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Carol Bellini-Sharp
Associate Professor of Theater at Hamilton College, the dominant figure in campus theater production during the 1981–1987 era. She directed multiple major productions each year, including Brecht’s The Threepenny Opera (spring 1981) and several other works staged at Minor Theater. In a widely-cited 1982 interview with the Spectator she argued that theater at Hamilton was a “strong and unique program” unfairly stigmatized as merely extracurricular, and that a “tide of conservatism” among students was reducing attendance at campus productions. She was instrumental in discussions about constructing a new performing arts center. She also organized a senior dance project (1982) and served on college committees, including a 1981 academic colloquium on the arts.