Libby Hawkins
About Me
Libby Hawkins received her BA in Theatre Arts from Texas A&M University in College Station, TX and spent three years performing and teaching in the D/FW metroplex before moving to Santa Maria, CA to attend the Pacific Conservatory Theatre's professional actor training program. She completed her training by graduating with her MFA in Theatre with a concentration in Acting from the University of South Carolina.
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Great theatre invites audiences to question the world around them. Libby's work seeks to create a space where social norms, modern feminininity, and power are dismantled and understood in new ways. Devising and movement work are the foundations of her directing practice, along with deep curiosity around language and relationships. She is passionate about collaborative directing methods and encourage theatre artists to take authentic ownership of story as they move through rehearsals and productions together.
As an artist-educator, her educational focus is contemporary acting, movement for the actor, and theatre education. She believes that by practicing movement techniques from Tadashi Suzuki, Viewpoints, clowning, and ballet that actors of diverse practicalities can work with greater relaxation and freedom in rehearsal and performance.
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Libby is an Assistant Professor of Instruction in the BFA - Acting area of the University of Texas at Arlington's Theatre Arts and Dance department and as an adjunct Assistant Professor in the Mississippi University for Women's MFA-Theatre Education program. In addition to her work with UTA, she holds her Standard Teaching Certificate from the Texas SBEC and has taught theatre for grades 2-8 and directed/produced student-centered theatre. She has also taught workshops in stage combat, stage make-up, dance, movement, and acting and voice techniques as a teaching artist for Shakespeare Dallas, Theatre Arlington, the Warehouse Theatre in Greenville, SC and the Young Performers Project at PCPA, as well as other student programs.
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When not in rehearsal or the classroom, Libby enjoys spending time with her husband and family, playing with her fur babies Bandit and Summer, and exploring new places around DFW. She dreams of one day being able to bake as well as the contestants on The Great British Bake Off. Bread seems to be a hurdle she can't get past.