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Faculty
Dina Amin, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Arabic Cultural Studies and Theater
ON LEAVE
(610) 519-8890
Email: dina.amin | Dina Amin, M.F.A., Ph.D. - Dina Amin is assistant professor of Arab Literature & Culture and Theatre. She holds a Ph.D. in Dramatic Literature from the University of Pennsylvania and an M.F.A. in Directing from Carnegie Mellon University. She completed graduate and undergraduate studies at the American University in Cairo majoring in English and Comparative Literature. She was singled out nationwide to receive an ITT Scholarship from the Fulbright Commission in Egypt to study theater in the U.S. At Carnegie Mellon University Dr. Amin was the recipient of the West Coast Drama Clan Award (in honor of William Ball) for best director. She directs in the U.S. and Egypt, in Arabic and English. Her most recent production, Suq al-Hamir (The Donkey Market), in 2005 was the first ever Arab play in the Arabic language at Georgetown University. Her staging of a one-woman show, Al-Meshwar al-Akhir (The Last Walk), received an award of excellence in the Amman Festival for Free Theater in Jordan in 2000. Dr. Amin has published in major academic journals and has translated a number of Arabic plays into English; she received an award from the Association of American Teachers of Arabic for her translation of al-Shakhs (The Person) by Egyptian playwright Alfred Farag. |
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Earl Bader, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
(610) 519-4652
Email: earl.bader | Earl Bader, Ph.D. - is on "permanent loan " from the English department, teaching the crucial core courses in Classic and Modern Dramatic Vision and Form. This challenging two-semester course, universally feared and respected by the graduate students, investigates the building blocks of theatre - style, dramatic form, criticism - through analysis of the theatre canon. |
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Rev. Richard G. Cannuli, O.S.A., Ph.D.
(610) 519-4760
Email: richard.cannuli | Rev. Richard G. Cannuli, O.S.A., M.F.A. - is chairperson of the theatre department and a full professor. From 1987 to 1998, he was chairperson of the department of art and art history; the art department was subsequently integrated into the theatre department. Father Cannuli received his M.F.A. from Pratt Institute and his B.F.A. from Villanova University. He works in metals, ceramics, oil paintings, acrylic painting, watercolor, fabric works, and sculpture. His personal collection of works includes thousands of Liturgical vestments, watercolors, and prints. For the last twenty years, he has studied fifteenth-century Russian Icon tempera painting with Master Iconographer Vladislav Andrejev and currently teaches Icon painting at Villanova. Father Cannuli is director of the Villanova University Art Gallery and curator of the university's voluminous art collection. |
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David Cregan O.S.A., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Theater
(610) 519-8041
Email: david.cregan | Rev. David Cregan, O.S.A., Ph.D. - is an assistant professor in the theatre department and also teaches in the core humanities and the department of English. He spent four years working as a professional actor in New York City, where he did three national tours (one in Europe), an off-Broadway production with the Light Opera of Manhattan, and various regional work around the country. He earned his doctorate from the Samuel Beckett School of Drama at Trinity College in Ireland. His research is largely in the area of contemporary Irish theatre and Irish paradigms of dramatic performance. He has published articles on the plays of Frank McGuiness in Modern Drama (Winter 2004), and Australasian Drama Studies (October 2003), as well as in New Voices in Irish Criticism 5. He has a chapter in a book on the Irish author Sebastian Barry, Out of History, published in the spring of 2005. |
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Michael Hollinger
(610) 519-6886
Email: michael.hollinger | Michael Hollinger, M.A. - is a 1989 graduate of Villanova 's M.A. theatre program and an award-winning playwright who teaches playwriting, songwriting, and solo performance. He is the author of six produced full-length plays -- OPUS, TOOTH AND CLAW, RED HERRING, TINY ISLAND, INCORRUPTIBLE and AN EMPTY PLATE IN THE CAFE DU GRAND BOEUF -- all of which premiered at Philadelphia's Arden Theatre Company and which have together been produced around the country, in New York City, and abroad. Hollinger has won many awards, including the Roger L. Stevens Award from the Kennedy Center's Fund for New American Plays, a Mid-Atlantic Emmy Award, the Frederick Loewe Award for Musical Theatre, two Barrymore Awards for Outstanding New Play, and fellowships from the Independence Foundation, MidAtlantic Arts Foundation, and Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. |
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Shawn Kairschner
(610) 519-8949
Email: shawn.kairschner | Shawn Kairschner, Ph.D. - is an assistant professor who teaches dramaturgy and acting. He has acted and directed in numerous venues in the United States and in England, including a three-year stint as the Artistic Director of the Sideway Theater Company in Berkeley, California, for whom he directed or produced a variety of productions from Shakespeare to original, one-person shows. Recent directorial credits include The Caucasian Chalk Circle in Williamstown, MA, as well as Equus, A Midsummer Night 's Dream, and a musical adaptation of Christina Rossetti 's Goblin Market at Stanford University, where he received his Ph.D. As an actor, he was in the first American cast to appear onstage at the Globe Theatre in Southwark, London; most recently, he played Petruchio in Taming of the Shrew at the Winedale Shakespeare Festival. His scholarly work on nineteenth-century European acting technique has been featured in Performance Journal and will be included in a forthcoming collection published by the University of Toronto Press. |
