Greg Carlisle

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Greg Carlisle teaches Voice and Articulation, Acting Techniques, Introduction to Theatre, and Introduction to Dramatic Literature in the Department of Music, Theatre, and Dance. For MSU Theatre he has directed Endgame, The Learned Ladies, Three Days of Rain, and the premiere of String Geese Fish Rain. He was British Accent Coach for Berkeley Square and Shakespearean Dialogue Coach for A Midsummer Night's Dream. He has also directed at the University of Kentucky, at the University of Louisville, and in Huntsville, Alabama.

Greg has a Master of Fine Arts degree in Acting from the University of Louisville and has performed in MSU Theatre productions of The Comedy of Errors, Take Ten, and Man of La Mancha. He has acted in Mississippi, Alabama, Indiana, Kansas, and Kentucky and has appeared in Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, Twelfth Night, The Taming of the Shrew, and Macbeth at the Kentucky Shakespeare Festival in Louisville.

Greg is the author of Elegant Complexity: A Study of David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest, published by Sideshow Media Group and available at amazon.com. He was an invited panelist at a Wallace tribute event at the University of Arizona in May 2009 and was the keynote speaker for the Consider David Foster Wallace conference hosted by the University of Liverpool in Liverpool, England in July 2009. 

He is married to Laurie Couch, who teaches in the Department of Psychology. They live with their three cats and their daughter, Caroline.

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