Bud Coleman
Professor • Roe Green Endowed Chair in Theatre • Associate Dean of Faculty Affairs and Initiatives
Theatre
bud.coleman@colorado.edu
303-492-5809

Bud Coleman, Ph.D. in Theatre History/Criticism, University of Texas-Austin; MFA in Theatre: Directing, University of Utah; BFA in Theatre Arts, Texas Christian University. Chair of the Department of Theatre & Dance, 2003 - 2017. CU faculty member since 1993.

Previously Fulbright Lecturer at Waseda University and Kyoritsu Women’s University in Tokyo, Japan; Adjunct Faculty, Department of Theatre, St. Edward’s University, 1990-1992; Dancer/Choreographer/Co-Artistic Director with Kinesis Modern Dance Company, 1989-1993; Assistant Instructor, Department of Theatre & Dance, University of Texas-Austin, 1988-1993; Wardrobe Supervisor, Dresser and Buyer for 10 Broadway productions and tours, 1982-1988; Comprimario Dresser, New York City Opera, 1980-1981; Dancer, Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo, 1978-1979.

CU Directing & Choreographing Credits Include: 

A Broadway Christmas Carol, Into the Woods, Hair, Rent, Seussical, 14 (KC/ACTF Regional Selection), Pippin, Wonderful Town, Songs in the Key of…Caffeine, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Shakespeare’s Women, Six Degrees of Separation, Turkey!!!, Lysistrata, A Grand Night for Singing, and Dames at Sea.

Professional Credits Include:

Fiddler on the Roof for Mahidol University (Thai premiere); Stephen Sondheim’s Company in Vladivostok, Russian Federation; CU Eklund Opera’s New Opera Workshop (2015-2019); The Producers and Little Shop of Horrors for the Mount Baker Theatre, Bellingham, WA; writing and performing a one-man show An Evening’s Intercourse With Natasha Notgoudenuff, Bailiwick Theatre, Chicago, and directing and/or choreographing The Mikado, Angry Housewives, Chicago, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, and Into the Woods in Austin, TX.

Recent Publications Include:

  • Coleman, Bud.  “George Abbott.” Eds. Henry Bial and Chase Bringardner.  Great North American Stage Directors, Vol. 4:  Abbott, Carroll, Prince:   Musical Theatre Innovators.  London:  Methuen Drama.  Expected 2021.
  • Coleman, Bud.  “The Dream Machine:  Takarazuka, Japan’s All-Female Musical Theatre Extravaganza.” Eds. Robert Gordon and Olaf Jubin.  Oxford Handbook of the Global Stage Musical.  London:  Oxford University Press, 2021.
  • Coleman, Bud, and Amy Osatinski.  “Musical Theatre Training.”  Eds. Laura MacDonald, William A. Everett, and Ryan Donovan.  The Routledge Companion to Musical Theatre. London:  Routledge, 2020.
  • Coleman, Bud.  “New Horizons:  the musical in the twenty-first century.”  Eds. Paul R. Laird and William A. Everett.  The Cambridge Companion to the Musical.  3rd ed.  Cambridge, England:  Cambridge University Press, 2017.
  • Coleman, Bud.  "The Ever-Evolving World of Twentieth-Century Musical Theatre Criticism,” iBroadway:  Musical Theatre in the Digital Age, edited by Jessica Hillman McCord.  New York:  Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
  • Coleman and Pamyla Stiehl’s Back Stage Pass:  A Survey of American Musical Theatre (Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company, 2013)
  • “’Give Us More to See’ – The Visual Worlds of Stephen Sondheim” in The Oxford Handbook to Sondheim Studies (2013)
  • “Helburn, Dalrymple, and Lortel:  A Triumvirate of Great Producers” in Women in American Musical Theatre:  Essays on Lyricists, Writers, Arrangers, Choreographers, Designers, Producers, and Performance Artists, Eds. Judith Sebesta and Bud Coleman (McFarland and Company, Inc., 2008)