Welcome to the 15th edition of our Alumni Review!

The last twelve months have been busy and productive. I am pleased to say that our students are engaged in a diversity of research, teaching, and artistic activities. Many of you have supported our students at conferences, theatre events, and in the field for which we are most grateful.

Attending the ASTR conference in 2017, I was humbled by the fact of how many times GC alumns were mentioned in dispatches. Congratulations to Hilary Miller who was awarded the Barnard Hewitt Award for her book "Drop Dead: Performance in Crisis, 1970s New York.” Congratulations also to Bertie Ferdman who received the ASTR Research Fellowship Award for her project "Theatre in the White Room: How Dramaturgy and Curatorial Practices are Intersecting in the Contemporary Arts."

Life in the program has also been busy and productive. Among the many faculty activities in 2017: The Marvin Carlson Theatre Center officially opened at the Shanghai Theatre Academy and Professor Jean Graham-Jones’ was appointed to the Lucille Lortel Chair. Please do sign up for the latest program news at our Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/ PhDTheatreCUNY/.

You are always welcome to drop by the program when you are in NYC, and don't forget to come to our alumni events at annual conferences. Thank you again for staying in touch with us. We’re always delighted to hear from you.

Peter Eckersall Executive Officer Hello Everyone. Welcome to the 15th ed. of the Alumni Revue.

Where do I start? Platitudinous cynicism seems to be the norm of public conversation lately, so much so that even I, at times, have begun thinking in ‘fake’ news terms. I would once more like to thank our faithful alumni for their continued contributions to the field and their generosity to the Theatre and Performance Program, to our students, and, most importantly, to the Alumni Revue. I am always grateful to the Administrative Assistants, who work tirelessly to get up-to-date and relevant information even while taking care of their academic studies.

This year we hosted a dual-purpose event in the form of an Alumni Meet and Greet and Professor Jean Graham-Jones’ appointment to the Lucille Lortel Chair, on Monday, October 16, 2017. A copy of the official invitation is on page 97 of the Alumni Revue and a few pictures of the event are posted on the Theatre Program’s Alumni page: https://www.gc.cuny.edu/Page-Elements/ Academics-Research-Centers-Initiatives/ Doctoral-Programs/Theatre/Alumni.

Domestic and International events might continue to be troubling but, even though it might come off as a platitudinous statement, life really does go on!

We hope you enjoy this latest edition. Best regards. Lynette C. Gibson Editor From the Editorial and Graphic Arts Assistants

Mayurakshi Sen It has been an incredible privilege to be able to edit Vol. 15 of our Alumni Revue! I have gained insight into the very rich and diverse community of our GC theatre community. Having witnessed the continued passion and the shining successes of our program alums, I find myself motivated to work harder to pursue my research interests.

Christine Snyder The Alumni Revue editing process reminds me as a student early in the PhD process of the vast array of topics, histories, and practices available to those of us who study theatre and performance. It’s been a pleasure to engage with forty and more years’ worth of Graduate Center scholarship.

Jennie Youssef It has been both hopeful and inspiring to see what kind of amazing opportunities and exciting futures are open to those of us who are soon (and also not so soon) to be alumni of the program.

Dr. ABBOTT, Erik email: [email protected] 4, Place Léon XIII L-1929 LUXEMBOURG Graduated: October 2014

Professional life: Founder and Artistic Director, Actors Repertory Theatre Luxembourg (Actors Rep), a professional English-language theatre company. Founded in 2012, we have presented 10 productions since 2013, with at least three planned for 2018. We are currently working to bring one of our 2017 productions to the US. (www.ActorsRep.lu). Professional Director, Actor and Playwright, Various Direct and act professionally for Actors Rep and others. Two of my plays have been professionally produced this year. Theatre Critic, Wort.lu/en I write theatre articles about reviews of local and touring productions for the online English version of the national newspaper, the Luxembourger Wort. Independent Scholar

Current fields of interest/research: Contemporary European Theatre and Performance, Carnival, Theatre Management

Recent publications/papers: No recent publications (except a few reviews for the Wort). However, two of my plays, #WTF Happened? On the Phenomenon of Trump, and Dear Santa..., were produced by Actors Rep in 2017. The Trump piece was originally commissioned by Théâtre d’Esch, a major regional professional theatre in Esch- sur-Alzette, Luxembourg. Selections from it were presented at the theatre in May as part of the city’s ‘Nuit de la Culture’ celebration. The complete revised version was produced by Actors Rep at the Théâtre National du Luxembourg in September. We are currently working to bring it to the US.

