Associate Dean, College of Visual and Performing
Arts
Artistic Director, Center for the Arts
Artistic Director, Theater of the First Amendment
Professor of Theater
George Mason University
rdavi4@gmu.edu
(703) 993-2192 (phone)
(703) 993-2191 (fax)
current and recent GMU course syllabi---
M.F.A., Dramaturgy, Dramatic Literature, and
Criticism, Yale
School of Drama. 1983.
Kenneth
Tynan Award in Dramaturgy
B.A., summa cum laude, Theatre and
Drama, Lawrence
University, 1980.
F.
Theodore Cloak Award in Theatre
Phi
Beta Kappa
Eta
Sigma Phi (Classics honorary society)
Teaching Excellence Award, George
Mason University,
1997.
2000-01: Interim Director, Institute of the Arts, George Mason University
2000 : Artistic Director, SummerArts 2000, a professional summer festival theater in Flagstaff, Arizona, under the auspices of Northern Arizona University.
1991-present: Artistic Director of Theater of the First Amendment and Associate Professor of Theater, Institute of the Arts, George Mason University.
1990-91: Associate Artistic Director, Center Stage.
1986-90: Resident Dramaturg, Center Stage.
1983-1988, Assistant Professor of Drama, Washington College.
1988-91, Adjunct Lecturer in Drama at Washington College, Johns Hopkins University, Goucher College.
1983-85, co-founder and Associate Artistic Director, American Ibsen Theater, Pittsburgh.
1984,85, Instructor of Drama, Carnegie Mellon University Summer program.
1980-present: freelance theater artist
(directing,
dramaturgy, design, performance, writing/translating).
2006: Mozart's Leading Ladies, The IN Series, Washington, D.C.
(Tivoli/GALA Hispanic Theatre)
2005: Mediterranean Valentine, The IN Series, Washington, D.C.
(National Museum of Women in the Arts)
2004: El Amor Brujo, The IN Series, Washington, D.C. (National Museum
of Women in the Arts)
2001: Zarzuela!, The IN Series, Washington, D.C. (Clark Street
Playhouse)
1999: Opera Under the Stars, Opera
Idaho.
1999: Idomeneo, The IN Series, Washington, D.C. (Hand
Chapel)
1997: La Boheme, Capital City Opera, Kennedy Center, Washington,
D.C.
1997: La Boheme, Opera Idaho, Boise.
1995: Gianni Schicchi/The Old Maid and the Thief, Lake George
Opera Festival (NY).
1995: The Coffee Cantata , Virginia Consort/Charlottesville Bach
Festival.
1994: Hansel and Gretel, Boise Opera (Opera Idaho).
1994: Young Artists Showcase, Lake George Opera Festival.
1995: Ibsen: Four Major Plays, translated by Rick Davis and
Brian
Johnston. Smith and Kraus.
These translations (A Doll House, Ghosts, An Enemy
of
the People, and Hedda Gabler) have been successfully
produced
in professional and academic theaters throughout the US. including
Berkeley Rep, Center Stage, Alliance Theatre, Alabama Shakespeare
Festival, San Diego Stage, and others.
An additional Davis/Johnston collaborative translation, John Gabriel Borkman, was premiered by TFA and is published by Smith and Kraus in Ibsen, Four Plays, Vol. III. (1998).
The Davis/Johnston translations of A Doll House and Hedda Gabler appear in the Norton Critical Edition of Ibsen's Plays (2003).
Love's Comedy,
opera libretto based on Ibsen's early play; music by Kim D. Sherman.
workshop staging of Act I, Lake George Opera Festival, 1994. Full
staging of selections, Opera Idaho, 1999.
Life Is A Dream, translation of Calderon,
2003. Commissioned and workshopped by Voice and Vision Theater,
New
York.
The Constant Prince, translation of
Calderon,
2003.
The Great Theater of the World,
translation
of Calderon, produced by George Mason University, 2002; Belhaven
College, 2006.
The Phantom Lady, translation of Calderon;
produced by the Bowman Ensemble, Baltimore, 1990.
The Fan, translation of Goldoni, produced
by West Virginia University, 1993; The Bowman Ensemble, 1989;
Washington
College, 1983.
More than forty articles for magazines and
journals
including American Theatre, Theater, Theater Three, Ibsen News and
Comment,
and the publications of Center Stage, the Guthrie Theater, Dallas
Theater
Center, Brooklyn Academy of Music (On The Next Wave), Delaware Theatre
Company, American Ibsen Theater, and other regional theaters.
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