Allan MunroAllan Munro holds a PhD in Theater from The Ohio State University (Columbus, Ohio). He was Chair of the Drama Department, Pretoria University before becoming the Research Professor in the Faculty of the Arts at the Tshwane University of Technology. Crrently he is a Professor in the Department of Visual Arts and Design, Vaal University of Technology. His life-long task has been to 'demystify' research in the Arts. To this end he has published a book entitled Research Methods in the Arts: a Guiding Manual (2014). He served on the ministerial subcommittee in Higher Education interrogating systems of recognizing creative outputs as research outputs. He has supervised (and is still supervising) Masters and Doctoral work in Fine Arts, Music, Photography, Film, Theatre, Theatre Technology, Graphic Design and Fashion. He was one of the editors of the Lessac Festschrift (2009). He has directed numerous plays, and has written some 12 plays. Read More Read Less