Theatre Program Faculty - Darrell Rushton

Name:	Darrell Rushton
Rank:	Assistant Professor
Degrees:	B.A. Florida State University M.F.A. Virginia Commonwealth University
Areas of teaching interest:	Acting, Physical Comedy and Stage Combat
Office Location:	311 Performing Arts Center
Office Phone Number:	(301) 687-4487
e-mail:	dsrushton@frostburg.edu

Biography

Darrell Rushton earned his MFA from Virginia Commonwealth University, where he choreographed fights for The Rivals. He has been a guest artist at West Virginia University, North Carolina School of the Arts and has taught at regional Stage Combat Workshops around the country, including the Chicago Winter Wonderland, Seattle Sockeye, Denver’s Rumble in the Rockies and the National Stage Combat Workshop, as well as coordinating the Savage Mountain Summer Stage Combat Workshop.

At Frostburg State, he has been the fight director for Of Mice and Men, Urinetown, Breath, Boom, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Violet Hour, Romeo and Juliet, Flyin’ West, Fuddy Meers, Loves Labors Lost, I Hate Hamlet and Man of LaMancha. Professionally, his fight choreography has been featured in Windwood Theatricals Urban Cowboy and The Unsinkable Molly Brown, and Cumberland Theatre's Jekyll and Hyde and Brigadoon. He is a member of Actor’s Equity Association, Screen Actors Guild, American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, Society of American Fight Directors, Phi Mu Alpha and the Association of Theatre Movement Educators. Publications include articles in the ATME Journal, the Fight Master: Journal of the Society of American Fight Directors, and The Cutting Edge.

TV and Film appearances include One Life to Live, All My Children, and Saturday Night Live in New York and Traffic, Runaway Bride, and HBO's Shot in the Heart. Theatre appearences include Twelfth Night, Woman in Black, Bye, Bye, Birdie, Taming of the Shrew and Brigadoon at the Cumberland Theatre as well as regional appearances in Florida, Pennsylvania, Indiana and Illinois.