Family: Spouse/Partner: Dena Child(ren): none listed Grandchild(ren): none listed

Hobbies, Community Service, Volunteer: I do extensive volunteer work with a non-profit (UK registered charity) in York, England (in recent years primarily as a writer and editor), and at various places on the Continent.

What you would most want your GC colleagues to know: nothing listed ======

Dr. ABRAMS, Joshua email: [email protected] 126 Casewick Road West Norwood, London SE27 0SZ UNITED KINGDOM Graduated: September 2008

Professional life: Deputy Dean, Academic The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, University of London Eton Avenue, London NW3 3HY United Kingdom

Current fields of interest/research: Contemporary Performance, Food Studies, Immersive Performance

Recent publications/papers: “Sriracha and the Performance of Identity,” in Fonds of Food: Sauces and Identity in the Western World, ed. Andrew Donnelly, Beth Forrest, and Deirdre Murphy (Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2017); “On Oysters” in sketch, Mourad Mazouz and Pierre Gagnaire, (2017, Bloomsbury Press); “Gloss: Esprit

de Corps”; “On Scale”; “Gloss: Realism”; “Th’eater” in Imagined Theatres: Writing for a Theoretical Stage, edited by Daniel Sack (2017, Routledge) 75, 156, 183, 200-201; “Design and Décor of Restaurants,” in Sage Encyclopedia of Food Issues, ed. Ken Albala (Sage Publications, 2015); “Performing the Ephemeral: On Ice Cream and the Theatre,” in “On Ice,” Performance Research 18, no. 6 (December 2013); “Mise en Plate: The Scenographic Imagination and the Contemporary Restaurant,” in “On Scenography,” Performance Research 18, no. 2 (September 2013).

Family: Spouse/Partner: Jennifer Parker-Starbuck (‘03) Child(ren): 1 (female) Grandchild(ren): none listed

Hobbies, Community Service, Volunteer: none listed What you would most want your GC colleagues to know: In 2016, I was elected as President-Elect for ATHE and I’m getting up to speed on that, as well as still enjoying my role as Deputy Dean at Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. Jen and I had a great last year running ASTR and managed to fit in a fair amount of conference and other work-related travel. I’m still working on Food and Performance and aiming to finish the book soon! Hope to see lots of you on the conference circuit or in London. ======

Dr. AJELLO, Linell email: [email protected] [email protected] 1621 Fern Street New Orleans, LA 70118

Graduated: May 2012

Professional life: Mellon Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow Tulane University, School of Liberal Arts Department of Communication 219 Newcomb Hall New Orleans, LA 70118

Current fields of interest/research: nothing listed

Recent publications/papers: “A Game of Poverty and Tragic Deliberation,” Constellations: An International Journal of Critical and Democratic Theory 21, no. 1 (March 2014); “Soldiers, Scapegoats, and the Tragic Demands of Operation First Casualty,” International Journal of Cultural Studies 17, no. 3 (2014).

Family: Spouse/Partner: none listed Child(ren): none listed Grandchild(ren): none listed

Hobbies, Community Service, Volunteer: none listed

What you would most want your GC colleagues to know: nothing listed ======

Dr. ALCIDE SAINT-LOT, Marie Jose email: [email protected] 5574 Witney Drive, #D 313 Del Ray Beach, FL 33484

Graduated: May 1988

Professional life: Communication Consultant nothing listed nothing listed

Current fields of interest/research: nothing listed

Recent publications/papers: Barack Obama: Speaker of Genius (Educa Vision, 2011).

