Milan Dragicevich
miland@theater.umass.edu

Graduate Program Director
Assistant Professor: Acting
A.A., Pasadena City College, B.A., University of California at Los Angeles, M.F.A., Performing Arts-Theater, University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee.

Milan has performed with numerous nationally recognized regional theater companies, including the Hartford Stage, the Oregon Shakespearean Festival in Ashland, the Pasadena Playhouse, as well as a ten-year stint with the Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum in Los Angeles, where he earned a L.A. Dramalogue Critics Acting Award for his portrayal of Richard III.  He served as a Visiting Professor at the UCLA School of Theater, Film, and Television; taught at the University of Delaware’s Professional Theater Training Program, and the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. 

He is interested in wakeful, vibrant, compelling theater, where the spoken word intersects with dynamic physicality and movement, bold design, and an arresting story.   He is particularly interested in the reawakening of high-voltage language on stage, in the exciting ways that actors and directors can harness supercharged verbal tools to create character and energize audience listening and participation.  Milan is currently writing a book on the contemporary actor’s use of “electric” language in the theater.