BARRON 2018 / DIRECTING

Rob Barron

CONSCIOUSNESS OF GUILT

"The fact that they were scheming...and knew that they had to hide some of this...speaks to the fact that there was consciousness of guilt"

Chris Hayes, MSNBC

PROFESSOR ROBERT BARRON (2018, Promotion to Full Professor)

In 2018, my CCNY Theatre Department colleagues once again ignored the CCNY tenure/promotion guidelines.

The CCNY Governance Plan clearly state that:

“FACULTY TENURE, CCE, AND PROMOTION PROCEDURES

Promotion Procedures

…There shall be established in each department promotion committees to consider promotions for each rank, including full professor. All members of the department of higher rank shall be included on the promotions committee of a faculty member who applies for promotion. The department chairperson shall be the chairperson of each promotions committee…”

My colleagues did not abide by the above-mentioned guidelines because I was not allowed to serve on Professor Barron’s 2018 promotion to full professor committee, in spite of the fact that I was a full professor at the time.

My colleagues hid the fact that Barron had been promoted to full professor from me for over five years. I inadvertently discovered his new rank in the summer of 2023.

When I eventually saw the cv that Barron submitted for his 2018 promotion to full professor, I was genuinely stunned by how he had shamelessly "embellished" his professional credentials with:

Productions at low-level community theatres and bars;
Productions whose running times were between 10 and 55 minutes long;
Revivals of productions that were listed two and three times in his cv;
CCNY productions done with his students;
And other fraudulent, misleading, and unethical information.

Barron's Embellished Directing Credits

NOTE: This is a Low budget short film that was never produced or distributed.

It was simply downloaded to Venmo.

Consequently, this is not the level of creative work that should be included in a tenure/promotion cv and Barron knows it. This short film was not released in movie theatres or online on Netflix/HBO etc. Rather, It was merely downloaded to Venmo.

Running Time = 7 Minutes

Two Community Theatre Productions

Revivals listed Numerous Times

Running Time = 10 Minutes

Performed at a bar in Kingston, NY

Running Time = 10 Minutes

Performed at at bar in Kington, NY.

One Un-produced Short Film

NOTE: Barron does not divulge in his cv the fact that the running times for these two productions were only 10 minutes each. Nor did he state that they were performed in a bar.

Insofar as the venue is concerned, the CCNY Tenure/Promotion Guidelines clearly state that:

"Venues of public displays or performances, including the nature of the venue

(e.g., invited, juried, selected competitively, as appropriate, with a description

of procedures for selection), sponsoring organizations and/or other relevant

information that will provide perspective on the relative stature of the venue."

Barron conceals the, "nature " and "stature" of the venue" in this instance by not acknowledging the fact that the production was performed in a bar.

Keith Lee Grant

A Personal Perspective

MISS NELSON IS MISSING

NOTE: The same production appears three times in Barron's Directing cv.

Running Time = About 50 Minutes

ALEXANDER AND THE TERRIBLE...

NOTE: The same production appears three times in Barron's Directing cv.

ALEALEXANDER WHOSE NOT NOT NOT GOING TO MOVE

Running Time = About 50 Minutes

ALEXANDER WHO'S NOT NOT NOT...

NOTE: The same production appears twice in Barron's Directing cv.

ALEALEXXANDER WHOSE NOT NOT NOT GOING TO MOVE

Running Time = About 50 Minutes

NOTE: Barron unabashedly attempts to embellish the number of productions in his cv by listing the revivals of his shows in a way that makes them appear to be original productions.

Barron directed each of the children's shows above only once. In subsequent years, TheatreworksUSA (The producing company) revived these shows. They use the original production's, sets, costumes, props, music, choreography and blocking to remount the shows listed above.

Barron should have made some distinction between the original production that took 4-5 weeks to rehearse and the subsequent revivals listed above that took only about 5-7 days to rehearse and zero time to design, because the costumes, sets, props etc. were simply taken out of storage for these revivals.

Two CCNY Theatre Department Productions with his student actors

NOTE: It is outrageous that Barron uses two of his CCNY productions to pad his cv. A promotion/tenure cv should showcase work done off-campus. Productions that Barron did on the CCNY campus with his students in the Theatre Department course called THTR330 do not count as off-campus creative activity. Barron and his promotion committee should have known this and deleted these productions from his cv.

One Production That was originally staged 25 years ago.

NOTE: The Guidelines state that only projects completed from 2012-2018 (7 years after his last promotion) should be included in Barron's 2018 cv.

This is clearly a revival of a show that Barron staged over twenty years ago. A production that was originally mounted in 1998 falls well outside the CCNY tenure/promotion guidelines that limits Barron to using works created from 2012-2018.

"When you refuse to put in all of the details.... you are lying by omission..."

Barron's Directing Credits

(Minus the productions that he used to,"embellish" his cv.)

Running Time = About 50 Minutes

ALEXANDER WHOSE NOT NOT NOT GOING TO MOVE

Running time = About 50 Minutes

SUMMATION

When you remove Barron's EMBELLISHED productions and plays etc., you are left with only:

EVACUATION (unpublished play)
PARENTABILITY (unpublished play)

4 Children's Shows (50 minutes each)
THE CAT IN THE HAT
MISS NELSON IS MISSING
ALEXANDER AND THE TERRIBLE, NO GOOD...
ALEXANDER WHO'S NOT, NOT, NOT...

1 Producer credit: UNHEARD VOICES THE FROM AMERICAN THEATRE: A series of New Plays Curated by Rob Barron for the New Haarlem Arts Theatre on the CCNY campus in Aaron Davis Hall.

Two unpublished plays, four children's shows and one producer credit do not qualify a candidate for a promotion to full professor at a Senior CUNY College.

CCNY Provost Liss and President Vincent Boudreau TBA.

Barron's Unedited 2018 Promotion cv