Dennis E Harris School Director and Associate Professor

Dennis serves as the School Director as well as the Executive Producer for Porthouse Theatre. As Associate Professor in the School of Theatre and Dance, he also has  taught  movement, musical theatre and acting. For the School of Theatre and Dance, he has directed the New York Musical Theatre Showcase and over 15 productions including Into the Woods, He Stoops to Conquer, Ragtime, Oklahoma, The Diviners, Lysistrata, Big Love, Honk!, The Wild Party, and A New Brain. As Executive Producer of Porthouse Theatre he has directed Ain’t Misbehavin’, Sister Act, Fiddler on the Roof, Pump Boys and Dinettes and Dames at Sea and choreographed Once On This Island, Big River, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum and The Fantasticks. On the Porthouse stage, he has appeared in Oliver (Fagin), Chicago (Billy Flynn), Damn Yankees (Applegate), The Music Man (Harold Hill), The Odd Couple (Felix), Anything Goes (Lord Evelyn), Sweet Charity (Oscar), Jesus Christ Superstar (Herod), Guys and Dolls (Benny), and many more.