Family: Spouse: Emile Saint-Lot, Computer Sciences Child(ren): none listed Grandchild(ren): none listed

Hobbies, Community Service, Volunteer: none listed What you would most want your GC colleagues to know: I recently created “The Speak-to-Win-Project,” which consists of seminars in Business Communication and Public Speaking dedicated to professionals of various fields. I also give conferences in museums, libraries, and social clubs on Cultural Diversity. ======

Dr. ALEXANDER, Philip A. email: [email protected] 77 Eastern Parkway, #3C Brooklyn, NY 11238

Graduated: February 1999

Professional life: Director New York State Alliance for Arts Education P.O. Box 2217 Albany, NY 12220

Current fields of interest/research: nothing listed

Recent publications/papers: “‘Thinking Like a Spider’: Teaching Artists in Long-Term Partnerships,” Teaching Artist Journal 3, no. 2 (Spring 2005).

Family: Spouse/Partner: none listed Child(ren): none listed Grandchild(ren): none listed

Hobbies, Community Service, Volunteer: Recent public speaking engagements include emceeing at gala fundraisers for small performance companies. Invited to provide keynote address at New Jersey Arts Education Collective Connect Conference, Sept. 2014.

What you would most want your GC colleagues to know: For the past year or two, I’ve been exploring the world of creativity, brain research and learning through the arts. ======

D r. AONO, Tomoko email: [email protected] 2-5-11 Chizuka, Kofu Yamanashi 4000074 JAPAN Graduated: June 2010

Professional life: Associate Professor Tokyo University of Science Suwa JAPAN http://www.rs.suwa.tus.ac.jp/aono/research1.html

Current fields of interest/research: nothing listed

Recent publications/papers: “Neither Art Nor Entertainment: The Development of Regional Theatres as Public Theatres in the United States.” Theatre and Film Studies, 2008 vol.1 (March 2009): 395-440 (Japanese).

Family: Spouse/Partner: Shuhei Ikai Child(ren): two (2) Grandchild(ren): none listed

Hobbies, Community Service, Volunteer: none listed

What you would most want your GC colleagues to know: nothing listed ======

Dr. ARMSTRONG, James email: [email protected] 1443A Fifth Ave., 4th Floor New York, NY 10035 Graduated: 2017

Professional life: Adjunct lecturer at City College and Baruch College Currently teaching theatre history and business communications Also continue to adjunct at Saint Peter's University and Marymount Manhattan Will be presenting at the MLA conference in January 2018

Current fields of interest/research: Regency Drama

Recent publications/papers: "The Spirit of Perpetual Negation: Christopher Marlowe as Demonic Trickster," Romard 55 (2016): 41-52.

Family: Spouse/Partner: Marci Morimoto Child(ren): none listed Grandchild(ren): none listed

Hobbies, Community Service, Volunteer: I continue to take part in Renaissance dance. What you would most want your GC colleagues to know: My play Dark Night of the Soul won the Nittany Theatre at the Barn's National Free Speech Play Contest. ======

D r. ARONSON-LEHAVI, Sharon email: sharon.aronson- [email protected] Department of Theatre Arts The Yolanda & David Katz Faculty of the Arts Tel Aviv University Tel Aviv, ISRAEL Graduated: October 2004

Professional life: Chair, Department of Theatre Arts, Tel Aviv University, Academic Director of the Tel Aviv University Theatre (TAU Theatre) Tel Aviv University Tel Aviv, Israel

Current fields of interest/research: Medieval theatre, religion and theatre, modern theatre and performance, Israeli theatre and performance

Recent publications/papers: “The Performative Utterance ‘I’: Theatricality and Subversion of Identity in the Works of Eyal Weiser,” TDR 61:4 (2017): 22-39; “Sexuality and Gender,” A Cultural History of Theatre in the Middle Ages, Vol. 2. Ed. Jody Enders. Gen. Eds. Tracy C. Davis and Christopher Balme. London: Bloomsbury, 2017; 59- 76; “Dialectical Aesthetics of Change and Continuity in the 2010 Oberammergau Passion Play,” The Oberammergau Passion Play: Essays on

the 2010 Performance and the Centuries-Long Tradition, Ed. Kevin J. Wetmore Jr., New York: McFarland, 2017; 53-74; E-book (Hebrew): Biblical Theatre in Israel: Identity and Otherness, Jerusalem: Israel Democracy Institute, 2016

