Faculty and Staff List A to Z
Associate Director of Communications and Content, CFA, Hylton, CVPA
Kirstin Franko brings nearly two decades of communication strategy within the arts to the College of Visual and Performing Arts.
Full Professor Emerita, School of Art, CVPA
Helen Frederick is recognized as a distinguished artist, curator, educator, coordinator of international projects, and as founder of Pyramid Atlantic, a center for contemporary printmaking, hand papermaking and the art of the book.
Senior Associate Director of Green Machine Ensembles, CVPA
Jeremy Freer is Administrative Faculty and is Associate Director of Green Machine Ensembles and works closely with Dr. Glenn Smith with the Music and Wellness program. He has taught Music in Motion Pictures, Popular Music Arranging, Jazz History, and Brass Techniques for the School of Music and teaches student arrangers, acoustic groups, photobombing techniques, and rock bands for the nationally acclaimed Green Machine.
Full Professor, School of Art, CVPA
Born in Zahlé, Lebanon, Chawky Frenn lived his formative years in a country that nurtured him not only with mysticism, spirituality and beauty, but also with paradoxes, conflicts, and delusions. Before emigrating to the United States in 1981, he witnessed six years of civil war...
Program Director and Professor, Film and Video Studies, CVPA
Director, Visiting Filmmakers SeriesCynthia Fuchs (PhD, University of Pennsylvania, 1989) is the interim Director and Professor of Film and Video Studies (CVPA), as well as a faculty member in African and African American Studies (AAAS) and Sport and American Culture; she is an Executive Committee member for Women and Gender Studies (WGST).
Assistant Master Electrician, Center for the Arts, CVPA
Daelyn has a major in both Communications (Multimedia Journalism) and Theatre from Salisbury University. Before Mason, they worked freelance lighting gigs in the D.C. area with companies such as Rorschach Theater, the GALA Hispanic Theater, 4 Wall, and others.
Adjunct Faculty, School of Theater, CVPA
David Gaines, is a performer and director who has focused his work almost exclusively on telling stories in movement, mask, improvisation, commedia, and clown.
Assistant Professor, School of Theater, CVPA
Erin Gardiner is a professional actor and singer in the DC area.
Adjunct Faculty, School of Theater, CVPA
James Gardiner, (B.A. University of Maryland - College Park) is a professional actor and playwright.
Adjunct Faculty, Film and Video Studies, CVPA
Lucy Gebre-Egziabher is an award winning, independent filmmaker and a Fulbright Scholar who lives in Falls Church, VA.