Paula Makar is incredibly excited to speak at the Inge Festival! Paula is an Associate Member of SDC and a member of Actor’s Equity. Paula earned her Master’s Degree in Theatre from Oklahoma State University, where she directed These Shining Lives and a new work, Trigger. Paula received her BFA in Theatre Performance from Wichita State. She teaches Directing, and Acting, and has been an Associate Professor of Theatre at Neosho County Community College, Southwestern College, Newman University She has directed at MTYP, Wichita Shakespeare Company, Mountain Rep in Cripple Creek, Crown’s Children’s Theatre Wichita Community Theatre, Aspen Community Theatre, the Great Plains Theatre, Olivet College and two original shows written by her Performing Arts students at Upward Bound Wichita Prep at Wichita State
Directing credits include Love’s Labors Lost. You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown, Silent Sky, The Odd Couple Female Version, She Kills Monsters. Spamalot Leaving Idaho. The Liar., The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe. High School Musical, Annie, Othello, Frost/Nixon,9 to 5, My Partner, a Melodrama. An accomplished actress. Her favorite roles, include Bad Ass Betty in The Great American Trailer Park Christmas Musical, Janis in Hands On A Hardbody and Peggy in Weekend Comedy Martha in White Christmas at the Crown Uptown; Prudy, The Gym Teacher and the Matron in Hairspray, and Miss Hannigan in Annie, Sara Jane Moore in Assassins, Miss Lynch in Grease, and Princess Puffer in The Mystery of Edwin Drood. A native of Buffalo, New York, she now calls Wichita, Kansas home. member of the Buffalo Ensemble Theatre and Theatre of Youth. In Michigan, She is also a Contributing Editor for BroadwayWorld.com! Paula would like to thank Dee Byrd-Molnar and Paul Molnar for the opportunity to speak at the storied Inge Festival, and her husband, Rich Bruhn, for his continued love and support.