Family: Spouse/Partner: Amnon Lehavi, Professor of Law, Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya (IDC) Child(ren): 1 (female) Grandchild(ren): n/a

Hobbies, Community Service, Volunteer: none listed

What you would most want your GC colleagues to know: nothing listed ======

Dr. AUSTIN, Gayle M. email: [email protected] P.O. Box 1440 Pine Lake, GA 30072

Graduated: February 1988

Professional life: Emerita, Department of Communication Georgia State University University Plaza Atlanta, GA 30303

Current fields of interest/research: nothing listed

Recent publications/papers: “Stand-In Sister: A Feminist Theory Play,” at Eyedrum Gallery, Atlanta, GA, July 2006

Family: Spouse/Partner: Jean Bordeaux Child(ren): none listed Grandchild(ren): none listed

Hobbies, Community Service, Volunteer: Composting theoretical performances; making visual art using mixed media, collage and encaustic (painting with hot wax). What you would most want your GC colleagues to know: After teaching at Georgia State University in Atlanta for 20 years, I retired at the end of 2009. My partner and I are living in a renovated, rustic cabin on a small lake just outside Atlanta. I have begun to travel, vegetable garden and paint abstracts, just like all the clichés say. ======

Dr. BABB, Roger N. email: [email protected] 505 E. 13th Street, #A1 New York, NY 10009

Graduated: May 2003

Professional life: Professor of Theatre Mount Holyoke College South Hadley, MA 01705

Current fields of interest/research: nothing listed

Recent publications/papers: Reviews of Braun’s “History of Polish Theatre” in Polish Review; Interview with Pieln Kosla in Slavic and Eastern European Performance; Review of a Pig Iron Theatre Company in Theatre Journal.

Family: Spouse/Partner: Rocky Bornstein, Physical Therapist Child(ren): 2 (female) Grandchild(ren): none listed

Hobbies, Community Service, Volunteer: none listed

What you would most want your GC colleagues to know: I got a great education and remained in contact with my mentors.

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[email protected] D r. BACKALENICK, Irene M. email: 3030 Park Ave #7E4

Bridgeport, CT 06604

Graduated: February 1987

Professional life: Free-Lance Theatre Critic Several New York and Connecticut Publications New York & Connecticut

Current fields of interest/research: nothing listed

Recent publications/papers: National Jewish Post & Opinion; and a column on the internet, called The New York Scene; various reviews/articles in Back Stage, Connecticut Post. I can also be reached at: http://www.jewish-theatre.com, http://www.newyorktheaterscene.com and www.critics.org

Family: Spouse/Partner: William Backalenick (retired Graphics Artist) Child(ren): 1 (male), 3 (female) Grandchild(ren): 1 (female) 2 (male)

Hobbies, Community Service, Volunteer: none listed

What you would most want your GC colleagues to know: nothing listed ======

Dr. BAKER, Stuart E. email: [email protected] 4188 Diplomacy Circle Tallahassee, FL 32308-8719

Graduated: February 1977

Professional life: Professor Emeritus (Retired), School of Theatre Florida State University Tallahassee, FL 32306

Current fields of interest/research: nothing listed

Recent publications/papers: Bernard Shaw’s Remarkable Religion: A Faith that Fits the Facts, University Press of Florida, 2002.

Family: Spouse/Partner: Jalma M. Baker Child(ren): none listed Grandchild(ren): none listed

Hobbies, Community Service, Volunteer: Edits the Radical Bleeding Heart: http://radicalbleedingheart.net What you would most want your GC colleagues to know: nothing listed ======

Dr. BASSIN, Joel email: [email protected] 310 N 22nd Street Richmond, VA 23223-7022

Graduated: June 2000

Professional life: Producing Artistic Director Firehouse Theatre 1609 W. Broad Street Richmond, VA 23200

Current fields of interest/research nothing listed

Recent publications/papers: none listed

Family: Spouse/Partner: Laura S. Bassin – career counselor, career services, VCU School of Business Child(ren): none listed Grandchild(ren): none listed

Hobbies, Community Service, Volunteer: none listed

What you would most want your GC colleagues to know: nothing listed ======

Dr. BAUMRIN, Seth email: [email protected] 590 West End Avenue New York, NY 10024

