Nathan Cole
Professor of Theatre Arts
Nathan Cole is the full-time faculty member in Theatre Arts responsible for the acting and directing program at Ventura College. Relocating from Dallas, Texas, he served as the lead faculty and faculty coordinator in the Theatre Department at Mountain View College for almost nine years and chair of the Drama Discipline Committee for Dallas County Community College District. His favorite directing credits from Mountain View include The Laramie Project, Radium Girls, Too Much Light Makes The Baby Go Blind, David’s Mother, and Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992. Some of his directing projects at VC have included Ghetto, The Watch that Ends the Night: Voices of the Titanic, The Triangle Factory Fire Project, The Waiting Room, and Hold Me! An Entertainment.
Before Mountain View, Nathan taught for the Creative Arts Theatre and School and KD Studio Actors Conservatory where he co-founded the theatre company Blackbox Operations. There some shows he directed and produced include Never the Sinner, And They Dance Real Slow in Jackson, Mama Drama, along with numerous student showcases for area casting agents and directors. He has coached for the nationally and internationally ranked speech teams of Rice University and the University of Texas at Arlington, and annually travels around the nation coaching and/or judging high school and college students for speech competition. Nathan holds a Master of Arts in Drama with an emphasis in Performance and a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Theatre Arts - Acting.
Professionally, he directed The Most Massive Woman Wins and Antonie, both of which were featured in the Out of the Loop Festival sponsored by Water Tower Theatre. Other credits include The Chalk Garden, Holiday Memories, The Cemetery Club, and The Lion in Winter at the historic Granbury Opera House.
OFFICE: PAC 125
EMAIL: ncole@vcccd.edu