ELAINE HENDRIKS SMITH

FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY

Instructor of Record

History of Musical Theatre 1 (Spring 2026)

History of Musical Theatre II (Spring 2025)

Directing 1 (Spring 2024, Fall 2024, Spring 2025)

Play Analysis (Spring 2023, Fall 2023, Spring 2024, Fall 2024, Spring 2026)

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Performance 1 (Spring 2023, Fall 2023)

Intro to Theatre for Majors (Fall 2022)

World Theatre History II (Spring 2022)

World Theatre History I (Fall 2022)

Intro to Theatre for Non-Majors (Fall/Spring 2019 – 2022 & Summer 2021 – 2023)

Guest Lecturer/WorkshopS

Always Auditioning, Program for Instructional Excellence, Florida State University (2023)

Engaging Student in a PIE-rate Adventure, Program for Instruction Excellence, Florida State University (2023)

Expressionism, World Theatre History, Florida State University School of Theatre (2022)

Stage Management for Non-Stage Managers, West Bloomfield High School (2022)

Theatre in the Middle Ages, World Theatre History, Florida State University School of Theatre (2021)

Teen Mentor

Mentor, Lighting, QLab & Stage Management, Young Actors Theatre, Tallahassee, FL (2021 – 2025)

Director, Intern/Apprentice Program, The Berman Center for the Performing Arts, West Bloomfield, MI (2011 – 2019)

Mentor, Lighting Design & Stage Management, Frankel Jewish Academy, West Bloomfield, MI (2008 – 2010)

Mentor, Lighting Design, Detroit School of Arts, Detroit, MI (2008 – 2020)

Mentor, Stage Management, Mosaic Youth Theatre of Detroit, Detroit, MI (2005 – 2011)

Mentor, Intern/Teen Apprentice Program, Minnesota Festival Theatre, Albert Lea, MN (1999 – 2001)

YOUTH & COMMUNITY

Drama Teacher (Ages 6 – 13), Young Actors Theatre, Tallahassee, FL (2021 – 2026)

Teacher/Director, Online Musical Theatre Summer Camp (Summer 2020)

Teacher, Acting & Audition Workshops, Theatre Berman Center for the Performing Arts, West Bloomfield, MI (2011 – 2019)

Teacher, Improvisation Workshops (Ages 5 – 11), Matrix Theatre Company, Detroit, MI (2006 – 2009)

Teacher, Beginners Acting Classes (Ages 5 – 7), Matrix Theatre Company, Detroit, MI (2006 – 2009)