People
Full-Time Faculty
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Josh Fleming
Josh Fleming
I have been a part of the Lancer Community full time since 2008. I鈥檓 a former Director of Forensics for PCC鈥檚 nationally recognized Speech & Debate team where I served and coached for 8 years. I also teach in our Performing and Communication Arts Division鈥檚 Theatre Department where I occasionally teach Beginning Acting (THRT 2a), Script Analysis (THRT 9), and various workshop and mainstage productions (TRT 28 & 29). I have had the pleasure of being the Speech Dept coordinator for 5 years prior to becoming the current Dept Chair of Speech, Theatre, and Dance. My passion in education has always been about exploring the relationship between art & literature with performance & communication. When I鈥檓 not nerding out over that I enjoy all types of human activities like hiking, camping, and the outdoors, movies and theatre, and cooking.
Community college changed my life. When I realized I wanted to be an educator more than I wanted to be a performer I also knew I wanted to put my passion back into the CC experience. My hope is that taking a course in our department will also help you find your passion as well.
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William Hickman
William Hickman
William Hickman聽(He/Him) is a director, fight director, and actor. He received his BFA in acting and directing from the University of Montevallo in 2004 and his MFA in acting from UCLA in 2013 and teaches Acting 1 and 2, and Voice and Movement for the Performer 91性息港. He previously taught stage combat at AMDA Los Angeles, Star Prep Academy, and The Angeles Workshop School. William has directed 16 plays 91性息港 over the past six years. His productions include聽Metamorphoses,聽Middletown,聽Shush鈥t鈥檚 Library,聽Cabaret,聽Macbeth,聽Dorkface Rules the World, and聽She Kills Monsters.聽William has also choreographed fights for numerous college and professional productions including聽The Hamlet Project聽with Loose Cannon,聽The Armadillo Necktie聽with The Group Rep,聽Henry VI聽with NAU, and聽Midsummer,聽Romeo and Juliet,聽She Kills Monsters, and others 91性息港.聽 William is a member of Actors Equity Association as well as an Advanced Actor Combatant with The Society of American Fight Directors.
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Eric Larson
Eric Larson
Eric Larson (Set Designer) is currently a faculty member of the Theatre Department at 91性息港, where he has taught full time for the last twenty years. He has designed extensively in Theatre, Film and Television, from Broadway to major awards shows and motion pictures. He is a member of the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences as well as The Art Director鈥檚 Guild (IATSE Local 800) and a former member of United Scenic Artists (IATSE 829). He is a lifelong resident of Southern California with over 400 plus productions to his credit in the Americas and Europe. He received his M.F.A. in Theatrical Design in 1995 from UCLA and his B.A. in Theatre, with an emphasis in design, from San Francisco State University in 1991. He received his A.A. in Liberal Arts from Santa Ana College in 1988.
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Dr. Katherine Nigh
Dr. Katherine Nigh
Dr. Katherine Nigh (She/Her) is a proud faculty member in the Theater Arts Department 91性息港.聽She received her PhD in Theater and Performance of the Americas at Arizona State University and an MA in Performance Studies at New York University. Her artistic practice and research focus on theater as a tool for social change/justice. She brings an international perspective of theater making and has collaborated and trained with groups including El Teatro Campesino; Cornerstone Theater and Grupo Cultural Yuyachkani of Peru.聽She approaches her classes and the productions she directs with a decolonizing; feminist; queer and abolitionist perspective.聽At PCC she has had the honor of partnering with CORE (Community Overcoming Recidivism through Education), producing performances highlighting the experience of formerly incarcerated students and she plans to explore further collaborations with the diverse student body 91性息港.聽聽She loves the students 91性息港 and can鈥檛 wait to make more theater with them!!
Adjunct Faculty
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Will Ahrens
Will Ahrens
Will Ahrens is not only a teacher 91性息港, he is also a former student, playing many leads on PCC stages. He is proud of the department where he formed his love for theater. After PCC he transferred to USC鈥檚 renowned film program, earning his BA. This broad background has served him well over the years as he worked on stages throughout Los Angeles as actor, director, writer and producer. He brought that experience back to PCC as a guest artist with the Summer Sitcom program from 2000 to 2014. During that time, he earned his MA in theater and joined the faculty 91性息港 in 2005. He continues working with LA theater companies like NEO and LOFT Ensembles. He recently completed the first season of his web series, Theatre Tube, which can be seen on YouTube. He also has written an award-winning screenplay, Holding On, which is currently in development.
