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Angela Shultz

Director of BFA in Musical Theater, Associate Professor of Practice in Musical Theater and Voice
angela.shultz@siu.edu
618-453-5295
Altgeld 208
Music, Musical Theater
Angela Shultz is a MAC (Manhattan Association of Cabarets and Clubs) Award winning singer, actor and teaching artist who has appeared in cabaret clubs across NYC and was part of the 100thAnniversary US/Canada tour of Titanic as Alice Beane. She appeared in NYC productions including Assassins (Sara Jane Moore) This Very Moment (songs of Brett Kristofferson), Making God and Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (Midtown Int’l Festival), and A Casual Gathering (Theatre for the New City). She has many regional performing credits including Closer Than Ever (Miss Byrd), Titanic (Alice Beane) and has been in several incarnations of Nunsense! Angela also wrote book and lyrics for the musical In Her Place, partially based on the life of Annie Smith Peck.

Directing credits include productions of Steel Magnolias (NYC), Matt & Ben, Emma by Stephen Karam, Working, Fools, Carousel, Babes in Arms, Godspell and others. She loves working with young students as well, and most recently directed Addams Family Younger @ Part for Theatre Memphis. As a music director, she has led Little Shop of Horrors (SIUE), Once on this Island, Godspell, The Secret Garden, Quilters and more. 

Angela has served on voice faculty at NYC's Professional Performing Arts School and Wingspan Arts as well as Fontbonne University. She was adjunct faculty in theatre at University of Memphis, Fontbonne University, Missouri Baptist University and Jefferson College. As a teaching artist, she directed and taught a variety of theatre and music courses for Stages St. Louis, Playhouse on the Square, Theatre Memphis and others. She is the co-founder of Stomping Ground Theatre Company, a professional theatre which began in NYC.