The Johnny Carson School of Theatre and Film is hosting a retirement celebration for Associate Professor of Theatre Janice Stauffer on Thursday, May 4 from 4:30-6:30 p.m. in the Temple Building Lobby.
If you're interested in attending, please R.S.V.P. to Julie Hagemeier at juliana@unl.edu by May 1.
Stauffer has been the resident costume designer and a theatre faculty member in the Johnny Carson School since 1979.
She has designed more than 40 productions for the Nebraska Repertory Theatre and is a founding member of Flatwater Repertory Theatre. She has also designed costumes at the Utah and Illinois Shakespearean Festivals, Lincoln Community Playhouse, Black Hills Playhouse and more. She is also a member of the United Scene Artists Festivals.
Her research interests include 19th century men's fashion, tailoring and historic fashion illustrations.
Stauffer received the Mayor's Arts Award for Artistic Achievement-Visual Arts in 2012. In 2009, she received the Kennedy Center Gold Medallion, the highest honor that the Kennedy Center/American College Theatre Festival (KC/ACTF) can give for her body of work related to KC/ACTF and its students.