Featured Faculty Friday: Jim Butchart
Apr 12th, 2013 by Ann Ricca
Currently directing the Theatre/Dance Department’s show Our Town, Jim Butchart is this week’s featured faculty! Butchart is part of the Theatre/Dance Department and is the Head of the BFA Performance Division. Read on to find out more about him!
Q: Where are you from?
A: Waukesha, Wisconsin.
Q: What do you do at UW-Whitewater?
A: Teach performance classes, Script Analysis, Directing and direct plays, serve as a Master Advisor and Head of the BFA Performance Division.
Q: What is your favorite thing about UW-Whitewater?
A: The Theatre\Dance Department’s unfailing dedication to its students.
Q: What are some of your hobbies?
A: I grow vegetables, refinish and reupholster furniture and attempt to keep my ‘92 Dodge van running.
Q: If you could have any superpower what would it be and why?
A: The ability to instantly transmit knowledge from my brain to a student’s.
Q: What’s the best thing that you have ever done that you suggest others try?
A: Marrying my wife but I would suggest that others find their own spouse.
Q: What’s your favorite movie? Book?
A: I cannot limit it to one movie but these come to mind: The original “The Producers”, “Citizen Kane”, and “All that Jazz”. Books: The complete works of William Shakespeare, “Catcher in the Rye” “The Stand”.
Q: What is your best advice for students?
A: Do the Work. Get involved with learning outside the classroom.
Q: What’s one thing that you want people to know about you?
A: That I believe in the power of art.
Below is Butchart’s professional bio:
A professional actor, director and teacher for the past thirty years, Jim received a Master of Fine Arts degree from the professional Actor Training Program at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in 1981. His training there focused on the skills required for the performance of classic plays and included comprehensive work in Liknlater voice, Skinner speech, mime, and Suzuki movement techniques. He is a member of Actor’s Equity Association, The American Federation of Television and Radio Actors and The Screen Artists Guild.
Our Town performs in the Young Auditorium Sunday, April 21st at 2:00pm and Monday, April 22nd at 7:30pm. Tickets can be purchased at the box office in the Greenhill Center of the Arts, the University Center Information Desk, online, or by calling 262-472-2222. Tickets are $19 and $17 for the general public, $8 for over 65, and $14.25 for UW-Whitewater students with student IDs.
Thank you for being our featured faculty this week Jim Butchart! Check back next week to see who the next faculty member will be!