Mr. Arthur Grothe

Arthur Grothe received his M.F.A. in Acting from the University of Florida and has both a B.A. in Communications and Theatre Arts as well as a B.A. in English from Heidelberg University. He has also had additional training from the Stanislavsky Summer Institute, The Lessac Summer Institute, and in Meisner Technique. At UWEC, Arthur has directed The Three Sisters, Roustabout: The Great Circus Train Wreck, Shipwrecked! An Entertainment, Urinetown: The Musical, The Tempest, Waiting for Godot, She Kills Monsters, Godspell, Medea, Airness, Get Lost! A Walking Podcast of Eau Claire, and A Doll’s House. He has also been seen around Wisconsin as “The Beagle” in Mike Perry’s Population 485: On Stage. Prior to joining The University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire Music and Theatre Department, he worked as Director of Theatre and Fine Arts Department Chair at the University of West Alabama. During his time in Alabama he directed All in the Timing, Almost Maine, Intimate Apparel, Godspell, Twelfth Night, Picasso at the Lapin Agile, Eurydice, Spooky Dog and the Teenage Gang Mysteries, and A Midsummer Night's Dream. A native of Cleveland, OH Arthur has worked on stage with The Cleveland Playhouse, the Cleveland Shakespeare Festival, Dobama Theatre, Cleveland Public Theatre, convergence-continuum, The Theatre Ninjas, and Bad Epitaph Theatre Company. While at UWEC, Arthur also worked with UWEC students to create a devised theatre piece called Invisible Truth: Intersections of Vulnerability in Eau Claire. He is currently the Wisconsin State Chair for the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival and the Director of the Midwest Artist Academy.  Most recently, Arthur directed Twelfth Night for the Wisconsin Shakespeare Festival.