Overview
Theo Black is a professor in Cornell University’s department of Performing & Media Arts, where he engages students in acting, directing, public speaking, and practice-based eco-performance work. Beyond the academy, Theo serves as a dynamic communication coach for Footprints’ climate action & environmental justice camps and community partner with Raeflower Holsitics. His university work centers in pedagogy and practice within intersecting fields of the arts and ecology, with the Environment & Sustainability program & Cornell Botanic Gardens. Theo also works in partnership with eco-oriented colleagues at Stanford, UNR-Lake Tahoe’s Sustainability Certificate program, and UC Merced (most recently with their launch of the first Environmental Humanities major in the country and annually in adapting a Shakespeare play infused with scientific & cultural specificity performed for Earth Day’s Shakespeare in Yosemite programming). Cultivating dynamic communication and performance skills to bridge salient scientific and communal understandings of environment within the world center his practice-based-research both locally and global in scale.
Research Focus
Shakespeare performance studies
Public speaking
In the news
- BIOphelia: A Performance-Infused Scholarship Symposium
- Acting Showcase Sharing
- A Mingled Yarn A Devised Play, May 4th 5:45 p.m.
PMA Courses - Fall 2024
- PMA 2800 : Introduction to Acting
- PMA 3800 : Acting II
- PMA 7100 : The Pedagogy of Performing and Media Arts