Dr. Robert McGill
Associate Professor
rmcgill@ucok.edu
| Bio In addition to his years at UCO, Bob McGill has taught graduates and undergraduates at St. Lawrence University, the University of Oklahoma and Wayne State University in his native Detroit. Bob majored in Theatre at the University of Detroit, got his Masters at Northwestern University and completed his Doctorate at the University of Michigan, where his dissertation topic was on the Stratford, Ontario Shakespearean Festival. Bob has directed over 100 plays of all genres and forms, but is particularly devoted to the classics. He regularly directs for Oklahoma Shakespeare in the Park and at UCO, he has produced plays by Goldoni, Feydeau, Williams, Shakespeare and O’Keeffe. Several of these productions have won numerous awards in the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival. While at Wayne State he adapted and directed the award winning House of the Blind, a version of Sophocles’ Theban Plays. He teaches courses in Shakespearean acting, play structure, classical acting, audition techniques, playwriting and introduction to the theatre. He is married to Kathryn Huey O’Meara McGill, who is the co-founder of Oklahoma Shakespeare in the Park and an adjunct professor in the department |