11/01/2024
Since it's Opening Night of Antigone, now is good time to feature another PSCC Theatre faculty member, Grechen Lynne Wingerter, the director of the show. Grechen came to Pellissippi State in August of 2015 and teaches Introduction to Theatre, Acting II, Animals, and directs one show a year.
Grechen Lynne Wingerter is a Professor of Theatre at Pellissippi State Community College. Pellissippi productions directed include Peter and the Wolf, The Wolves (co-production with River & Rail Theatre Company) Our Tempest, Love and Information, Blood at the Root, The Seagull, Soft Animals, Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, and Which Side Are You On: The Florence Reese Story. Grechen has directed and stage managed for such theatres as Sandusky State Repertory Theatre, Idaho Repertory Theatre, Idaho Shakespeare Festival, Illinois Shakespeare Festival, First Stage Milwaukee, Lifeline Theatre, and Circle X Theatre Company. Currently one of the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival Region 4 Irene Ryan Acting Scholarship co-coordinators, Grechen has received the KCACTF Gold Medallion Award and was a recipient of a 2009 KCACTF National Teaching Artist Grant. Grechen is an associate member of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society (SDC) and an RYT 200 certified yoga instructor. Grechen received an MFA in Directing from the University of Idaho, an M.S. in Library and Information Science from the University of Illinois, and a B.A. in Acting from Illinois State University.