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Megan Bommarito serves as

the Communications Coordinator. Her responsibilities include:

• Managing the department website and all social media channels.
• Develop and implement communications strategies, including creating and managing budgets for advertising and marketing and building/strengthening relationships with audiences.
• Provide artistic direction on season materials, photography and marketing imagery.
• Manage all department production and non-production collateral: advertising, marketing, publicity, web, social media, photography/videography, and playbills.
• Serve as the Liaison with Texas Performing Arts patron services and ticketing offices.

Office: 1.144E

Phone: 512-232-5328

E-Mail: megan.bommarito@austin.utexas.edu

Cassie Gholston serves as the Operations and Communications Manager for the Department and her duties include:

• This position is a senior manager who provides executive leadership to the Chair of the Department of Theatre and Dance. Key functions include overseeing administrative operations and external/internal communications; supervision and mentorship of core administrative staff and communication staff; strategic planning and project management of departmental programs and initiatives; human resources and faculty advancement. 

Office: 1.144D

Phone: 512-232-5301

E-Mail: gholston@austin.utexas.edu

• Administers and coordinates the Graduate Programs in Dance, UT Live Design, Theater for Youth and Communities, Performance as Public Practice, and Directing and Playwriting.
• Assists graduate students with registration, graduation, and general questions
• Maintains graduate student records, files, and databases as well as tracks and compiles data related to graduate enrollment and programs.
• Tracks TA/AI assignments and is responsible for issuing appointment letters.
• Assists the Graduate Advisor with Grad ExComm meetings, deadlines, and fellowships
• Serves as a liaison with the Graduate School and the College of Fine Arts.

E-Mail: andrea.grapko@austin.utexas.edu

Nathan Harper serves as the Assistant Operations Manager for the Department and his duties include:

• Building security & access management, issuing and tracking keys, oversight of reservations in the Winship and Lab Theatre building outside of the class schedule, building management of Winship and the Lab Theatre.

Office: 1.142A (in 1.144)

Phone: 512-232-5313

E-Mail: nathan.harper@austin.utexas.edu

Tori Marshall serves as the Assistant to the Department chair and the ABT Summer Intensive Coordinator. Her responsibilities include:

• Management of the Chair's calendar, travel, and other Chair-related administrative tasks
• Management of office supply inventory, Ricoh Copiers and printing needs, Records Inventory and Management, as well as administrative back-up to the main office front desk.
• As the ABT Intensive Coordinator, she oversees the operations of ABT Summer Intensive at UT-Austin
• Serves as a liaison and manages agreements with ABT and various other university units.
• Creates and manages the ABT/UT Budget
• Recruits, hires, and manages the summer program staff.

Office: WIN 1.144

Phone: 512-232-2668

E-Mail: victoria.marshall@austin

Averil Houston serves as Administrative Associate. His duties include:

Office: 1.144

Phone: 471-5793

E-Mail: averil@austin.utexas.edu

Kevin Newcomb assists the Department of Theatre and Dance by managing the Technology Classrooms.

• Installs and Repairs A/V equipment in Winship.
• Assists Faculty with using Technology Classrooms, including keys.

Office: 2.114

Phone: 512-232

-5305

E-Mail:

newcomb@austin.utexas.edu

Sydney Pattillo serves as the Marketing Assistant.

Her duties include:

• Routing and creating mainstage performance program content
• Assist the Communications Coordinator in generating, managing, and tracking all web and social media channels as well as generating content for the Departmental blog.
• Managing complimentary tickets for all mainstage department productions
• Manage physical and digital production archives.
• Assist in coordinating and scheduling video shoots, photoshoots and any other needed marketing appointments.

Office: 1.

144

Phone: 512-232-

5324

E-Mail:

sydney.

pattillo@austin.utexas.edu

Lizeth R. Salinas serves as the Finance Manager for the Department.

• Finance Office Management
• Supervise Senior Administrative Associate and Guest Artist Liaison
• Serve as a financial consultant to the Department Chair and Faculty Associate Chairs.
• Oversee financial reporting and analysis
• Annual operating budget planning, preparation, and maintenance.
• Make financial projections, analyze expenditure trends, and suggest improvements.
• Budgeting for the Department
• Account Management and Reconciliation for the Department
• Approves Department Purchase

Office: 1.154B154

Phone: 512-232-5317

E-Mail: lizeth@austin.utexas.edu

Zeinab Alzuhairi Natasha Small serves as the Purchasing Officer Undergraduate Admissions Coordinator for the Department.

• Manages Undergraduate Admissions processes for both Freshman and Internal & External transfer students.
• Coordinate the Departmental Recruitment events - scheduling auditions, processing portfolios, scheduling interviews, reviewing applications with faculty, arranging faculty travel for recruitment purposes.
• Coordinate Departmental Scholarships for freshmen applicants and for current students.
• Purchases for the Department
• Reimburses Faculty/Staff/Students

Office: 1.154A130

Phone: 512-232-79782741

E-Mail: zeinab.alzuhairi@austin.utexas.eduMark-Anthony Zuniga tadadmissions@utexas.edu

• Creating and Managing the course schedule and all related duties.
• Serves as the SACS contact for the Department

Office: 1.

144B

Phone:

512-475-

6565

E-Mail:

clarissasmith@austin.utexas.edu

Natasha Small Ashley Spears serves as the Undergraduate Admissions Coordinator Senior Administrative Associate and Purchasing Officer for the Department.

Office: 1.126

Phone: 232-2741

E-Mail: tadadmissions@utexas.edu

Jed Lawnsby assists the Department by maintaining our Computer Lab (TADL) in WIN 1.138.

• Oversight and Maintenance of TADL Computer Classroom.
• Oversight of Proctors in TADL

Office: DFA 3.218

Phone: 232-5479

E-Mail: artlabs@austin.utexas.edu

• Serves as back-up to the Financial Manager
• Answer general accounting inquiries and clarify procedures, assist the Finance Manager with monthly closeout.
• Create and track various financial documents: vendor and guest payments, travel reimbursement, student reimbursement, and IDT corrections.
• Maintain finance documents in accordance with UT Guidelines: files, server-scanned documents, fiscal year clean-up.
• Serve with Technology Liaison as Department EID contact and DPUSER
• Assist Department Inventory Contact by providing documentation for tagging T&D items and assist in researching inventory items on an as-needed basis.

Office: 1.154A

Phone: 512-232-7978

E-Mail: ashley.spears@austin.utexas.edu

Liliana Zapatero serves as the Guest Artist/Visitor Liaison. Her duties include:

• Guest Artist Liaison - paying visiting guest artist stipends, coordinating and issuing San Jacinto Parking Vouchers, FDP parking passes.
• Make travel arrangements and initiate reimbursement for out-of-town visitors.
• Set up current faculty, staff, and students in Workday to receive stipends for short-term professional work.
• Hire, pre-hire, onboard, and/or terminate long sessions and summer Non-Academic hourly appointments
• Serves as a DPSUSER administrator.

Office: 1.144E

Phone: 232-9402

E-Mail: liliana.zapatero@austin.utexas.edu

Mark-Anthony Zuniga serves as the Senior Academic Advisor for Theatre & Dance.  

• Advises undergraduate T&D majors on degree requirements, academic policies and university resources.
• Coordinate mandatory registration advising for T&D department twice yearly.
• Plan & co-facilitate COFA's New Student Orientation program during Spring and Summer semesters.
• Assist non-majors on Theatre and Dance course options during non-peak times.
• Process departmental adds/drops during first 12 class days each semester.

Office: 1.118

Phone: 512-232-5308

E-Mail: mazuniga@austin

.utexas.edu