Greg Carlisle

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Greg Carlisle teaches Introduction to Theatre, Voice and Articulation, Introduction to Dramatic Literature, and Fundamentals of Speech Communication in the Department of Communication and Theatre. For MSU Theatre he has directed 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 directed scenes from Parallel Lives and The Zoo Story for MSU student projects. 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 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 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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