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Professor and Department Chair: Ann
Marie Costa
Professor: Joseph T. Gardner
Associate Professor: Sharon Green
Visiting Assistant Professor: Scott Ripley
Visiting Assistant Professor: Mark Sutch
Technical Director/Lighting Designer: J. Ronnie Higdon
Administrative Assistant: Claudia Shinn
Fellow: Jack Herlong
Professor Emeritus: Jack Beasley
Professor Emerita: Bonnie McAlister
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 Professor:
Ann Marie Costa
ancosta@davidson.edu
B.F.A. Boston Conservatory of Music
M.F.A., Directing, University of Pittsburgh
Ann Marie Costa is the chair of the Theatre Department
at Davidson College. Prior to arriving in Davidson in 1994, she
was head of the Acting-Directing Program in the Performing Arts
center in Washington University.
She has directed professionally at The Charlotte Repertory Theatre,
Mill Mountain Theatre (Roanoke), Victory Gardens (Chicago), Theatre
Project (St. Louis) and The Berkshire Theatre Festival. Some of
her favorite professional directing credits include: The Beauty
Queen of Leenane and Sister Calling My Name at the
Charlotte Rep., Seascapes at Mill Mountain, and Mrs.
Klein at Victory Gardens.
Ms. Costa is an active member of the Association for Theatre
in Higher Education (ATHE). She served on ATHE’s Governing
Council from 1994-2001 with the following roles: ATHE Strategic
Planning Committee Chair, the Vice-President of Advocacy, the
Rationales Task Force Chair, and Directing Focus Group Representative.
At Davidson her directing highlights include: Cabaret, Angels
in America: Part I, Picasso at the Lapin Agile, The Heidi Chronicles,
Hay Fever, Six Degrees of Separation, and The Foreigner.
Her production of She Loves Me won the 2005 "Best
College Production" Metrolina Theatre Association Award.
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 Professor:
Dr. Joseph T. Gardner
jogardner@davidson.edu
B.A. Davidson, 1969
M.A. Florida State University, 1974
Ph.D. Florida State University, 1978
Dr. Gardner has taught at Davidson since 1974, serving as department
chair from 1990 until 2003. His courses include general theatre
studies, design, playwriting and studio production. His professional
activity is extensive; he has designed stage sets for numerous professional
theatres in the region. He designs and directs regularly for the
Davidson theatre program.
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 Associate
Professor: Sharon Green
shgreen@davidson.edu
M.A. University of Toronto, 1993
Ph.D. CUNY, 1999
Sharon Green is an Associate Professor whose teaching interests
include: theatre history, acting, community-based theatre for
social change, contemporary performance theory and practice, feminism
and performance, 20th century political theatre, and Augusto Boal’s
Theatre of the Oppressed techniques. Her research interests include:
community-based theatre; contemporary activist theatre; feminism
and performance; cultural and performance theory; grassroots popular
theatre worldwide; intersections of theatre, activism and pedagogy;
performance as cultural and political resistance. Her work has
been published in Theatre, Theatre Topics, Theatre Journal,
Journal of Women's History, Arts in the Public Interest, and
Small Axe: A Journal of Criticism. She has participated,
as an actor, director and facilitator, in numerous community-based
and forum theatre performances. She was also a founding member
of the feminist theatre collective, Something Permanent, which
produced original works performed in Toronto, London and Edinburgh.
She was the Conference Planner for the Theatre and Social Change
focus group within the Association for Theatre in Higher Education
(ATHE) from 2000-2003, and continues to be an active member of
that group.
Visiting Assistant Professor: Scott Ripley
scripley@davidson.edu
B.S. U.S. Naval Academy, 1984
M.F.A. University of California, San Diego, 1993
Scott Ripley
graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy (BS, English) in 1984 and
served aboard the USS Nimitz and USS Theodore Roosevelt as a bombardier/navigator
in Attack Squadron 35. He logged 1000 hours and 200 carrier landings
in the A-6 Intruder. In 1990, he resigned his commission to enter
the Professional Actors Training Program at U.C. San Diego, where
he received his MFA (Acting) in 1993. Since then he has played
leading roles on professional stages across the country and abroad,
including at La Jolla Playhouse, American Conservatory Theatre,
Portland Stage, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Taiwan National
Theatre, Moscow Art Theatre, and for three seasons in the acting
company of the American Repertory Theatre. He has also done film,
television, commercial, and voice-over work in New York, Los Angeles,
Boston, San Diego, Mexico, Belgium, and the Netherlands. Scott
has taught acting, improvisation, voice, and movement at U.C.
