MARGARET MCKERROW
Professor Emeritus

Head of Child Drama Program
Creative Drama, Theatre Education

Office: DA 212
Phone: 594-5856
mmckerro@mail.sdsu.edu

Dr. Margaret McKerrow is currently Professor Emeritus in the School of Theatre, Television and Film. She teaches in the Fall semester. She has taught Theatre at SDSU since 1971, founding the Creative Drama and Theatre for Young Audiences program and serving as Director of the program ever since. She is the Artistic Director of the SDSU Theatre of the World Festival which she co-founded in 1993. In her years at SDSU McKerrow directed over fifty productions of plays for young audiences including works by prominent writers of plays for young people including Joanna Kraus, Suzan Zeder, Aurand Harris, Ric Averill and Laurence Yep. She has been an active member of AATE and ASSITEJ, attending ASSITEJ Congresses around the world. McKerrow served at Chair of the Department of Theatre from 1984 to 1987. In May 2002 McKerrow became the first member of the SDSU faculty to win the prestigious $25,000 Wang Family Excellence Award given to annually four CSU Faculty who “through extraordinary commitment and dedication have distinguished themselves by exemplary contributions and achievements in their academic disciplines, and are having a discernible effect on students.”