Graduated: February 2000

Professional life: Assistant Professor (Chair), Communication and Theatre Arts John Jay College, City University of New York 899 Tenth Avenue New York, NY 10019 Literary Director, A Laboratory for Actor Training Brooklyn, NY

Current fields of interest/research: nothing listed

Recent publications/papers: Grotowski’s Poland: Poor Theatre and the Party. Routledge: London (forthcoming spring 2012); “An Appeal to my Colleagues: The Institute for Crimes against Culture” [Address to the In Place of War Conference: Prishtina, Kosovo June 2010] in Theatre and Nationalism. eds. James Thompson and Jeton Neziraj. IPOW & Qendra multimedia: Kosova, 2011; “Theatre Ethics and the Performer’s Amoral Duties: an Axiology for the Actor” at the conference, “Tension and Recognition. On Inter-, Multi- and Trans-cultural Communication in Performing Arts.” University of Wrocław Polish Philology Institute Department of Theory of Culture and Performing Arts, (scheduled for October 2012); “Theatre Ethics and the Performer’s Amoral Duties: an Axiology for the Actor” for The Adam Mickiewicz Institute and Wydział Polonistyki Institute of Polish Studies (Warsaw University) at MiTo Art Gallery, October 20, 2011; “Theatre and Post Traumatic Stress: Do 9/11 Dramas Heal or Conceal Wounded Culture?” at Teatri Dodona conference: “PLAYgrounds between facts and fiction: new theatre forms after 1990,” Pristina, Kosovo June 19, 2011. Directing, Producing and Workshops: Workshop Director. Sub-poetics for The Adam Mickiewicz Institute and Wydział Polonistyki Institute of Polish Studies (Warsaw University) at MiTo Art Gallery, October 20, 2011; Co- producer (with Johanna Carlin). 9/11 Performance Project. Five plays at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, Art of Justice Program, Gerald W. Lynch Theatre, Demolition of the Eiffel Tower by Jeton Neziraj, Another Life by Karen Malpede, Domestic Crusaders by Wajahat Ali, What Happened by Amy Green, and We Were Kids by the students of Karen Malpede, New York, September 8- 11, 2011; Director. Five Scenes from a Disaster part of “Critical Incidents and Children: The World Trade Center Attack: Consequences and Perspectives for Children and Youth,” for The Academic for Critical Incident Analysis annual conference at John Jay College, New York, July 21, 2011; Workshop Director. Sub-poetics. Glej Theatre, Ljubljana, Slovenia, June 23-26, 2011; Producer. Another Life by Karen Malpede at Teatri Dodona conference: “PLAYgrounds between facts and fiction: new theatre forms after 1990,” June 19, 2011, Pristina, Kosovo.

Family: Spouse/Partner: none listed Child(ren): 2 (male) Grandchild(ren): none listed

Hobbies, Community Service, Volunteer: Seth Baumrin serves as Literary Director for A Laboratory for Actor Training, e.t.c.

What you would most want your GC colleagues to know: nothing listed ======

Dr. BAZZONI, Jana O’Keefe email: [email protected] 126 Second Place Brooklyn, NY 11231

Graduated: February 1983

Professional life: Chair, Department of Communication Studies BA and MA Programs in Corporate Communication Baruch College, CUNY, One Bernard Baruch Way, New York, NY 10010 Coordinate Internships & the UG Program Co-President, The Pirandello Society of America

Current fields of interest/research: nothing listed

Recent publications/papers: Editor Emerita, PSA, the Pirandello Society Annual http://www.pirandellosocietyofamerica.org

Family: Spouse/Partner: Enrico A. Bazzoni, Chef Instructor & Director of Programs, Culinary Liaisons, LLP Child(ren): 3 (male) Grandchild(ren): none listed

Hobbies, Community Service, Volunteer: none listed

What you would most want your GC colleagues to know: nothing listed ======Dr. BECK, Anne E. email: [email protected] 117 Colorado Drive Portales, NM 88130-7039

Graduated: February 1999

Professional life: Professor and Chair Eastern New Mexico University Department of Theatre and Dance 1500 S. Avenue K, Station 37 Portales, NM 88130

