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Theatre Arts Faculty Listing
Barbara Adrian
Professor of Theatre Arts
email
212-774-0711
Degrees
B.A., James Madison University
M.F.A., Brooklyn College of The City University of New York
C.M.A. Laban/Bartenieff Institute of Movement Studies
Recent Publications:
Actor Training the Laban Way: An Integrated Approach to Voice, Speech, and Movement. New York: Allworth Press, November 2008.
Recent Presentations/Productions:
Voice and Speech Coach, Major Barbara by Bernard Shaw. Marymount Manhattan College: Director David Mold, October 2008.
“Rudolph Laban’s Concept of Shape Applied to Voice, Speech, and Movement.” VASTA Conference 2008: Your Most Sweet Voices: Coaching Shakespeare. Ashland: Oregon, August 2008. Peer reviewed.
“Integrated Voice, Speech, and Movement Explorations Supported by Laban Movement Analysis.” Laban Konferenz 2008: Connecting Past/Present/Future. EuroLab, Akademie der Künste: Berlin, October 2008.
“Exploring Expressive Use of Voice and Speech through Laban’s Lens.” LIMS’ International Symposium: Beyond Body Language International Symposium. Laban Institute of Movement Studies: NYC, November, 2008.
John Basil
Assistant Professor of Theatre Arts
email
212-774-4874
Degrees
B.S., Temple University
M.F.A., Temple University
John Basil founded the American Globe Theatre in New York City in 1988, and since then has served as its Producing Artistic Director and regularly teaches its Playing Shakespeare course. John has taught Shakespeare and acting at Rutgers University, C.W. Post Long Island University, Penn State University, Asolo Conservatory, Bradley University, University of Colorado, University of Wyoming, and Columbia Teachers College. In addition he has taught Shakespeare workshops at the high school level and for the NYC Arts Connection's outreach program, Children of Hope. He has directed for the American Globe Theatre, Riverside Shakespeare Company, Ensemble Studio Theatre and the Sarasota Opera, in addition to guest artist positions at several universities. John is the author of Will Power, How to Act Shakespeare in 21 Days (Applause, 2006).
Recent Presentations/Productions:
Director: Henry V by William Shakespeare. American Globe Theatre: Manhattan. March & April 2009.
Elizabeth Bourgeois
email
212-774-0894
Kevin Connell
Professor of Theatre Arts
email
212-774-0713
Degrees
B.F.A., The Ohio State University
M.F.A., University of California, San Diego
KEVIN CONNELL is currently a Professor of Theatre Arts at Marymount Manhattan College, where he serves as the President of the Faculty Council and Coordinator of Junior and Senior Acting. In the spring of 2008, he served as the College’s Acting Assistant Dean of Academic Affairs. Directing credits include: Lawrence Dukore and Jim Campodonico’s new musical Virgin Territory (currently in development, NYC); Christopher Durang's Baby with the Bathwater (2007) for Ground UP Productions (NYC); Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliette (2007) for the Collective Company (NYC); Oscar Wilde’s An Ideal Husband (2010), Marivaux’s The Triumph of Love (2009), Constance Cox’s adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime (2005) and Richard Brinsley Sheridan’s The Rivals (2004) at the National Black Theatre/Take Wing and Soar Productions (NYC); J.B. Priestley’s Time and the Conways (2011), Oliver Goldsmith's She Stoops to Conquer (2009), Michael John LaChiusa's musical Hello Again (2008), Tennessee Williams' Approaching the End of a Summer and Edward Albee's Finding the Sun (2007), A.A. Milne’s The Ugly Duckling (2006), an adaptation of Shakespeare’s Richard II titled The Holy Terror (2005), James Valcq and Fred Alley's musical The Spitfire Grill (2003), Seneca’s Trojan Women (2002), Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest (2001) and Tony Kushner’s Reverse Transcription (2000) all at Marymount Manhattan College. He performed in the play Temporarily Yours, (also playwright) at the 2001 Edinburgh Fringe Festival (Scotland). Additionally, Kevin has performed in productions at The National Theatre (London), La Jolla Playhouse (San Diego, CA), Steppenwolf Theatre Company (Chicago, IL), TheatreWorks USA (NYC/Tour), The Wayside Theatre (Winchester, VA), TheatreFest, NJ (Montclair, NJ) and Pinewood Film Studios (London), among other credits. Kevin is co-adapting the stage version of Kathryn Harrison’s novel Exposure and his play The Holy Terror is published by Stage Voices Publishing (ASIN: B002VBWFFY). He attended The Ohio State University (B.F.A.) and the University of California, San Diego (M.F.A.).
