Staff

Dean Adams is presently a Professor in the Department of Theatre and Senior Associate Dean of Performing Arts at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.  From 1989 to 2011, he was the Founding Artistic Director of the Connecticut Theater Festival in Simsbury, Connecticut. As a producer and director, Dean has presented or co-produced productions with […]

Christina Beam is the Costume Lab Manager at UNC Charlotte. Christina holds an MFA in Costume Design from UMass Amherst, having completed an assistantship that included rigorous work in costume construction. She also works as a freelance Costume Designer, having designed productions for Shakespeare & Company (Lenox, MA), Chester Theatre Company (Chester, MA), The Hartt […]

Katia Beckett is the Administrative Support Associate in the Department of Art & Art history. She recently completed the Community College Leadership Program at UNCW and has three years experience working as administrative assistant at Queen City STEM School. She also has six years experience working in the Television and Documentary Film Industry as an executive producer and program director. Additionally, […]

Matt Belcher is Assistant Director of Galleries in the College of Arts + Architecture at UNC Charlotte. A native of Florida, Matt comes to UNC Charlotte from the Polk Museum of Art, where he worked for more than a decade managing print, web, and exhibition design. During his career, Matt has installed artwork ranging from […]

Although Margie Briggs majored in psychology with a minor in writing at Columbia College in Columbia, SC, her true calling in life is technology and IT support. She has been certified eight years as an Apple hardware and software technician and is also two years HP and Dell hardware certified. She was a ‘genius’ with Apple for more than six years and then ventured to […]

Alex Cabral serves as the Director of Fabrication for the School of Architecture at UNC Charlotte, overseeing five distinct laboratory spaces in two campus locations.  Prior to arriving at UNC Charlotte, Alex led the Fabrication Lab at Wentworth Institute of Technology (Boston, MA).  Under his leadership, from 2011 to early 2015, Alex doubled the size […]