Professor: Ann Marie Costa  B.F.A. Boston Conservatory of Music M.F.A., Directing, University of Pittsburgh Ann Marie Costa is the chair of the Department of Theatre at Davidson College where she teaches acting and directing. Prior to arriving in Davidson in 1994, she was head of the Acting-Directing Program at Washington University. She is a recent recipient of the Hunter-Hamilton Love of Teaching award.
She has directed professionally at The Charlotte Repertory Theatre, Blowing Rock Theatre Company, Actor's Theatre of Charlotte, Mill Mountain Theatre (Roanoke), Victory Gardens (Chicago), Theatre Factory (St. Louis) and Theatre Project (St. Louis). Some of her favorite professional directing credits include: The Goat, The Beauty Queen of Leenane, Rumors, Keep on the Sunny Side, Intimate Apparel, and Mrs. Klein. Her production of Theresa Rebeck's The Scene at Actor's Theatre of Charlotte won 10 Metrolina Theatre Awards including outstanding direction and outstanding comedy. Ms. Costa is an active member of the Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE). She served on ATHE's Governing Council from 1994-2001 with the following roles: ATHE Strategic Planning Committee Chair, the Vice-President of Advocacy, the Rationales Task Force Chair, and Directing Focus Group Representative. At Davidson her directing highlights include: Company, Summer and Smoke, Cabaret, Angels in America: Part I, Picasso at the Lapin Agile, Hay Fever, and Six Degrees of Separation. Her production of She Loves Me won the 2005 "Best College Production" Metrolina Theatre Association Award.
	Professor: Dr. Joseph T. Gardner B.A. Davidson, 1969 M.A. Florida State University, 1974 Ph.D. Florida State University, 1978 Professor Gardner is widely recognized as one of the area's best scenic and lighting designers, with over a hundred credits in regional professional theatres.
His work has been recognized with numerous area awards, most recently Metrolina Theatre Association's "Outstanding Set Design, College and University" for Davidson's She Loves Me and the 2005 regional design award for Beauty and the Beast, produced by Charlotte Summer Theatre. Other professional set designs include those for Charlotte Rep (Angels in America Parts I and II, The Beauty Queen of Leenane and The Glass Menagerie); CPCC Summer Theatre (Camelot, Chess, Annie Get Your Gun); Tarradiddle Players (Don't Count Your Chickens Before They Cry Wolf, Pinocchio); North Carolina Shakespeare Festival (Tartuffe); and most recently Burning Coal Theatre (Hair). Professor Gardner has taught at Davidson since 1974, serving as Department chair from 1990 until 2003. His courses include design, playwriting and studio production.
	Associate Professor: Sharon Green B. A. University of Rochester M.A. University of Toronto, 1993 Ph.D. CUNY Graduate Center, 1999 Sharon Green is an Associate Professor whose teaching interests include: theatre history, acting, community-based theatre for social change, contemporary performance theory and practice, feminism and performance, 20th century political theatre, and Augusto Boal’s Theatre of the Oppressed techniques.
Her research interests include: community-based theatre; contemporary activist theatre; feminism and performance; cultural and performance theory; grassroots popular theatre worldwide; intersections of theatre, activism and pedagogy; performance as cultural and political resistance. Her work has been published in Theatre, Theatre Topics, Theatre Journal, Journal of Women's History, Arts in the Public Interest, and Small Axe: A Journal of Criticism. She has participated, as an actor, director and facilitator, in numerous community-based and forum theatre performances. She was also a founding member of the feminist theatre collective, Something Permanent, which produced original works performed in Toronto, London and Edinburgh. She was the Conference Planner for the Theatre and Social Change focus group within the Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE) from 2000-2003, and continues to be an active member of that group.
	Assistant Professor: Mark Sutch  B.A., Iowa State University, 1997. M.F.A., Trinity Rep Conservatory/Rhode Island College, 2000 Mark Sutch joined the faculty in 2006 after serving for five years as Artistic Associate and Casting Director for Rhode Island's Trinity Repertory Company.
