TFTV Impact Report 2021/2022

NEW ROLES, NEW FACES
• In May 2022, Dr. Brant Pope succeeded Andy Belser as the Director of the School of Theatre, Film &
Television. Pope, who served as chair of the Department of Theatre and Dance at The University of Texas at
Austin from 2010 to 2019, will be the School’s Interim Director for two years.
• Dr. Orquídea Morales, pictured, joins the School’s Film & Television Producing and Studies
division as an Assistant Professor, FTV Studies. Dr. Morales joins TFTV from the State
University of New York, Old Westbury. She received her PhD in American Culture from
the University of Michigan after which she was the César Chávez Postdoctoral Fellow at
Dartmouth College. Morales’ research interests include Horror Studies, Latinx Media and
Border Studies.
• Darnell T. Roulhac, pictured above, who received his Master of Music in Vocal Pedagogy in
Contemporary Commercial Music from Shenandoah University and Bachelor of Music from
Boston Conservatory, joined TFTV’s Acting/Musical Theatre faculty as an Assistant Professor of Practice.
Some of Roulhac’s performance credits include Gobin in La Rondine, Monostatos in Die Zauberflote, Ernest
Diggle in Jerry Springer the Opera, Benvolio in Roméo et Juliette with Bel Cantanti Opera Co and Peppe in
Leoncavallo’s Il Pagliacci.
• Following a national search, Mia Farrell, pictured, was selected to join TFTV as the new
Director of the Hanson FilmTV Institute. She joins the School from the British Film Institute,
where she served as the PR Manager, BFI Festivals and Programme Manager, BFI London Film
Festival Critics Mentorship Programme. She was previously VP of International Publicity at
Paramount Pictures.
Dr. Orquídea Morales
• Following 23 years of invaluable service at the helm of MARPL, the School’s equipment
resource for Film & Television students, Dan Brock retired. Sheldon Ham succeeds him as the
new FTV Production Services Manager.
Mia Farrell
• The Design & Technical Production division welcomes Apollo Weaver, Assistant Professor of Practice in Scene
Design, and Ken Phillips, Assistant Professor of Practice in Lighting Design.