Djola Branner, Director
Theater Faculty and Staff List
Adjunct Faculty, School of Theater, CVPA
David Goldstein has over 20 years of professional experience as a screenwriter, having written (and rewritten) scripts for companies such as Disney, Sony, Paramount, Lucasfilm and Fox.
Program Manager, School of Theater, CVPA
Nicholas Kfoury Horner is a singer, voice-over artist, theatre actor, and director based in Washington D.C.
Assistant Professor, School of Theater, CVPA
Mimsi Janis is an actor and teaching artist in the DC area.
Associate Dean of Faculty Affairs and International Programs, CVPA
Professor, School of Theater, CVPAKristin Johnsen-Neshati is Associate Professor of Theater at George Mason University, where she has taught theater history, dramatic literature, dramaturgy and dramatic criticism since 1993.
Executive Director, Mason Community Arts Academy and Assistant Professor, School of Theater, CVPA
Mary Lechter, (BA University of Maryland) is a graduate of University of Maryland, College Park with a BA in Theater and Speech Communications, Mary has been working professionally as an actor since 1985 in the Metropolitan Washington area, Los Angeles, and New York.
Adjunct Faculty, School of Theater, CVPA
Kaiulani Lee, (B.A.,American University; Honorary Doctorate of the Arts, Bowdoin College, a student of Lee Strasberg, Sandy Meisner, Jerzy Grotowski and Uta Hagen). Kaiulani Lee brings to her teaching more than thirty-five years of experience in theater, film and television. Ms. Lee has starred in over a dozen plays on and Off- Broadway. She has been nominated for the Drama Desk Award on Broadway and has won the Obie Award for “Outstanding Off-Broadway Achievement.”
Adjunct Professor, School of Theater, CVPA
Ahmad Maaty is an Egyptian-American actor, dancer, choreographer, and singer.
Writer in Residence, Professor, School of Theater, CVPA
Film Faculty Screenwriting Concentration, Film and Video Studies, CVPAHeather McDonald (MFA, NYU Tisch School of the Arts) is professor of theater and head of playwriting and dramaturgy concentration.
Assistant Professor, School of Theater, CVPA
Sherrice Mojgani is an Assistant Professor at George Mason University, a lighting designer, and an activist.