RAIMONDO GENNA
Lecturer

Dramatic Theory

Office: COM 109
594-4970
rgenna@ucsd.edu

Raimondo Genna received both his M.A. and B.A. in theatre at San Diego State University and is currently working on his doctoral dissertation on the relationship between violence, theatricality, and the American Grand Narrative at the University of California, San Diego.  Along with his instructional duties at SDSU, Mr. Genna also teaches introductory acting classes at San Diego Mesa College.  Mr. Genna’s directorial credits include: Arthur Miller’s All My Sons at UCSD; N. Richard Nash’s Echoes and Ariel Dorfman’s Death and the Maiden for Stone Soup Theatre; William Shakespeare’s Macbeth, Tom Stoppard’s Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, and Harold Pinter’s One for the Road at SDSU; Charles Kray’s A Thing of Beauty and Tennessee Williams’ Talk to Me Like the Rain and Let Me Listen at Mesa College.  Mr. Genna also served as associate director on Robert Schenkkan’s The Kentucky Cycle with Nick Reid at SDSU and as assistant director for Connor McPherson’s The Weir with Joe Hardy at the Old Globe Theatre.