Academics

Faculty & Staff

Carrie Ann Quinn, MFA

  • Assistant Professor of Performing Arts, College of Liberal Arts Head of Acting and Directing
  • Telephone: 617-287-6926
  • Office Location: McCormack Hall,02,00620

Areas of Expertise

Acting and Directing

Degrees

MFA, Boston University

Additional Information

Carrie Ann Quinn is an Assistant Professor of Theatre Arts Department at the University Massachusetts Boston. She has previously taught at Boston University and Clemson University and presents her original Method for a New Millennium acting technique throughout the US and internationally. A professional actor of theatre, TV, and film for over 15 years, she is a proud member of Actors’ Equity Association (AEA) and Screen Actors Guild (SAG). Some of the theatres she has performed onstage: The American Repertory Theater (A.R.T.), Gloucester Stage Company, Huntington BU Theatre, Boston Playwrights’ Theatre, Warehouse Theatre (SC), Lee Strasberg Theatre (NY), and as a resident actor with Theatre Unlimited in Los Angeles, CA. At UMB, Professor Quinn works with the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival, which nominates deserving UMB theatre productions and students to receive regional and national recognition for their work. Her directing credits include plays by Mamet, LaBute, Moliere, and original devised pieces such as UMB’s Wit? Or Without You! and Sincerely, which was selected to headline the Chicago’s Around the Coyote Arts Festival. Professor Quinn has an MFA in Theatre Education-Acting, from Boston University and a BFA in Acting from New York University, where she studied at the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute.