Full Time Faculty of the Department of Theatre and Speech

Performance Faculty

Rusty Curcio: Head of Dance 

John Jamiel: Head of Acting 

David McDonald: Head of Voice (For academic year 2011-2012, Professor McDonald will be teaching at Bilkent University in Ankara, Turkey)

Lauri Young: Musical Director

Michele Pawk: Associate Professor

Mara Gannon: Visiting Assistant Professor of Voice and Diction

Theatre Studies Faculty

Felicia J. Ruff: Department Chair 

Design / Technology / Management Faculty

Phill Hickox: Head of Design / Technology / Management 

Charles Lawlor: Technical Director 

Arts Administration Faculty

Todd Alan Price, Esq.: Associate Professor 

Gary Sullivan: Director of Arts Administration

Select Adjunct Faculty

Michael A. Blackmon: Jazz, Musical Theatre Styles Dance and Intro to Acting

Susan Fenley: Acting II and Public Speaking

Cecilia Flores: Modern Dance, Jazz

Anabella Lenzu: Ballet, Dance Criticism, History of Dance

Emilia Martin: Stage Makeup

Brian Patrick Murphy: Musical Theatre Dance

Vicki Neal: Introduction to Design, Lighting Design, Design Studio, Scene Painting

Arturo Porazzi: Stage Management

Alan Michael Smith: Costume Design

Lee Strausland: Arts Administration 451: Management and Financing; Non-Profit vs. For-Profit

Fred Tessler: Musical Theatre History, Acting V

Dan Venning: Theatre History

Laura Ward: Ballet

Amy Williams: Musical Theatre Performance, Acting III

Robert Williams: Public Speaking

Jennifer Worth: Script Analysis, Public Speaking

Chad Yarborough: Public Speaking, Theatre Appreciation

Wagner College Theatre Staff

Shawn Riley-Rau: Master Carpenter

Office Phone: 718.390.3157 

Tiffany Rau: Master Electrician

Office Phone: 718.390.3157 

Diane Catalano: Department Secretary

Office Phone: 718.390.3223

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Theatre Department