Amy M . Lane, PhD

Coordinator, Theatre & Dance - I am the Coordinator for the Thearte and Dance programs within the Fine & Performing Arts Department.

Associate Professor

Contact

College of Arts and Sciences
Fine & Performing Arts
Musical Theatre
Theatre
LECA - Lied Education Center for the Arts - 231

Amy M . Lane, PhD

Coordinator, Theatre & Dance - I am the Coordinator for the Thearte and Dance programs within the Fine & Performing Arts Department.

Associate Professor

Department

Fine & Performing Arts

Position

Associate Professor

Scripts

  • Taming of the Shrew
    Nebraska Shakespeare Festival 2015

General

  • Broadway World
    Sunday in the Park with George Review 2015
  • Omaha Reader
    Sunday in the Park with George Review 2015
  • Omaha Reader
    Cabaret Review 2015
  • Omaha World-Herald
    Cabaret Review 2015
  • Omaha World-Herald
    Buffalo Bill’s Cowboy Band Review 2015

Presentations

  • Director of the world premiere production of Eminent Domain at the Omaha Community Playhouse. 2017
  • Director of NE Shakespeare's 30th anniversary production of The Taming of the Shrew. 2016
  • Director of world premiere production of Buffalo Bill's Cowboy Band at the Rose Theater. 2015

Other

  • Recipient of Sarah M. Aicher Fund grant for the Our Town Now project focused on using theatre for social justice in developing and presenting a play about immigration issues and their effect on rural Nebraska.

  • Recipient of funding for a Creighton Global Initiative project: Our Town Now: a Theatre for Social Justice Project. The project focused on developing an original dramatic work highlighting the effects of immigration issues on rural Nebraska. This play was performed in venues throughout Omaha and presented at the 2017 Conference on the Commitment to Justice in Jesuit Higher Education.

  • Recipient of Magis Core Curriculum Faculty Development Grant for the development of an Intersections level course titled Theatre for Social Justice.

Awards

  • Cabaret: Best Director of a Musical
    Omaha Entertainment Award
  • Cabaret: Best Musical
    Omaha Entertainment Award
  • nomination for Sunday in the Park with George: Best Director of a Musical
    Omaha Theatre Arts Guild Awards
  • Cabaret: Best Musical
    Omaha Theatre Arts Guild Award
  • Cabaret: Best Director of a Musical
    Omaha Theatre Arts Guild Award
  • Best Director for August: Osage County atthe Omaha Community Playhouse
    Omaha Theatre Arts Guild Awards
  • nomination for Race: Best Drama
    Omaha Entertainment Award
  • nomination for Race: Best Director
    Omaha Theatre Arts Guild Award
  • nomination for Race: Best Drama
    Omaha Theatre Arts Guild Award
  • nomination for Next to Normal: Best Musical
    Omaha Theatre Arts Guild Award
  • Exit, Pursued by a Bear: Best Special Event
    Omaha Theatre Arts Guild Award
  • nomination for Race: Best Director
    Omaha Entertainment Award