Brian Leahy Doyle
Visiting Assistant Professor
Office: Performing Arts Center 206
Contact Number: (320) 308-0138
Email: bldoyle@stcloudstate.edu
Brian Leahy Doyle is delighted to be joining the Department of Theatre, Film Studies and Dance as a visiting assistant professor. A native of Wisconsin, Brian received his undergraduate degree from the University of Wisconsin-Platteville and his MFA in Theatre from the University of Utah. While pursuing his graduate studies, he served as the dramaturg for the Pioneer Theatre Company and served in a similar capacity at the George Street Playhouse, the Whole Theatre and the Lovinger Theatre.
For the past 20 years, Brian has also pursued a career as a freelance director based in New York and has directed Off-Broadway, in regional theatres and on college campuses. His New York credits include Translations, Losers, Liverpool Fantasy, Faces to the Rain (Irish Arts Center); Love's Labor's Lost, Two Gentlemen of Verona, Much Ado About Nothing (Riverside Shakespeare); Leonce and Lena and The Imbecile (Open Eye); Twelfth Night (Blue Heron Theatre); Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Aaron Jay Kernis's The Four Seasons of Futurist Cuisine (Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall); Hablo, Diablo (Makor/92nd Street Y); Bronte (Abingdon Theatre) and Ridge's Lovers (Synchronicity Space/American premiere). Regional credits: All Is Forgiven (Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park), The Concert for Berundi (Whole Theatre) and The Baden Learning Play (Louisville’s Classics in Context Festival). College credits: On the Verge, Dancing at Lughnasa, The Fantasticks, Nunsense and The Learned Ladies (Marymount College); Hamlet and A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Fordham University); and The Tricks of Scapin, Travesties, Picasso at the Lapin Agile, The Playboy of the Western World and Tartuffe (Lehman College).
Prior to coming to St. Cloud State University, Brian taught at Marymount College, the School for Film and Television, the American Musical and Dramatic Academy and Lehman College of the City University of New York, where he recently directed Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya. His articles have appeared in Theatre History Studies, Shakespeare and the Classroom, The Steinbeck Review and New Hibernia Review, among other journals. Brian’s book, Rediscovering Wisconsin’s Historic Theaters and Opera Houses, will be published by the Wisconsin Historical Society Press, and its release will be accompanied by a documentary produced by Wisconsin Public Television.
