Associate Professor - Acting and Directing M.F.A. Acting and Directing, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, 1987 Higher Diploma in Education, University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa, 1979 B.A. English and Speech and Drama, University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa, 1978 Appointed to IU in 1996 mcgibbon@indiana.edu Whom do I contact about what? Naledi Award announcement PROFILES interview

One of South Africa's leading stage directors and producers, Murray McGibbon is the recipient of the South African Airways Young Artist’s Award (1989) and the American Biographical Association Distinguished Young Leadership Award (1990). He was awarded a Fulbright scholarship in 1983 which enabled him to undertake his graduate studies in the USA. Murray McGibbon has won South Africa's highest theatrical award, the NALEDI (formerly the VITA), six times and is internationally recognized as a dynamic and innovative director equally at home with the classics, modern drama, theatre for young audiences and musicals. For six years he served as Artistic Director of Drama for the Playhouse Company in Durban, South Africa, where he directed 40 productions and produced 122.

His publications include Theatre in the 21st Century, a journey backwards into the future; The Playhouse Cookbook and acting editions of Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Tempest and Speech Training for You!, the fourth edition of Elizabeth Sneddon's text, which he edited and revised for American students. Since joining the faculty at Indiana University in 1996, Professor McGibbon has directed The Woman in Black, Honour, Greater Tuna, MASTER HAROLD….and the ‘boys’, The Foreigner, Romeo and Juliet, Cole, 'Art', I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change, Scapino!, Equus, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Nunsense - The Second Coming, The Servant of Two Masters, The Oblong Man, The Fantasticks, A Piece of My Heart, All in the Timing, Nunsense, and Kindertransport.

Murray McGibbon is the recipient of a Teaching Excellence Recognition Award (2000) from Indiana University and is currently working on New Directions - A Collection of Post-Apartheid South African Drama. In 2005 he re-directed FRANK&STEIN in South Africa, while BLACK MAMBA starring Ben Voss and John Van Der Ruit is now in its third year of a sell-out season on the African sub-continent. BLACK MAMBA won a 2007 NALEDI Award for Best Production of a Revue, in addition to Cape Town’s Fleur du Cap Award, a Fool’s Award and a Durban Theatre Foundation Award for Best Production. Last summer he directed THE TEMPEST in Pietermaritzburg featuring a cast of IU and the University of KwaZulu/Natal students, garnering seven Durban Fools Award nominations. Recently he directed the world premiere of Jimmy Cory by Kevin Daly, to favorable critical reviews. This fall Professor McGibbon will direct his most ambitious IU production - a post-modern interpretation of Shakespeare's Hamlet.