Juan Rivera Lebron
Assistant Professor
Chair, Theatre
Artistic Director, Conservatory Theatre Company
Contact Information
- Email: juan.lebron@pointpark.edu
Education
- M.S., Adult Organizational Learning and Leadership, University of Idaho
- M.F.A., Theatre, Pedagogy, University of Idaho
- B.F.A., Theatre, Acting, Carnegie Mellon University
Courses Teaching
- Acting
Background
Juan Rivera Lebron is a native of Puerto Rico and has worked on film and television, off-Broadway and extensively in theaters throughout the United States.
Rivera Lebron has worked with City Theatre, Barebones Productions, Guthrie Theater, American Players Theatre, Jungle Theater, Playwrights' Center, Mixed Blood, Great Lakes Theatre, Idaho Shakespeare Festival, Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival, and the Oregon Shakespeare Festival where he was a member of the resident acting company for seven seasons.
He was the recipient of the Fox Foundation Resident Actor Fellowship funded by The William & Eva Fox Foundation and administered by TCG. His fellowship research focused on the textual and performance similarities between Shakespeare and Spanish Classical plays, and as a result, he was selected to be part of the U.S. delegation to the UNESCO International Theatre Institute World Congress in Madrid, Spain.
In addition to his role as chair at Point Park University, Rivera Lebron teaches Business Communication at Carnegie Mellon’s Tepper School of Business and online for Cornell University (eCornell).
Professional Memberships
- Actors' Equity Association (AEA)
- Screen Actors Guild (SAG-AFTRA)
- American Association for Adult and Continuing Education (AAACE)
- Phi Kappa Phi
Recent Artistic Works (partial list, see Curriculum Vitae for complete listing of credits)
Acting
- The Day the World Fell Apart, short film, On & On Productions, Pittsburgh, Pa.
- The Wickhams: Christmas at Pemberley, City Theater, Pittsburgh, Pa.
- The Animal Kingdom, Barebones Productions, Pittsburgh, Pa.
- Incompleteness, TV series, 355 Productions, Minneapolis, Minn.
- Native Gardens, City Theatre, Pittsburgh, Pa.
- Emma, Guthrie Theater, Minneapolis, Minn.
- Sold Out, Sold Out LLC & IndieRights, Minneapolis, Minn.
- A Christmas Carol, Guthrie Theater, Minneapolis, Minn.
- A Doll's House, American Players Theater, Spring Green, Wis.
- As You Like It, American Players Theater, Spring Green, Wis.
Research Interests
- Shakespeare in performance
- Interaction between the performing arts, AI and other emergent technologies
- Experiential application of Stanislavski and other related acting techniques
- Leadership and performance in business communication
Conference Presentation
- "IfDentity," devised performance, UNESCO International Theater Institute's World Congress, Madrid, Spain.