Recent publications/papers: none listed

Family: Spouse/Partner: none listed Child(ren): none listed Grandchild(ren): none listed

Hobbies, Community Service, Volunteer: none listed

What you would most want your GC colleagues to know: I so treasure my years in the doctoral program in theatre at The Graduate Center. ======

Dr. BECK, Jill email: [email protected] Box 889 Woodbury, CT 06798

Graduated: June 1985

Professional life: President Emerita Lawrence University Appleton, WI 54912

Current fields of interest/research: Education programs that connect museums and schools

Recent publications/papers: “The Banyan Tree Spirits: Using Photography to Commune with the Natural World,” Robert J. Beck and Jill Beck, forthcoming in the International Journal of Religion and Spirituality; “Training the Clinical Eye and Mind: Using the Arts to Develop Medical Students Observational and Pattern Recognition Skills,” in Journal of Medical Education, Vol. 40 (2006), pp. 263-268. Co- authored with Drs. Johanna Shapiro and Lloyd Rucker; Moving Notation with J. Reiser (Harwood Academic Publishing). See Lawrence University website for additional papers.

Family: Spouse/Partner: Robert J. Beck, Education Research Child(ren): none listed Grandchild(ren): none listed

Hobbies, Community Service, Volunteer: In October 2011, completed a $160 million fund raising campaign for Lawrence University to support academic and artistic excellence. Retired from the LU position in June 2013.

What you would most want your GC colleagues to know: I enclose best wishes. ======

Dr. BERKIN, Nicole email: [email protected] 94 Elsie Street San Francisco, CA 94110

Graduated: February 2015

Professional life: Assistant Director, Stanford Summer Session Stanford University 215 Panama Street Stanford, CA 94305

Current fields of interest/research Academic Program Development, Advising, Academic Support, 19th Century Cultural History

Recent publications/papers: Review of Transatlantic Broadway by Marlis Schweitzer, Theatre Survey 58.1 (2017); “Antebellum Touring and the Culture of Deception: The Case of Master Diamond, Theatre History Studies 2015, Vol. 34

Family: Spouse/Partner: Otis Berkin Child(ren): 1 (female), 1 (male) Grandchild(ren): none listed

Hobbies, Community Service, Volunteer: none listed

What you would most want your GC colleagues to know: nothing listed ======

Dr. BERKOWITZ, Joel B. email: [email protected] University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Greene Museum, 3367 N. Downer Ave., P.O. Box 413 Milwaukee, WE 53201-0413 Graduated: February 1995

Professional life: Director, Sam & Helen Stahl Center for Jewish Studies Professor, Foreign Languages and Literature University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Greene Museum, 3367 N. Downer Ave., P.O. Box 413 Milwaukee, WI 53201-0413

Current fields of interest/research: Current Research Interests: Yiddish Drama and the Holocaust, applying digital tools to Yiddish theatre and drama; Current Teaching Interests: Theatre and genocide, modern Jewish literature and culture.

Recent publications/papers: My bibliographic essay on Yiddish Theater was recently published in Oxford University Press’s online bibliography series. In August 2016, the research consortium I co-founded with Debra Caplan (Baruch College) launched its newly designed website at yiddishstage.org. The blog now hosted on that site will soon celebrate its second anniversary, and two other major initiatives are currently in the works.

Family: Spouse/Partner: Esther Berkowitz, VP Watermeadow Medical Communications Child(ren): 3 (male) Grandchild(ren): none listed

Hobbies, Community Service, Volunteer: none listed

What you would most want your GC colleagues to know: This year I’ve been appointed a Global Studies Fellow at my university, which provides course releases to give me

time to work on my project on Yiddish Holocaust drama. And on a personal note, I’m now a CUNY dad as well as a CUNY alumnus. My son Ari is now an undergraduate at CCNY.

