Faculty Directory
Derek Campbell
Senior Lecturer, Acting
- Email:
- decamp40@me.com
- Phone:
- 716.286.8480
Bio
Derek is an Associate Director at the Irish Classical Theatre Company and a member of the Road Less Traveled Theatre Ensemble. Recent ICTC directing credits include: A Delicate Balance; The Dead and The Playboy of the Western World. At RLTP he directed the world premiere of local playwright Daryl Schneider’s Clean Break and The Goat or Who is Sylvia? For Shakespeare in Delaware Park he directed All’s Well That Ends Well; The Tempest and King Lear. He was honored with an ARTIE career achievement award in 2003. As an undergraduate in London, he founded the Phoenix Festival Company, specifically to take new plays and classical adaptations to the fringe of the Edinburgh International Festival. It was this company’s prize-winning production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream that brought him to the U.S. and earned him a directing scholarship at Penn State University. In August 2009 he taught a directing course as part of the Drama League of Ireland's summer program at the University of Limerick. He has extensive regional acting and directing credits. He has held academic appointments at Middlesex University, London, England; SUNY at Buffalo; MIT and Bennington College.