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David Ainsworth Associate Professor of Theatre Contact: ainsword@mcmurryadm.mcm.edu / 325-732-3838 Bachelor of Fine Arts in Theatre, summa cum laude: Southwestern UniversityMaster of Fine Arts in Dramatic Production: The University of Texas at Austin Teaching Specialties
Acting (all levels) Costuming (construction and design) Stage Make-Up Theatre Education Unarmed and Armed Stage Combat (gold and silver medalist, men’s foil) UIL OAP Certified Critic Judge Twenty-Nine Years Teaching Experience Tenured Faculty “I believe, heart and soul, in the solid validity of the theatre-generalist training and education that is offered by the McMurry Theatre Department. A student’s undergraduate years are the years in which restrictive specialization should be avoided; the educational “net” should be cast widely, absorbing as much as possible about the way that theatre works, in all of its facets. This increases a student’s marketability, and also helps the student to intelligently identify his or her true area of specialization. As a director, my favorite goal is to help students re-discover the classics, especially those that have been unjustly neglected by a modern world that is careless of its past and absorbed by the casual sensations of its present. Whether a classic play is fifty or several thousand years old, there is an incomparable thrill in establishing a living, vital link between our world and ages past. It makes all of us aware that the theatre has a tradition of true grandeur, and that we are its heirs if we wish to be.” |
