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Cara Rawlings serves as Assistant Professor of Movement and Acting at Virginia Tech Department of Theatre and Cinema. She was formerly on faculty at the University of Miami where she taught movement, acting, and stage combat. Ms. Rawlings has worked professionally as a teacher, performer, fight director and dance choreographer in Chicago, St. Louis, Nashville, New York and elsewhere. Ms. Rawlings is a Certified Teacher with The Society of American Fight Directors (SAFD). She is a member of the Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE) and the Association of Theatre Movement Educators (ATME). She serves on the Board of Virginia Theatre Association (VTA) and Advisory Council of Southeastern Theatre Conference (SETC.) Ms. Rawlings holds a Master of Fine Arts in Movement Pedagogy from Virginia Commonwealth University.