Bethany Mangum-Oles
Acting, Voice and Movement
Bethany Mangum-Oles recently holds Designated Meisner Teacher status from the Meisner Institute, an MFA in acting from Northern Illinois University, and a BFA in acting from California State University, Fullerton. Bethany is a Certified Intimacy Captain and Grief Coach and is also trauma-informed yoga and yoga nidra certified. She has made her artistic home at NIU as Performance Area Faculty where she teaches all levels in the Meisner-based acting sequence and all levels of both voice and movement tracks, as well as directs in the official production season. Select directing credits for the School include The Comedy of Errors, Mary Stuart, Melancholy Play, Twelfth Night, Big Love, Bird in the Hand, Our Town, and A Song for Coretta. She also serves as Head of BFA Acting Recruitment.
Bethany is the Artistic Director at Kane Repertory Theatre where she oversees the daily workings of the company, season selection, and casting. She also works as rotating faculty at the renowned Gately-Poole Acting Conservatory and Marquee Youth Stage. Chicago acting credits include projects with The Organic Theater Company, MUSE Theatre Collective, Along the Way Productions, The Outer Loop Theatre Experience, Unnecessary Nowledge, and Kane Repertory Theatre. Favorite acting roles include Masha in Three Sisters, Lady Capulet in BCC: Romeo and Juliet, and Viola in the US premiere of Out of the Blue. Internationally, Bethany has A certificate of Acting from the Moscow Art Theater School in Moscow, Russia, and has performed and facilitated workshops at the Adana International Theatre Festival in Adana, Turkey.
Education
- M.F.A., Northern Illinois University
