Faculty R

  • Wanda Raimundi-Ortiz

    Associate Professor, School of Art, CVPA

    Wanda Raimundi-Ortiz is an interdisciplinary visual artist whose work pulls from 17th and 18th-century European portraiture, comic books, sketch comedy, folkloric dance, and installation to address race, bias, trauma, and healing.
  • Jonathan Rance

    Adjunct Faculty, PERCUSSION, Dewberry School of Music, CVPA

    Originally hailing from New Zealand, Jonathan has been involved in musical pursuits of one form or another since the age of four. While attending the University of Auckland where he completed studies for a Bachelor of Music (Honors), Jonathan was a regular performer with the Auckland Philharmonia.
  • Adjunct Faculty, Computer Game Design, CVPA

    Matthew Randon is an Adjunct Faculty, Computer Game Design, CVPA
  • Da'Shown Rawl

    Adjunct Faculty, School of Dance, CVPA

    Da’Shown Rawl studied Ballet and Modern at the Baltimore School of the Arts in Baltimore, Maryland. He is a graduate of the prestigious Dance Department of George Mason University.
  • William Reeder

    Former Director and Professor, Arts Management, CVPA (retired)

    William Reeder's accomplishments include being the former dean of the College of Visual and Performing Arts; vice president and general manager of the Washington Performing Arts Society; establishing the Sallie Mae Trust for Education at Sallie Mae; executive director of the Levine School of Music in Washington, D.C.; president of the Saint Louis Conservatory of Music; executive director of Opera Music Theatre International; and the Newark Community School of the Arts.
  • Karen Reedy

    Director, School of Dance & Associate Professor, School of Dance, CVPA

    Director of the School of Dance and an Associate Professor, Ms. Reedy is a choreographer, dancer, and educator. A highly musical artist with strong choreographic sensibilities for pattern, texture and emotion, her works span the continuum of classical and contemporary dance in traditional as well as site specific performance.
  • Director of COMPOSITION, Associate Professor, Dewberry School of Music, CVPA

    Dr. Andrea Reinkemeyer, internationally performed American composer, joins the faculty of George Mason University in Fall 2023 as Associate Professor and Director of Composition. Widely commissioned by orchestras, universities, and chamber ensembles across the United States, critics hail Dr. Reinkemeyer’s unique synesthetic soundscapes that blur the boundary between sound and vision, to “magical” (Fanfare) and even “enchanting” effect (International Choral Bulletin).
  • Elaine Rendler

    Professor, MUSIC THEORY and ORGAN, Dewberry School of Music, CVPA

    Elaine Rendler-McQueeney, received a Doctor of Musical Arts in organ with minors in theory and liturgy from The Catholic University of America under the tutelage of Daniel Roth (St. Sulpice, Paris) and Conrad Bernier.
  • Zachary Rhoades

    Adjunct Faculty, School of Art, CVPA

    Zachary Rhoades is a multi-dimensional visual artist with extensive experience in studio- and post-production. Zachary has used his over twenty years experience in TV production, working roles in conceptualization and writing, through studio production...
  • Lauren Rigby

    Assistant to the Director and Marketing Coordinator, Dewberry School of Music, CVPA

    Ms. Lauren Rigby joined our administrative staff as the new Assistant to the Director and Marketing Coordinator at the Dewberry School of Music. A graduate of the University of Mary Washington, she holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Music with a Vocal/Choral Teaching License and a Minor in Spanish.