Simon Donoghue

Director and Associate Professor,

English Performing Arts

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.”

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: