6.54 A Conversation with Jimmy Chrismon

Dr. Jimmy Chrismon is a theatre educator with 17 years of experience in the public schools of North and South Carolina. He currently teaches full time as an Assistant Professor of Theatre Teacher Education at Illinois State University. He was an adjunct theatre faculty member at Winthrop University and Central Piedmont Community College. He has acted, directed, designed, and produced professionally for 24 years. He received his Bachelor of Arts Degree in Theatre Education from The University of North Carolina at Charlotte where he was a North Carolina Teaching Fellow. He received his Master of Education Degree in Theatre Education from The University of North Carolina at Greensboro. He most recently completed his Doctor of Education Degree in Curriculum and Instruction from Gardner-Webb University. His dissertation was entitled “A Study of Theatre Teacher and School Administrator Perceptions of Traits, Characteristics, and Instructional Practices and Their Possible Role in Teacher Evaluation.” He has also worked for The Children’s Theatre of Charlotte and The Lake Norman School of the Arts. He currently resides in Bloomington, Illinois.
Dr. Chrismon received the 2022 Johnny Saldana Outstanding Professor of Theatre Education from The American Alliance for Theatre and Education.
Dr. Chrismon’s acting credits include: Lonely Planet, Doubt: A Parable, Company, The History Boys, Godspell, Shadow Box, The Baltimore Waltz, Tick, tick..Boom!, The Little Shop of Horrors, The Odd Couple, Children of Eden, Candide, The Miser, The Good Woman of Setzuan, I Love You, … Read More

Andrew Geha is an award-winning playwright and theater teacher. He has worked at Friends Academy, a Quaker school in Locust Valley, NY, since 2001. His musical featuring LGBTQ+ teens, Standing in the Current, was one of the winners of AATE’s 2018 Unpublished Play Reading Project. In Dreams, I Am Invincible, a play about bullying, was the 2018 winner of the New England Theatre Conference’s Aurand Harris Memorial Playwriting Award. He holds a Bachelor's Degree in Acting and a Master's Degree in Educational Theater, both from New York University. His work has been produced internationally, including a five-star production of We Didn’t Have Time to Be Scared, at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.