• Theatre Arts Teaching Artist: Bill George

Bill George received his B.A. in English Literature from Lehigh University and his M.F.A. in Acting/Directing from the Dallas Theatre Center of Trinity University. He studied mime with Paul Curtis of The American Mime Theatre, founded the People’s Theatre Company in 1977, and later co-founded Touchstone Theatre in 1981 where he was producing director until 1990. He has won numerous awards including the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in Scotland, a 1995 Solo Theatre Arts Fellowship from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, and was proud to be with Artistic Director Mark McKenna in 2004 when the Company received the Otto Rene Castillo Award for Political Theatre.

Bill serves as an adjudicator for the National Endowment for the Arts, has served as a panelist for the Maryland Arts Council. Bill has participated extensively in the Pennsylvania Arts in Education program and is an artist-in-residence in the PASELA project.

Bill and his wife, Bridget, founded Little Pond, a retreat center that welcomes artists of all disciplines and religious persuasions to explore the effect of the sacred on the artistic process, and he has toured with his original Baha'i drama throughout the United States and internationally. Bill’s recent efforts include: the direction and co-creation of Mr. Bach and Friends for the Bach Choir of Bethlehem, the direction of Touchstone’s Talisman, The Fairy Tale Life of Hans Christian Andersen, the role of Phil Kravitz in Touchstone’s original movement theatre work A Comic Strip, and co-producing the film adaptation of his stage version of Classical Kids Mr. Bach Comes to Call.