Robert Alford, II  (2002)
Assistant Professor of Speech
Communications

Robert Alford II is an Assistant Professor in the Communications Department at Louisiana State University Shreveport, where he teaches courses in theatre, film and public speaking. He is a graduate of Notre Dame High School in Shreveport, Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge (B.A., Speech) and the Yale School of Drama (MFA, Directing). Robert Alford II has directed over 40 plays including Fences by August Wilson at the Shreveport Little Theatre, A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry and Electra by Hugo von Hoffmansthal at LSUS. Mr. Alford has directed Summers in Suffolk by Sheri Bailey at the Center for Contemporary Arts in Shreveport, at the Douglas Wilder Theatre in Norfolk, Virginia and at LSUS. Other productions include Hers by Pruitt Taylor Vince at the Pass Dahat Theatre in Baton Rouge and The Sweet Life by Michael David Quinn at the Yale Repertory Theatre in New Haven, Connecticut. Mr. Alford’s productions in Los Angeles, California include A Summer Romance, A Summer Memory by Sheri Bailey at the Mark Taper Forum New Works Festival; Life During Wartime by Wesley Brown at The Burbage Theatre; Or, by Felton Perry at The Complex; Walking With A Panther by Sheri Bailey at Theatre 6470; Buy the Bi and Bye by Felton Perry, at the Richmond Shepard Theatre; The Amen Corner by James Baldwin at The Galilee Theatre and Sheri Bailey's A Summer Memory at the Beverly Hills Playhouse, the Inner City Cultural Center, and the UCLA International Student Center. Other productions include Lorenzaccio by Alfred de Musset, La Ronde by Arthur Schnitzler; Loot by Joe Orton and The Johnstown Vindicator by Quincy Long at the Yale School of Drama and For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow is Enuf by Ntozake Shange; Uncommon Women & Others by Wendy Wasserstein; The First Breeze of Summer by Leslie Lee; The Woolgatherer by William Mastrosimone; Home by Samm-Art Williams and Anatol by Arthur Schnitzler at LSU Baton Rouge. Mr. Alford served as the assistant director of the Yale Repertory Theatre production of Ma Rainey's Black Bottom by August Wilson, directed by Lloyd Richards, the director of the original Broadway production of A Raisin in the Sun. For 8 years Mr. Alford served as the director of Saint Catherine Community Center in Cedar Grove. Mr. Alford is the son of Lt. Col. Robert Alford and Billie Mims Alford. Robert and Shreveport City Court Judge LaLeshia Walker Alford are the proud parents of Kieran Emmanuel Alford.