Brief Bio
David McTier is Associate Professor of Theatre at Sam Houston State University in Huntsville, Texas, where he heads and teaches theatre history, dramatic theory and criticism, and dramaturgy. Raised on a cattle farm in rural Georgia, he holds a Ph.D. in theatre history and criticism with proficiency in directing from the University of Texas. During the past seventeen years, he has taught on the faculties of the University of Kentucky, the University of Vermont, Agnes Scott College, and Rockhurst University. Dr. McTier has been an active participant in the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival (KCACTF), and, in 2004, he won the Kennedy Center’s National Faculty Fellowship in Criticism and attended the National Critics Institute at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center. Named multiple times to Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers, he has spent sixteen summers teaching gifted and talented high school students at the Governor’s programs in Virginia, Georgia, and Missouri.
Also
Texas UIL One-Act Play Critic Judge
Texas Certification in Theatre (6-12)
KCACTF Responder (Adjudicator)