Program Faculty

Program Director:

Paul Menzer, Director of the MLitt/MFA Program in Shakespeare and Renaissance Literature in Performance; BA, University of Maryland; AM, Georgetown University; PhD, University of Virginia.

Executive Director, the American Shakespeare Center

Ralph Cohen, Professor of English; Executive Director, the American Shakespeare Center; B.A., Dartmouth College; M.A., Ph.D., Duke University; D.H.L. (Hon), St, Lawrence University; D.H.L. (Hon), Georgetown University.

Teaching and Administrative Committee:

Jacquelyn Bessell, Assistant Professor, MLitt/MFA, B.A. University of Birmingham, England (Hons.) English Language and Literature; M.A. English Clark University, Worcester, Massachusetts; Ph.D. Dramaturgy & Dramatic Literature, Clark University Worcester, Massachusetts.
Mary Hill Cole, Professor of History, B.A., James Madison University; M.A., Ph.D., The University of Virginia
Maria Lena Hobson, Associate Professor of Art History, BFA, M.A., Ph.D., Virginia Commonwealth University
Sara James, Professor of Art History, A.B., Mary Baldwin College; M.A., Old Dominion University; Ph.D., The University of Virginia
Colleen Kelly, Instructor, MLitt/MFA program, BS Eastern Michigan University; MA Eastern Michigan University; MFA Ohio University; Certified Teacher, Society of American Fight Directors.
Nancy Krippel, Dean of Adult and Graduate Studies, Associate Professor of English, B.A., Barat College of the Sacred Heart; M.A., Ph.D., Loyola University of Chicago.
Frank Southerington, Professor of English; Director of the M. Litt./MFA program, B.A., University College, London; M.Litt., D.Phil., Magdalen College, Oxford University
Theresa Southerington, Professor of Theatre, B.A., Mary Baldwin College; M.S., Madison College; M.A., MFA, The University of Virginia

Visiting Faculty for Fall 2007

Kate Burke, visiting instructor for REN 555: Voice
M.F.A., Ohio University Professional Actor Training Program; B.A., Theatre and French, St. Mary’s College of The University of Notre Dame

Nancy Garlick, visiting instructor for REN 601: Music
D.M.A. Orchestral Instruments, The Catholic University of America; Certificate from Tanglewood Institute of Boston University; Certificate from Écoles Americaines des Beaux Arts, Fontainebleau, France; M.M. Clarinet Performance, Manhattan School of Music; B.S. Music Education, Crane School of Music, Potsdam College, NY (SUNY)

Roger D. Hall, visiting instructor for REN 682: Playwriting
Ph.D., Ohio State University; M.A., Ohio State University; A.B., Princeton University

Visiting Scholars & Artists

Melissa Aaron, English Department, California Polytechnic State University, Pomona. PhD in English, University of Wisconsin at Madison; specialist in teaching through long-distance technology

Tom Berger, Emeritus Professor of English, St. Lawrence University; analytical bibliographer, textual critic, and editorial theorist, Scholar-in-Residence, MBC MLitt/MFA program

Giles Block, formerly Master of the Word, the New Globe Theatre, London

Mary Katherine Burke, Associate Professor, Head of Voice Program for MFA in Acting, University of Virginia; BA, Notre Dame; MFA, Ohio University

Antonio Fava, third generation Actor, Director, Teacher, Librettist and world expert on Commedia dell’Arte; Director of the International School of the Comic Actor in Reggio Emilia, Italy

Drew Fracher, Artist-in-Residence, Fight Master, Master Teacher; BFA, Virginia Commonwealth University; MFA, Western Illinois University; Past President, Society of American Fight Directors; British Academy of Stage and Screen Combat; British Academy of Dramatic Combat; Nordic Stage Fight Society

John Frick, Professor of Drama, University of Virginia; BA, Colgate University; MA, University of Montana; PhD, New York University; Author; Theatre Historian

Andrew Gurr, Professor of English, Reading University, England; Academic Advisor to Shakespeare’s Globe, London

Roger Hall, Professor of Theatre, James Madison University; AB, Princeton University; MA, PhD, Ohio State University; Playwright

Franklin Hildy, Professor of Theatre and Director of Graduate Studies, University of Maryland

Sandra McClain, Adjunct Associate Professor of Music, Mary Baldwin College; BA, Meredith College; MM, Manhattan School of Music; EdD, Teachers College, Columbia University

Russ McDonald, Historian, Critic, Lecturer, University of London; BA, Duke University; MA, PhD, University of Pennsylvania

Thadd McQuade, Actor-Combatant, Society of American Fight Directors. Trained in voice, mime, and stage movement in Europe and the US

Joseph Martinez, Associate Professor and Chair, Theatre Department, Washington and Lee University; BA, Illinois Western University; Graduate Diploma, Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, London; Fight Master Emeritus, Examiner, and Past President, Society of American Fight Directors

Fred Nelson, Artistic Director and resident Voice Coach with ASC; Member, Actors Equity Association, Screen Actors Guild, American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, and Voice and Speech Trainers Association

Kate Norris, Actor: ASC, Folger, Woolly Mammoth, etc.; Whole Actor Research Project: Approaching dramatic texts through organic movement and impulse; International School for the Comic Actor, Reggio Emilia, Italy; BA in theatre arts, Virginia Tech

Tina Packer, founder and artistic director of Shakespeare and Company; former Associate Actress, Royal Shakespeare Company, and companies in Glasgow, Edinburgh, Leicester, and Coventry

Barbara D. Palmer, President, Board of Directors, REED-USA, Inc (Records of Early English Drama); Professor of English (retired), University of Mary Washington; Scholar-in-Residence, MBC MLitt/MFA

Scott J. Parker, Director, Institute of Outdoor Drama; BA, Guildford College, England; MA, University of North Carolina; MFA, University of Virginia

Jan Powell, Founding Artistic Director of the Tygre’s Heart Shakespeare Company, Portland, Oregon; Past President, Shakespeare Association of America

Todd Ristau, Director of the MFA in playwriting, Hollins University; BA and MFA, University of Iowa

John Paul Scheidler, Actor/Fight Director for ASC. Member, Association of Theatre Movement Educators. Member, Actors Equity Association; Certified Teacher, Society of American Fight Directors; BA, Western Michigan University; MFA, University of Virginia

Tiffany Stern, Lecturer and Shakespearean scholar, University College, Oxford

Patrick Spottiswood, Director of Education, the New Globe, London

Jenny Tiramani, formerly Director of Theatre Design at the New Globe, London; vast costuming career for theatre and opera; extensive research on Early Modern clothing construction/design

Patrick Tucker, Theatre Historian, Co-founder, the Original Shakespeare Company (now disbanded); Director for stage and screen; Teacher and Author

James Volz, Arts Consultant and Professor, California State University at Fullerton; PhD, University of Colorado at Boulder.

William Proctor Williams, Senior Lecturer in English, University of Akron; Professor Emeritus, University of Northern Illinois; MA and PhD, Kansas State University