Outstanding Faculty

Herman Frederic Lieber Award

George Pinney

Theatre, IUB

Pinney has spread his gospel of movement and joy (in acting) throughout the university through his involvement with the Intensive Freshman Seminar Program.

"Whether training students to perform an intricate dance routine or helping students develop the analytical skills needed to write a thoughtful review," wrote one colleague, "he leads his students through a carefully designed series of steps so that by the end they understand what they didn't understand before, and they can do what they couldn't do before." Pinney was honored by the Faculty Colloquium on Excellence in Teaching in 1992 and received an Academic Development Summer Fellowship in 1994. He is director/choreographer of IU Broadway Cabaret, and he regularly directs and choreographs for IU Theatre and Brown County Playhouse productions.