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Advisory Board-Dan Carter

Dan Carter is a professor and Director of Penn State’s School of Theatre and Artistic Director of Pennsylvania Centre Stage. He was formerly Chair of the Department of Theatre at Illinois State University and Associate Dean of the School of Theatre at the Florida State University. He serves on the Commission on Accreditation for the National Association of Schools of Theatre and is a trustee of the National Theatre Conference. He is a past recipient of the Society of American Flight Directors’ Patrick Crean Award and served Actors’ Equity Association for four years as Area Liaison from the State of Florida. He was Literary Manager for the Boston Public Theater and Producing Director of the Illinois Shakespeare Festival. He was Executive Director and co-founder (with his wife, Dr. Ruby Allen) of the Appalachian Theatre Ensemble.

Dan received his early training at Illinois State University and San Francisco’s American Conservatory Theatre, served a brief apprenticeship with Houston’s Alley Theatre, and made his professional acting debut in Theatre Company of Boston’s Richard III, starring Al Pacino. He was a free lance theatre artist (actor, director, stage manager, producer, fight director) for fourteen years before joining the ranks of academia. He has appeared on stage with Farrah Fawcett, Martin Sheen, Lance Henricksen, Emilio Estevez, and other notables and appeared in three films with Burt Reynolds. For Pennsylvania Centre Stage he directed Man of La Mancha and Death of A Salesman (starring George Dzundza) and played Zach in A Chorus Line.

Dan served one year as assistant baseball coach for Illinois Wesleyan University. He batted second and played left field for the 1992 over-40 baseball National Champion Tallahassee Classics.