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Timothy J. Dugan Jr.

Associate Professor of Theater

Associations

Theater

Schaeffer Theatre, Room 304

tdugan2@bates.edu

About

Tim Dugan is a recently promoted Associate Professor of Theater where he teaches Beginning Acting, Advanced Acting, Performing Heightened Text/Acting Styles, Beginning Directing, Advanced Directing, and he serves as a thesis advisor to all acting and directing students. Directing credits at Bates include Angels in AmericaWe Are Proud to Present…Stupid F#@!ing Bird, Antigonick, Much Ado About Nothing and he has acted in Eurydice.  He also specializes in Fitzmaurice Voicework and Shakespeare.

Tim is also a professional actor (member of Actors’ Equity and SAG-AFTRA) and a director.  Some favorite acting credits: Much Ado About Nothing (Benedick), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Bottom),  Macbeth (Macbeth), and Merry Wives of Windsor (Ford) all with Saratoga Shakespeare Company, DoubtTuesdays with Morrie, and A Song For My Father-Oldcastle Theatre Company.  Other favorites in Philadelphia, his other hometown, include The Other Place-Walnut Street Theatre, Steal Her Bones, Straight White Men-InterAct Theatre, Long Live the Little Knife-Inis Nua Theatre, Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo and The Crucible -Temple University Theaters.

He also served as the Associate Artistic Director and Director of Education for Saratoga Shakespeare Company coordinating and teaching the SSC Young Theatre Professional Company housed at Skidmore College, which included students from colleges and universities across the country.  Tim directed SSC’s inaugural “Shakespeare For All” touring production of Much Ado About Nothing which brought free Shakespeare and theatre workshops to various areas in Saratoga Springs.

Tim received his MFA in Acting from Temple University and holds a Certificate of Completion in the Michael Chekhov Technique awarded by the Michael Chekhov Association (MICHA).  He is also a member of the National Alliance of Acting Teachers where he participated in the 2021 Teacher Development Program and the Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE).

Tim will be teaching THEA 261-Beginning Acting and THEA 362-Advanced Acting in the Fall of 2023, and also will be directing Larissa FastHorse’s The Thanksgiving Play in Gannett Theater.   For more information regarding his professional work check out www.tim-dugan.net.

Expertise

Current Courses

Fall Semester 2025

Introduction to Directing

THEA 250

An introduction to the art of directing, with an emphasis on creative and aesthetic problems and their solutions. Students learn the essential processes used by a director and deepen their awareness of contemporary directors and practices. The course offers a basic understanding of fundamental direc…

Introduction to Acting

THEA 261

This experiential course offers an in-depth exploration of the craft of acting. Using several different acting techniques, students undertake exercises to strengthen connection, relaxation, objective, emotional openness, and moment-to-moment availability. The course emphasizes ensemble-building tech…

Advanced Acting

THEA 362

Students deepen their craft of acting by exploring the techniques of Constantin Stanislavski, Michael Chekhov, Lloyd Richards and various other acting practitioners. Class work focuses on a psycho-physical acting approach, in which students expand their imagination, explore their impulses, and crea…

Senior Thesis

THEA 457

Theater Makers students who elect this option structure their written work around a creative project designated by the department in acting, design, directing, dramaturgy, playwriting, stage management or technical theater. Theater Studies/Dramaturgy students who elect this option focus on scholarly…