Robert Dutiel
Associate Professor of Theatre Arts
email
212-774-0763
Degrees
B.S., University of Nebraska - Lincoln
M.F.A., University of Nebraska - Lincoln
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Mary Fleischer
Professor of Theatre Arts
Chair, Theatre Arts Department
email
212-774-0761
Degrees
B.A., The State University of New York, College at Purchase
M.A., Hunter College of The City University of New York
Ph.D., The Graduate School and University Center, The City University of New York
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Recent Publications:
Fleischer, Mary. “D’Annunzio et Rubinstein: La Pisanelle, ou La Mort parfumée.” Ida Rubinstein: une utopie de la synthèse des arts à l’épreuve de la scène. Ed. and trans. Pascal Lécroart. Besançon: Presses Universitaires de Franche-Comté. 2008: 173-186.
David Mold
Associate Professor of Theatre Arts
Chair of the Division of Fine and Performing Arts
Director of Theatre Admissions
email
212-774-0764
Degrees
B.F.A., Boston University
M.F.A., The Theatre School, DePaul University
In New York, Professor Mold has been the stage director for Hamlet and Macbeth at the American Globe Theatre for the What Makes Shakespeare Great lecture/reading series. For the annual 15-Minute Play Festival produced by the Turnip Theatre and American Globe he has directed the new play Action & Reaction by Jo-el Doty. As a stage director, he has collaborated with the opera composer Brad Detrick on The Yellow Star: A Little Light Dispels Great Darkness, for the world premiere staged concert version at The Museum of Jewish Heritage and for a second concert production for the Driscoll Professorship in Jewish-Catholic Studies at Iona College, Christopher J. Murphy Auditorium. Other New York credits include new plays by Louise Rozett: Break for On the Leesh Productions and Social Progress at Naked Angels; the cabaret performer Carol Alston-Abercrombie in 66% Sondheim, Truly Content and A Christmas “Carol,” all at the Triad Theatre; Blessing’s Down the Road for Third Eye Repertory and Kafka’s Report to an Academy, co-directed with Gunter Meisner at the Gene Frankel Theatre. Professor Mold is the former artistic director of New Theatre, a theatre in Boston dedicated to the development of new American plays. In Boston, he also directed for the Open Door Theatre, the Alley Theatre, the New Ehrlich Theatre, and was a co-founder and co-artistic director of The Theatre Company, Inc. In Chicago, he directed at DePaul University and worked as a dramaturg with the Bailiwick Repertory and the Goodman Theatre. In Indianapolis, Professor Mold directed plays at Edyvean Repertory and Butler University. Stage directing credits include plays by Barrie Keefe, Vaclav Havel, Maria Irene Fornes, Eugene O’Neill, Sam Shepard, and August Strindberg, as well as the opera Dido and Aeneas, Sondheim's A Little Night Music and the world premiere of the musical Woman King. Professor Mold has worked extensively in new play development and has directed premiere performances of Han't, Double Vision, Daylight in Exile, St. Andrew's Eve, Hang Tough and Seven Day Wonder. MMC stage directing credits include Bogosian’s suburbia, Garcia Lorca's The House of Bernarda Alba, The Seagull by Chekhov, Miller’s The Crucible, Paul Green and Richard Wright’s Native Son: The Biography of a Young American (an adaptation of Wright’s novel), John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath adapted by Frank Galati, George Bernard Shaw’s Major Barbara, and Geography of a Horse Dreamer by Sam Shepard. In addition, each spring he directs the department’s Senior Scene & Monologue Showcase. Professor Mold has taught drama and acting in the Special Studies program at the renowned Chautauqua Institution, acting and directing at Jordan College of Fine Arts at Butler University, dramatic literature at DePaul University, acting at American Musical and Dramatic Academy, the Commonwealth School, and the New Ehrlich Theatre Conservatory in Boston where he was the Education Director. He has conducted master classes and workshops on auditioning for college theatre programs in Chicago, Dallas, Orland, San Francisco and West Palm Beach, and lectured on the topic for Denise Simon’s Actors Workshop and Brooklyn Arts Exchange. His is views and advice on auditioning for college theatre programs, directing, and preparing to be a professional actor have been published in The New York Times, Stage Directions magazine, BackStage, and in the publications Tackling College Admissions: Sanity + Strategy = Success and I GOT IN! The Ultimate COLLEGE AUDITION GUIDE for ACTING and MUSICAL THEATRE. Professor Mold served as the first elected vice president of the College’s Faculty Council from 2007-2010.
Recent Presentations/Productions:
Director, Marymount Manhattan College Senior Showcase: Scenes & Monologues 2009. Abingdon Theatre Complex, 312 West 36th Street, New York, NY. May 13 - 14, 2009.
Stage Director, The Yellow Star: A Little Light Dispels Great Darkness, concert version of opera written and composed by Bradley Detrick, presented by the Driscoll Professorship in Jewish-Catholic Studies: Iona College, Christopher J. Murphy Auditorium. New Rochelle, NY. October 28, 2008.
