Phone: 860-486-6292
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Email:robert.mcdonald@uconn.edu

ROBERT MCDONALD (Adjunct Faculty & Professor Emeritus of Dramatic Arts), MFA Yale of School Drama; Ph.D. Michigan State.

Dr. McDonald's professional directing credits include a production of his adaptation of WOYZECK, by Georg Buchner, first performed in 2008 at the Little Victory Theatre (LA) for the Gangbusters Theatre Company of Los Angeles, and then at the New York International Fringe Festival in 2009; the premiere of TOWARD HALF DOME, by Bob Duxbury at Present Company, New York (Off-Off Broadway), and numerous productions for Connecticut Repertory Theatre, including THE MISER, EXIT THE KING, WRENS, and STAGES (an East Coast premiere) to name a few. As an actor, his credits include 'Guardian Angel', THE ANGEL PROECT, devised and directed by Deborah Warner, the leading British director, at the Lincoln Center Summer Festival in 2003, NYC, as well as numerous roles for CRT, Yale Rep, Theatre/ Trinity (Hartford, CT), Ledges Playhouse (Michigan), Mickery Theatre (Netherlands), and Soho Poly (London, England), among others. He has also played featured roles in several education and industrial films.
He is a former President of the New England Theatre Conference (NETC) and an elected member of NETC's College of Fellows.