Dr. Angela R. Hines Director of TheatreBA Theatre M.Ed Theatre PH.D. Curriculum and Instruction-Curriculum
Dr. Angela R. Hines received her B.A. in Theatre, her M.Ed. and M.A.C. in Secondary Education-Theatre Education, and her Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction-Curriculum Studies from Arizona State University (ASU). Her Dissertation; The Theatrical Ties that Bind: A Post-Structural Analysis of Theatre Education Programs, was a finalist for dissertation of the year for ABER. She has spent the last 9 years at Gilbert High School as the Theatre Director and is excited to begin this new chapter with Marcos de Niza High School. Additionally, she is a Faculty Associate for the Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College at ASU teaching courses in Developmental Psychology. She serves on the Arts-Based Educational Research (ABER) Special Interest Group of the American Educational Research Association (AERA), and serves on the Arizona Thespian Board as the Director for the Central Region. She was a performer in the valley and overseas for the past 20 years, and her writing on Theatre Education can be viewed in Youth Theatre Journal, Sage and Scholars Press.