Patty Raun
Patty Raun is the director of the School of Performing Arts and Cinema. Raun has appeared in more than 100 theatrical productions and 75 film and television works. She came to Virginia Tech in 1986 and has received Tech’s Teaching Excellence Award and an Outstanding Educator Award from the Virginia’s Governor School. Her teaching specialties include voice and speech dialects as well as acting.
Before coming to Tech, Raun received a bachelor’s of fine arts from the University of Nebraska in 1982 and a master’s of fine arts from Penn State in 1986.
Over the course of her career, she has appeared in many professional productions. In 2001, she traveled to Stratford-upon-Avon where she worked with the voice department of the Royal Shakespeare Company. In 2005, she premiered in a one-woman show by Thomas Gardner at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in Scotland. She has dabbled in directing and worked on “The Conversation About the Keys” in spring of 2009.
Content on Patty Raun:
April 16: Details scrutinized after two mishaps with name reading
April 15, 2010
Virginia Tech administrators are confident that tonight's candlelight vigil will avoid the mistakes that have detracted from April 16 remembrance events in the past two years.
Tech chamber music celebrates poet with "Poe-ism" performance
November 12, 2009
Twenty years ago composer Gregory Hutter and Virginia Tech faculty member Tracy Cowden were practicing in the same piano studio as undergraduates.
Black Box Theatre to formally open today
October 29, 2009
Virginia Tech's brand new performance space, Theatre 101, will have its grand opening this weekend.
Alumna's play opens Black Box Theatre
October 27, 2009
The Department of Theatre Arts and Cinema at Virginia Tech kicks off the main stage theater season this week.
Kevin Anderson Show: Patty Raun
October 23, 2009
Kevin sits down with Patty Raun, School of Performing Arts & Cinema department head.
August 26, 2009
Numerous programs are adjusting to new homes on campus as classes resume.
Hard hats required around campus
June 10, 2009
A lack of students during the summer is giving the campus a chance to reload with numerous construction projects.
Rinehart looks to make difference as director of education of diversity
April 1, 2009
Susanna C. Rinehart was recently named the new Director of Education for Diversity and Inclusion at Virginia Tech.
For Will Quinn, 'when improv is good, nothing can beat it'
February 24, 2009
Junior theatre arts major Will Quinn equates improv acting with talking with someone you find attractive.
February 24, 2009
Only actors and a director's voices occupy Squires Studio Theatre. There is no set. It's the week before spring semester begins and the first week of rehearsals for the theatre department's latest mainstage production, "The Trestle at Pope Lick Creek."
