CVPA faculty

Joe Mullins

Pam Muirheid — Thu, 21 Nov 2024 19:36:22 +0000

Joe Mullins Pam Muirheid Thu, 11/21/2024 - 14:36

Adjunct Faculty, School of Art, CVPA

Contact Information

Campus: Fairfax
Building: Art and Design Building
Email: lmullin5@gmu.edu

Read About Prof. Mullins' Forensic Figure Sculpting Class

Biography

Joe Mullins is a forensic artist since 1999 with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. He has helped identify and trace long term missing children, approximate unknown skeletal remains, and reconstruct faces and soft tissue, paving the way for law enforcement to solve their investigations. A Washington-based forensic imaging specialist, Mullins does workshops and demonstrations of his work across the globe, inspiring and training future forensic artists.

Mullins trained as a graphic designer and fine artist before becoming a forensic imaging specialist. He studied at Savannah College of Art & Design, James Madison University and attended The FBI Academy for his forensic skills training.

Mullins also works with talented students to help solve crimes or answer questions for families with missing relatives as an Adjunct Professor at the New York Academy of Art where he teaches a unique Forensic Sculpture course. Joe is a certified Forensic Artist by the International Association for Identification. For a decade, he has been teaching a Facial Reconstruction class to graduate students in Mason’s Forensic Science Program. In the spring of 2022, he started teaching a forensic figure sculpting class at George Mason's School of Art.

Regina Schneider

Pam Muirheid — Thu, 19 Sep 2024 14:57:35 +0000

Regina Schneider Pam Muirheid Thu, 09/19/2024 - 10:57

Marketing & Communications Coordinator, Mason Community Arts Academy, CVPA

Contact Information

4260 Chain Bridge Rd, Fairfax, VA 22030
Tel: 703-993-9889
Email: rschnei@gmu.edu

Biography

Regina serves as the Marketing and Communications Coordinator at the Mason Community Arts Academy. With a higher education background, Regina uses her knowledge and skills to help the Academy to fulfill its mission. Regina graduated with a Bachelor’s in Anthropology and a Master’s of Education from Louisiana State University and is specialized in marketing, communications, and graphic design. She previously worked in different university focus areas, including Housing and Enrollment Management.

Regina is passionate about the arts and loves to explore creative outlets. She enjoys painting, interior design, and playing the ukulele and piano.

Heather Green

Pam Muirheid — Wed, 22 Mar 2023 17:48:22 +0000

Heather Green Pam Muirheid Wed, 03/22/2023 - 13:48

Assistant Professor, School of Art, CVPA

Contact Information

Campus: Fairfax
Building: 2016 Art and Design Building
Mail: MSN: 1C3
Email: hstreckf@gmu.edu

Personal Websites

See Heather Green's Website

Biography

Heather Green’s poetry collection No Other Rome (2021) was published in the Akron Poetry Series. Her poems have appeared in Bennington Review, Denver Quarterly, Everyday Genius, the New Yorker, and elsewhere. She’s the author of the chapbooks No Omen and The Match Array.

Her translation of Tristan Tzara’s Noontimes Won, published in 2018 by Octopus Books. Her translation of Tzara’s Guide to the Heart Rail was released in 2017 in a limited-run art edition, with images by artist Pete Sculte, by Goodmorning Menagerie. Her translations of Tzara’s work have appeared AGNI, Asymptote, Guernica, Ploughshares, and several anthologies, including In the Shape of a Human Body I Am Visiting the Earth, from McSweeney’s Books.

Green was the recipient of the inaugural Albertine Translation Prize in Fiction for her in-progress translation from French: The Woman and the Falcon, by Isabelle Sorente, and her translation of Sarah Manigne’s Leaving Madrid won the 2021/2 French Voices grant. Her recent writing on poetry and translation appears in Hopscotch Translation, reviewer in 2021. Green served as a longlist judge for the NBCC’s inaugural Barrios Prize for a book in translation and currently serves as a juror for the National Translation Award in poetry.

Green holds an MA in literature from the University of Nebraska and an MFA in creative writing (poetry) from Boston University. She works as an Assistant Professor in the InterArts program in the School of Art at ��AV.

Degrees:

MFA, Creative writing (poetry), Boston University
MA, Literature, University of Nebraska

Specialist Areas:

Aesthetics
Art Writing
Literary Translation
Poetry and Visual Art
Writing for Artists

Amanda Snellings

Pam Muirheid — Wed, 18 Jan 2023 15:33:49 +0000

Amanda Snellings Pam Muirheid Wed, 01/18/2023 - 10:33

Assistant Director of Development, CVPA

Contact Information

Campus: Fairfax
Mail Stop: 4C1
Email: asnelli@gmu.edu
Phone: 703-993-1593

Biography

Amanda Snellings joined ��AV in 2021. As the Assistant Director of Development for CVPA, Amanda secures philanthropic support for scholarships and academic programs related to the School of Theater, School of Dance, and the Reva and Sid Dewberry Family School of Music. She is the liaison to community volunteer Friends groups for those academic units and leads fundraising efforts for the Dance Fête signature event.

