Jim Bartruff

Director of Theatre

Emporia State University

Office: 620-341-5704
Home: 620-341-9193
Fax: 620-341-6031

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E-mail: jbartruf@emporia.edu

PROFESSIONAL

Director of Theatre, Professor of Communication and Theatre, Emporia State University, 2004-present
Director of Theatre, Professor of Theatre, Minnesota State University Moorhead, 1999-2004
Director of Theatre, Assoc. Professor of Theatre, Minnesota State University Moorhead, 1994-98
Associate Director of Theatre, Minnesota State University Moorhead, Moorhead, MN, 1990-1993
Director, Montana Repertory Theatre, University of Montana, Missoula, MT, 1988-1990
Director, Carroll College Theatre Department , Carroll College, Helena, MT , 1978-1988
ASM/Resident Technician, Tiffany's Attic, Dinner Playhouse Inc., Kansas City, MO, 1978

EDUCATION

M.F.A., University of Montana, Directing, 1987
M.S., University of Oregon, Theatre Management, 1977
B.A., University of Nebraska Kearney, Speech and Theatre (English minor), 1974

AFFILIATIONS

Actor's Equity Association
ATHE
Phi Kappa Phi
Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival
Minnesota Community Theatre Association
Montana State Theatre Association
Alpha Psi Omega, National Theatre Honorary

PERSONAL

Married to Lindy Burkhardt
Hobbies: Baseball, Travel, Film and Sports memorabilia

VITA

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Region V, KCACTF, Selection team, 1998-present.
Program evaluation, UNK Theatre, Kearney, Nebraska, April 2006.
KCACTF meritorious achievment award, Region V for THE COCOANUTS, 2006.
Artistic Director, ESU Summer Theatre, 2005-present
Presenter, "Nickel and Dimed" Moorhead Adult Education/FM Communiversity, February 2004
Adjudicator. MACT State Festival. Crookston, MN. April 2003
MSUM Dean's Lecture Series--American History and Musical Theatre. Fall 2002.
"Hamlet at the Movies" A course for Fargo-Moorhead Communiveristy, 2002.
KCACTF meritorious achievment award, Region V for Margaret Edson's WIT, 2002.
2001 Minnesota State Professor of the Year (CASE/Carnegie Foundation)
Artistic director, MSUM Straw Hat Players, 1994-2004.
Director, Eurospring, International Studies Program, Wycliffe Hall, Oxford, 2000.
"God and the Movies" A course for Fargo-Moorhead Communiveristy, 2000, 2001.
"Religion in Popular Culture" A course for Fargo-Moorhead Communiveristy, 1998.
"The Mythology of Baseball" A course for Fargo-Moorhead Communiversity, 1996.
Peer panelist, Artists in Education Program, Minnesota State Arts Board, 1994.
Guest Director, Wyoming Summer Theatre, University of Wyoming, 1994.
Planning committee member, F/M Communiversity, 1993-present.
"What is an Educated Person?" A course for Fargo-Moorhead Communiversity, 1993.
Director, MSUM Theme Year-"What is an educated person?" 1992-3.
Guest Director, MSUM Summer Theatre, 1991-93.
Judge for high school one-act contests in Minnesota and North Dakota, 1990-2004.
Panelist, The Gathering at Bigfork. A conference on the development of new scripts, 1990.
Planner, joint conference of MSTA/Montana Performing Arts Consortium, 1990.
Guest Director, Idaho Repertory Theatre, 1988, 1991, 1993.
President, Montana State Theatre Association, 1986-1990.
Project director, UM symposium on apartheid. "This Burning and Bleeding Land." 1987.
Instructor, Carroll College gifted student program,1985.
Panelist, Symposium on Shakespeare's TEMPEST, 1985.
Montana Representative, Rocky Mountain Theatre Association, 1984-87.
Co-editor, Montana Theatre Connection, 1984-86.
Co-chair, Martin Luther Symposium, celebrating his 400th birthday, 1983.
Adjudicator, Montana Thespian Conference, 1983, 1988.
Respondent/Adjudicator for American College Theatre Festival, 1987-present.
Leader, London Theatre Tour, 1985. 1987, 1990.
Publicity Director, Grandstreet Theatre, Helena, Montana, 1983-85.
Panel member, Montana Arts Council, 1981-85, 1987.
Leader, Helena Acting Group, an actor's studio, 1980-1982.
Leader, annual theatre tour to New York City, 1979-present.
Founder and co-producer, Ternion Productions, Professional dinner theatre, 1979-81.
Theatre renovation, Theatre for Young America, Overland Park, KS, 1977.

DIRECTING CREDITS

I Love You Because
Little Shop of Horrors
Gilligan's Island: The Musical
Annie Get Your Gun
America's Songbook: A musical revue
The Cocoanuts
The Foreigner
Proof
Seven Keys to Baldpate
Western Civ: The Complete Musical (Abridged)
All My Sons
A Funny Thing Happened on the way to the Forum
The Dinner Party
1776
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (Twice)
Straw Hat Follies: A Salute to America
Fuddy Meers
The Laramie Project
The Compleat Wks of Wllm Shkspr (Abridged)
I Love to Tell The Story (Original)

The Foreigner

by Larry Shue
ESU Summer Theatre 2005
Directed by Jim Bartruff
Designed by Rick Rasmussen