Professor
ʻo ia/kona/kāna
tbaker@hawaii.edu
Courses:
THEA 224 – Pidgin/HCE Drama
THEA 318 – Playwriting
THEA 418 – Advanced Playwriting
THEA 424 – Hawaiian Performance Workshop
THEA 462 – Drama and Theatre of Oceania
THEA 468 – Drama and Theatre of Hawai‘i
THEA 478 – Hula Ki‘i: Hawaiian Puppetry and Image Dancing
THEA 490 – Experimental Theatre Studio
THEA 619 – Playwriting and Dramatic Theory
THEA 668 – Advanced Topics in Performance of Hawai‘i
THEA 683 – Workshop in the Directing Process
THEA 690 – Graduate Theatre Workshop
THEA 695 – Creative Projects
THEA 768 – Seminar in Hawaiian & Indigenous Performance
Kawaihuelani Center for Hawaiian Language Courses:
HAW 485 – Haku Hana Keaka – Hawaiian Language Playwriting
HAW 486 – Kahua Hana Keaka – Hawaiian-Medium Stage Production
Tammy Hailiʻōpua Baker is a playwright/director/scholar/educator from Kapaʻa, Kauaʻi whose work focuses on revitalizing Kanaka Maoli moʻolelo (Native Hawaiian history and narratives) through Hawaiian-medium theatre, Hana Keaka. She holds an MFA in Directing from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa (UHM) and a PhD in Māori and Indigenous Studies from the University of Waikato in Aotearoa/NZ. Hailiʻōpua oversees the Hawaiian Theatre and Playwriting Programs at UHM and is a recent recipient of the Kennedy Center Medallion of Excellence.