Dr. Tyrone Stanley
Coordinator and Assistant Professor of Musical Theater,
Fine and Performing Arts
Dr. Tyrone Stanley is a playwright, composer, performer, and director whose works have been showcased nationally and internationally, including at the Kennedy Center, Long Beach Opera, and the Midtown International Theatre Festival, where his musical Soul On Fire won Best New Musical and earned him Best Lead Actor. He is the Coordinator and Assistant Professor of Musical Theatre at Morgan State University, where he made history by completing the department’s first Creative Dissertation and earning a Ph.D. in English. A graduate of UCLA’s prestigious Professional Program in Writing for Television, Dr. Stanley has created multiple original pilots and stage works centering underrepresented voices, including Echoes of Motown, a groundbreaking revue that reimagines iconic Motown artists as theatrical storytellers of Black cultural resistance. His directing credits include Dreamgirls, The Color Purple, AIDA, and the upcoming Once On This Island, while his productions have been featured at the National Black Theatre Festival and Atlanta Black Theatre Festival. As a performer, he has appeared with New York City Opera in Toni Morrison’s Margaret Garner, toured internationally with Porgy & Bess, and acted in Passing Strange as well as on CBS, ABC, and HBO television. A recipient of the Central Oklahoma Playwriting Award and the Middle-Atlantic Writers Association Award, Dr. Stanley continues to champion bold, human-centered storytelling across stage, opera, and screen.
You can learn more about Dr. Stanley here: https://www.morgan.edu/fine-and-performing-arts/music/faculty-and-staff/tyrone-stanley
Dr. Adele Newson-HorstProfessor, Department of English and Language Arts
Dr. Adele Newson-Horst is a professor of English and Coordinator of the Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program at Morgan State University. She earned the Ph.D. from Michigan State University, the M.A. from Eastern Michigan University, and the B.A. from Spelman College. Her areas of specialization include women writers, composition studies, American literature, and African and Diasporic literatures.
Ms. Dale AlstonDirector
Carl J. Murphy Fine Arts CenterDale Alston is the director of the Carl J. Murphy Fine Arts Center on the campus of Morgan State University. She is a Baltimore native. Her educational and professional careers have taken her to Pittsburgh, PA (B.S. from Carnegie Mellon University); Washington, DC (IBM & Lexmark); Silicon Valley, CA (Identix Corp); and back home to Baltimore where she has been working at Morgan State University as Marketing Manager, and now, as Director. She has a B.S. degree in Civil Engineering from CMU and an MBA from UMGC. She has a penchant for graphic design and calligraphy and is an avowed arts lover — with live jazz and live theater being her favorite forms of performing arts.
