Eve Himmelheber:  

Jr. High School friends might remember me from Pep Squad. High School Friends probably will remember drama (the class/club, not the emotion), diving, swimming, and serving as scorekeeper for men's water polo and swim teams. College friends will remember me for acting and musical theatre, and for being a party animal; university friends will remember me as the old lady with a young son who came back to throw off the grading curve. Grad school friends...well, hell, there were only seven of us in the end - if you don't remember me, you might be senile. My favorite moment of grad school? "Pop goes the weasel, and the Goddamn wind!" Life After more than a few "misspent years," I finally got my head on straight. With my (then) 3-year-old son, I enrolled at the University of Arizona and earned a BFA in Musical Theatre. After that, I returned to So. Cal. and got an MFA in Acting at Cal State Fullerton. I started teaching (got a job right away - how lucky is that?!?) in the Theatre Dept. at Cypress College. When I was one year away from the comfort of tenure at Cypress, I decided I wanted to teach at a "conservatory" university - one with professionally geared students; so, on the advice of a friend, I took a job as the Head of Musical Theatre at Iowa State University. I had never seen the midwest, except for from a plane window, and really enjoyed the opportunity to raise my then 14-year-old son in a safer community than O.C. (sorry, but I KNOW the temptations that would have awaited him here). :) After two years of WINTER in Iowa, I got a job closer to home - teaching Acting and Directing at the University of Arizona in Tucson. So, from one extreme of weather to another - nothing half-way about my life choices, eh? Three ye...Expand for more