Elizabeth Brendel Horn joined the faculty of UCF as an Assistant Professor in Theatre in Fall 2015. Her creative interests include classic dramatic literature and the young actor; race and diversity; body image and the young actor; and devising.
As an educator, Elizabeth teaches in the graduate Theatre for Young Audiences program, including courses in Theatre for Social Change, Methods of Teaching Drama, Dramatic Literature for Art, and Storytelling. Elizabeth also teaching undergraduate course in Script Analysis and Creative Drama. Her forthcoming digital textbook, A World Onstage: An introduction to the artform of live theatre, will be available in 2021 through Great River Learning. In 2020, the UCF College of Arts and Humanities recognized Elizabeth as the recipient of the Excellence in Graduate Teaching Award.
Elizabeth has over thirty credits as a director, applied theatre artist, teaching artist, and facilitator of devised theatre. Credits include First Stage Academy (Milwaukee, WI), Alliance Theatre Education (Atlanta, GA), Adventure Theatre and ATMTC Academy (Glen Echo, MD), The Coterie (Kansas City, MO), Orlando Repertory Theatre, Orlando Shakespeare Theatre, Dr Phillips Center for the Arts, and Orange County Public Schools. Recent projects include director of a mixed-ability original play featuring the stories of survivors of strokes with the Adaptive Learning Community; director of a youth-devised adaptation of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar fused with Bob Dylan music in the Alliance Theatre's Collision Project; director of "Once In My LIFE," a multimedia intergenerational devised piece in collaboration with Interdisciplinary Studies and UCF's Learning Institute for Elders; and Act Out Justice, a collaboration of UCF and Orlando Repertory Theatre that trains young people as theatre artists and facilitators to confront social justice issues in their communities. As a playwright, Elizabeth has written three one-act scripts suitable for high school competition adapted or inspired by Greek classics: Elektra (available through YouthPLAYS), Medea, and Antigone and Ismene.
Elizabeth has presented research about devising, diversity, and body image and the young actor at multiple national and international conferences and universities. She is published with Theatre Topics; Research in Drama and Education; TYA Today; Youth Theatre Journal; Reflective Practice; Storytelling, Self, Society; and Canadian Journal of Disability Studies. She was recognized as the Southeastern Theatre Conference recipient of the Tom Behm Theatre for Youth award in 2020.
Prior to her appointment at UCF, Elizabeth served six years as Artistic Director of the Timber Creek Thespians, where she directed Metamorphoses, Doubt, Oedipus Rex, Elektra, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, A Servant of Two Masters, Rabbit Hole, Urinetown, Legally Blonde, Chicago, Anything Goes, The Wizard of Oz, and Little Shop of Horrors. Elizabeth mentored over twenty student-directed productions during her tenure with Timber Creek Thespians, and her students performed by invitation at Florida Thespian Festival and the Orlando International Fringe Festival.
Elizabeth serves on the boards of TYA/USA (Publications chair) and Florida Theatre Conference (Theatre for Youth division chair). She holds an MFA in Theatre for Young Audiences from UCF and a BFA in Musical Theatre from Brenau University with the Gainesville Theatre Alliance.
“Playing Ball with the Big League: Introducing Advanced Acting Methodologies.” PerformerStuff.com. 2016.
“What is Universal? Representing Race and Ethnicity in TYA.” TYA Today. 2015.
“A New Direction.” Incite/Insight. September 2011.
“AATE and TYA/USA Take Action Against Bullying.” Incite/Insight. June 2011.
“The Twenty-First Century Education Director.” TYA Today. 2010.
No courses found for Summer 2021.
Course Number | Course | Title | Mode | Date and Time | Syllabus |
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11451 | THE2000 | Theatre Survey | World Wide Web (W) | Available | |
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20576 | THE2000 | Theatre Survey | World Wide Web (W) | Available | |
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10509 | THE2305 | Script Analysis for Theatre | Video Strmng (V) COVID DL exmp | Tu 11:30 AM - 12:50 PM | Available |
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19539 | TPP6216C | Theatre for Young Aud Tour | Face to Face Instruction (P) | W 11:30 AM - 02:20 PM | Available |
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Course Number | Course | Title | Mode | Date and Time | Syllabus |
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81794 | THE2000 | Theatre Survey | World Wide Web (W) | Available | |
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80759 | THE2305 | Script Analysis for Theatre | Video Strmng (V) COVID DL exmp | M 01:30 PM - 02:45 PM | Available |
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91957 | TPP5248C | Storytelling As Theatre Art | Video Strmng (V) COVID DL exmp | Th 03:30 PM - 05:20 PM | Available |
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No courses found for Summer 2020.
Course Number | Course | Title | Mode | Date and Time | Syllabus |
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20150 | THE2000 | Theatre Survey | World Wide Web (W) | Available | |
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17304 | THE2305 | Script Analysis for Theatre | Mixed-Mode/Reduce Seat-Time(M) | Tu 11:30 AM - 12:50 PM | Available |
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19646 | TPP6247 | Theatre for Social Change | Face to Face Instruction (P) | Tu,Th 03:00 PM - 04:15 PM | Available |
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Updated: Jan 12, 2021