Professor Profiles - read all about professors! I bet you didn't know Professor Furrious wrote a book titled Eight Legs Don't Make You A Good Dancer? I bet you didn't know that in the Muggle world, Professor Doran Fenris is a certified stage combat instructor! You know what??? I bet there are a lot of things you didn't know about these teachers. Read their profiles to see what they are like!
Agatha Bumblebone
Eartha Underbottom
Erythmaticus
Doran Fenris
Felinnias Adora
Bernuli Birdbrain
Merthe Underbottom
Fiala Snippitt
Sylvia Gladiolus
Hyacinth Fragonard
Madame Omnipota
Robertus Bobrid
Belladonna Sparks
Baba Ganoosh
Baba Ganeesh
Madame Whoopensocker
Agatha Bumblebone
Professor Agatha Bumblebone, Headmistress
Internationally-recognized Master level Transfigurationist, Professor Agatha Bumblebone has served Frogwarts as Headmistress for the last five years. Under her leadership, the Frogwarts School of Wizardry has expanded its magical curriculum and drawn the positive attention of wizards from many different countries. An expert in Methods of Musical Divination and Expressive Incantation, Bumblebone is a popular guest speaker at annual magical conferences, including the Association for Conjuring Kinesthetics (ACK) and the Benevolent League of Experts in Creative Harmonics (BLECH). Muggles have been known to mistake her for Amy Ressler, artistic director of the Great Midwestern Educational Theatre Company, and Associate Professor of Fine & Performing Arts at the University of Dubuque.
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Professor Eartha Underbottom, Herbology Instructor
Professor Eartha Underbottom, Herbology Instructor, joins us from her recent conference presentation tour to magical schools in Europe and Middle Earth, where she lectured on the status of the Australian Tuberus Drosera, a carnivorous plant. Professor Underbottom has studied various carnivores, but her favorites are cats and plants. She is sometimes joined at Frogwarts by one or the other of her two
identical sisters, Bertha and Mirtha Underbottom, who teach ArithMagic and Hilaritology, respectively. Although rarely seen together, they are seldom far apart! In her Muggle-world persona, she answers to the name Linda Ressler, and is a Manager of Information Technology at Northeast Iowa Community College. She completed her studies in Mathematics at Clarke College, and held government positions in California, Texas, Georgia, Chicago and Washington D.C. before relocating to the Tri-State area ten years ago. Linda serves the local arts community in a variety of ways: She has been a dedicated member of the Dubuque Chorale, is House Manager for the Grand Opera House, and serves on the Board of Directors for the Great Midwestern Educational Theatre Company.
She contributes to Frogwarts as program director as well as instructor.
Erythmaticus (Professor "E")
Professor Erythmaticus (Professor "E") ~ Potions Instructor
Who IS this man???!!! Don’t let his dour visage fool you — he’s really a nice guy, underneath all of that … that … well, you know.
Professor Erythmaticus (or “E” as you may say) comes to Frogwarts with a distinguished alchemical career in Potion Concoction and
Elemental Brew Analysis. A noted and featured lecturer at the Lavoisier Institute for Electrostatistical Circumnavigation, Professor E has published a number of award-winning studies in the field of Involuntary Invisibility. His ground-breaking work, Where Did I Go and How Did I Get There, won last year’s Mind-Bending Genius award.
In his Muggle persona, Professor E goes by the somewhat mysterious and earthly name of Paul Kimball. He has a Bachelor’s Degree from the University of Northern Colorado, and a Master of Science degree from Northern Illinois University. In addition to his role as a Frogwarts educator, he teaches Science at Northeast Iowa Community College in Peosta.
Professor E is also talented and hardworking photographer, who took images of Frogwarts for the GMETC archive. We consider ourselves very lucky to have Professor E, a.k.a. Paul Kimball, on the Frogwarts staff AND a board member for the Great Midwestern Educational Theatre Company, where he serves on the Camps, Classes and Education Committee.
Professor Sylvia Gladiolus
Professor Gladiolus, The Craft
Expert in Fairy Catching, and inventor of the Sparkling Sprite Snare, Gladiolus joins us as one of our revered Craft Witches. Together, the Craft Witches teach magical properties of everyday objects, magical color theory, three-and-four dimensional charm fabrication. The Frogwarts Craft Witches are imbued with magical eyesight, having been trained to see magic where most Magical folk (and muggles) see the everyday or ordinary.
Doran Fenris
Professor Doran Fenris, Defense against Darkness instructor
Professor Doran Fenris, Defense Against the Darkness Instructor, joins us from his recent travels in China where he studied ancient martial arts after completing his studies at Hogwarts. His sense of quiet discipline and connection to the Magic within makes him uniquely suited for instruction in D.A.D.
In his Muggle-world persona, he answers to the name Dustin L. Derry, and is certified as an actor-combatant by the Society of American Fight Directors. He has choreographed fights for live theatrical shows, taught classes in stage combat and served as an itinerant soldier/Knight for the Bristol Renaissance Faire.
He completed his studies in Theatre Arts at National-Louis University in Evanston, Illinois, and currently makes his living as a lighting designer and Master Electrician for dance companies and touring theatrical extravaganzas in the Chicago area.
He has teaches our Frogwarts students basic stage combat and safety skills.
Bernuli Birdbrain
Professor Furrious, Care of Magical Creatures
One of our favorite returning Frogwarts professors this year was Care of Magical Creatures Professor Furrious. To teach at Frogwarts this year, Professor Furrious took a break from leading his world-renowned wizard safari to study magicalichthyology and arachnania. Having identified over 700 types of the dragon and catalogued every known particle of dragon expectorant (charcoal), Professor Furrious has published his award-winning and ground-breaking research on the magical spinning wheel spider. His book, Eight Legs Don’t Make You a Good Dancer, is in it’s 22nd holographic printing.
In his Muggle persona, he is known as Kent Buckrop, who teaches middle school earth science to some very lucky students at Moline Middle School in Moline, IL. He grew up along Turkey Hollow Road near Taylor Ridge, IL. As a young wizard, his favorite pet and companion was a goat who followed him everywhere! He has a Bachelor of Science degree from U of Iowa and Masters from Western Illinois University, both in science education. His earth science classroom is full of pets that jump, crawl, swim, slither, climb, and whistle. Kent is a hands-on teacher so if you want to learn from him you've got to get your hands dirty, overcome your fears, and learn by doing!!