Faculty and Staff List A to Z

  • 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...
  • Ellen Rizzuto

    Operations Manager (Music), Dewberry School of Music, CVPA

    Ellen Rizzuto is the Operations Manager of the George Mason University Dewberry School of Music. Serving in this role since 2016, she manages the Dewberry School of Music event calendars; scheduling and production of concerts, master classes, faculty recitals, and special events; and the day-to-day operations within in the school.
  • Emily Robinson

    Interim Director of Development, Hylton Center

    Emily joined Mason in Summer 2011, first as an intern in the College of Visual and Performing Arts Development Office, then joining the team of the Hylton Center as Development Assistant later that Fall.
  • Franklin A. Robinson, Jr.

    Adjunct Faculty, School of Theater, CVPA

    Franklin A. Robinson, Jr. (Frank Robinson, Jr.) is a professional actor, playwright, and award-winning filmmaker based in Charles County, Maryland.
  • Associate Professor and Director of GRADUATE STUDIES and ETHNOMUSICOLOGY, Dewberry School of Music, CVPA

    Dr. Gregory Joseph Robinson is Associate Professor of Music and Director of Ethnomusicology at George Mason University’s School of Music. He received the Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania and graduated summa cum laude from Colby College in Waterville, Maine.