Kristi Shamburger is an Associate Professor now serving as Chair of the Department of Theatre and Dance.  She has a Bachelor of Music (Music Theatre) from Baldwin-Wallace College in Berea, Ohio and an MFA in Musical Theatre from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.  A member of Actor’s Equity Association for 26 years, she has worked in such regional theatres as Skylight Opera Theatre (Milwaukee, WI.,) Lyric Opera Cleveland (Cleveland, OH.,) St. Michael's Playhouse (Colchester, Vt.,) The Odyssey (Los Angeles, CA.,) and more. She taught theatre and musical theatre courses and choreographed for Middle Georgia College, Huntington University and Belmont University before joining the MTSU theatre faculty in 2010. Kristi has had the pleasure of directing Cinderella, Sweeney Todd, 9 to 5, Peter Pan, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat and Les Misérables at MTSU, to name only a few.  Additionally, she serves as the advisor to our Musical Theatre Performance minor students and teaches Musical Theatre Performance, Musical Theatre Performance II, and Musical Theatre History. She is a certified instructor of the Expressive Actor Technique, often exploring this technique with students in Voice for the Actor classes and workshops across the Southeast.