Director, Major Barbara by George Bernard Shaw. The Theresa Lang Theatre. Marymount Manhattan College. October 15 - 19, 2008.
Coordinator and moderator for Senior Seminars presented for graduating MMC seniors in Theatre Arts. Seminars focus on the business of the acting profession: Headshots & Resumes with photographer Jeremy Folmer. February 13, 2009; Actors Equity Association with Tom Miller, Education Outreach Coordinator of AEA. March 13, 2009; MMC Theatre Arts Alumni Panel. March 20, 2009; Agents, Managers & Casting Directors with Lisa Gold of Actors Connection. March 27, 2009; and Screen Actors Guild with Bernadine Goldberg: Member Education, SAG. April 3, 2009.
Jeff Morrison
Assistant Professor of Theatre Arts
email
212-517-0405
Degrees
B.A. University of Pennsylvania
M.F.A. University of Wisconsin at Madison
Jeff Morrison comes to us most recently from the American Repertory Theatre’s Institute for Advanced Theatre training at Harvard University, where he teaches the first 2 months of the M.F.A. voice curriculum during the summer. For the last five years, he served on the theatre faculty of San Diego State University, where he taught vocal production and text work, movement and body awareness, and collaborative approaches to making new theatre. He has also taught at the Moscow Art Theatre, the Old Globe School in San Diego, Tufts University, and the University of Northern Iowa. He received his BA in Theatre and Folklore from the University of Pennsylvania (1992); his M.F.A. in Acting from University of Wisconsin, Madison, (1997); and is a Certified Associate Teacher of Fitzmaurice Voicework (2000). He recently received a $25,000 grant from the Trust for Mutual Understanding to fund an international teaching exchange between Russian and American teachers of voice for the theatre, and will be traveling to Moscow in October to finish that project. He has been working as an experimental theatre artist for over ten years, first as a student of Roberta Carreri of the Odin Teatret, and has created or collaborated in new works that have appeared in New York, Philadelphia, Boston, Seattle, San Diego, St. Louis, Madison, and Cleveland.
Richard Niles
Professor of Theatre Arts
email
212-774-4872
Degrees
B.F.A, NYU Tisch School of the Arts
M.F.A., Brooklyn College of the City University of New York
Ph.D., The Graduate School and University Center, The City University of New York
Ellen Orenstein
Associate Professor of Theatre Arts
email
212-774-4873
Degrees
B.A., Wesleyan University
M.F.A., University of Washington
Recent Publications:
Defying Gravity: Physics, Art and Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard.” (book chapter), Stages to Performance. Scheduled release Summer-Fall 2009.
Recent Presentations/Productions:
Director, Surfacing (staged reading). Planet Connections Theatre Festivity. New York, NY. June 2009.
Director, Our Town. The Theresa Lang Theatre: Marymount Manhattan College. New York, NY. November 2008.
Raymond Recht
Professor of Theatre Arts
email
212-774-0762
Degrees
B.F.A. Carnegie Mellon University
M.F.A. Yale University
Mark Ringer
Professor of Theatre Arts
email
212-774-0712
Degrees
B.A., University of California, Los Angeles
M.F.A., University of California, Los Angeles
Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara
Dr. Ringer teaches Theater History, Shakespeare, Opera, Ancient Greek Drama and Culture, Dramaturgy, as well as other subjects. He has worked as a professional dramaturg, actor, and director throughout the USA and Europe. His first book Electra and the Empty Urn: Metatheater and Role Playing in Sophocles was published by the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. His second and third books, "Opera"s First Master: The Musical Dramas of Claudio Monteverdi" and "Schubert's Theatre of Song" were published by Amadeus Press. He is currently working on a fourth book, "The Humanist Achievement of Ancient Greek Theatre: Free Will, Necessity, and the State". His translation/adaptation of the German Classic, Lessing's "Nathan the Wise" wil be performed at Hunter College, CUNY this winter.
Recent Publications:
Schubert’s Theater of Song. New York, NY: Amadeus Press. 2009.
Recent Presentations/Productions:
Gloucester” in King Lear. National Black Theatre. Take Wings and Soar Productions. New York, NY. February, 2009.
Dramaturgy for above production.