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Harriet Power
(610) 519-7786
Email: harriet.power | Harriet Power, M.F.A. - is an associate professor and an award-winning professional director. She is the Graduate Theatre Studies Program Director, teaches directing, Creativity in Theatre, and acting, and supervises mainstage production dramaturgy. Recent directing credits include two works by Michael Hollinger: A Wonderful Noise (co-authored with Vance Lemkuhl) in a workshop production at New Dramatists, and Incorruptible (Villanova). Overseas, she directed Dinner With Friends in Rome, Italy at Teatro L 'Arciliuto, coproduced by The English Theatre of Rome and the American Embassy. She and playwright Donald Margulies (speaking via satellite) addressed an arts and culture consortium at the Embassy, which brought together Italian theatre artists and scholars interested in contemporary American drama. She also directed Dorothy Louise 's LoveKnot in Galway, Ireland for the International Women Playwrights Festival and Wole Soyinka 's The Strong Breed in Liege, Belgium. Recent regional directing credits: Syncopation (Act II Playhouse), two world premieres at InterAct Theatre - Reinventing Eden and Missing Link (Barrymore nomination, Outstanding New Play), Sebastian Barry 's Fred and Jane (Villanova), Measure for Measure (Philadelphia Shakespeare Festival; Barrymore nomination, Outstanding Direction of a Play). From 1995-1998, as Artistic Director of Venture Theatre, Philadelphia 's professional culturally diverse theatre, Power produced two world premieres and directed A Moon for the Misbegotten (Barrymore nomination, Outstanding Direction), Fires in the Mirror, and Mad Forest (Best Director, Philadelphia Inquirer). She won the 1997 Barrymore award for Outstanding Direction of a Play with colleague James J. Christy for Angels in America: Perestroika (Villanova). Publications include "Reimagining the Other " in Dramaturgy in American Theatre: A Sourcebook. Nationally, she has worked extensively with new plays and playwrights at New Dramatists, Bay Area Playwrights Festival, West Coast Playwrights, and Iowa Playwrights Festival. She received her M.F.A. in Directing from the University of Iowa. |
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Peter Reynolds
(xxx) xxx-xxxx
Email: peter.reynolds | Peter Reynolds, M.F.A. - is an assistant professor in the theatre department. Previously, he was an adjunct professor of directing and musical theatre at Temple University where he directed productions of Ragtime, Company, Pericles, Shakin ' the Mess Outta Misery and Beautiful Thing. Peter was also an adjunct instructor at Rowan University and Burlington County College in New Jersey. Peter has directed for Philadelphia Theatre Company in their collaborations with Philadelphia Young Playwrights and was Artistic Coordinator for the Philadelphia Young Playwrights ' Saturday Series. He spent two seasons with Lenape Regional Performing Arts Center in New Jersey where he assisted the Producing Artistic Director. Peter hails from the Midwest and for six years served as Artistic Director of HealthWorks Theatre-Chicago, winner of the 2000 Award of Excellence in Prevention Education presented by Mayor Richard Daley as well as the 2001 Hall of Fame After Dark Award. Regionally, Peter has worked at Oregon Shakespeare Festival, HotCity Theatre-St. Louis, Arrow Rock Lyceum Theatre, Chicago Dramatists, Theatre Building Chicago, Apollo Theatre-Chicago, City of Maples Repertory, Face to Face Productions, Lillian Russell Theatre, and on the stages of the University of Illinois-Urbana/Champaign and Southern Illinois University. He received his M.F.A. in directing from Temple University. www.peterrreynolds.com |
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Joanna Rotte
(610) 519-4761
Email: joanna.rotte | Joanna Rotté, Ph.D. - is a writer, actor, director, and professor teaching script analysis and sound and movement. For Villanova, she has directed Tennessee Williams ' Summer and Smoke, Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot and Endgame, David Rabe's In the Boom Boom Room, Tina Howe's The Art of Dining, and Sam Shepard's True West and The Tooth of Crime, as well as numerous works by Caryl Churchill, including Light Shining in Buckinghamshire, Top Girls, Vinegar Tom, Owners, Fen, and Ice Cream. Her own plays, Prajna, Death of the Father, and Art Talk, have been featured presentations of the Philadelphia Fringe Festival. Dr. Rotté is the author of Scene Change (A Theatre Diary: Prague, Moscow, Leningrad) and Acting With Adler, and she writes a quarterly column for the New York-based newspaper, Soul of the American Actor. |
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Elisa Loprete Hibbs
(610) 519-4897
Email: elisa.hibbs | Business/Production Manager |
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Ward VanHaute
Properties Master
(610) 519-7324
Email: ward.vanhaute | Properties Master |
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Margaret Devine
(610) 519-7454
Email: margaret.devine | Director of Marketing & P.R. |
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