Dr. Daryl Harris

Dr. Daryl Harris

Full Professor in Northern Kentucky University’s School of the Arts Theatre and Dance Program. Daryl has over fifty years of experience in traditional, alternative, academic and applied theatre. He has studied and worked as a producer, writer, director, actor, dancer, costume designer, professor, and lecturer throughout North America, Europe, Africa, Southeast Asia, and Australia. In addition to directing departmental productions and teaching theatre courses that include Race, Gender & Theatre; African American Dramatic Literature; and Theatre for Social Change, Daryl has been responsible for creating community-based theatre projects, as well as inclusive/multi-cultural programming. He also developed a Children’s Theatre Tour Troupe that addressed assorted themes of freedom and social justice. That project reflected his passion for theatre as a transdisciplinary, transcultural, community-building vehicle. His work with “street kids” in Victoria, British Columbia, the Native Friendship Centre in Duncan, British Columbia, and first-time nonviolent juvenile offenders in the Kentucky Courts System (Theatre in Diversion) were further extensions of his zeal for community service via Applied Theatre. This zeal was acknowledged and rewarded when he received the prestigious President’s Call to Service Award in 2010.