Kathleen Normington has taught at SJSU since 1999. She received her B.A. in Dramatic Arts from the University of California at Berkeley and her M.A. in Theatre Arts from San Jose State University. She was awarded the university's Outstanding Lecturer Award for 2012/2013. With colleague, Amy Glazer, she wrote Simply Acting: A Handbook for the Beginning Actor (Kendall Hunt). In addition to teaching Theatre Appreciation, Acting, and creating new courses in Advanced Acting and Voice and Movement, she has directed students in productions of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Nights Dream,Twelfth Night, and Macbeth. Recently she directed Peter Weiss's revolutionary musical Marat/Sade. She serves on the board of Renegade Theatre Experiment where she also has directed acclaimed productions of Bill Cain's 9 Circles, Peter Sinn Nachtrieb's Boom, and Neil LaBute's The Shape of Things. As an actress, Kathleen has performed on stages from Europe to Japan to Los Angeles. In the Bay Area she has appeared in productions at Center Rep, Diablo Actors Ensemble, and many others. She is also an Adjunct professor at Diablo Valley College where she teaches for the Drama Department and the Communication Studies department.