PITTSBURGH — Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Drama has been leaderless for more than a year and a half. Now we finally know who will be stepping up to fill that void.
The university announced Monday that Robert Ramirez will become the new head of the CMU School of Drama effective Aug. 1. He replaces Peter Cooke, who stepped down in September 2020 after 11 years “to resume his practice as a designer and consultant, and to continue teaching in international arts academies,” according to a September 2020 note from Dan Martin, then-dean of CMU’s College of Fine Arts.
Ramirez comes to Carnegie Mellon from the University of Texas at Austin. He started there in 2014 as an associate professor and the head of the school’s acting program. The Department of Theatre and Dance tapped him to serve as its interim chair in summer 2019 and as department chair in spring 2020.
