Beth Guest

Beth Guest (she/her) is a Special Lecturer at Oakland University's School of Music, Theatre and Dance, teaching since 2017 with 20 years of combined college instruction and professional theatre experience.

Her educational background includes:

• Master of Fine Arts in Acting and Directing, University of Missouri, Kansas City

Guest specializes in practical theatre disciplines, teaching courses spanning Acting, Directing, Stage Movement, Stage Makeup, Musical Theatre Workshop, History of Musical Theatre, and Acting for Non-Majors. Her professional work emphasizes performance technique and theatrical production methodology, with significant focus on musical theatre repertory and audition preparation.

As an active member of Actors Equity Association, she maintains a parallel 20-year professional acting career featuring performances at Mill Mountain Theater, Missouri Repertory Theatre, Utah Shakespeare Festival, and Flint Repertory Theatre. Notable credits include world premieres of Bloom (Flint Youth Theatre) and The Wrestling Season (Kennedy Center), with signature roles in Into the Woods, As You Like It, and Assassins.

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Guest mentors students toward careers in television, film, and professional theatre through classroom instruction and private audition coaching. Her prior academic appointments include University of Missouri, Aquinas College, Radford University, and Hollins University.