marcus d.

harvey
harvey.marcusd@gmail.com 509 W 155th Street, #6F New York, NY 10032 212.960.3650 (cell) 347.746.1008 (home)

TEACHING PHILOSOPHY
My vision embodies the classical philosophy of the university as a place where individuals come to develop critical skills and to gain knowledge. Likewise, my passion for teaching stems from the very subject that I teach, rhetoric which, as one of the oldest liberal arts, has been recognized as an essential skill for living in a free society. Therefore, I take the responsibility to teach courses very seriously and approach my classes from this perspective. I incorporate materials and exercises beyond the textbook to help students put theory to practice and to strengthen their grasp of course material. In some instances, assignments are each student's opportunity to enact communication skills through a speech that they create, while in others, students reinforce their command of communication processes by analyzing communication interactions they observe outside the classroom. In light of my goal to help students develop communication skills, I maintain an open forum in my classroom wherein students learn that it is possible to engage ideas, even controversial ones, without having to engage individuals. Since I believe that providing a safe environment for students to learn about new things is central to fostering a productive learning atmosphere in a rapidly changing culture, no student is penalized for ascribing or not ascribing to particular beliefs.

EDUCATION
MFA in Acting Brooklyn College Thesis: The Role of Father in Sarah Ruhls Eurydice 2012

MA in Dramatic Writing for Social Change 2010 Gallatin School of Individualized Study, New York University Research Thesis: Performing Identity: The Construction of Black Maleness in Solo Performance Artistic Thesis: baba, a solo performance about a black boys search for his father and himself. BA in Dramatic Arts 2002 BA in Communication Studies with a concentration in Performance Studies University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

TEACHING EXPERIENCE UNIVERSITY/POST SECONDARY EXPERIENCE

Adjunct Speech Lecturer, Borough of Manhattan Community College Fall 2012 Introducing students to effective skills in speech communication utilizing theatre related exercises as a means to do so. Teaching students to generate topics, organize ideas & practice techniques of speech presentation in a public forum. Guide students through a process of engagement of speech presentation. Teaching Assistant, New York University Fall 2009 Homer/Ellison: The Odyssey and Invisible Man (Prof. e. Francis White & Laura Slakin) This course focused on the historical and cultural specificities of each text but will also pursue the synergies and energies promoted by reading them together. Students considered what the ancient world has to say to the modern novel, and how modernity might reanimate a key text of antiquity. Among the topics we will consider: formations and representations of subjectivity in antiquity and modernity; the status of race and ethnicity; the structuring effects of kinship, marriage, institutions, the state, the law; the cultural poetics and politics of narrative. Teaching Assistant: UNC Chapel Hill Fall 2001- Spr. 2002 Family Stories, Memoirs, and Diaries (Prof. D. Soyini Madison) This course explored the use of performance to explore family stories, memoirs, diaries, and other biographical and autobiographical sources. Human Rights and Radical Performance (Prof. D. Soyini Madison) This course explored how social movements, local communities, and individual activists from specific regions around the world use performance to seek political empowerment and social justice. Performance as theory, method, and event in the arts of resistance; human rights as ideology and praxis within indigenous histories, imaginaries, and contexts.

SECONDARY EXPERIENCE
Speech Tutor for Non-Native Speakers, Ethical Cultural School Fall 2011-Present Introducing students to effective skills in speech communication utilizing theatre related exercises as a means to do so. Teaching students to generate topics, organize ideas & practice techniques of speech presentation in a public forum. Teaching students phonetics and English pronunciation through a learning curve. Guide students through a process of engagement of speech presentation. Building English Speaking confidence through guided exercises.

Teaching Artist, LeAp, New York, NY 2009-Present Spoken Word and Theatre Utilizing improvisational structures, students will explore the performing body through poetry, movement, and physical space as the basic elements of spoken word and theatre. Looking at some of well-known spoken word artist, Lemon Anderson, Daniel Beaty, Stacy Ann Chin, the course will examine the notion of spoken word as a transformative experience and the spoken word/poet as the unified source of performance.

August Wilson and His Work Utilizing the works of August Wilson, one of Americas greatest African-American playwrights, students will examine the 20-th century African American living experience. Students strengthen their acting skills and performance techniques and perform scenes from various Wilson works. Ultimately, students choose one character to inhabit and select a monologue to perform at school-wide competitions. Winners from each school participate in LeAp's New York City August Wilson Monologue Competition, and finalists advance to the National August Wilson Monologue Competition at the August Wilson Theater to compete against students from other cities. Teaching Artist, Opening Act, New York, NY 2009-2010 Worked as part of a creative team to bring together a strong ensemble of students, to give them a foundation in improvisation and acting technique, and lead them through the creative process of writing and performing an original production performed by the students in a professional theater. Drama Teacher, SEED Public Charter School, Washington, DC 2002-2003 Designed and developed a drama program at the SEED Public Charter School for high school students. Students developed life skills through scene study, autobiographical writing and performance, and monologues. The classes culminated in a year end performance of original scenes and monologues as well as musical numbers from Broadway musicals. Teaching Artist, Clearpool Education Center, Carmel, NY 2002 Designed and developed a drama program at the Clearpool Education Center for 50 middle school students from New York City. Students developed skills in the areas of improvisation, scene study, devising your own work, and solo performance. The summer long project culminated with the students performing original scenes and monologues they created themselves. Faculty, Capital Breakthrough, Raleigh, NC 2001 6 week summer program for 11-14 year old students that culminates in a final performance Introduction to Acting Students learn the foundation of acting. In this class, dramatic play, story enactment and improvisation games will help students learn about play structure while exploring character and
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theatre convention. Students will develop characters from scripted material and work on scenes and monologues.

FREELANCE EXPERIENCE
Monologue Coach, Vital Theatre Company Solo Performance Writing/Monologue Coach, marcus d. harvey, llc Public Speaking Coach, marcus d. harvey, llc 2010-Present 2007-Present 2007-Present

VOLUNTEER SERVICES
Mentor, iMentor Ambassador, Graduate Theatre Organization, Brooklyn College Mentor, NYU Focus 2011-Present 2010-2012 2008-Present

AFFILITATIONS
Member, Friars Club Member, Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc. Member, Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television & Radio Artist Member, Order of the Golden Fleece Society

FELLOWSHIPS/AWARDS
2011-12 Wilson Lehr Memorial Scholarship 2010-12 Friar Foundation for the Performing Arts Scholar 2009-2010 Gallatin-Newington-Cropsey Foundation Fellowship 2009 Taller Portobelo Arts Colony, Artist in Residence, Portobelo, Panama 2009 Gallatin Research Fellowship, New York, NY 2002 George Moses Horton Cultural Performance Award 2001 Wallace Ray Peppers Award for Performance of African and African American Literature