for SacImpulse Theatre and the score for short film, Lily.  He was commissioned in 2012 to write a piece for the Sacramento Gay Men’s Chorus - "Voices Carry."

    Songs From Eagle Pond (featuring Graham's compositions using poetry by Jane Kenyon and Donald Hall) had its first concert reading in Andover, NH in October 2022. 

    Graham completed his BA in Cultural Anthropology and an MA in Spanish. He is avid soccer player. He and his husband are raising a Bernese Mountain Dog named Henry.

Josy Miller, PhD

Adjunct Assistant Professor
millerj2@flc.losrios.edu

  • Josy Miller is an Arts Programs Manager at the California Arts Council, where she has served since 2016. At the CAC, Miller manages a team that oversees the agency’s State-Local Partner program, Individual Artist Fellowships program, Arts & Youth portfolio, and Arts in Corrections program. A theatre director and scholar, she received her Ph.D. in Performance Studies from the University of California, Davis. Miller has been the recipient of the Center for Cultural Innovation's Emerging Arts Leader Award, the Mellon Foundation Teaching/Research Fellowship in Early Modern Studies, and the University of California Institute for Research in the Arts’s Major Grant Award (for her production of The Dogs of War at the 2014 Edinburgh Fringe Festival). She works regularly as visiting faculty for the UC Davis Department of Theatre and Dance and as a freelance theatre director in the greater Capital region. Her article "Performing Collective Trauma: 9/11 and the Reconstruction of American Identity" appears in the collection History, Memory, Performance. She is co-editor, with Peter Lichtenfels, of Shakespeare and Realism: On the Politics of Style.

Sarah Marsh Krauter, PhD

Adjunct Assistant Professor
smarsh@bikecitytheatre.org

  • Dr. Marsh Krauter is a dramaturg, theorist, and educator. A founding Core Member of Bike City Theatre Company, she is currently the Co-Executive Director and Company Dramaturg–as well as occasional costume designer. For BCTC she has provided production dramaturgical support for Gutenberg! The Musical!, The Rape of the Sabine Women, by Grace B. Matthias, and the original musical parody, Westeros Side Story. As a developmental dramaturg she was on the team for Light the Way: A Bicycle Safety Musical, Over There Outside, Good Earth, and the new play Love in Times of Plague. In 2019 she spearheaded the creation of the Salon Reading Series and produces the Theater on the Block program with BCTC. Dr. Marsh Krauter is part of the BCTC team awarded an Institute of Advanced Studies Fellowship by the University of Surrey. The cohort performed the original musical Good Earth with students from the Guildford School of Acting and the University of Surrey. In 2024, after a year-long collaboration with the City of Davis’ Hate Free Together initiative, Dr. Marsh Krauter and BCTC produced the inaugural Arts PopLuck, a celebration of arts and community in Davis, Ca.

    As a former faculty member of Cornish College of the Arts (Seattle, WA) she is a graduate of the University of Washington’s Theatre History and Dramatic Criticism program. Her research centers on the intersecting histories of theater and technology. She is the recipient of the U.W. School of Drama’s Michael Quinn Writing Prize for her work in critical theory and her writing and reviews have been published in North Eastern Theater Journal, The Journal of Dramatic Theater and Criticism, and Prompt: A Journal of Theatre Theory, Practice, and Teaching. Dr. Marsh Krauter additionally holds an M.A. in Text and Performance from King’s College, London in association with The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and a B.A. in Drama: Technical Theatre (Costumes) from San Francisco State University.

Carlos Llontop

Adjunct Assistant Professor
LlontoC@flc.losrios.edu

  • Bio coming soon.

isaiah leeper

Adjunct Assistant Professor
leeperi@scc.losrios.edu

  • Bio coming soon.