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Faculty
David Ainsworth
Associate Professor of Theatre
Contact: ainsword@mcmurryadm.mcm.edu / 325-732-3838
Bachelor of Fine Arts in Theatre, summa cum laude: Southwestern University
Master 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.”
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