Patricia Simon
Associate Professor of Theatre Arts
email
212-774-0714
Degrees
B.F.A. Boston Conservatory of Music
M.F.A. Florida Atlantic University
Jill Stevenson
Associate Professor of Theatre Arts
email
212-517-0617
Degrees
B.S. Valparaiso University (1997)
Ph.D. The Graduate Center, City University of New York (2006)
Jill Stevenson is an Associate Professor of Theatre Arts. She is the author of Performance, Cognitive Theory, and Devotional Culture: Sensual Piety in Late Medieval York (Palgrave, 2010) and co-editor of Thresholds of Medieval Visual Culture: Liminal Spaces (Boydell and Brewer, 2012). She has published articles in various journals and collections, with her most recent article, “Embodying Sacred History: Performing Creationism for Believers,” appearing in the Spring 2012 issue of TDR: The Drama Review. Her next book, Sensational Devotion: Evangelical Performance in 21st-Century America, will be published by the University of Michigan Press this coming spring (2013). Jill is active in various professional organizations, regularly organizing sessions and delivering conference papers. She is the Focus Group Representative for the Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE)’s Religion and Theatre Focus Group, and served on ATHE’s 2011 and 2012 Conference Planning Committees. She chairs the Editorial Board of the peer-reviewed journal Research On Medieval and Renaissance Drama, and was recently elected to serve on the Executive Council of the American Society for Theatre Research (ASTR) from 2012-2015. Jill teaches courses in theatre history, including the two-semester Theatre History sequence and various upper-level seminars on topics such as Japanese Theatre and Medieval Performance. She is enthusiastic about introducing students to a contextualized theatre history and helping them to explore how theatre participates in larger political, social, and cultural economies. She also teaches regularly in the college’s first-year Writing Seminar program. During the 2012-13 academic year, Jill will serve as interim co-director of MMC’s Center for Teaching Innovation and Excellence. Performance, Cognitive Theory, and Devotional Culture: Sensual Piety in Late Medieval York (Palgrave, 2010). Thresholds of Medieval Visual Culture: Liminal Spaces (Boydell & Brewer, 2012).
Recent Publications:
Performance, Cognitive Theory, and Devotional Culture: Sensual Piety in Late Medieval York. Cognitive Studies in Literature and Performance Series. New York: Palgrave, 2010.
Review of Visualizing Medieval Performance: Perspectives, Histories, Contexts, ed. Elina Gertsman (Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2008) Theatre Journal 61, no. 3 (October 2009): 491-2.
Review of Carol Symes, A Common Stage: Theater and Public Life in Medieval Arras. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2007. Theatre Journal 60.3 (2008): 513-4.
Forthcoming Publications:
“Marymount Manhattan College’s Theatre Archives and Active Learning,” co-authored with Mary Elizabeth Brown, Metropolitan Archivist 16, no. 2 (Summer 2010), forthcoming.
“Review of Sarah Ruhl’s Passion Play,” Ecumenica: A Journal of Theatre and Performance 3, no. 2 (Fall 2010), forthcoming.
Review of Penny Granger, The N-Town Play: Drama and Liturgy in Medieval East Anglia (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2009), European Medieval Drama 15 (2011): forthcoming.
Review of “Oberammergau Passion Play 2010: Performance and Context,” Material Religion: The Journal of Objects, Art, and Belief 7, no. 2 (July 2011), forthcoming.
“Embodied Enchantments: Cognitive Theory and the York Mystery Plays,” in Reflections on the York Mystery Plays, ed. Margaret Rogerson (under contract with York Medieval Press; projected publication, 2011).
“Rhythmic Liturgy, Embodiment, and Female Authority in Barking’s Easter Plays,” Barking Abbey: Authorship and Authority, eds. Jennifer Brown and Donna Bussell (under contract with Boydell & Brewer; projected publication, 2011).
Recent Presentations/Productions:
Co-Organizer and Participant, working session entitled “Contaminating Bodies: The Threat of Women on Performative Display,” the American Society for Theatre Research 2010 Conference, Seattle, November 2010.
“Animating Medieval Material Culture with Cognitive Theory,” International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, May 2010.
“Embodying Female Authority and Community in the Barking Easter Plays,” The Modern Language Association Convention, December 2009 (Organized session).
“Embodying Sacred History: The Creation Museum as Performance,” The Association for Theatre in Higher Education 2009 Conference, New York, August 2009 (Organized session).
“‘Living in the Blend’ of Medieval Performance: Then and Now,” International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, May 2009 (Organized session).
“Performance and Cognitive Enchantment,” Symposium on Theatre and Cognitive Studies, University of Pittsburgh, February 27-March 1, 2009.
“Cognitive Crossings between Body and Mind: How Do We Really See Theatre?” 2008 Crossing Borders Conference at the Bedford Hills Correctional Facility, New York, October 2008.
“Cognitive Theory, Sensual Performance, and Rhythmic Texts,” International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, May 2008.
Haila Strauss
Associate Professor of Dance
email
212-774-4871
Degrees
B.A., Sarah Lawrence College
M.A., Teachers College, Columbia University
Recent Presentations/Productions:
Choreographer, Major Barbara. The Theresa Lang Theatre. October 2008.
Choreographer, Our Town. The Theresa Lang Theatre. November 2008.
Choreographer, She Stoops to Conquer. The Theresa Lang Theatre. April 2009.
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