Theater Faculty
Howard Kurtz
Winner of the 2001 Teaching Excellence Award
Howard
(B.F.A., Clarion University
of PA; M.F.A. Penn State University)joined George Mason University in 1993. His previous work experience includes several years as a draper in New York City, creating costumes for Broadway, Hollywood films, and television. Mr. Kurtz has also designed costumes at many regional and local theaters. He was honored with the Helen Hayes Award in Outstanding Costume Design for Dream of a Common Language, produced at Theater of the First Amendment, George Mason University.
Currently Professor Kurtz is an Associate Professor of Theater and Production Manager for the GMU Players. He teaches costume design, history of fashion, patterning making, millinery, and makeup design, as well as an introductory theater course to non-majors. Professor Kurtz has received both the Fenwick Fellowship Award and the Teaching Excellence Award. Howard has designed sets, costumes, and directed productions for the GMU Players and outside the university for various theatrical organizations.
Mr. Kurtz is a member of The Costume Society of America, United States Institute Theater Technology, United Scenic Artists and is the Artistic Associate in Costume Design for the Olney Theatre Center, Olney, Maryland. He serves as the costume and textiles curator for the Hillwood Estate Museum and Gardens in Washington D.C. the former residence of the Post cereal heiress, Marjorie Merriweather Post.
FALL 2009
Lectures and other programs presented by Professor Kurtz
Lecture: The Fashions of Hillwood and the Art of Design
July 29 at Westminster at Lake Ridge in Woodbridge
Program: 1950s Costumes and the Fine Art of Entertaining
August 10 – December 31 at Hillwood Museum & Gardens
Program: Osher Lifelong Learning “From Page to Stage”
September 12, 19, October 3, 17, 24 George Mason University
Lecture: Dressing for a Special Occasion
September 30 at Hillwood Museum & Gardens
Director: Ah, Wilderness! by Eugene O’Neill
October 22 – November 1 George Mason University
Course List:
THR 101 Theatrical Medium
THR 196 Performance/Design Practicum
THR 197 Management/Literary Practicum
THR 215 Stage Makeup
THR 235 Fundamentals of Costume Construction
THR 335 Costume Design
THR 490 History of Fashion and Costume
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