All Theatre and Film Faculty Feats

Faculty Feats

Faculty Feats are a great resource for everyone to quickly discover what is happening with individual Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts faculty members.

David Barker, Professor, Theatre, Film

2009-09-28
David Barker is a theatre professor in the ASU Herberger College School of Theatre and Film. His one-man show, Dodging Bullets was named “Best One-Man Show” in the Phoenix New Times Best of 2009.

Barker is scheduled to perform Dodging Bullets in three different venues:

Oct. 18 –19, 8 p.m., Bloomington Playwrights Project; Bloomington, Ind.; more info

Oct. 24, 7:30 p.m., Old Town Center for the Arts; Cottonwood, Ariz. more info

Jan. 14, 2009; 8 p.m., Lyceum Theatre, ASU Tempe campus; Tickets are $7. Call 480.965.6447.

Watch a Dodging Bullets promo.

David Barker’s bio

Project Date: October 2009

Linda Essig, Director and Professor , Theatre, Film

2009-09-08
Linda Essig is the director of the ASU Herberger Institute School of Theatre and Film. Her essay, “Suffusing Entrepreneurship Education throughout the Theatre Curriculum” is the lead article in the September 2009 issue of the Theatre Topics journal published by Johns Hopkins University Press. Essig’s article argues for the integration (or “suffusion”) of entrepreneurship across arts disciplines – in this case theatre – first by offering several definitions of entrepreneurship; briefly surveying academic offerings in the field; discussing the potentiality for entrepreneurship education in a theatre arts curriculum; and sharing current practices at ASU that can be exported to other programs and institutions.

Linda Essig’s bio

Project Date: September 2009

Jeff McMahon, Assistant Professor, Theatre, Film

2009-09-01
Jeff McMahon is an assistant professor in the ASU Herberger Institute School of Theatre and Film. He partnered with three collaborators from the School of Theatre and Film and a scholar from the School of Communications, and received an ASU Institute for Humanities Research grant to develop WHOLE LOCAL SLOW, investigating our complex relationship to food, eating, and the environment. The group creatively will explore the foundations of our food crisis with thorough multiple research modalities and presentation formats – and investigate ways to restore complexity to the soil, to the markets, to our tables and to the chaotic and balletic chemical reactions we call bodies.

Jeff McMahon’s bio

Project Date: 2009 – 2010