Upcoming Events at the Brooks Center

Single Ticket Sales Begin Friday, August 15

July 21st, 2008 - August 14th, 2008 at 1:00 pm - Individual tickets for events taking place during the 2008-2009 season go on sale Friday, August 15 Learn More...

Rockapella

September 4th, 2008 at 8:00 pm - The undisputed kings of contemporary pop a cappella, the sound of this five-man powerhouse is an inf Learn More...

Gleb Ivanov, pianist

September 11th, 2008 at 8:00 pm - Twenty-five year old Russian pianist Gleb Ivanov is “eerily like the ghost of Horowitz…His talent is Learn More...

Music in the Air VI

September 14th, 2008 at 5:00 pm - Bells and more will ring from the tower of Tillman Hall as university carillonneur Linda Dzuris pres Learn More...

Neil Berg's 100 Years of Broadway

September 16th, 2008 at 8:00 pm - 100 Years of Broadway is a revue featuring five of Broadway’s finest singers accompanied by an all-s Learn More...

Theatre Faculty

Professor Kendra Johnson

Professor Kendra Johnson is an assistant professor of theatre specializing in costume design, costume technology, and stage makeup. She also teaches special topics in costume design and African-American Theatre.

Prof. Johnson’s professional credits include Highland Repertory Theatre, NC Stage Company, and Tanglewood Children’s Theatre. She has served as costume designer for over 20 university productions, among them, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Marat/Sade, Equus, Macbeth, Master Harold…and the Boys, and Miss Julie.

Prof. Johnson has a strong interest in historical clothing. Currently she is researching slave dress in South Carolina. At the Costume Society of America regional meeting in 2004 she presented a paper entitled, Shirt-tail Fellows: Class Identification Through Clothing Within the Slave Communities of South Carolina. She recently received a research grant from Clemson University’s College of Architecture, Arts, and Humanities to continue her research on slave costuming.

Prof. Johnson won several design awards as a Master of Fine Arts candidate at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville and received her degree in 1994. She earned her Bachelor of Arts from James Madison University. She is a member of the Costume Society of America and the Black Theatre Network.

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