Jette Halladay
Associate Professor, Theatre in Education
Middle Tennessee State University
Box 43, Murfreesboro, TN 37132
(615) 898-5824 jhalladay@mtsu.edu

Education:
1982 BA, Brigham Young University
1994 PHD, University of Utah

Teaching:
1989-1994 University of Utah
1994 - Middle Tennessee State University

Jette Halladay is an Associate Professor of Theatre Education at Middle Tennessee State University where she has received the Outstanding Teacher Award. Dr. Halladay has established several programs bringing arts into the schools including a Children's Professional Theatre Series (ArtSeason) and outreach programs teaching the curriculum through role-play and drama. She has trained college students in the implementation of these programs especially for schools with a high ratio of at-risk children. She along with her students founded the Middle Tennessee Storytellers Guild, MTSU After-School-Drama program, and the MTSU Theatre School for Youth. She has received several Public Service Grants and she has been a Fine Arts Consultant for Utah State Board of Education, Kentucky Governor's School for the Arts and Tennessee Governor's School for the Arts.

Dr. Halladay is the founding director and administrator of VOICES: Arts Institute for Youth. She is currently working with public schools and local not for profit organizations to integrate arts into the curriculum and the community. The VOICES program brings together a consortium of community-based organizations to help young people build life skills through the arts.

She has been Administrative and Artistic Director for summer youth theatre schools in Tennessee, Utah and California for the past 12 years. She was artistic director for the University of Utah youth touring company which performed in London, England and Moscow, Russia. She is responsible for bringing the Russian Director, Alice Ivanova to assist with VOICES Arts Institute in their first year.