Our Critics & Contributing Writers
(For biographies, click here.)

The core writers at the outset were (and remain) Joe and Elizabeth Kahn (based in Cary), William Thomas Walker (Hillsborough and Chapel Hill), and John W. Lambert (Raleigh).

Along the way, we expanded our ranks with some first-rate critics, some of whom came to us from other papers and some of whom were recruited specifically for CVNC. They include Roy C. Dicks (Raleigh), Jeffrey Rossman (Durham), Richard Parsons (New Bern), Roger A. Cope (Bakersfield, California), Ken Hoover (Durham), Peter Perret (Winston-Salem), Stuart Burnham (Wilmington), Frank D. Pittman (Raleigh), Gerald Cochran (Salisbury), Timothy H. Lindeman (Greensboro), Timothy W. Holley (Durham), Karen E. Moorman (Durham), Paul D. Williams (Raleigh), Steve Row (Greenville), Martha Fawbush (Raleigh), Ted McIrvine (Asheville), Laura McDowell (Brevard), Tom Moore (Durham), and Judith N. Barber (Greenville); theatre critics Robert W. McDowell (Raleigh) and Alan R. Hall (Chapel Hill); and dance and theatre critic Kate Dobbs Ariail (Durham).

In addition, we draw from time to time upon skilled writers with special talents, such as David Arcus (Chapel Organist, Duke Chapel), Dorothy Kitchen (of the Duke University String School), Marvin J. Ward (Massachusetts), Mary Elizabeth Nordstrom (Maine), and George M. Stephens (whose two performing arts task forces helped shape Raleigh's present Progress Energy Center for the Performing Arts).