Rate My Professor Hollace Starr

Hollace Starr serves as Associate Professor of Theatre in the Fine Arts Division of Seaver College at Pepperdine University in Malibu, having joined the full-time faculty in 2015 after serving as an adjunct professor there as well as at Antelope Valley Community College and Los Angeles City College. She earned her Master of Fine Arts in Theatre from the University of California, Los Angeles School of Theatre, Film, and Television, and her Bachelor of Arts in Theater from UCLA. A versatile theatre professional, Starr is recognized as a director, actor, and voice and dialect specialist. She coaches Seaver College students for performances, teaches voice and dialects, and directs mainstage productions including The Winter's Tale (2022), Into the Woods (2022), This Girl Laughs, This Girl Cries, This Girl Does Nothing (2023), Eurydice (2016), The Cherry Orchard (2019), and As You Like It (2021). In Fall 2020, she received an endowed fellowship to advance her scholarly and creative endeavors, such as investigating the Michael Chekhov physical acting technique and developing the production Chasing America in a mobile theatre truck known as the PopWagon.