Saturday, August 1, 2009

Hello!


Welcome to the Daytona State College Theatre Arts Blog. My name is Geoffrey Kershner and I am the new Director of Theatre here at DSC. I am very excited to be joining the faculty here in Daytona Beach and I am excited to work with this exciting community, in some incredible facilities, and in an incredible place.

I am thrilled about this year's season which includes David Ives' hilarious series of short plays entitled All in the Timing, a fall classic which will be a part of the new classic play festival at DSC, the musical Godspell, and Mary Zimmerman's adaptation of The Arabian Nights.

I can't wait to get to know the students at DSC and here is a little bit about me:

Geoffrey Kershner

Geoffrey Kershner is the founder and Artistic Director of the Endstation Theatre Company and the Blue Ridge Summer Theatre Festival based in Central Virginia. Geoffrey’s direction was recently seen in Endstation Theatre Company’s original productions of The Bluest Water: A Hurricane Camille Story and My Brother's Knife which were featured as part of the Blue Ridge Summer Theatre Festival. His Endstation production of The Mind of Poe was recently performed through out Virginia and was featured at the Capital Fringe Festival in Washington D.C.

Geoffrey served as the Artistic Director of the Crescendo Theatre Company based in Philadelphia for five years and co-created and directed their original productions of A Howl, A Tell-Tale Heart, and Hello! No Future?. As a theatre artist he has worked for the Arden Theatre Company, The Wilma Theater Company, The Willow Theatre, The Delaware Valley Opera Company, Theatre Jacksonville, University of the Arts, Sweet Briar College, Randolph College, Lynchburg College, Florida State University and the Yale-New Haven Summer High School.

He holds his MFA in Directing from Florida State University and his BFA in Acting from the University of the Arts. Other direction includes productions such as The Birds, Tough Choices for a New Century, Big Love, Quentin G, Amadeus, Macbeth, Endgame, Marisol, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Beaux’ Stratagem, and Splendora: A Musical. He has also led the creation of the original works Balls3 and The Guernica Project. Geoffrey is a member of the Lincoln Center’s Directors Lab.

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As we move through the school year I will be maintaining this blog with DSC Theatre Arts news, updates, information, photos, and video. Visit often!

Geoffrey Kershner
Daytona State College
Director of Theatre




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