About Pamela

Who is Dr. Pamela D. Chabora?

Dr. Pamela D. Chabora currently serves as a performer and master teacher with a focus in performance training at Theatre West Virginia and Mountain State University, teaching acting, voice, movement, musical theatre, stage combat and the business of acting. She also serves as coordinator for the Professional Training Program for Interns at Theatre West Virginia. In her thirty years as a specialist in actor training, she has worked at the University of New Hampshire, Susquehanna University, University of Toledo, University of Maine at Fort Kent, and North Dakota State University. In 2004, Chabora was selected as NDSTA’s North Dakota Creative Artist of the Year. She has received eight separate ACTF Meritorious awards from the American College Theatre Festival for Directorial Concept and Ensemble work and was nominated for the Moss Hart award for Children’s Theatre. In addition, Chabora has maintained a parallel career in professional theatre as an actress, singer, and director and choreographer. Her theatrical credits range from Juliet in Star-Crossed Lovers in NYC to Miss Julie from Strindberg’s Miss Julie. In recent years, she portrayed Amanda in The Glass Menagerie at the Tin Roof Theatre, in N.D. and she has served as a company member at Stephen Foster, the musical in KY, portraying Eulalie Shinn in The Music Man, Miss Lynch in Grease, Mrs. Mattie McDowell and Eliza Foster in The Stephen Foster Story. Chabora is currently heading into her fifth season with Theatre West Virginia, playing the roles of Sarah McCoy in Hatfields and McCoys, Delia Morgan in Honey On The Rock, Mayor Matilda in All Shook Up, and other roles in the premiere of Rocket Boys. Chabora’s newest adventure is playing the role of Yente, the matchmaker, in the 2011/2012 national tour of Fiddler on the Roof with Troika Entertainment. Chabora’s most treasured performance venture thus far has been her portrayal of Emily Dickinson in, The Belle Of Amherst which has toured nationally for the past six years, and has just finished a year-long tour with Theatre West Virginia. See http//:emilydickinson.us for more info.

Pam's Performance Resume

Pam's Workshops and Master Classes

Curriculum Vitae, Pam's Complete Resume

Offering Private Acting Coaching and Master Classes in both Fargo, ND and Beckley, WV

 

Perhaps the "Kingdom of Heaven's" changed
I hope the "Children" there
Won't be "new fashioned" when I come
And laugh at me and stare

I hope the Father in the skies
Will lift his little girl
old-fashioned-naughty-everything
Over the stile of "Pearl."

 

pam portrait


 

Contact information

Pamela Chabora
215 Park Dr.
Harwood, ND 58042
info@emilydickinson.us
701-430-1439
Theatre West Virginia office: 304-256-6800
"Chabora is candid and vivacious—a large presence in a petit package." Marie Lucero in Area Women
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