UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN River Falls
Faculty and Staff
Welch, Kathy
Kathy Welch
Stage and Screen Arts Associate Lecturer
Start Year: 2016
Music and Stage and Screen Arts
Office: B2 Kleinpell Fine Arts
Phone: 715-425-4151
Email: kathy.welch@uwrf.edu 
Education:
Ph.D., University of Hawai’i at Mānoa
M.A., University of North Carolina - Greensboro
B.S., University of Minnesota
Courses Taught:
Introduction to Theatre and Drama
History of Theatre
Collaborative Problem Solving for Stage and Screen
Directing for Stage and Screen
Acting I and II
Dance Appreciation
American Musical Theatre
History of Theatre
World Puppetry
Youth Theatre
Improv
Asian Theatre
Devised Theatre
Creative and Scholarly Research
Sustainability from the Perspective of the Arts
Dr. Kathy Welch has been an instructor in the Music, Stage and Screen Arts since 2017.
In addition to her academic credentials, Kathy has extensive experience in professional theatre. She worked in technical theatre and stage management in Minnesota and Boston at several theatres including the Guthrie, the Huntington Theatre Company (where she had the honor of running sound for the first professional production of August Wilson’s “Piano Lesson,”) and North Shore Music Theatre. As director, actor, and playwright, Kathy’s work has been seen in Wisconsin, Minnesota, California, Bulgaria and Hawai’i. Kathy’s work writing and acting in Hawai’i garnered two Po’okela Awards from the State Theatre Council.
Kathy was the recipient of the Japanese Ministry of Education Grant (Monbusho,) and lived in Japan for 2 1/2 years studying traditional performing arts and conducting research for her doctoral dissertation, “Construction, Conventions, and Aesthetics of Scenery in the Kabuki Theatre.”
Kathy is Artistic Director of the Twin Cities-based theater company, Green T Productions. Under her artistic leadership, Green T was named the U.S. nominee for the Uchimura Prize, a Japanese award for promoting Japanese Theater outside of Japan and received an Ivey Award.
