Vince DeGeorge

Vince DeGeorge

Stage Director

Vince DeGeorge

Vince is on the faculty of University of Cincinnati’s College-Conservatory of Music (CCM) as the Joseph Weinberger Chair of Acting for the Lyric Stage in Musical Theater and Opera. Vince has spent the last fifteen years researching and developing The Theatrical Awareness Practice, a somatic and experiential theater technique that trains the actor to live fully in their experiential mind/body. After graduation from the Musical Theater program at CCM, Vince performed as an actor and dancer in regional theaters across the country and was a company member of the New York based contemporary dance company dre.dance under Artistic Directors & Choreographers Taye Diggs & Andrew Palermo. In addition to numerous other works, in New York Vince directed New York City’s first fully staged production of The Exonerated (2011) to critical acclaim, and co-wrote and directed the award winning musical revue Nashville (2009 Nightlife, Bistro and MAC Awards). In 2014, as a part of the Blacksburg Virginia Summer Arts Festival, Vince was commissioned to design and build Life In The Trees – an art installation, purposed as both a gallery exhibition and the theatrical setting for two performance pieces, which he both adapted and directed. For the Trentino Music Festival Vince has directed Into The Woods, Evita, and Godspell.