At Trinity Rep he directed productions of A Christmas Carol and Suddenly Last Summer, and appeared in productions of Peter Pan, The Henriad, and A Christmas Carol. At the same time, he was Artistic Producer for the Trinity Summer Shakespeare Project, which toured throughout the Northeast and for which he directed Macbeth, The Comedy of Errors, and The Two Gentlemen of Verona. At Davidson, he has directed Dark Ride, Women Beware Women, and Hamlet. Mark recently directed Hair for Burning Coal Theatre Company in Raleigh. He previously taught theatre at Rhode Island College and University of Rhode Island and is a member of Actors' Equity Association and the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers.
	Technical Director: Josh Peklo B.A. Davidson College, 1997 M.F.A. Technical Design & Production, Yale School of Drama 2002 Prior to returning to Davidson in 2007, Josh was on the faculty of the Yale School of Drama's Technical Design and Production department where he served as Technical Director for the Yale Repertory Theatre.
He worked as Technical Director for Adirondack Studios where he managed the drafting and technical design of scenery for clients including Lyric Opera of Chicago, New York City Opera, Disney Theatrical Productions, and Universal Studios Florida. Josh has engineered scenery for the New York productions of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and Mary Poppins, as well as the second national tour of The Lion King, and continues to work on regional and commercial projects. He is a member of the United States Institute for Theatre Technology, and the inaugural group of Entertainment Services and Technology Association Certified Riggers in both theatre and arena. Recent Davidson designs include lighting designs for Communicating Doors, Hamlet, and Waiting for Lefty, and set designs for The Ghost Sonata and Scapin.
	Production Manager/Lecturer: Carrie Van Hallgren B.A. Davidson College, 1998 M.F.A. Theater Management, Yale School of Drama Carrie Van Hallgren received her MFA in Theater Management from Yale School of Drama where she served as Associate Managing Director of Yale Repertory Theatre.
She spent her graduate fellowship at Manhattan Theatre Club under the direction of Barry Grove in the company's Tony-winning 2005 season. In 2001, Carrie worked with Davidson College faculty and staff and the Royal Shakespeare Company's Education Department to create the inaugural RSC residency at Davidson. She most recently served as Managing Director of Milwaukee Shakespeare, where she led the administrative operations of the professional classical company. Her other experience includes a variety of artistic, education, and managerial posts at Milwaukee Repertory Theater, Chicago Shakespeare Theater, the Wisconsin Shakespeare Festival, and Milwaukee Chamber Theatre. As an actor, Carrie performed professionally at First Stage Children's Theater, Milwaukee Shakespeare, Next Act Theatre, Renaissance Theatreworks, Boulevard Ensemble, and Bialystock & Bloom. She was a regular performer on the Wisconsin Public Radio program Hotel Milwaukee and appeared in the feature film Red Betsy. Carrie also worked in the literary departments of both Milwaukee Rep and Charlotte Rep, and served as an arts writer for various publications in Milwaukee.
	Administrative Assistant: Claudia Shinn Ms. Shinn is a North Carolina native and has been with the Theatre Department since 1985.  She assists with all aspects of running the Theatre Department Office and enjoys daily contact with the talented and creative faculty, staff, and students.  During her tenure, the department has added three faculty members, a Technical Director, and a Fellow.
	Fellow: Jennifer Crowley B.A., Theatre, Davidson College, 2007  Jennifer is a 2009 Davidson Graduate. An English Major, as a student she participated in Concert Choir, the Davidson Dance Ensemble, and the Swing and Salsa club.
Since graduating she has become one of the founding members of the International Association for the Study of Popular Romance. She is thrilled to be serving as the Theatre Fellow and grateful to have the opportunity to learn from the incredible faculty and staff of the Department of Theatre.
Adjunct Professor: Jack Beasley B.A. Vanderbilt University, 1963 M.F.A. University of Georgia, 1965 Mr. Beasley has over thirty-five years of teaching experience, including two decades at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte where he was Chair of the Department of Dance and Theatre. He formally retired from UNCC in 1992 and spent eight years as a free-lance director, actor, and newspaper columnist before coming to Davidson College in 2000. Mr. Beasley has directed a wide variety of productions, ranging from opera (The Medium), to musicals (Gypsy), and on to Shakespeare (Romeo and Juliet) and modern drama (Albee's Three Tall Women). He has acted in over 100 productions, playing roles such as the Marquis de Sade in Marat/Sade, King Lear in two different productions, and Chekhov's Uncle Vanya.