FSEM 165   Theatre Art/The Actor's Task

Faculty Profile for Professor Giurgea

Theatre acting provides a lifelong foundation for independent inquiry. Focuses is on illuminating the correlations between mind, body, and brain, in the process of acting, cultivates students’ self awareness, attention, and concentration, and enhances their ability to communicate and adapt to collective work. Through practical and theoretical assignments, class activities and performance, students acquire skills in the art and craft of acting and learn about theatre. Students who successfully complete this seminar will receive credit for THEA 254 and satisfy one half of the Human Thought and Expression area of inquiry requirement.

Professor Simona Giurgea studied theatre at the Academy of Theatre, Film and Television in Bucharest, Romania, where she earned her MFA in Acting and started teaching in 1991. She worked in repertory theatre from the age of eighteen. Her professional experience includes: acting, directing, set and costume design, coaching, movement instruction, musical theatre, television, film and radio credits, national (Romania) and international workshops and tours in Italy, Belgium, Germany, and Egypt.

In the United States, she taught both in graduate and undergraduate programs at the American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco, University of California at Riverside, California State University in Long Beach, Pomona College, and Colgate University.

At Colgate University (2005-2019) she teaches classes in acting and directing, Children Theatre Workshop, Senior Seminar, supervises senior projects, and directs University Theatre productions.