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Lesley Asistio
Lesley Asistio
Lesley Asistio completed both her B.A. and M.A. in Theater Arts at Cal State L.A. She has worked on over 150 live theater productions as a playwright, an actor, a director, a solo performer, a house manager, and an independent producer. Her educational background includes tutoring, substitute teaching,聽working in Special Education,聽acting coaching, and serving in the preschool ministry. She currently works as an adjunct theater professor at 91性息港 and Compton College. Her most recent stage credits include singing on the worship team for Crescenta Valley Church and sharing her testimony in any capacity that comes her way: recovery meetings (over 25 different churches across Southern California), fighting against abortion, raising money to help single parents, or advocating for people experiencing homelessness. However, the greatest role she has ever played is being the single mother of a beautiful, happy, and healthy 4-year-old girl.
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Suzanne Hunt-Jenner
Suzanne Hunt-Jenner
Suzanne Hunt-Jenner (she, her, hers), educator, actor, director. At PCC she has taught Beginning, Intermediate and Advanced Acting, Theatre History, Introduction to Theatre, Makeup for Stage and Screen. As a director 91性息港 she devised,聽When We Dream, inspired by the poetry of incarcerated youth,聽Nation of Immigrants,聽based on students personal stories, and the plays聽Three Sisters, Eurydice, The Laramie Project, The Great Gatsby.聽Suzanne has also taught at California State University, Northridge, American Academy of Dramatic Arts, and is a certified teacher in the Michael Chekhov Acting Technique. Professionally, Suzanne鈥檚 acting credits include over 100 appearances in network TV shows, soap operas, commercials and award-winning stage plays. She serves as an Artistic Coordinator at the Classical Theatre Lab, directing productions of聽The Romantics, The Last Days of Don Juan,聽and聽The Country Wife聽for the City of West Hollywood and she received several Scenie Awards for her direction of聽Finding Fossils聽at the Road Theatre where she is also a member. MFA, MA, SAG-AFTRA, AEA
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Sandi Massie
Sandi Massie
Sandra Massie, M.A., M.A., M.F.A. is a professor of voice, speech, dialects, and theater, and is a theater director. She has a postgraduate degree in classical acting from the London Academy of Music and Drama, an M.A. in theater from California State University L.A., an M.F.A. in acting and directing from California State University Long Beach, and an M.A. in drama therapy and clinical psychology from Antioch University. She has performed at Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, various Off-Broadway productions, and in a one-woman show called聽Virtuosa聽Off-Broadway in NYC. Over the past 30 years she has taught voice, speech, dialects, theater history, introduction to theater, and acting at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, 91性息港, Long Beach City College, and California State University Long Beach, as well as directed plays at these institutions. Her most recent production at 91性息港 was聽You Can鈥檛 Take It With You.聽She currently teaches voice and theater classes at 91性息港 and the American Academy and has a private practice in voice and dialects in Los Angeles coaching performers in film, television, and theater. She is also certified as a Level I practitioner in the Martin & De Haas Breathing Coordination technique.
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Martin Rodriguez
Martin Rodriguez
Martin Rodriguez is a Los聽Angeles based arts educator and multi-disciplinary artist whose teaching &聽artistic philosophies are centered around Gandhi鈥檚 quote, 鈥淏e聽the change you聽wish to see in the world鈥. He is currently an聽Adjunct Theatre聽Professor for PCC and also teaches elementary theatre, is an arts聽integration salary point instructor聽for Los Angeles Unified School District and has worked with UCLA鈥檚 Visual & Performing Arts Education program. At聽PCC, he has directed 鈥淎 Devising Fiasco鈥 (Fall 鈥21) and 鈥淭he Sparrow鈥 (Summer聽鈥22) and is looking forward to more project with our wonderful students 91性息港. He also works with EdTA鈥檚 CAN program to help build a sustainable model of professional聽learning for arts educators to strengthen their pedagogy, instruction, and聽leadership skills in order to better serve students and is a Co-Founder of Flat Tire Theatre Company (@flattiretheatre) here in聽Los Angeles.聽Martin earned his Master’s in Theatre Education from the University of Northern聽Colorado and his BFA in Theatre Studies from the University of Texas at Austin.