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Dr. BLAKE, Gary email: [email protected] 14096 Huntington Pointe Dr., Unit 105 Delray Beach, FL 33484

Graduated: June 1973

Professional life: Retired Professor none listed

Current fields of interest/research nothing listed

Recent publications/papers: none listed

Family: Spouse/Partner: none listed Child(ren): none listed Grandchild(ren): none listed

Hobbies, Community Service, Volunteer: Painting: my web site is garyblakepaintings.com What you would most want your GC colleagues to know: My oil painting has become my second career. ======

Dr. BOLUS, Michael Peter email: [email protected] [email protected] 6363 Sunset Boulevard Los Angeles, CA 90028-7317

Graduated: June 2004

Professional life: Department Chair, Liberal Arts The Los Angeles Film School 6353 Sunset Boulevard Los Angeles, CA 90038 C.E.O. Meanstreet Productions Founding Partner, CampusPro Group Adjunct Professor, Film Studies Santa Monica College

Current fields of interest/research: Aesthetics of Film, Cultural Studies

Recent publications/papers: SLAYING PENTHEUS: Barack Obama and the Pious Mob, The Montreal Review

Family: Spouse/Partner: Kristin Bolus Child(ren): 2 (male) Grandchild(ren): none listed

Hobbies, Community Service, Volunteer: none listed

What you would most want your GC colleagues to know: nothing listed ======

Dr. BOYD, Julianne K. email: [email protected] 300 Central Park West New York, NY 10024

Graduated: May 1986

Professional life: Artistic Director (and Founder) Barrington Stage Company 30 Union Street Pittsfield, MA 01201

Current fields of interest/research: nothing listed

Recent publications/papers: Features and reviews in papers: New York Times, Variety, The Boston Globe, and The Lakeville Journal.

Family: Spouse/Partner: Norman W. Boyd Jr., Dentist Child(ren): 2 (female), 1 (male) Grandchild(ren): three (3)

Hobbies, Community Service, Volunteer: none listed

What you would most want your GC colleagues to know: nothing listed ======

Dr. BRATER, Jessica Silsby email: [email protected] 24 Lakewood Terrace Bloomfield, NJ 07003

Graduated: February 2013

Assistant Professor & Program Coordinator, BA and MA in Theatre Professional life: Studies Montclair State University 1 Normal Avenue Montclair, NJ 07043 Artistic Director, Polybe + Seats P.O. Box 20944 Brooklyn, NY 11202-0944

Current fields of interest/research: Feminist performance, theater for social change, experimental performance

Recent publications/papers: Ruth Maleczech at Mabou Mines: Woman's Work (Methuen Drama, 2016); “Ruth Maleczech, JoAnne Akalaitis, and the Mabou Mines Family Aesthetic,” in Women, Collective Creation, and Devising, eds. Kathryn Syssoyeva and Scott Proudfit (Palgrave Macmillan 2016).

Family: Spouse/Partner: Christopher Silsby Child(ren): 2 (male) Grandchild(ren): none listed

Hobbies, Community Service, Volunteer: none listed What you would most want your GC colleagues to know: I'm happy to hear from recent alums for adjunct positions at Montclair State in the MA and BA Theatre Studies programs! ======

Dr. BRAXTON, Celia email: [email protected] 605 West 170th Street, #3C New York, NY 10032

Graduated: May 2011

Professional life: Core Support Instructor, CUNY Start Reading/Writing Queensborough Community College, 222-05 56th Ave. Bayside, NY 11364 Adjunct Assistant Professor, Theatre Program LaGuardia Community College, 30-10 Thomson Ave. LIC, NY 11101 Senior Dramaturg, Women’s Work Project, New Perspectives Theatre 456 West 37th Street New York, NY 10018 Respondent, Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival, Region 1

Current fields of interest/research: Not actively engaged in academic research at this time

Recent publications/papers: “Sex or Scandal: ‘Queer Fear’ on Broadway, 1926,” in On Her Shoulders, Collected Essays on Women Playwrights from the Past, New York: New Perspectives Theatre Company, 2017.

Family: Spouse/Partner: none listed Child(ren): none listed Grandchild(ren): none listed

Hobbies, Community Service, Volunteer: St. Mary’s Episcopal Church, Manhattanville, Vestry (2008-2014), Warden (2014-2017); Ecclesia outreach (current).

