Group - Peter M Donohue

Rev. Peter M. Donohue, O.S.A. is a Roman Catholic priest who was inaugurated as Villanova University's 32nd President on September 8, 2006. He had served as the Chair of the Theater Department for that institution since 1992. Fr. Donahue received his bachelor's degree from Villanova University in 1975. Ordained in the Order of Saint Augustine in 1979, Fr. Donohue received his M.A. in Theater from The Catholic University of America in 1983 and a Master of Divinity from Washington Theological Union in 1985. He was conferred a Ph.D. in Theater from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1990, while also managing the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts. His early years as an educator were spent serving the St. Augustine Parish in Andover, Mass, and at Archbishop Carroll High School in Washington, DC. From 1985 through 1990, he was an instructor in Villanova's Theater Department.