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A. Cleveland Harrison, Professor Emeritus of Theatre at Auburn University, established in 1951 a theater program on the campus of Little Rock Junior College, which became the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. Then he taught for thirteen years at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville in the undergraduate and graduate programs, supervising basic speech and the basic fine arts programs, before chairing the Department of Speech and Dramatic Art. In 1970, he joined the School of Architecture and Fine Arts at Auburn as head professor of the Department of Theatre and guided the curriculum revision and the design and building of the Telfair Peet Theatre. Under Dr. Harrison's direction, the department produced nine full-length plays annually, of which he directed at least two each year. He also acted the roles of Sir Thomas More in A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS, Clarence Day in LIFE WITH FATHER, Captain Hook in PETER PAN, and Lazar Wolfe in FIDDLER ON THE ROOF.
Dr. Harrison holds the Ph.D.(with Distinction) in Drama and Theatre from the University of Kansas, an MA in Speech and Dramatic Art from the University of Arkansas, and MA and BS (cum laude) in English, Speech, and Theater from The Ohio State University. The Alabama Conference of Theater and Speech elected him to the Alabama Theater Hall of Fame in 1996, "for distinguished contributions and enduring dedication as a past pioneer in Alabama Theater." Since his retirement, Dr. Harrison has written two memoirs: UNSUNG VALOR: A GI's STORY OF WORLD WAR II (University Press of Mississippi, 2000) which received the Forrest C. Pogue Prize from The Eisenhower Center for American Studies in 2001;
and A LITTLE ROCK BOYHOOD: GROWING UP IN THE GREAT DEPRESSION (Butler Center Books, 2010)
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