Kiley Towne
MFA Directing
Kiley Towne (she/her) is a first-year MFA Directing candidate at Baylor University. She received her Bachelor of Arts in Acting/Directing and her Master of Arts in Theatre at Texas A&M University - Commerce in her hometown of Commerce, Texas. In addition to her theatrical experience, she has over twenty years of dance training and works as a professional dance instructor and choreographer. She is the 2023 Higher Educational Research Conference Scholarly Debut Papers Project winner and Texas A&M University - Commerce Department of Theatre Graduate Student of the Year 2022-2023. She is a proud member of the Texas Educational Theatre Association and the Higher Educational Research Conference where she served as the Graduate Student Representative for two years. Her areas of interest include physical storytelling, experimental theatre, dramatic theory, and gender studies.