CVPA faculty

Kristin Johnsen-Neshati is Associate Professor of Theater at George Mason University, where she has taught theater history, dramatic literature, dramaturgy and dramatic criticism since 1993.

Claire Huschle is the founder and director of Scaffold, LLC, a project support firm for artists and arts organizations.

Xang Mimi Ho is a fashion photographer in the Virginia area as well as an adjunct professor at George Mason University. Ho received her Bachelor of Fine Art from George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia...

Bridget Higgins has served as Operations Coordinator at the Dewberry School of Music since 2014. Her duties in this role include managing student recitals, scheduling applied lessons, managing recordings, working as staff liaison with music student organizations, and coordinating day-to-day operations in the school.

Dr. John Paul Healey has served on the piano faculty of George Mason University’s School of Music since 2004.  Since then he has performed with students, faculty members and as a soloist in most of the performance venues on campus.  He has been included as an annual faculty presenter in GMU’s Piano Pedagogy Seminars since 2009.

Gregory Grimsby, Assistant Professor in Computer Game Design, earned his MFA in painting from George Mason University. Read more...

Dr. Emily H. Green enjoys scholarship on a number of areas of music history. Her first interest in musicology concerns strategies of music publishing and marketing in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century western Europe and America.

As Director of Development for the College of Visual and Performing Arts since 2014, Susan plays a leadership role in the College’s overall development efforts.

Edward Gero, (Associate Professor, B.A., Montclair State College) is Performance Area Head for the School of Theatre at Theater at George Mason University.

James Gardiner, (B.A. University of Maryland - College Park) is a professional actor and playwright.