Get to know NHCC's Theatre & Film Instructors.
Kathy Hendrickson
- COURSES: Movement & Voice, Acting I
- Director for NHCC Mainstage Theater Productions
Barbara Wiener
Film Studies
Barbara Wiener is a documentary filmmaker with over 3 decades of experience. She specializes in cultural, art and social justice topics and has told visual stories on topics ranging from a revolutionary coup in The Gambia to a service dog training program in a Wisconsin prison to an expansive documentary about the Dakota Wacipi: Powow. After 14 years as a documentary producer/director with public television, she founded TVbyGIRLS and worked with teens to create girl leadership and social justice films. She is the recipient of 6 Emmy awards, A Ciné Golden Eagle for her documentary Ida’s Story and many international screenings including those at the Women of Vision festival, the Sundance Film Festival and the BBC-channel four. Barbara also works as a teaching artist with students 55+ to explore film and creativity and was a recent speaker with Women Repair the World. She is currently working on a project about a community choir in the time of Covid called Singing Kindness and a documentary about incarcerated artists at Stillwater Prison with the Art from the Inside project. She loves teaching the film courses at NHCC because her students are so interesting.