CVPA faculty

  • 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 is a historian of musical culture and enjoys writing and teaching a across a variety of perspectives. In scholarship, her interests focus on Europe and the United States from 1750–1850, especially: publishing, performance practices, enslaved music making, women’s participation, celebrity, and Atlantic musical exchange.

  • 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.

  • Erin Gardiner is a professional actor and singer in the DC area. 

  • David Gaines, is a performer and director who has focused his work almost exclusively on telling stories in movement, mask, improvisation, commedia, and clown.

  • Cynthia Fuchs (PhD, University of Pennsylvania, 1989) is the interim Director and Professor of Film and Video Studies (CVPA), as well as a faculty member in African and African American Studies (AAAS) and Sport and American Culture; she is an Executive Committee member for Women and Gender Studies (WGST).

  • Born in Zahlé, Lebanon, Chawky Frenn lived his formative years in a country that nurtured him not only with mysticism, spirituality and beauty, but also with paradoxes, conflicts, and delusions. Before emigrating to the United States in 1981, he witnessed six years of civil war...