Roxanne Wellington is a Professor of Acting and Voice at the Jeanine Larson Dobbins Conservatory of Theatre and Dance at Southeast Missouri State University. She has previously taught theatre at Central Michigan University, Oakland University, and Wayne State University. Roxanne has presented several acting, voice, movement, and dialect workshops at Association for Theatre in Higher Education conferences, Southeastern Theatre conferences, and internationally with the Voice and Speech Trainers Association. Roxanne has worked as a director for several Dobbins Conservatory productions, most recently directing The Importance of Being Earnest and The Wolves. In 2023, she was the recipient of the Holland College of Arts and Media's Faculty Teaching Award.

 

Roxanne has been a proud Actors' Equity Association member for over 30 years and has worked in theatres throughout the United States, such as the Kimmel Center in Philadelphia, Indiana Repertory Theatre, and P.S. 122 in New York. Representative roles include Lady Macbeth at the Meadow Brook Theatre, Blanche in A Streetcar Named Desire at Florida Atlantic Theatre, and originating a lead role in the U.S. premiere of Wilma Theatre’s production of Age of Arousal. Roxanne continues to act professionally and performed in the 2024 production of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof with the Tennessee Williams Festival in St. Louis and will be in the upcoming independent film, Sugarhouse. She has received Best Actress awards from the Detroit Free Press, and The Detroit News, and is a recipient of Ann Arbor’s Oscar Wilde Theatre Award.  

 

Roxanne is an Associate Editor with the International Dialects of English Archive. She is also a Pilates Method Alliance certified instructor, a 200-hour Yoga Alliance instructor, and a member of the Voice and Speech Trainers Association.