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Simon Donoghue
Meet Simon Donoghue
OF NOTE: Teaches a variety of theatre courses, his favorites being Introduction to Theatre Arts, the American Musical and Acting Shakespeare.
KNOWN FOR: Co-authored the play Mixed Nuts and Now Let Us All Give Thanks.
When not in the classroom, can often be found: Performing in shows (favorites being Comic Relief, Auditions, Strike: 1929 and Verity.
Popular quote: “I enjoy working with young artists and helping them hone their craft.”
Examples of the classes taught by Simon Donoghue:
- Introduction to Theatre Arts
- American Musical Theatre
- Ancient and Modern Texts in the Western Tradition
- Introduction to Composition
- Effective Speaking
- The Resilient Church
- The Cross and the Swastika
- Genocide in the Twentieth Century
- Acting Shakespeare
- World War I
- B.A., University of Virginia
- M.S.L.S., University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
- Adrian Award for Teaching Excellence, Belmont Abbey College, 2008.
- Copenhagen, originally directed at Belmont Abbey College in 2004, translated to the stage of the Charlotte Repertory Theatre, a League of Resident Theatres Equity house in 2005.
- Nomination, Best Actor; Niels Bohr in Copenhagen, Charlotte, Repertory Theatre, Charlotte, NC, Creative Loafing Magazine, 2005.
- Recipient, Best Supporting Actor; Cardinal Wolsey in A Man for All Seasons, Charlotte Repertory Theatre, Charlotte, NC, Creative Loafing Magazine, 1993.
- Recipient, Best Director; Talley’s Folly, Theatre Charlotte, Charlotte, NC, Charlotte Observer, 1992.
- Recipient, Thompson Playwriting Award; Now Let Us All Give Thanks (co-authored with Nancy Manera), North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, 1991.
Published:
-Mixed Nuts, play, co-authored with Nancy Manera; Dramatic Publishing Company, 1983.
“Thomas Osterreich and the Founding of the Great Library,” Catholic Library World.
Performed:
-Now Let Us All Give Thanks
-Flickers
-André Michaux
-Comic Relief
-Labor of Love (with Philip Rose)
-Auditions
-More
