Tina M. Newhauser

Teaching Artist | Stage Managing Intimacy

Tina M. Newhauser (AEA Production Stage Manager, Head of the BFA Stage Management Program at Michigan State University) has been a working professional stage manager since the late 1980s and is a long-standing member of Actors Equity Association (AEA). During her more than 25 years as a working theatre professional, she stage-managed more than 200 theatre productions, readings, and workshops that ranged from small nonprofit regional productions to commercial Broadway. Then in 2007 she was hired as production manager for a roadhouse in New England and oversaw more than 175 touring productions and 100 events. She was then invited south and worked at the University of Houston as general manager for their on-campus roadhouse, Cullen Performance Hall, and the university’s summer AEA professional theatre company, Houston Shakespeare Festival (HSF).

As GM she was responsible for all AEA and IATSE contract negotiations, operational grant writing, and the overall management of HSF’s day-to-day operations. Back in 2000, she began her work as a freelance stage manger and showcaller within the corporate event industry, or better known as Business Theatre, having ‘show called’ over 250 events during those years, and when not in a pandemic, she continues that work today. Her last move was in 2012 when she returned north to the mitten to begin her work with the College of Arts & Letters at Michigan State University where she helped to create and launch the Arts & Cultural Management undergraduate minor and Master’s programs. In 2017 she created and launched the BFA in Stage Management Program and is the program's founding Director. Tina began her work with staged intimacy in 2019 when she collaborated with IDC Certified Intimacy Director and MSU faculty member Alexis Black. Together they began teaching the Stage Managing Intimacy Workshop for IDC in the summer of 2020.