H. Russ Brown

2431 Red Pine Dr.
Plover, WI
(715) 346-3664 (home)
(715) 347-1376 (mobile)
rbrown@uwsp.edu
hruss@revengearts.com

Certified Teacher

Member since: 2001

Office: Regional Representative Coordinator

Unions/Other Associations: ATME (Assoc. Of Theatre Movement Educators), VASTA (Voice and Speech Teachers Assoc.) and MICHA (Michael Chekhov Assoc.)

H. Russ is an SAFD Certified Teacher and Advanced Actor Combatant currently teaching in the B.F.A. program at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point as Assistant Professor of Acting, Voice, Movement & Stage Combat.   

H. Russ began his career as a fight director over 20 years ago in his native Texas.  He has worked professionally in the theatre as an actor, director, set designer, vocal coach, fight director and nationally award-winning playwright.  H. Russ has choreographed violence for over 50 productions and his fight work has been seen from New York to California and back again. 

As a playwright, H. Russ Brown has written dozens of plays and has had many produced at both the community and professional level in theatre’s across the country. In 2002, he was awarded the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts New Visions/New Voices award for his musical adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s classic short story, The Selfish Giant. Most recently, he was awarded the 2005 KCACTF NST Fellowship for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Playwriting. 

As a performer, his favorite roles have included Sweeney Todd, Jekyll/Hyde, Old Buks in Valley Song and Hotspur in Henry IV, Part I. 

H. Russ has taught/guest lectured at the University of Missouri-Columbia, Spoon River College, Illinois State University, Nicolet College, Texas Tech University, North Carolina School of the Arts and Western Illinois University.  He holds a B.S. degree from Texas A&M University and an M.F.A. degree in Acting from Western Illinois University. 

His greatest source of pride, however, is his beautiful wife, Elizabeth, and his amazing kids, Grant and Auben. 

“Love is my Sword, Faith is my Armor & Humor is my Shield.”