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Richard Stockton Rand
Theatre Division Chair and Professor of Theatre: Acting & Movement
| Education: | MFA in Acting Southern Methodist University BA in Theatre S.U.N.Y. at Stony Brook |
| Office: | Pao 2165C |
| Office Phone: | (765) 49-43081 or (765) 49-43077 |
| Office Fax: | (765) 496-1766 |
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| Courses: | THTR 323 Movement for the Actor THTR 333 Acting II THTR 434 Acting V – Audition and Professional Issue THTR 523 Creating a Character I THTR 524 Creating a Character II THTR 525 Theatrical Characterization THTR 532 Professional Issues THTR 539 Period Style Acting THTR 633 Audition Technique |
Richard Stockton Rand has acted on and off Broadway; in regional theatres in the United States, Europe and Canada; and in film for public television. He has written and toured 12 one-person shows to 50 universities, theatres, and festivals, and received an Indiana Arts Commission-National Endowment for the Arts Artist Fellowship for solo performance. In addition to his work as an actor, Rich has directed and/or choreographed 70 productions, and served as President of the Association of Theatre Movement Educators. As a teacher, Rich specializes in the integration of acting and movement and has served as a resident artist for the University of Minnesota, University of Missouri-Kansas City, FSU/Asolo Conservatory, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, The Denver Center for the Performing Arts, Brandeis University, The College of William and Mary, Centre College, University of Rochester, Berea College, Franklin College, West Virginia Wesleyan College, Southern Illinois University, Wagner College and the Indianapolis Children’s Museum.
Rich is the recipient of the College of Liberal Arts and Murphy Teaching Awards and is included in Purdue’s Book of Great Teachers. He has served as a Senior Faculty Mentor in the Teachers for Tomorrow program, mentors early career faculty as a member of Purdue’s Teaching Academy and frequently lectures on the art of teaching.
Rich currently serves as Chair of Purdue Theatre.
RECENT ENGAGEMENTSActing
Played The Wizard of Words in the premiere of Suzan Zeder’s THE MILK DRAGON at Provincetown Playhouse in NYC, Summer 2007
Tony Blair in The Phoenix Theatre’s production of David Hare’s STUFF HAPPENS, Fall 2007
Directing
THE VENETIAN TWINS at the University of Minnesota/Guthrie Program, Winter 2008
FOOL FOR LOVE for Inertia Theatre at the 28th Street Theatre in NYC, Spring 2008
GENERAL INFORMATION
Appointments
2008 Chair, Division of Theatre, Purdue Theatre
2004
Interim Chair of Theatre, Purdue University 2003 - present Professor of
Theatre, Purdue University1998 - present Head of Undergraduate Theatre
Program, Purdue University 2002 – 2004 President, Association of
Theatre Movement Educators (150+ member organization)1994 – 2003
Associate Professor of Theatre, Purdue University 1987 – 1993 Assistant
Professor of Theatre, Purdue University 1985 – 1987 Assistant Professor
of Theatre, University of Kentucky, Lexington 1981 – 1982 Instructor of
Theatre, Wagner College, Staten Island, NY 1976 – 1978 Educational
Associate/English & Math, NYC Board of Education Fellowships
(representative)Indiana Arts Commission-National Endowment for the Arts
Artist Fellowship, 1996
Awards and Honors (representative)
Charles B. Murphy Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Award, 2005
Purdue University Teaching Academy, 2004
Alpha Psi Omega Teaching Award, 2004
Visual & Performing Arts Award for Excellence in Teaching, Purdue University, 2003
Alpha Psi Omega Theatre Professor of the Year 2001
School of Liberal Arts Excellence in Education Award, Purdue University 1996
Visual & Performing Arts Award for Excellence in Teaching, Purdue University 1996
Visual & Performing Arts Award for Excellence in Teaching, Purdue University 1995
Winnipeg Fringe Festival, Top Ten Show, CBC Television and Radio, 1994
Grants (recent)
International Travel Grant, The Arezzo Festival, Arezzo, Italy 2005
International Travel Grant, The Human Body Conference, Krakow 2003
International Travel Grant, International Federation of Theatre, Amsterdam 2002
Residencies (recent)
University of Minnesota/Guthrie Theatre Program, 2005, 2006, 2007
University of Missouri-Kansas City Summer Institute for Teachers 2004
The Asolo Conservatory, Sarasota, FL 2002
Alabama Shakespeare Festival, 2001
Membership in Academic, Professional Societies
1981 - present Actors’ Equity Association
1982 - present Screen Actors’ Guild
1985 - present Laban/Bartenieff Institute for Movement Studies
1989 – present Association for Theatre in Higher Education
1989 – present Association of Theatre Movement Educators
1998 - present International Federation for Theatre Research
1990 – present Society of American Fight Directors (representative)