Ph.D., University of Texas, 1995, Theatre History & Criticism
M.A., Indiana University, 1984, Theatre
A.B., University of Georgia, 1981, Drama

KCACTF Respondent
Texas Teacher Certification, Theatre 6-12
UIL Critic Judge and Clinician
David McTier is Associate Professor of Theatre at Sam Houston State University in
Huntsville, Texas, where he teaches theatre history, dramatic theory and criticism, and
dramaturgy. Raised on a cattle farm in rural Georgia, he holds a Ph.D. in theatre history
and criticism with proficiency in directing from the University of Texas. During the past
seventeen years, he has taught on the faculties of the University of Kentucky, the
University of Vermont, Agnes Scott College, and Rockhurst University. Dr. McTier has
been an active participant in the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival
(KCACTF), and, in 2004, he won the Kennedy Center’s National Faculty Fellowship in
Criticism and attended the National Critics Institute at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center.
Named multiple times to Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers, he has spent
seventeen summers teaching gifted and talented high school students at the Governor’s
programs in Virginia, Georgia, and Missouri.