Amanda has previously worked with the National MS Society, the Shakespeare Theatre Company, and NextStop Theatre Company in development roles as well as Forum Theatre, the Berkshire Theatre Group, Asolo Repertory Theatre, and the Virginia Theatre Association in arts administration roles.

Amanda participates in volunteer community theatre in Northern Virginia as a director, producer, and performer. She has been the Artistic Director of the City of Fairfax Theatre Company (CFTC) since 2018. In 2019, she was nominated for a WATCH Award for Outstanding Direction of a Musical for CFTC’s Beauty and the Beast, among two wins and seven additional nominations for the production.

Degree:

BA, Theatre and Dance, James Madison University

Ahmad Maaty

Nafisa Ferdous — Tue, 01 Nov 2022 18:42:49 +0000

Ahmad Maaty Nafisa Ferdous Tue, 11/01/2022 - 14:42

Adjunct Professor, School of Theater, CVPA

Contact Information

Campus: Fairfax
Building: de Laski Performing Arts Bldg
Room A407
Mail Stop: 3E6
Email: amaaty@gmu.edu

Personal Websites

www.ahmadmaaty.com

Biography

Ahmad Maaty is an Egyptian-American actor, dancer, choreographer, and singer. He holds an M.F.A. from the Actors Studio Drama School in NYC which gave him the privilege of being a finalist at the Actors Studio. He received his BA in Theater from ��AV where he now serves as an Adjunct Professor for the School of Theater. He has performed across the U.S. and internationally, and continues to work in the DMV and NYC in performance and mentoring artists of all ages and experience. His performances and choreography have been recognized by the Helen Hayes, Youth American Grand Prix, Broadway World, the Cappies, the Brandon Victor Dixon Awards, and the Jimmys.

Ahmad is passionate about telling stories of the human experience. His approach is rooted in realism and naturalism that is driven by an actor’s unique instrument and history. Ahmad asks his actors to find truth in every moment, and to explore, cherish, fortify, and give value to their instrument.

Degrees

MFA, Actors Studio Drama School
BA, Theater, George Mason University

April E. Brassard

Nafisa Ferdous — Thu, 27 Oct 2022 19:05:24 +0000

April E. Brassard Nafisa Ferdous Thu, 10/27/2022 - 15:05

Adjunct Professor, School of Theater, CVPA

Contact Information

Campus: Fairfax
Building: de Laski Performing Arts Bldg
Room A407
Mail Stop: 3E6
Email: abrassar@gmu.edu

Biography

April E. Brassard is an award-winning playwright, screenwriter, TV writer, producer, and professor. April attended the School of Theater at ��AV, graduating Magna Cum Laude with a BA in Playwriting and Dramaturgy in 2012. She then honed her craft at the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University, where she earned her MFA in Dramatic Writing in 2014. At Mason, she teaches playwriting and co-directed The Originals!

April pursued film and TV in Hollywood, working at Team Downey, Warner Bros., ABC Studios, and writing for primetime television at CBS Studios. She then wrote and developed four original series with Archie Comics, Two Shakes Entertainment (Damon Wayans, Jr.), Lucid Road (Aaron Paul), and Tornante (Michael Eisner). Nine of her plays have been produced in the Washington, D.C., area, with five-star, must-see reviews. April wrote and produced an internationally awarded short film with stars from Orange Is The New Black, Hightown and Ozark, which was featured in five film festivals last year, and is being adapted into a feature film.

April hopes to use her underrepresented voice to incite change, shout for the silenced, turn trauma into drama, and share magic with the world through her words.

Degrees

MFA, Dramatic Writing, NYU Tisch School of the Arts
BA, Playwriting and Dramaturgy, George Mason University

Franklin A. Robinson, Jr.

Nafisa Ferdous — Thu, 27 Oct 2022 18:05:17 +0000

Franklin A. Robinson, Jr. Nafisa Ferdous Thu, 10/27/2022 - 14:05

Adjunct Faculty, School of Theater, CVPA

Contact Information

Campus: Fairfax
Building: de Laski Performing Arts Bldg
Room A407
Mail Stop: 3E6
Email: frobins2@gmu.edu

Biography

Franklin A. Robinson, Jr. (Frank Robinson, Jr.) is a professional actor, playwright, and award-winning filmmaker based in Charles County, Maryland. He is adjunct faculty for ��AV’s College of Visual and Performing Arts. He also teaches playwriting for Acting for Young People in Fairfax, Virginia. His play, A Christmas Carol, 1933, was first produced by the Parlor Room Theater in December 2014 and again in 2016. The play was mounted again by the Clark Chateau Radio Players, Butte, Montana in 2020. Other works have been produced at the Source Theater Festival (The World Turned Upside Down), Washington, DC; the Birmingham Children’s Theatre (The Tale of Peter Rabbit), Birmingham, Alabama.

