CVPA faculty

  • Jeremy Freer is Administrative Faculty and is Associate Director of Green Machine Ensembles and works closely with Dr. Glenn Smith with the Music and Wellness program. He has taught Music in Motion Pictures, Popular Music Arranging, Jazz History, and Brass Techniques for the School of Music and teaches student arrangers, acoustic groups, photobombing techniques, and rock bands for the nationally acclaimed Green Machine.

  • Lisa Berger is a professional singer in the Washington area who has been affiliated with George Mason University as an Adjunct Professor since 2003, on the voice faculty and in the classroom.

  • My research and art practice has been centered on five major areas that I have been developing in parallel. It is the idea of Environmental Theater by Richard Schechner; -in situ or contextual theater-, that best describes my art practice.

  • Dennis Edelbrock has performed with The United States Army Band and the Army Brass Quintet since 1975. Since that time, he has also written music used frequently at official state ceremonies at the White House, NBC’s “Christmas in Washington”, country music’s televised show “Nashville Now”, as well as music used in the opening ceremonies for the 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Games and Special Olympics.

  • Laurel Dunayer has been with George Mason University since 2006 as Costume Shop Supervisor for CVPA. Laurel received her MFA in Theatre-Costume Design from the University of Illinois, then moved to NYC to work in Broadway costume shops.

  • At George Mason, Professor Dunayer teaches Sound Design and Event Production. He has designed sound for over 300 productions throughout the United States.

  • Dorsey Drummond is an Audio Visual Engineer at the Center for the Arts at the College of Visual and Performing Arts

  • Carrie Ann Delaney earned her Bachelor and Master degrees in Music Education from the Aaron Copland School of Music at Queens College in New York. As an undergraduate, she performed as principal clarinet with the Wind Ensemble. 

  • Dr. Karalee Dawn MacKay is the Director of the Arts Management Program. She has her PhD in Theater and Performance from the University of Maryland.

  • Rick joined Mason in 1991 as Artistic Director of Theater of the First Amendment (TFA) and a member of the theater faculty. The company, which presented its final programs in 2012, was nominated for 38 Helen Hayes Awards, winning 12, and originated numerous works that went on to other regional theaters, television, radio, and publication. Read more...