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:
After 30 years, Theatre looks forward to renovated Henderson Hall
February 24, 2009
While teaching classes, theatre department head Patty Raun often imagines what has transpired inside the walls of the her department's home for more than 30 years -- the Performing Arts Building.
Hollins, Virginia Tech collaborate to put on play
November 3, 2008
No doubt about it, director Ernie Zulia is excited about his upcoming play "Doubt, a Parable."
Henderson Hall, Lawn ready for changes
August 27, 2008
Riding the wave of move-in madness at Virginia Tech, returning students may have taken notice of a number of construction sites throughout campus. In the third part of this four-part series, the Collegiate Times will provide an update on the coming change