AL (ALI) POUR ISSA

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Al (Ali) Pour Issa, Internationally Acclaimed Instructor and Artist; 12 Years Teaching Experiences in Film & Theater

Teaching Experiences since 2004

My teaching method is centered on inclusive teaching and hands-on training. 

• Provided creative, administrative, and logistical cohesion for the student  

   productions.
• Planned, scheduled, & budgeted the set constructions.
• Supervised all technical and design aspects of the productions.
• Managed the constructions, alterations and purchases necessary for all 

  productions.
• Collaborated with the scenic and prop designers to produce all necessary 

  technical drawings and models.
• Designed syllabi and executed numerous courses in theater, film, and liberal 

  arts.
• Educated more than 14000 graduate and undergraduate students and 

  mentored them in their projects since 2017.
• Cultivated excellent oral and written communication skills as demonstrated by 

  the superior student evaluations.
• Created events by collaborating such as “Inclusive Storytelling” at UW and 

  LGBTQIA’s Showcases at NYFA, which promoted equity, diversity, inclusion, 

  and anti-racism.
• Managed projects at the universities in all stages of film production.

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Directed the below film projects at New York Film Academy: 

Florida Project
School of Theater, Film and Media Arts

Assistant Professor of Theater Studies

Teaching at Center for Performing and Cinematic Arts

Fall 2024 Courses: 

 - Introduction to Theater Process

 - World of the Play

 - Race on the Stage 


Interim Head of Dramaturgy & Faculty

Supervising Dramaturgy Students 

Taught:

 - Global Theatre I (BFA & BA) 

 - Global Theatre II (BFA)

 - Dramatic Structure: An Introduction to Dramaturgy (BFA)

 - Elements of Design: Script Analysis (BFA) 

Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, 2023-2024

Resident Teaching Artist

Teaching Filmmaking at Yeshivat Noam School, (Pre-K-8th Grade), Paramus, NJ, 2022-2023

Resident Teaching Artists

Production Supervisor and Assistant Professor

Taught at the Dyson College of Arts and Sciences, New York City, NY, 2021-2022

 - Production I

 - Directing I 

 - Directing IV

 - Intro. to Theater

Instructor & Project Director

New York Film Academy 

Teaching Practical and Theoretical classes of Liberal Arts and Sciences and Acting for Film Courses (MFA and BFA Filmmaking and Acting), South Beach Campus, Miami Beach, 2018-2021 

Classes at NYFA

- Acting for Film IV (MFA)

- Cinema Studies (MFA)

- Critical Film Studies (BFA)

- Film Art (BFA) 

- Dramatic Literature (BFA) 

- Studies in Global Media (BFA) 

- Topics in Film Studies (BFA)

- Art, Culture & Society (BFA)  

- Topics in Literature II: Literary Genres (BFA)

Instructor

Ringling College of Arts and Design

Teaching Storytelling (BFA Course), 2020-2021

Instructor

Florida Atlantic University, The Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, School of Communication & Multimedia Studies

Teaching Scriptwriting (BFA) and 

Video Production (BFA), 2020-2021

Instructor

Barry University

College of Arts & Sciences

Teaching American Cinema (BA Course), 2021

    University of Washington, The School of Drama, Teaching Assistant, (Two Sections), 3 Quarters, 2017-2018


    Teaching graduate and undergraduate film and theater courses as an instructor from 2011 to 2017 in numerous universities and institutions in the Middle East. (Detailed employment history upon request.) 


    Yale University, New Haven, 2010-11 


    University of Tehran and Individual Tutorials, Tehran, 2004-07 

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    • Award-Winning Films
    • Films (Experimental)
    • Dramaturgy
    • Project & Org. Management
    • Coaching & Mentoring
    • Theatrical Productions
    • Arts & Design

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