Dr. Harold R. Mortimer is a Weitzenhoffer Endowed Professor of Musical Theatre Performance, Fulbright Scholar (South Africa 2008) and teaches a myriad of musical theatre academic and performance classes for the Weitzenhoffer School of Musical Theatre at The University of Oklahoma. He served as Head of the Musical Theatre program at Ball State University for eight years and also has taught at the American Musical and Dramatic Academy (AMDA) in New York, NY. Harold has given workshops across the country and around the world, and has been on faculty at Tshwane University of Technology (ZA) as visiting scholar/guest artist, presented workshops at the University of Pretoria (ZA), and at Oakfields College in Pretoria, ZA.Harold's director/ music director credits include: Spring Awakening (director, South Africa premiere), Bat Boy, The Musical (South African premiere), Avenue Q;My Fair Lady, Sunday In the Park With George;Anything Goes;Cabaret;The Fantasticks, The Full Monty;The Music Man, Ruthless!, Smokey Joe's Café;Some Enchanted Evening, Songs for a New World, The Sound of Music;Thoroughly Modern Millie; The Wild Party (Lippa);and The World Goes Round. Performance lead role credits include: Company, 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Oklahoma!, Carousel, A Grand Night for Singing, My Fair Lady, I Love You, You're Perfect…, Cabaret, Cinderella,and Anything Goes. His former students have appeared in Broadway productions (Allegiance, Dames at Sea, On The Town, Cinderella, In The Heights, West Side Story, Good Vibrations, The Producers, Bloody, Bloody Andrew Jackson, Young Frankenstein), the West End (Motown The Musical), national tours (Phantom, Wicked, Hairspray, Mamma Mia, Beauty and the Beast, Spamalot), and countless regional theatre, cruise line and theme park productions. He is a Metropolitan Opera Guild Northwest Region finalist, MacAllister Regional winner, Lieber Award finalist and has lead/comprimario role credits in opera and as a concert soloist. He received his Doctorate and Master of Music degrees in Vocal Performance from the University of Washington and his Bachelor degree in Music Education from Mansfield University (PA).