Meet Our Faculty (A-Z)
David Bean
Technical Director
Barbara Bosch
Professor
Ian Calderon
Professor
Dongshin Chang
Chair of Theater Department
Associate Professor
Deepsikha Chatterjee
Lecturer
James Cleveland
Adjunct Lecturer
Robert Davis
Adjunct Lecturer
Mira Felner
Professor, Graduate Advisor
Lateefah Holder
Lecturer, Production Manager
Jonathan Kalb
Professor

Deniz Khateri
Adjunct Lecturer
Michael McIntire
Adjunct Lecturer
Benjamin Moore
Adjunct Associate Professor
Gregory Mosher
Patty and Jay Baker Professor of Theatre
Esther Neff
Adjunct Lecturer
Email: eneff@gradcenter.cuny.edu
Claudia Orenstein
Professor
Alexandra Rego
Adjunct Lecturer
Christine Scarfuto
Lecturer,
Director of Rita & Burton Goldberg
MFA in Playwriting
Phillip Christian Smith
Adjunct Lecturer
Louisa Thompson
Professor, Undergraduate Advisor
TINA HOWE (1937-2023)
The Hunter College Theatre Department deeply mourns the loss of our beloved friend, colleague, and fellow artist, the extraordinary playwright Tina Howe. Without Tina’s vision, drive and persistence our thriving MFA Playwriting Program would not exist today. For nearly three decades, she welcomed, nurtured, cajoled, galvanized, and inspired younger playwrights in our community with her inimitable mix of warm generosity, playful intelligence, and profuse exclamation. Her famous curtain line, “The whole thing is absolutely extraordinary!” sprang straight from her extravagant soul.
"Sure, we’re praised for our plays about women as victims -- plays that show us at the mercy of disease, abuse, and self-doubt. But how much of our work is produced that celebrates strong women? Sexy and canny women? Daughters, sisters, wives and mothers who move mountains, not just dust rags?” (Tina Howe, 2004)
