Ms. Maureen Kilmurry
Lecturer

Helfaer Theater 107
(414) 288-3505 Phone
maureen.kilmurry@marquette.edu

Ms. Kilmurry has acted in professional regional theatre companies in Seattle, Dallas, Kansas City, Milwaukee, and in two seasons at the Oregon Shakespearean Festival. A member of Actors Equity Association, she also lived in New York City for several years and has performed both Off & Off-Off Broadway.
Along with other SMU graduates living in New York she helped found and later ran an actors cooperative whose goals were the continuing education of the professional actor through workshops, independent projects and showcase productions of new plays.
Since returning to her native Milwaukee, Ms. Kilmurry has turned her focus to directing and teaching. Local directing credits include projects for Windfall Theatre, The Boulevard Ensemble, Amethyst Productions, Renaissance TheatreWorks, the John Michael Kohler Art Center, the Haggerty Museum, Manitowoc Civic Theatre and Playwrights Studio Theatre, where she was also Literary Director for two seasons.
Ms. Kilmurry is also the acting coach for the students participating in the ACTF Irene Ryan competition.

Education
BA Marquette University
MFA Southern Methodist University

Courses taught
THAR 132: Auditioning and Career Preparation
THAR 031, Acting IV: Shakespeare
THAR 026: Voice and Movement
THAR 028: Voice and Speech

Marquette Directing Projects
The Miracle Worker
The Children’s Hour
Harvey
Romeo and Juliet
Proof
The Trial of the Catonsville Nine
In Common Hours
The Winter’s Tale
The Cherry Orchard

Marquette Vocal and Dialect Coaching Projects
Dead Man Walking
Everyman
Fifth of July
Blood Brothers
The Odd Couple
Hekeba
McGuire
Last Train to Nibroc
Fool for Love