Patrick Reynolds

Patrick Reynolds, visiting assistant professor of theater, acting chair (2005-06). Patrick holds a B.A. in theater arts from Linfield College, with an undergraduate thesis entitled, “Orson Welles as Stage Auteur: The Mercury Theater’s Julius Caesar,” and an A.M. in history of the theater from Brown University. Patrick also holds an M.A. from Cornell University, where he is completing his Ph.D. in theater history . His doctoral dissertation is “Brickbats and Jollification: American Vaudeville as Analytic Culture.” Patrick comes with teaching experience at Cornell University and Linfield College. He was a finalist in the Lilly Fellows Program, won First Place in the 2003 Heermans-McCalmon Playwriting Competition, and was both a Sage and Telluride Fellow at Cornell. He arrives with acting experience in New York, Washington, Oregon, and London. Patrick has directed numerous shows at the college level and in regional theater. He won the ACTF/Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts “Best Supporting Actor” award for his role in The Jeremiah. Patrick looks forward to a “vigorous pursuit of faith and scholarship” in a place “whose valuation of teaching and mentorship places students at the fore of its concerns.”

B.A., Linfield College
A.M., Brown University
M.A., Ph.D. (exp. 2007), Cornell University