Tenured, Full Professor of Drama

Founder, Drama & Theatre Program

Founder & Artistic Director, NSU Theatre Company

Achievements & Highlights:​
 

• 2024, City of Norfolk Mayor Proclamation Recipient: for designing & founding Norfolk State University's Bachelor of Arts in Drama & Theatre Degree Program; founding the NSU Theatre Company and a decade of contributions to the City of Norfolk's arts scene and Norfolk State University.
   

• 2024, American Theater magazine article Featured Contributor: The HBCU Edge
   

• 2023, Production of Thoughts of a Colored Man, 20-time Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival National Awards Winner
   

• Historic five-time consecutive selections to the biennial International Black Theatre Festival (formerly National Black Theatre Festival) from 2015-2024
   

• 2022, Southern Theatre magazine article Featured Contributor: Opening Doors
   

• 2021, Excellence in Undergraduate Training in Acting Award -  University Resident Theatre Association
   

• 2021, Named one of 25 Game Changers in American Theatre by Black Masks Magazine
   

• 2021, Promoted from Associate Professor to Full Professor
   

• 2018, Academic Tenure Received
   

• 2017, Winner, Best Fine Arts Program - The HBCU Awards
   

• 2017, Bearer of the University Mace, Norfolk State University
   

• 2017, Inaugural Recipient, 50 Under 50 Award, Alabama State University
   

• 2016, President's Coin Recipient, Norfolk State University
   

• 2016, Excellence in Design Award, The Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival
   

• 2016, Chartered the Alpha Theta Kappa Chapter of Alpha Psi Omega National Theatre Honor Society
   

• 2015 to Present, America's most award-winning, nationally recognized HBCU drama program
   

• 2015 to Present, Virginia's most award-winning, nationally recognized program in performance
   

• 2015, Production of The Brothers Size, Two-time Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival National Awards Winner
   

• Justified and met benchmarks to expand faculty and staff from two to seven in under five years
   

• Five-year theatre enrollment increase of more than one-thousand-two-hundred percent (1,200%)
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• Five-year theatre production annual revenue increase of three-thousand-one-hundred percent (3,100% )
   

• Proposed, designed and founded the brand-new Bachelor of Arts in Drama & Theatre Program
   

• Established University partnerships and co-productions with Equity and professional companies
   

• Guided the design of brand new, state-of-the-art, Mainstage & Studio Theaters in the 55-million-dollar new G.W.C. Brown Memorial Hall
   

• Presidentially appointed to serve as a Senior Fellow in the Robert C. Nusbaum Honors College
   

• Two-time selection as one of four national finalists for Male Faculty of the Year - The HBCU Awards
   

• Four-time recipient, Excellence in Directing Award, The Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival
   

• Established the Norfolk Regional Site for the National August Wilson Monologue Competition
   

• Stages of Development, Biographical Feature, The Virginian-Pilot
   

• Stage Directions, Alumni Profile Feature, Brandeis Magazine
   

• NSU's Anthony Stockard: A Force of Theatre, Community Leadership Profile Feature, New Journal & Guide