My City February 2023

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PHOTOS BY SCOT ORSER

THIS MONTH, HALEY WILL DIRECT HER UM-FLINT STUDENTS IN “THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG IN THE NIGHTTIME. ” ▶

AN ASSOCIATE ARTIST AT THE FLINT REP, HALEY PLAYED “THE MUTE” IN THEIR 2022 PRODUCTION OF “THE FANTASTICKS. ” ▶

up and ended up winning the scholar ship.” She graduated from UM-Flint with her degree and teaching certif icate, and went on to the University of Texas at Austin where she earned her Master of Fine Arts degree. In 2005, after years of hunting acting jobs in Seattle, she made her way back to Flint. “I was very depressed in Seattle,” she remem bers. “I had a year’s worth of work as an actor lined up when I made the decision to come home. I wasn’t needed there. I was needed here.” It was a decision that changed Haley’s life and she never looked back. Today, Haley is Associate Professor of Theatre at UM-Flint and contin ues to challenge herself with new roles. She values her time as actor in productions for the Michigan Shake speare Festival and the Flint Rep,

for the full-ride drama scholarship at UM-Flint and when I told him I was not, he got up, slammed his office door as dramatically as possible and made me promise that I would do it,” she states. “I did it just to shut him HALEY AS “AMANDA” IN “THE GLASS MENAGERIE” WITH THE FLINT REP IN 2019 AND AS A STUDENT AT FLINT CENTRAL. ▶

with healing and the human body,” she recalls. “I decided that I wanted to be a nurse.” She intended to at tend Northern Michigan University until Martin Jennings, her perform ing arts teacher, turned on the drama. “He asked if I was going to audition

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