Dramatic art professor Ray Dooley of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has been elected to the board of directors of the nation’s oldest and largest association of graduate theater training programs.
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Dramatic art professor Ray Dooley of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has been elected to the board of directors of the nation’s oldest and largest association of graduate theater training programs.
He will serve a three-year term on the board of the University/Resident Theatre Association, which consists of 35 of the most influential schools in theater training in the country and 14 partner theater companies.
Dooley is head of the professional actor training program in the dramatic art department in UNC’s College of Arts and Sciences. He chaired the department from 1999 to 2005. He has taught undergraduate and graduate acting classes and courses in dramatic literature.
Dooley has 30 years of professional acting experience that has spanned film, television and stages across the United States and abroad. He is the recipient of a Village Voice OBIE Award for Distinguished Performance at CSC Repertory in New York. In 2006, he played Father Flynn in the European premiere of “Doubt: A Parable” at Vienna’s English Theatre.
With PlayMakers Repertory Company, the professional theater in residence at UNC, Dooley has acted in nearly 50 productions since 1989. Among them, he portrayed Salieri in “Amadeus” and played the title role in “Cyrano de Bergerac.”
University/Resident Theatre Association Web site: http://www.urta.com
College of Arts and Sciences contact: Kim Spurr, (919) 962-4093, spurrk@email.unc.edu