Martine Kei Green-Rogers will be interim dean of the Division of Liberal Arts

Theater educator, dramaturge and author Martine Kei Green-Rogers will serve as interim dean of the Division of Liberal Arts at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts, Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost Patrick J. Sims has announced. She will begin July 1, succeeding Dean Wilcox, who has chosen to return to full-time teaching.

Green-Rogers is currently associate professor in the Department of Theatre Arts at the State University of New York-New Paltz, where she teaches courses related to dramaturgy, violence in African American theater, African diaspora theater, world theater, gender and race in American theater, and issues of sustainability in the theater. She is the fellowship associate for the 2020-21 season at the Playwrights' Center in Minneapolis. Green-Rogers has two books in process: “Devising and Dramaturgy,” forthcoming from global publisher Routledge; and “In the Studio: Dramaturgy and Stage Design” (co-authored with Jesse Portillo), forthcoming from Southern Illinois University Press.

“Martine Kei Green-Rogers brings a wealth of experience related to key strategic initiatives at UNCSA: curricular innovations to maintain industry relevance; and advancing our framework for embedding equity, diversity and inclusion into our values and actions,” said Sims. “She embodies creativity and collaboration and will be a terrific fit for the Division of Liberal Arts.”

As dean of Liberal Arts, Green-Rogers will lead a full-time faculty of 14 who teach courses in composition, foreign languages (French, German, and Italian), history, humanities, literature, mathematics, media studies, philosophy, psychology, science, and writing. Courses are designed to enrich the students’ work in the arts while developing knowledge and skills to participate effectively as responsible citizens.

“Our Division of Liberal Arts plays a vital role in preparing artists to lead in the creative ecosystem,” said Chancellor Brian Cole. “Martine Green-Rogers is exceptionally qualified to lead its extraordinary faculty. I’m confident that her expertise will benefit our students and her presence will enrich our campus community.”

Wilcox became dean in July 2012 after a year as interim dean. He has taught at UNCSA since 1999. “Dean Wilcox has our most sincere gratitude for his decade of leadership. He is an exceptional teacher, and we are pleased that he will remain with us in that capacity full time,” Cole said.

More about Martine Kei Green-Rogers

As a proud member of the Association for Theatre in Higher Education and past president of the Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas, Martine Kei Green-Rogers is a scholar and a writer who thrives on interdisciplinary work. She served as the adapter of the Kennedy Center’s world premiere of Jason Reynolds’ “Long Way Down.” Her dramaturgical credits include seven seasons with the internationally renowned Oregon Shakespeare Festival (“Hairspray,” “The Book of Will,” “Shakespeare in Love,” “Hannah and the Dread Gazebo,” “UniSon,” “The Comedy of Errors,” “To Kill A Mockingbird,” “The African Company Presents Richard III,” “A Midsummer Night’s Dream," “Fences” and the Play on! Project’s 21st-century translations of “Comedy of Errors” and “The Two Noble Kinsmen”); numerous seasons at the Court Theatre in Chicago (“Radio Golf,” “Five Guys Named Moe,” “Blues for an Alabama Sky,” “Gem of the Ocean,” “Waiting for Godot,” “Iphigenia in Aulis,” “Seven Guitars,” “The Mountaintop,” “Home” and “Porgy and Bess”); “The Greatest” with the Louisville (Kentucky) Orchestra; numerous seasons with the Classical Theatre Company of Houston (“Miss Julie,” “The Tempest,” “Uncle Vanya,” “The Triumph of Love,” “Antigone,” “Candida,” “Ghosts,” “Tartuffe” and “Shylock, The Jew of Venice”); three seasons with the Pioneer Memorial Theatre in Salt Lake City (“Fences” and “One Man, Two Guvnors”); and “The Catastrophist” at Marin Theatre Company in the California Bay Area.

She has also directed “The Brothers Size” for the Ancram Opera House in Hudson Valley, New York, “Sender” with New Paltz’s Denizen Theatre, and has upcoming productions as director with Salt Lake Acting Company.

Green-Rogers obtained her Ph.D. from the Department of Theatre and Drama at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Prior to studying at UW-Madison, she received her B.A. in theater from Virginia Wesleyan College and her M.A. in theater history and criticism from The Catholic University of America.

She previously taught at the University of Utah, Sam Houston State University and Kenyon College.

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