San Diego, Northeastern University, Salem State College, Babson
College, the American School of The Hague, Sinclair Community
College, and Arizona State University.
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Visiting Assistant Professor: Mark Sutch
 masutch@davidson.edu
B.A., Iowa State University, 1997.
M.F.A., Trinity Rep Conservatory/Rhode Island College, 2000
Mark Sutch is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Theatre at Davidson
College, where he teaches Acting, Directing, Play Analysis, and
Introduction to Theatre. Mark received his MFA in Directing from
the Trinity Rep Conservatory, where he directed productions of Below
the Belt, My Sister in This House, The Crucible, The Trestle at
Pope Lick Creek, and The Changeling, as well as world-premiere workshop
productions of Jorge Ignacio Cortinas' Sleepwalkers and Mac Wellman's
2 September. From 2000-2005 he served as the Artistic Associate
and Casting Director at Rhode Island's Trinity Repertory Company,
where he directed productions of A Christmas Carol and Suddenly
Last Summer, and appeared in productions of Peter Pan, The Henriad,
and A Christmas Carol. During the same period of time, he was the
Artistic Producer of the Trinity Summer Shakespeare Project (TSSP),
which toured throughout the Northeast. For TSSP, he directed Macbeth,
The Comedy of Errors, and The Two Gentlemen of Verona, and acted
in Romeo and Juliet, Twelfth Night, Julius Caesar, and The Taming
of the Shrew. He has also directed Jordan Harrison's The Museum
Play for Brown University and The Birds for Clark University. He
has taught theatre at Rhode Island College and University of Rhode
Island. Mark is a member of Actors' Equity Association and the Society
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 Technical
Director/Lighting Designer: J. Ronnie Higdon
rohigdon@davidson.edu
B.A. SUNY Geneseo, 1983
M.F.A. University of South Carolina, 1988
Ronnie came to Davidson College in 1991 from the Washington, DC area
and currently serves the department as Lighting Designer/Scenographer.
Credits include: The Arena Stage, The Round House Theatre, The Shakespeare
Theatre and George Mason University's Theatre of The First Amendment.
He also was on staff at the Smithsonian's A/V department. Ronnie is
one of a handful of designers with strong background in outdoor theatre
with over 21 years of production experience with Stephen Foster Productions.
. Local Credits: Ovens Auditorium, Theatre Charlotte, and the Blumenthal
PAC's Booth Theatre. He is also a board member and is the coordinator
for Colleges and University with the Metrolina Theatre Association.
Additional credits: The University of Virginia's Heritage Rep, University
of South Carolina Summer Rep, The Center Dance Company |
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Assitant: Claudia Shinn
clshinn@davidson.edu
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Fellow:
Jackson Herlong
 jaherlong@davidson.edu
B.A., English,
Davidson College, 2006
Jackson Herlong is a recent Davidson graduate. He is quite glad
to be serving as Production & Promotions assistant to Theatre
Department, after earning a degree in English from Davidson. While
enrolled in Davidson, Jack was active in the men's club soccer
team, wrote for the Davidsonian, and served various positions
in Sigma Alpha Epsilon Fraternity. Jack spends his Sundays watching
his beloved Carolina Panthers play.
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Professor Emeritus: Jack Beasley
jabeasley@davidson.edu
B.A. Vanderbilt University, 1963
M.F.A. University of Georgia, 1965
Mr. Beasley has over thirty-five years of teaching experience, including
two decades at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte where
he was Chair of the Department of Dance and Theatre. He formally retired
from UNCC in 1992 and spent eight years as a free-lance director,
actor, and newspaper columnist before coming to Davidson College in
2000.
Mr. Beasley has directed a wide variety of productions, ranging from
opera (The Medium), to musicals (Gypsy), and on
to Shakespeare (Romeo and Juliet) and modern drama (Albee's
Three Tall Women). He has acted in over 100 productions,
playing roles such as the Marquis de Sade in Marat/Sade,
King Lear in two different productions, and Chekhov's Uncle Vanya.
Mr. Beasley teaches acting, directing, and voice/movement.
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 Professor
Emerita: Bonnie McAlister
mamcalister@davidson.edu
(BS, Northwestern University, 1961; MA, University of North Carolina—Greensboro,
1981)
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