She teaches acting, directing and text analysis courses and mentors students in the Second Stage Program. Ms. Shanahan’s areas of research interest and teaching specialties include director training, women and theatre, and theatre and social change. Her professional directing credits include: The Vagabond and The Turn of the Screw (City Lit Theatre) and Lies and Legends, Wasp, Warrior, The Living, and On Golden Pond (Buffalo Theatre Ensemble). Ms. Shanahan has directed numerous productions at the university level. Favorites include: Ibsen’s Ghosts, A Doll’s House, and Hedda Gabler; Brecht’s Mother Courage; an original adaptation of Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s The Yellow Wallpaper; Loves Labours Lost; The Laramie Project; and Maria Irene Fornes’ Fefu and Her Friends and Abingdon Square.