Over his career as an educator Dr. Vorder Bruegge has taught a wide variety of theatre and dance courses, including acting, directing, theatre history, dramatic literature, dramatic theory, playwriting, script analysis, musical theatre, theatre management, voice and diction, stage combat, early dance, and dance for the theatre.  At Winthrop University he teaches Theatre History and Literature I and II and directs/choreographs departmental productions.  

Dr. Vorder Bruegge is active in a number of professional organizations.  He maintains the online archives/resources for the Association of Theatre Movement Educators; reviews books regularly for the Sixteenth Century Studies Conference; serves as a regional respondent for the American College Theatre Festival; and reviews textbooks for several major publishers. 

He has worked as a translator/adapter, director, performer choreographer, and playwright.  His directing credits include Sophocles’ Electra, Arnold Wesker’s Roots, Jean Racine’s Andromache, John Webster’s The Duchess of Malfi, and Tom Stoppard’s Travesties.  His has choreographed productions of The Mikado, Anything Goes, The Pirates of Penzance, Dido and Aeneis, Godspell, Amahl and the Night Visitors, and The Fantasticks.  He has choreographed stage combat for productions of MacBeth, Cyrano de Bergerac, Jungalbook, and Search and Destroy.  He has translated various comedies by Alfred de Musset as well as Jean Racine’s Phaedra and The Litigators (including a special adaptation for the Kentucky Shakespeare Festival).  In more recent years, Dr. Vorder Bruegge has turned his attention to playwriting.  He has composed three full-length dramas:  The Transfiguration of Wonder Woman, The Widows of Ashur, and Alceste’s Return, a “sequel” to Molière’s The Misanthrope that was given a staged reading at The Playwrights’ Center (Minneapolis) in early 2005.  His performance credits include Herod in The Play of Herod, Harvey Green in Ten Nights in a Barroom, the Player in Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, and as a member of the ensemble of Musica della Fiamma (an early music consort) and as a member of the ensemble of The Roc Havre Dance Ensemble.  Dr. Vorder Bruegge was the co-founder and co-director of The Roc Havre Dance Ensemble for over a decade.  During that time he led ensemble on tours to the United Kingdom, Mexico and the Stratford (Ontario) Shakespeare Festival.

His past administrative experience includes artistic direction and/or management of several summer theatres and madrigal dinners; five years as the Director of Theatre at Bellarmine College; four years as chair of the Department of Theatre, Film Studies and Dance at St. Cloud State University; and president of the Kentucky Theatre Association.    

Contact Information:
Andrew Vorder Bruegge, Ph.D.
Dept of Theatre and Dance
122 Johnson Hall
Rock Hill, SC 29733

Phone: 803-323-2287
E-mail:vorderbruegg@winthrop.edu    URL: http://faculty.winthrop.edu/vorderbruegg