Todd Roehrman is the Director of the School of Theatre & Dance at SF State and Interim Chair of the Department of Design and Industry. During his tenure as Chair of Theatre Arts from 2010-11, he successfully led the department through NAST (National Association of Schools of Theatre) accreditation process, and in 2012, He stepped into the role of Associate Dean in the newly configured College of Liberal & Creative Arts and served through 2015 AY.
Currently, I am serving as the Director of the School of Theatre & Dance. I am also the technical director for the Department of Theatre Arts. Previously, I taught in the Conservatory of Theatre Arts & Film at Purchase College, SUNY. Before that I was part of the Technical Department team at the Metropolitan Opera, where I also worked as a liaison with companies like American Ballet Theatre, Kirov Opera and Kirov Ballet during their events at the Met.
Joel Schechter is Emeritus Professor of Theatre and Dance at San Francisco State University, where he taught courses in theatre history, dramatic literature, dramaturgy, playwriting and popular theatre from 1992 to 2019. He also served as Chair of Theatre Arts for six years, as coordinator of the M.A.
Mariana K. Leal Ferreira (Ph.D. UC Berkeley--UC San Francisco, joint degree in 1996) is a medical anthropologist from Brazil using Critical Theory, including Theater and Pedagogy of the Oppressed, to protect the human rights of Indigenous Peoples and other minorities in North and South America. Her most recent books include Mapping Time, Space and the Body.
