Alan Wade
Interim Chair of the Department
Director of C.A.S.T.
Ph. (202) 994-3661
e-mail: awade@gwu.edu

Alan Wade (Ph.D., Northwestern; AEA, AFTRA, SAG, SSDC) professor of theater.

A professional actor and director,  Mr. Wade most recently directed for The Washington Stage Guild a reading of Best of Friends and, for The Olney Theatre Center, a production of John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men.  In addition he has directed nine National Players Company tours, five productions for The Washington Stage Guild and a staged reading of Anastasia Traina's In Audela with TV's Scott Cohen (Law and Order) at The Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in London. At GW his directing credits include, among many others, a workshop premiere of Rick Chafe’s Shakespeare’s Dog produced in association with The Manitoba Theatre of Canada.

As an actor Mr. Wade has appeared off-Broadway at The Atlantic Theatre and regionally at Baltimore's Center Stage and several Washington, DC, theatres including Arena Stage, The Studio Theatre, Signature Theatre, The Potomac Theatre Project (for which he received a Helen Hayes Award nomination), The Washington Stage Guild and The Olney Theatre. On network television he has been seen on Homicide, A Man Called Hawk and John F. Kennedy and His Times. Mr. Wade's movie credits include The Pelican Brief and Major League II.

He has lectured at The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, at Richmond University, London, and The University of Sussex in Brighton, England. He is a former editor of Literature in Performance and a former associate editor of Text and Performance Quarterly. Mr. Wade is a member of the Board of Directors of The Olney Theatre Center for the Arts and serves on the advisory boards of The Washington Stage Guild and The Potomac Theatre Project.

At GW Mr. Wade teaches “Introduction to Acting” and several scene study courses including contemporary and classical text.   He is the faculty mentor for the Shakespeare Living and Learning Community, a freshman-year experience for interested GW students