Presenter Profile
Rand Harmon
Guest Artist, University of Northern Colorado
Dr. Rand Harmon, Associate Professor of Theatre Studies at the University of Northern Colorado, is a theatre director, producer, educator, and a creative entrepreneur. At the University of Northern Colorado, Dr. Harmon has directed The Crucible, These Shining Lives and Macbeth. Dr. Harmon is the Co-Founder of the Northern Colorado Center for Arts Entrepreneurship, and founded and has produced all of UNC’s StART Student Arts Salons since 2016. Other professional directing credits: James and the Giant Peach (Phamaly Theatre Company, Denver), The Tempest (Colorado Shakespeare Festival Anti-bullying Initiative Tour 2013), Noises Off! (CU Boulder), Elevator Plays, Elevator Plays 2: Beyond the Norm!, Elevator Plays3, Macbeth, The Most Beautiful Lullaby You’ve Ever Heard, Marco Polo and InterLifeChangeCycle (all site-specific productions for Specific Gravity Ensemble, Louisville, KY), The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, Noises Off! and Sweet Bird of Youth (Indiana University Southeast), Twelfth Night (Public Theatre of Kentucky, Bowling Green, KY), Ham Macbeth and The Ding Dongs; Or What is the Penalty in Portugal? (Square Product Theatre, Boulder), and I Am My Own Wife (Pandora Productions, Louisville, KY). Dr. Harmon holds a PhD in Theatre Studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder, and a Master of Fine Arts in Theatre Directing from The University of Texas at Austin. Dr. Harmon’s doctoral dissertation, entitled “Site-based Theatre of 21st Century Great Britain: Conceptualizing Audience Experience,” identifies and investigates conceptual methods employed by seven leading creators of noted site-based theatre works in England, Scotland and Wales. His article “Hamlet on Alcatraz: A Journey Into the Power of Sacred Space” was featured in the Winter 2013 issue of Ecumenica Journal. Dr. Harmon’s review, “Red Earth’s CHALK: Exploring Heritage and Myth through Ritual Performance of Place” was featured in Unstructured.5 Extra, a British on-line Art journal. He co-authored a one-act play with his wife Barb Harmon, “InterLifeChangeCycle (a play for site-specific performance)” published in the 2010 issue of Palimpsest; A Creative Journal of the Humanities.