Department of Theatre and Dance
Our People
Peter Duffy
Title: | Head of the MAT Program / Director of Undergraduate Studies / Professor |
Department of Theatre and Dance | |
Email: | duffyp@mailbox.sc.edu |
Phone: | 803-777-1277 |
Office: | Longstreet 430 |
Theatre Education. Professor. MFA, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 2007.
Ed.D., University of South Carolina, 2014
Dr. Peter Duffy heads the Master of Arts in Teaching program in theatre education
at the University of South Carolina where he prepares graduate students to become
drama teachers. He offers courses in drama-based pedagogies and arts integration.
He is a director and is a former public-school teacher, education director, and a
New York City teaching artist. His research interests include teaching and learning,
devising new works in community settings, cognition and the arts, culturally responsive
pedagogies and performed research. He serves as the Director of Research for the International
Drama/Theatre Education Association (IDEA) and is a member of AATE. Peter’s work in
arts education is nationally and internationally recognized. He is 2013’s proud recipient
of AATE’s Win Wright Special Recognition award, the 2017 outstanding Theatre Educator
Award from the South Carolina Theatre Association, as well as the 2017 Garnet Apple
Award winner for teaching excellence at the University of South Carolina. He is the
author of many books and articles on applied theatre, cognition and the arts, teaching
and learning, culturally responsive education, and creativity. His latest book is
Drama Based Research: Provocations of Practice published by Brill in 2019. His ethnodrama ReformED, which is based on a hundred interviews with teachers about how education has changed
over the past decade, is currently being read by colleges of education and theaters
across the US to support National Teacher’s Day 2020.