Frank has written historically based plays and dramatic presentations for various historical sites, societies and organizations including the National Park Service (The Condition of Ellen Mitchell and Dreadful Days, Clara Barton at Lacy House). He was co-producer for the documentary, Remembered by the Wind (2017) about the discovery of a burial ground where twenty-three enslaved individuals rest dating from 1790-1810. Faith & Tobacco, his award-winning history of St. Thomas’ Episcopal Parish, Prince George’s County, was published in 2015 by Anchovy Hill Press with a second edition published in 2022.

He has performed in over half of the United States and Canada. He is a proud member of Actors’ Equity Association (AEA) and Screen Actors’ Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA). Favorite acting credits include, James Wilson, 1776, Ford’s Theatre; Friar Lawrence, Romeo and Juliet, Maryland Shakespeare Festival; and five tours as Bob Cratchit, A Christmas Carol, Nebraska Theatre Caravan. He has appeared in numerous films and television programs including Tom Hooper’s, John Adams. His thesis film, A Time to Sow, has won awards nationally and internationally.

In addition to teaching, Frank is employed as an Archivist with the Archives Center, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution.

Degrees

MA, American University
BFA, Catholic University

David Goldstein

Nafisa Ferdous — Wed, 26 Oct 2022 19:31:41 +0000

David Goldstein Nafisa Ferdous Wed, 10/26/2022 - 15:31

Adjunct Faculty, School of Theater, CVPA

Contact Information

Campus: Fairfax
Building: de Laski Performing Arts Bldg
Room A407
Mail Stop: 3E6
Email: dgoldst@gmu.edu

Biography

David Goldstein has over 20 years of professional experience as a screenwriter, having written (and rewritten) scripts for companies such as Disney, Sony, Paramount, Lucasfilm and Fox.

Degrees

BFA, Film/Television Production, NYU Tisch School of the Arts

Nicholas Kfoury Horner

Nafisa Ferdous — Tue, 25 Oct 2022 18:50:44 +0000

Nicholas Kfoury Horner Nafisa Ferdous Tue, 10/25/2022 - 14:50

Assistant Director, School of Theater, CVPA

Contact Information

Phone: 703-993-2195
Campus: Fairfax
Building: de Laski Performing Arts Bldg
Room A407G
Mail Stop: 3E6
Email: nhorner@gmu.edu

Biography

Nicholas Kfoury Horner is a singer, voice-over artist, theatre actor, and director based in Washington D.C. He has directed, taught, and performed in numerous professional and educational venues in D.C., New York, and around the country. Horner has received Voice and Theater training from renowned institutions such as Stella Adler Conservatory, The Juilliard School, Studio A.C.T. (San Francisco), The Roy Hart Institute (Paris, France), Shakespeare and Company (Lenox), Catholic University, and University of Cambridge (England). Horner earned a B.A. in Theater and an M.F.A. in Visual and Performing Arts from ��AV where he serves as Program Manager for the School of Theater and teaches courses in Directing, Voice and Speech, and Theater Studies. He also serves as Co-director of 1,001 Plays, Mason's first international play exchange. Horner owns and operates InTune Studio– offering classical and musical theater voice and speech. His research interests include Interdisciplinary Arts, Middle Eastern Theater, Directing, and Voice and Speech.

Recent Publications:

Stop Stopping: Elemental Voice and Breath (Voice Teachers International, 2021)
The Harder Disease to Beat (LMDA Forum, 2021)
Parasite or Symbiont: Voice Stress in muscle and bone (Voice and Speech Review, 2020)

Degrees

MFA, Visual and Performing Arts - Theater, ��AV

Sophie Zuehl

Pam Muirheid — Thu, 13 Oct 2022 14:59:17 +0000

Sophie Zuehl Pam Muirheid Thu, 10/13/2022 - 10:59

Production Manager, School of Dance, CVPA

Contact Information

Campus: Fairfax
Building: deLaski Performing Arts Building
Room: A410
Email: ssotsky@gmu.edu
Tel: 703-993-3634

Biography

Prior to her position as Production Manager in the School of Dance, Sophie Zuehl (neé Sotsky) lived and worked in New York City. She was a dancer, choreographer, lighting designer, and production manager. Sophie had the pleasure of Production Managing at venues including Danspace Project, of dancing for choreographers including Chafin Seymour, and designing lighting for artists including Sibyl Kempson and Peggy Gould. As a choreographer, Sophie was recognized as a 2016/2017 Fresh Tracks artist at New York Live Arts. Her choreography has been supported by the GO! Emerging Artist Commission at the Elizabeth Streb Lab for Action Mechanics (2016 and 2019), as well as by Salem Art Works, the Jonah Bokaer Arts Foundation, Mount Tremper Arts, and Gibney Dance Center.

Degree:

BA, Dance and Psychology (honors in Dance), Wesleyan University