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Dr. Pamela D. Chabora
Associate Professor
Theatre Performance
E-Mail: Pamela.Chabora@ndsu.edu
Office: 133 Askanase Hall
Phone: 231-6657
Acting, Voice, and Movement
Degrees:
- Ph.D., Michigan State University (Performance Training,
Minor in Voice)
- M.A., University of Kentucky (Performance, Minor
in Voice)
- B.A., Berea College (Musical Theatre)
Dr. Pamela D. Chabora is a faculty member at NDSU with a focus in performance
training, teaching four levels of Acting, three levels of Voice and Movement,
Development of Musical Theatre, Intro to Dance, and the Business of Acting.
In her 18 years as a specialist in actor training, she has served as a
Master Teacher of Acting at the University of New Hampshire Department
of Theatre and Dance, as Head of Performance at Susquehanna University,
at the University of Toledo’s Department of Theatre, Film, and Dance,
and at the University of Maine at Fort Kent.
With her extensive background in directing and choreography for educational
and professional theatre, Chabora most recently directed and choreographed
the American classic production Fiddler On The Roof at the North
Dakota State University’s Festival Hall Theatre. She has received
five separate ACTF Meritorious awards from the American College Theatre
Festival for Directorial Concept and Ensemble work and was nominated for
the Moss Hart award for Children’s Theatre. In conjunction with
many of the productions she’s directed, symposium and educational
colloquia have been coordinated and presented. For example, in Spring
2002, Chabora brought Pulitzer prize winning playwright, Tony Kushner,
to NDSU for the debut of his unpublished adaptation of Good Person
Of Sezuan and to participate in a symposium on "Theatre as a
Socio-Political Tool."
In addition to a thriving career in educational theatre, Chabora has maintained
a parallel career in professional theatre as an actress, singer, and director/choreographer.
Her theatrical credits range from Juliet in Star-Crossed Lovers
(a new musical ) in NYC to Miss Julie from Strindberg’s Miss
Julie. Most recently, she portrayed Eulalie Shinn in The Music
Man and Mrs. Mattie McDowell in The Stephen Foster Story
in Bardstown Kentucky. Chabora will return to the Stephen Foster company
this summer to reprise her role as Mattie McDowell and to play Miss Lynch
in Grease. As a specialist in musical theatre, Chabora conducts
and performs in the a capella musical theatre troupe, “The Dakota
Cabaret Trio.” Chabora maintains a high profile in national and
international theatre organizations.
In addition to serving as chief officer for the Acting Program of the
Association of Theatre in Higher Education and Midwest Representative
for the Association of Theatre Movement Educators, Chabora has served
for five years as editor for THE BEAT, a publication of the Acting Program
addressing cutting edge training techniques for actors.
As a certified practitioner of both the Lessac Voice/Movement System and
of the Alba Emoting technique, Chabora continues to research the application
of neuropsychology to self –use training for actors. Her article
“Emotion Training and the Mind/body Connection: Alba Emoting and
the Method” can be found in the recent publication, The Method
Reconsidered. In 2004, Chabora heads off to Chile for advanced certification
training in ALBA Emoting with neuropsychologist, Dr. Susana Bloch.
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