Robin Aronson Carr
Assistant Professor (Voice/Acting)
B.A., Michigan State University
M.F.A., The University of Connecticut
E-mail: Robin.Carr@usm.edu
Robin Aronson Carr joined the theatre faculty at The University of Southern Mississippi in 2002. Recently, she presented at the First International Arts in Society Conference in Edinburgh, Scotland, and was the dialect coach for the production of "Our Country's Good" for the University of New Orleans. Since she has been at Southern Miss, Aronson has directed "Little Shop of Horrors", "Cabaret", "And the World Goes Round" and "Picasso at the Lapin Agile". She also directed "Coyote on a Fence" for the American College Theatre Festival. Other directing credits include "Much Ado About Nothing", "WASP", and "The Insanity of Mary Girard". Carr has taught at the University of Connecticut, Old Dominion University, and in the studio acting program at Lansing Community College.
A member of Actor's Equity, Carr has performed such roles as Mrs. Lovett in "Sweeney Todd", the Fool in "King Lear", and Ouisa in "Six Degrees of Separation". She received her Master of Fine Arts in acting from the University of Connecticut and a Shakespeare Acting Certificate from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in the summer of 2003.
Carr is a member of the International Centre for Voice, The Lessac Institute, Voice and Speech Trainers Association, and the Association for Theatre in Higher Education. She is also the co-director of Midsummer Musical Theatre Experience, a musical theatre youth camp in collaboration with the Southern Miss Department of Theatre and Dance and the School of Music. Carr is a Lessac voice practitioner and is working towards her certification.
Department of Theatre and Dance
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