Faculty

Randy Wyatt
Theatre Program Director/Assistant Professor of Theatre
Phone: (616) 632-2999
E-mail: rew001@aquinas.edu

Randy Wyatt earned his MFA in Directing from Minnesota State University at Mankato. He has directed for Circle Theatre and Magic Circle for 9 seasons, including Alice in Wonderland (and back again), Guys and Dolls, Moby Dick! The Musical, Androcles And The Lion, Princess and The Pea, Treasure Island, Robin Hood, The Hobbit and Wiley and The Hairy Man. Other directing credits include Any Other Name, Sun Stand Thou Still, Esperanza Rising, Hecuba, Dimly Perceived Threats To The System and the Grand Award nominated productions Arabian Nights and Writer 1272 for Aquinas College; the Grand Award winning The Secret Garden at Cornerstone University; Twelfth Night and Tartuffe for Heritage Theatre Group; Private Eyes and Waving Goodbye for Minnesota State University at Mankato; The Illusion, The Birds and Picasso At The Lapin Agile for Lost in the Cove Productions; Anticipating Miles for the Coda Theatre Project in Austin TX; and Said and Meant and Man Saved By Condiments! for the Whole Art Theatre in Kalamazoo. Randy’s plays have been published and produced internationally. He has been published through Heinneman, Smith + Krause, Playscripts, Inc and Applause Publishing. His plays (including Mint, 9x9x9, Synonymy, Said and Meant, Sonata Blue and Harmony) have been performed and won recognition in many places around the nation, including the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival. His children's plays include Brave Little Tailor and Rising Sun, Rising Moon which have toured to schools throughout Minnesota and the Grand Rapids area. Currently he is readying a collection of his short works for publication, Tiny Catastrophes and other short plays. Randy has taught directing, improvisation and script writing at several colleges and institutions. He is a member of the Playwright’s Center in Minneapolis.

Deborah Keller
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Email: debosity@yahoo.com

Deborah is a BFA graduate of the University of Michigan and has her MFA from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. Her influences are experimental theater in all shapes and sizes and she continually learns as she practices. She has apprenticed under Rick Sordelet and Steve White in NYC in Stage Combat, and has choreographed many shows in NYC. She recently taught Stage Combat, Directing, Acting, and Movement at Aquinas College in Grand Rapids. She is delighted to be teaching here at Aquinas because of the fine caliber of students and facility.

Kyle Amanda Dutkiewicz
Dance Instructor
E-mail: kyle@uica.org

Kyle Amanda Dutkiewicz worked in the Grand Rapids area in fund development and the arts for several years, and began directing and choreographing for Actors' Theatre in 2006. Her work for Actors' includes directing Tick, Tick... Boom, co-directing Assassins (Grand Award Nomination) and choreographing Kiss of the Spider Woman, Side Show (2007 Grand Award Nomination), Urinetown the Musical (2006 Grand Award Winner for Outstanding Choreography), Rocky Horror Show (2006 Grand Award Winner for Outstanding Chorography), and Bat Boy the Musical (Grand Award Nomination. Her work at Circle Theatre includes directing Pippin (2007 Grand Award nomination for direction and best musical) and choreographing The Full Monty (Grand Award Nomination) and Honk! (Grand Award Nomination). She also directed Sinners and The Creation of the World and Other Business for Grand Rapids Community College and is an adjunct professor in the theatre department at Aquinas College.

Before taking over as Managing Director for Fred Sebulske in the Spring of 2007, Kyle was the Director of Development for the Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts. Prior to this position she obtained her Masters Degree in Arts, Entertainment and Media Management from Columbia College Chicago with an emphasis in Performing Arts Management. While in Chicago, she worked for the Ruth Page Foundation as well as Lookingglass Theatre Company in their development departments. Her earlier work in Grand Rapids includes working for the Make-A-Wish Foundation of Michigan and Reagan Marketing + Design. Originally from Grand Rapids, Kyle received her BA from Aquinas College.

Don Wilson
Technical Director
Phone: (616) 632-2988
E-mail: wilsodon@aquinas.edu

Don, a native of Morenci, Michigan, has been working in theater since 1994. He studied Drafting, Theater, Art and Creative Writing at Siena Heights University in Adrian, Michigan, and has designed scenery for over 200 productions on his record.

Don has worked with the Croswell Opera House (Michigan’s oldest theater, circa 1866) and Ft. Wayne Civic Theater, as well as locally at Circle Theater, Aquinas College Theater, Actor’s Theater, JTGR, GRCC, and Cornerstone University. He has served in a wide variety of professional design, TD, and stage management positions. He work has earned Lake Erie West People’s Choice Awards for Scenic Deign (42^nd St –Croswell) and Scenic Artist (1776 – Croswell), and two Grand Awards for Scenic Design (Noises Off! & Little Shop of Horrors – Circle Theatre).

In addition, he is a published playwright and librettist, as well as a comic book artist, and published novelist. He lives in the Grand Rapids area and is a big collector and builder of LEGO. Anything you can think of, he can build it using LEGO. Yes, even scenery. He has two sons, Gideon and Greyden, who never cease to provide inspiration and imagination.