Assistant Professor, Acting/Directing

M.F.A. in Theatre, Virginia Commonwealth University
B.A. in Theatre, Indiana University

Office Telephone: 243-2018
Fax Number: 243-5726
E-mail: TBA

Photo Credit: Jay Paul, 2008.

A native Hoosier, John DeBoer has been acting and vocal coaching for as long as he can remember. After dabbling briefly with a career as a theatre critic, he fell in love with Voice and Speech while taking American Sign Language classes at Indiana University. Prior to joining the faculty at UM, he taught Voice and Speech at Virginia Commonwealth University and the University of Richmond. He has vocal-coached productions for Indiana University, the Brown County Playhouse, the Bloomington Playwrights Project, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richard Bland College, the University of Richmond, Barksdale Theatre, and Theatre IV, including Guys and Dolls, Peter Pan, Brighton Beach Memoirs, The Foreigner, Caught in the Net, Macbeth, Medea, The Three Sisters, The Rocky Horror Show, Boy Gets Girl, Orphans, and The Importance of Being Earnest. He is also a proud member of the Actors' Equity Association. Acting credits include Romeo and Juliet, Much Ado About Nothing, This is Our Youth, volume of smoke, Visiting Mr. Green, and most recently played Mitchell Green in the regional premiere of the Broadway hit The Little Dog Laughed at the Barksdale Theatre in Richmond, Virginia. He has trained internationally with noted artists such as folk singer Frankie Armstrong and the Dah Theatre of Belgrade, Serbia. He is an active member of both ATHE and VASTA and his essay "Getting the Gay Out: Sexual Identity in the Voice Classroom" was recently published in the "Voice and Gender" edition of the Voice and Speech Review.