Diane Brewer is the John David Lutz Distinguished Professor of the Arts at the University of Evansville. Her area of expertise is dramaturgy, with a particular focus on enhancing connections between dramatic texts, production teams, and audience communities. In her role as Director of Honors at UE, she applies this dramaturgical approach to fostering collaboration between the diverse groups of people who contribute to meaningful student learning. She extends this work at a national level as the Coordinator of Dramaturgy and Research Programming for the Kennedy Center National College Theatre Festival.

She has dramaturged upwards of fifty plays, directed university and touring productions, and developed new work in venues such as Tofte Lake Center, The New Harmony Project, the Utah Shakespearean Company Plays in Progress, the Mark Taper Forum’s P.L.A.Y. Her work as a director is a featured subject in Deaf Side Story: Deaf Sharks, Hearing Jets and a Classic American Musical (Gallaudet University Press). Her published articles have appeared in Theatre/Practice, The Dramaturgy Protocol, The Dramaturgy Sourcebook (vols. 4 and 5), Theatre Topics, PAJ: Performing Arts Journal, and HowlRound at the Center for Theater Commons.

She serves as an Artist Panel Reader for the Jewish Plays Project and volunteers for Cypress: The Committee to Promote Respect in Schools.

Dr. Brewer has received such honors as the Arts Educator of the Year Award (Arts Council of Southwestern Indiana), the Dean’s Outstanding Teaching Award (University of Evansville College of Arts and Sciences), and the Diversity at Work Award (Office of Diversity Initiatives, University of Evansville). She holds a BA in Drama from Tufts University and a Ph.D. in theatre from UCLA.

Dr James MacLeod was educated at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland, receiving an MA in 1988 and a PhD in 1993. He taught history and British Studies at Harlaxton from 1994-1999, and since 1999 he has been a member of the History Department at UE, where he teaches courses in European History and the two World Wars. Dr MacLeod is the author of Evansville in World War Two [2015], and The Cartoons of Evansville's Karl Kae Knecht [ 2017]. In 2016 he wrote and co-produced a 2-part documentary on Evansville in World War II for WNIN PBS titled Evansville at War. In 2000, he published a book on 19th-century British religion, The Second Disruption, and has also written over 30 other scholarly publications. He has delivered hundreds of public lectures, has won many awards for his teaching and scholarship, and was UE's Outstanding Teacher in 2009. MacLeod is an active local historian, and serves on the Boards of the Vanderburgh County Historical Society, the Southwestern Indiana Historical Society, and the Evansville Museum of Art, History and Science.

Dr. Mari Plikuhn received her PhD from Purdue University in 2010 in sociology with a graduate minor in gerontology. She also holds graduate degrees in sociology and marriage and family therapy. Her area of research specialization is in family sociology, specifically in the success of first-generation college students. In addition to her research, Dr. Plikuhn teaches a variety of courses in sociology, including: Marriage and Family, Gender and Sexuality, Death and Dying, Environmental Sociology, and Research Methods. Dr. Plikuhn was named the University of Evansville Outstanding Teacher of the Year in 2012, presented the Berger Award for Service in 2016, and awarded the Eykamp Prize for Extraordinary Contributions to the University in 2022. Currently, she is the Director of the Gerontology Center at UE, and serves as the Director of Sociology Programs, coordinating the Sociology and Gerontology majors and the Social and Human Services minor, as well as advising for Pre-Social Work.