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Theater Arts Faculty Directory
Emeritus Faculty
William Esper
Has been the head of his own studio in New York for over 30
years as well as the director of the Professional Actor Training Program at
Rutgers' Mason Gross School of the Arts since its inception in 1977. He is a
graduate of Western Reserve University as well as the Neighborhood Playhouse
School of Theater, where he trained as a teacher and actor with Sanford Meisner,
with whom he worked in close association as a teacher and director for 15 years.
Mr. Esper was on the staff of the Neighborhood Playhouse for 12 years and
associate director of the Playhouse's acting department from 1973-1976. He has
been a guest artist teacher at Canada's Banff Festival of the Arts; Workshop for
Performing Arts in Vancouver, British Columbia; National Theater Center in
Tannersville, New York; The National Theater School of Canada; The St. Nicholas
Theater Company in Chicago, Illinois; and Schauspiel Müchen in Munich, Germany.
In 1975-76 he was director of the Circle Rep's company workshop in New York. He
has directed and acted both regionally as well as Off Broadway and is a member
of the Ensemble Studio Theater in New York. Mr. Esper is profiled in the book
The New Generation of Acting Teachers.
Donald Jensen
Emeritus
Donald Jensen has designed and painted for Broadway,
Off-Broadway, and regional theaters, as well as for ballet, opera, television, and
film. In his 30-year career, he has painted for major New York studios,
including Messmore and Damon, Atlas Scenic, and the Metropolitan Opera. He has
worked closely with Desmond Heeley, Robert O’Hearn, Franco Zeffirelli, and
Theoni V. Aldredge. He has a B.F.A. in drawing and painting from Kansas and did
his graduate studies at Columbia.
Eric Krebs
Emeritus
Eric Krebs is the founder and artistic director of the Off-Broadway
John Houseman and Douglas Fairbanks theaters. His New York producing credits
include It Ain’t Nothin’ But the Blues at Lincoln Center (which won four
Tony Award nominations); BASH; the critically acclaimed production of
Electra, starring Zoë Wanamaker; The Broadway Kids Sing Broadway;
Capitol Steps; The Passion of Dracula; Fool for Love; and
Paul Robeson. Krebs also produced Geoffrey Ewing’s Ali, the biography
of Muhammad Ali, which was featured at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta and
at the Mermaid Theater in London. He founded and for 14 years was the producing
director of the George Street Playhouse in New Brunswick, NJ.
Joseph Miklojcik, Jr.
Emeritus
Joseph Miklojcik, Jr. designed the sets for Are You Now
or Have You Ever Been a Member of the Communist Party? at the Promenade
Theater in New York. Off-Broadway, he designed A Most Secret War at the
Harold Clurman Theater and What’s a Nice Country Like You Doing in a State
Like This? for Theater Row. Miklojcik created sets for Macbeth, A
Soldier’s Tale, and the original productions of Extremities and
The Woolgatherer for the Levin Theater Company. For Opera at Rutgers, he
has designed Ariadne auf Naxos, Amahl and the Night Visitors,
the American
premiere of Donizetti’s Belasario, and Cosi fan Tutti, for which he received
first prize for best production from the National Opera Association. He received
his second first prize for best production from the National Opera Association
in 1995, for La Boheme. He was resident designer for the Wagon Wheel Playhouse
in Indiana and holds an M.A. degree in theater from the University of
Connecticut.
Gerald Rabkin
Emeritus
Gerald Rabkin earned his undergraduate degree at Brooklyn
College and his graduate degrees at Ohio State. After teaching at Indiana and
Kansas, he joined the faculty at Rutgers in 1970. He was chairperson of the
Livingston College Theater Program in the mid-1970s and has taught academic
subjects and playwriting at the Mason Gross School of the Arts since 1981. As a
theater scholar, Rabkin is best known for his book Drama and Commitment:
Politics in the American Theater of the Thirties, and for his recent work on
poststructuralist criticism and theater theory. He was theater editor for the
New York Soho News and has written reviews for the London New Statesman and the
New York Metro-Herald. Other publications he has written for include the
Performing Arts Journal, American Theater, and the Kansas City Star.
Harold Scott
Emeritus
Harold Scott passed away at his home, 16 July 2006.
article on BroadWayWorld.com
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Harold Scott was a member of the original company of the
Repertory Theater of Lincoln Center, where he was trained by Elia Kazan, Harold
Clurman, and Robert Lewis. For two years, Scott was artistic director of the
Cincinnati Playhouse, and he spent six summers with the O’Neill Theater Center’s
National Playwrights’ Conference as an actor and a director. His directorial
credits include most of the major regional theaters, ranging from Washington’s
Arena Stage, Seattle Repertory Theatre, Indiana Repertory Theatre, Syracuse
Stage, and the Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, to the Shakespeare Theatre at the
Folger, Stage West, Great Lakes Theater Festival, and Atlanta’s Alliance Theatre
Company. New Yorkers are familiar with his work from Playwrights Horizons,
Manhattan Theatre Club, the Roundabout Theatre Company, and Henry Street
Settlement’s New Federal Theatre. He also won acclaim for his Broadway
productions of Paul Robeson starring Avery Brooks and The Mighty Gents
starring Morgan Freeman and Howard Rollins.
A graduate of Phillips Exeter Academy and Harvard, Scott has lectured at more
than a dozen universities, including Harvard and Brandeis. He has received an
Obie; an Exxon Award for “creating innovative regional theater”; recognition by
the Variety Critics’ Poll; and a Special Award from the New England Theatre
Conference “for his acting, directing, and teaching.” In 1995, he received the
Lloyd Richards Director’s Award from the National Black Theatre Festival for his
“profound contribution to black theater.” Scott directed the twenty-fifth
anniversary production of A Raisin in the Sun, starring Esther Rolle, which
opened at the Roundabout in New York and later broke box-office records at the
Kennedy Center in Washington, DC. The production, which received nine National
Theater Awards from the NAACP, including best director, was filmed for public
television’s Great Performances.
Scott is a member of New York’s Ensemble Studio Theatre, and is an associate
artist of Crossroads Theater Company, where he directs frequently. Scott’s
celebrated Afrocentric production of Othello was remounted last season for the
Great Lakes Theater Festival. Recently, he directed Suddenly Last Summer,
starring Elizabeth Ashley, for Broadway’s Circle-in-the-Square, and The Old
Settler, starring Leslie Uggams, for Off-Broadway’s Primary Stages. Scott is a
former panelist for the National Endowment for the Arts, and a former board
member of the Nontraditional Casting Project and Theatre Communications Group.
In 1994, he was appointed Curator of Theater for the National Black Arts
Festival in Atlanta, where he directed the world premiere of Lorraine
Hansberry’s What Use Are Flowers? His achievements are profiled in
Black Magic
by Langston Hughes, The Player by Lillian Ross,
Who’s Who in American Theater,
Who’s Who Among Black Americans, and Blacks at Harvard, edited by Sollers,
Titcomb, and Underwood.
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