Faculty and Staff List A to Z

  • Kirstin Franko

    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.
  • Helen Frederick

    Professor Emeritus, 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.
  • Jeremy Freer

    Green Machine Associate Director and Music Technology/Theory, Dewberry School of Music, 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.
  • Chawky Frenn

    Associate 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...
  • Cynthia Fuchs

    Program Director and Associate Professor, Film and Video Studies, CVPA 
    Director, Visiting Filmmakers Series

    Cynthia Fuchs (PhD, University of Pennsylvania, 1989) is the interim Director of Film at Mason (CVPA) and Associate Professor of English (CHSS), 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).
  • David Gaines

    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.
  • Eugene Galvin

    Adjunct Faculty, Applied Voice, BASS-BARITONE: Stage Director for Mason OPERA, Dewberry School of Music, CVPA

    Dr. Gene Galvin, bass-baritone, earned the BA in Music Education from Frostburg State University, the MM in Voice Performance from The Catholic University of America, and the DMA in Opera Performance from the University of Maryland, where he studied with Dominic Cossa.
  • Erin Gardiner

    Assistant Professor, School of Theater, CVPA

    Erin Gardiner is a professional actor and singer in the DC area. 
  • James Gardiner

    Adjunct Faculty, School of Theater, CVPA

    James Gardiner, (B.A. University of Maryland - College Park) is a professional actor and playwright.
  • Assistant Master Electrician, CFA, CVPA

    Will Gautney is the Assistant Master Electrician, College of Visual and Performing Arts at George Mason University