Current Instructors
Here are the talented teachers of our Fall 2025 courses. We’re so happy to present them to you, and we’re so proud of the excellent courses they will deliver around Wellfleet and by Zoom to you wherever you may be.
Jo Ann Citron
Jo Ann Citron has had dual careers in English and in law but has always preferred novels to statutes. She did her undergraduate work at Vassar, her Ph.D. at Boston University, and her J.D. at Northeastern University. She taught English literature at BU and Bates, and law and public policy at Wellesley College. Her family law practice in Massachusetts and New York concentrated in high-conflict child custody litigation with the NY practice emphasizing impact litigation. Until she moved from Cambridge to Truro full-time during the pandemic, she led study groups in 19th c. novels at the Harvard Institute for Learning in Retirement (HILR) in Cambridge. In 2023 she started A Taste for Trollope at the Truro Public Library where she leads discussions on Anthony Trollope and his contemporaries. This is her first course at the Prez Hall Open University.
Steve Reynolds
Steve Reynolds has taught classes at OUW on Carson McCullers, Eugene O’Neill and Brian Friel and on Gilbert and Sullivan and Arthur Miller for Lifetime Learning in Orleans. Directing projects on Cape Cod include Dancing at Lughnasa and A Little Night Music for Eventide Theatre Company and Stones in His Pockets and The Member of the Wedding for Cape Rep. Prior to moving to the Cape, Steve was…
Claude Kerven
Kerven's career began with the debut of his short film "Candy Store," which won an Academy Award for Best Dramatic Student Film. In 1982, he directed a series of Afterschool Specials for ABC-TV, including the Emmy Award winning "Starstruck" and the Director's Guild…
Marc Strauss
Marc Strauss, Ph.D., is Professor Emeritus in the Dobbins Conservatory of Theatre and Dance, Holland College of Arts & Media, Southeast Missouri State University. Dr. Strauss has taught all levels of studio ballet, jazz, and ballroom and theory classes in the history of the musical, dance history…