Courses: Intro to Theatre: Part II, Women Dramatists, Intro to Film, Contemporary Theatre Practice, Contemporary American Drama, Classical European Drama, Medieval Drama

Rebecca Harries completed her B.A. at Bishop's University Drama Department and her M.A. and Ph.D. at the University of Toronto. Her thesis was an exploration of the apocalyptic in expressionist German drama and film. She has presented papers on a range of topics from both Nosferatu films to the Teletubbies.

Her experience as a director includes workshops with Richard Rose and Theatre Smith-Gilmour and she some of her favorite plays directed at Bishop's include The Visit and Caryl Churchill's Vinegar Tom. She is also an enthusiastic practitioner of yoga and has taken workshops with Paul Grilley and Mahar Raz. This fall Dr. Harries is pleased to be offering Women and Performance for the first time in several years.

Courses: Intro to Technical Theatre, Intermediate Technical Theatre Lighting Design

Michael Medland has been an invaluable part of Bishop's University for over twenty years, acting as both technical director for Bishop's Drama since 1988 and Centennial Theatre since 1994. He studied under his predecessor and later colleague, Dr. Ian Gaskell. Mr. Medland was also Technical Director for the Piggery Theatre from 1989-1997. He has been lighting shows since 1986, including countless designs for Bishop's Drama and several for the Piggery and the Townships theatre company. Directors with whom he has worked include Ann Hodges, Perry Schneiderman, Greg Tuck, George Rideout, Doug Beatty, Andreas Aspergis and Corey Castle. His recent designs include Julius Caesar, The Madwoman of Chaillot, Indian Blood, Romeo and Juliet and A Midsummer Night's Dream (for the third time!). Michael Medland is the designer of the set and lighting for the 2011 spring musical, Beach Blanket Zombies.

Courses: Acting I, II & III, Theatre Lab

Jo Jo has been coaching young people for over thirty years and brings her wealth of experience to the classroom. Her teaching includes movement, mask,voice, text and acting. Jo Jo also teaches clown, recently honing her technique with Canada’s own Mump and Smoot. She is recognized as a premiere voice teacher in Canada, having taught at most major theatre centres including The Stratford Festival and Soulpepper Theatre. Besides her work at Bishop’s Jo Jo has been guest instructor at the National Theatre School of Canada since 1995. She also thrives in the costume shop and has designed costumes at Bishop's for numerous productions including every Spring Musical.

Courses: Playwriting I & II, Cont. Canadian Drama, Production I & II, Modern Drama, Intro to Shakespeare, Scene Study.

Winner of several regional and national playwriting awards, George Rideout's plays have been produced across Canada. Professor Rideout's playwriting class is the source of work for the annual New Plays Festival which presents one-act plays written by Bishop's students.

Professor Rideout is the author of over fifteen plays, including Michel & ti-Jean, An Anglophone is Coming to Dinner, The Tall Girl, Texas Boy, Dead Together, and Columbia Days. He is the co-founder, along with Professor Jamie Crooks and Fannie Gaudette, of the annual Bishop's Spring Musical; past productions include his adaptations of A Midsummer Night's Dream, Romeo & Juliet, The Tempest, and 12th Night.

This past summer Professor Rideout's western musical adaptation of Hamlet, Boot Hill, ran for eight nights in Turner Studio Theatre.

Courses: Acting 2, Directing, Text & Language, Production 1&2

Gregory Tuck has been working in Canadian Theatre since 1972. He trained as an actor in the professional acting program of the University of Alberta. Mr. Tuck began directing while at the Manitoba Theatre Centre where he was Assistant Director and Artistic Director of the Warehouse Theatre.

As a free lancer, Mr. Tuck has directed for the Wildhorse Theatre, Toronto Arts Productions, the Theatre Hour Company, Theatre Calgary, Theatre Beyond Words, the Edmonton Fringe Festival, the Western Canada Theatre Company, the Richmond Gateway, the New Bastion Theatre, 1000 Islands Playhouse, Playwrites Workshop (Montreal) and the Drayton Festival.

Mr. Tuck has taught and directed at the Banff Centre in the Drama, Music Theatre and Musical Theatre Programs, John Abbot College, the National Theatre School and Bishop's University. Mr. Tuck has written for the stage, television and radio, acts periodically, and has adjudicated the New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Quebec Drama Festivals.

Mr. Tuck sat on the Board of the Quebec Drama Federation and the Theatre Advisory Committee of the Canada Council. Mr. Tuck has been the Artistic Director of Sunshine Theatre in British Columbia and on two occasions of the Piggery Theatre. He is currently on the faculty of the Drama Department at Bishop's University.

Mr. Tuck recently directed Shakespeare’s Will for Theatre Lac Brome and is currently directing Black Comedy for B.U. Drama.

Dr. Rittenhouse is Full Professor in the Department of Drama, where he has taught since 1980, and was appointed Vice-Principal of Bishop's University in 2000. He received his Bachelor's degree (Honours English) from Loyola of Montreal and his Master's degree and PhD from the University of Toronto's Graduate Centre for the Study of Drama. He has taught a wide variety of courses in dramatic literature and theatre history and directed a number of student plays. He also served as Chair of the Eastern Townships Research Centre from 1989 to 1994 and was Editor of the Journal of Eastern Townships Studies from 1992 to 2001. Dr. Rittenhouse's graduate training was in the field of Renaissance and Shakespearian theatre. Besides conducting research in that field, however, he has also done extensive research on English-language theatre in Quebec, specifically the Eastern Townships and Montreal.