Professor

About My Teaching

I come from a long line of educators and mentors. It feels a bit like the family business because regardless pf the discipline, my family is full of people who are passionate about lifting up others and leaving the world in better shape than we found it. After a decade of teaching and coaching acting in Los Angeles while working professionally as an actor, I joined the faculty at Elon University where I teach acting and direct. I am passionate about training working actors who live dynamic, creative lives and know how to shape culture through generating their own work and content.

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Kim Shively CV (Partial)

EDUCATION

M.F.A., Acting, Asolo Conservatory, Sarasota, Florida

B.F.A., Theatre Performance, Chapman University (magna cum laude), Orange, California

 

TEACHING QUALIFICATIONS

Associate Faculty, Theatrical Intimacy Education

Member, National Alliance of Acting Teachers

 

TEACHING SPECIALIZATIONS

Techniques: Applied Meisner- Point of View Pedagogy, Stanislavski, Long-form Improv (Harold)

Styles: Screen Acting, Shakespeare, Restoration Comedy, Chekhov, The Greeks

Voice and Movement: Linklater, Rodenberg, Laban, Roy Hart

Theatrical Intimacy Choreography and Education, Boundaries and Consent

Professional Development: Audition Techniques, Content Creation, Self-Tape, Marketing and Branding, Building Social Media Presence

 

Elon University 2016-Present                          Elon, NC

Associate Professor of Acting (Promoted and Tenured 2022)

Teaching Load:

·       Theatre Ensemble: ACT223

·       Dynamic Instrument: ACT225

·       Acting Shakespeare: THE420, ACT420, ACT320

·       Vocal Production 3: THE323, ACT323

·       Audition Techniques: THE320, ACT320B

·       Senior Seminar- Fall and Spring: ACT496

·       Acting 3: THE 221, ACT221  

·       Advanced Projects in Acting: ACT498

·       The Hollywood Toolbox: ACT373

·       Elon in LA Summer Internships: ACT320; ACT481

·       Winter Stock ACT363

·       The Global Experience: COR110

Artistic Duties: Direct Departmental Productions; Moment (2018), Trojan Barbie (2019), The Wolves (2020), Macbeth (2021), Sense and Sensibility (2022); Direct World Premier Readings of The Inferior Sex (2017), The Love Code (2018); Direct Senior Showcase (2016-2018, 2021-2022); Produce Senior Showcase (2016-2022); Co-found and produce the Contemporary Play Reading and Discussion Series; Direct and Produce the NJTF Yom Ha’Shoah Day of Remembrance Readings (2017-2019); Mentor senior research projects

 

Administrative Duties: Advise and Mentor students; Mentor Elon College Fellows, Mentor Elon Honors Fellows, Independent Studies, and Internships; Season Selection Committee; Inclusivity Research Project and Formation of the Inclusivity Task Force; University Curiculum Committee; Arts and Humanities Curriculum Committee; Residential Campus Advisory Committee and other limited-term committees for the Elon College of Arts and Sciences; Participate in Recruitment of students for the Acting and Music Theatre Programs; Represent Elon for NCTC, ATHE, and SETC, as well as NCAIP.

HIGH QUALITY PEER REVIEWED SCHOLARSHIP: PUBLICATIONS 

  • Conversations about Instructional Touch in the Voice Studio, by Brian Kremer and Kim Shively, Journal of Singing, Volume 79, Issue 4 (start page 469), March 2023

  • Using Principles of Theatrical Intimacy to Shape Consent-based Spaces for Minors by Kim Shively, Journal of Consent Based Performance, Volume 1, Issue 1, (University California, Irvine) February 2022

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  • Applied Meisner for the 21st-Century Actor, Otos, Kevin; Shively, Kim. New York: Routledge, 2021

  •  “Teaching Acting in the Face of COVID-19: designing instruction for variable acting studios” Clayman-Pye, Valerie; Haft-Bucs, Hillary; Elliott, James; Kaye, David; Mastromatteo, Matthew; Pacio, Tom; Shively, Kim; VanderMeer, Garrett. Theatre Topics Digital Release, Johns Hopkins University Press, Volume 30, Number 3, November 2020

  • “Education in Theatrical Intimacy as Ethical Practice for University Theatre” Shawyer, Susanne; Shively, Kim. Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism, University of Kansas, Vol. 34, No. 1, Fall 2019

  • “Mentoring Undergraduate Research in the Performing Arts: Case Studies of the Ten Salient Practices in Action” Shawyer, Susanne; Aumiller, Renay; Hall, Eric; Shively, Kim. Perspectives on Undergraduate Research & Mentoring’s Special Issue: Mentoring Undergraduate Creative Scholarship, Elon University, Volume 8, No. 1, Fall 2019