CVPA faculty

Shanshan Cui is a designer, painter, front end web developer, and educator. She has more than two decades of design practice in both print and electronic media. She worked as senior designer and/or art director in several companies...

Hans Charles studied cinema at the Los Angeles Film Studies Center and worked for Tracey Edmonds (Soulfood, Set it Off), Bridget Davis (Sister Act II, Hav Plenty) and Patrick Ian Polk (Punks, Noah’s Ark) at Edmonds Entertainment.

David Gaines, is a performer and director who has focused his work almost exclusively on telling stories in movement, mask, improvisation, commedia, and clown.

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...

My research and art practice has been centered on five major areas that I have been developing in parallel. It is the idea of Environmental Theater by Richard Schechner; -in situ or contextual theater-, that best describes my art practice.

Stephanie Kane, Research Coordinator at the VSGI, started at George Mason University as a Student Instructor in the Student Technology and Resource Labs. Read more...

Lori Clark is a full-time dancer/choreographer and holds a Masters Degree in Dance from American University.

Edward Gero, (Associate Professor, B.A., Montclair State College) is Performance Area Head for the School of Theatre at Theater at George Mason University.

As Director of Development for the College of Visual and Performing Arts since 2014, Susan plays a leadership role in the College’s overall development efforts.

Professor Jim Carroll has a versatile background ranging from tours with Michael Jackson to Woody Herman and The Thundering Herd.  Jim received both his Undergraduate and Graduate training from Indiana University under the tutelage of David Baker and Eugene Rousseau.