Expertise

Gerritt VanderMeer brings more than twenty years of professional experience as an actor in independent and feature film, television, commercials, voice-overs and classical, contemporary and musical theatre to his work in the classroom. He has appeared onstage throughout the United States and abroad, and is a working member of SAG-AFTRA and Actors' Equity Association (unions for professional stage and screen actors in the United States.) Career highlights include national tours (as Harold Hill in the Broadway touring company of The Music Man) and appearances at major regional theatres, including: Trinity Repertory Company, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, The Old Globe, Pioneer Theatre Company, Shakespeare Theatre Company (DC), Texas Shakespeare Festival and York Theatre. Southwest Florida stage credits include: Florida Repertory Theatre, Gulfshore Playhouse, TheatreZone and the Naples Philharmonic.

Organizational Affiliations

Professor, Bower School of Music & the Arts, College of Arts & Sciences, Florida Gulf Coast University

Education

Acting
MFA, University of California, Los Angeles (United States, Los Angeles) - UCLA
Theatre
BA, Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis (United States, Indianapolis) - IUPUI
Foreign Languages and Literature
BA, Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis (United States, Indianapolis) - IUPUI
Engineering
BS, Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis (United States, Indianapolis) - IUPUI