What you would most want your GC colleagues to know: Mission Matters. After more than a decade as an Adjunct teaching Freshman courses in the CUNY Community Colleges, I was both saddened and frustrated by the high percentage of students who failed because they literally did not have the skills necessary to read a textbook or a story, or organize a paper or a speech. Nor did they understand the time commitment required for success in college, and often had real problems carrying full time jobs and too many credits. I am sure this is familiar to many of you. I found it difficult to continue in what I felt was a gatekeeper position, watching ambitious and intelligent people walk away with their heads down, in failure. Therefore, in 2014, I joined CUNY Start, CUNY’s highly successful intensive remedial program. Every semester I see students come in with poor reading comprehension and low writing ability, and see them leave with passing scores, a firm foundation in these basic skills, a better understanding of what college is going to require of them – and a better idea of what they can gain from it. ======

Dr. BUTT, Rex W. email: [email protected] 65 Lopes Ave Burlington, VT 05408

Graduated: May 1993

Professional life: Associate Professor, Retired Bronx Community College, CUNY 2155 University Avenue Bronx, NY 10453

Current fields of interest/research: Corporatization of academe, Transgender rights

Recent publications/papers: Butt, Rex. “Peer Support for Parents of Gender-Nonconforming children: Benefits and Risks.” Andrew Gottlieb and Arlene Lev, eds. Families in Transition: Parent Perspectives on Raising the Gender-Nonconforming or Trans Child. New York: Harrington Park Press, forthcoming; Butt, Rex. Now What? A Handbook for Families with Transgender Children. Oakland CA: Transgress Press, 2015.

Family: Spouse/Partner: Karen Child(ren): 1 (female), 1 (male) Grandchild(ren): none listed

Hobbies, Community Service, Volunteer: Hours and hours at the LGBTQ community.

What you would most want your GC colleagues to know: nothing listed ======

Dr. BYRNE, Kevin email: [email protected] 2810 E. Devon Street Tucson, AZ 85716

Graduated: September 2010

Professional life: Assistant Professor, Theatre Studies Division School of Theatre, Film, and Television University of Arizona, Tucson 845 N Park Tucson AZ 85721

Current fields of interest/research African American Drama, Blackface Performance, Generative Dramaturgy

Recent publications/papers: “The Tautology of Blackface and the Objectification of Racism: A 'How To' Guide" in The European Legacy

Family: Spouse/Partner: Ana Martinez Child(ren): 1 (male), 1 (female) Grandchild(ren): none listed

Hobbies, Community Service, Volunteer: Co-founder and co-curator of annual Tucson Celebrates Dr. Martin Luther King event.

What you would most want your GC colleagues to know: nothing listed ======

Dr. CALLAGHAN, David S. email: [email protected] [email protected] 625 Shoshone Drive Montevallo, AL 35115

Graduated: May 1998

Professional life: Professor, Theatre/Department Chair University of Montevallo Station 6210 – Theatre Montevallo, AL 35115

Current fields of interest/research: nothing listed

Recent publications/papers: Upcoming article on the Living Theatre in Theatre Symposium, Spring 2013.

Family: Spouse/Partner: Paula Renzi-Callaghan, Teacher Child(ren) 1 (female) Grandchild(ren): none listed

Hobbies, Community Service, Volunteer: Travel when possible! What you would most want your GC colleagues to know: I am in my 14th year on the faculty at the University of Montevallo where I recently directed Parade, To Gillian on her 37th Birthday and Rent. I still chair our growing theatre program and have recently presented papers at Theatre Symposium and ATHE. My daughter, Quinn, who was born in NYC just before I graduated from CUNY, is now in high school! I still enjoy visiting NYC every year and best wishes to all friends and colleagues from my days at the Graduate Center. ======

Dr. CARLSON, Marla email: [email protected] 165 Oakridge Ave Athens, GA 30601

Graduated: February 2002

Professional life: Associate Professor and Graduate Coordinator Department of Theatre & Film Studies 366 Fine Arts Building University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602-3154

Current fields of interest/research Spectator response to bodies in performance, including the performance of physical suffering, non-human animals, and autism spectrum disorders. Medieval laughter and farce.

Recent publications/papers: “Mapping Abramović: From Affect to Emotion,” Performance, Feminism, Affect and Activism in Neoliberal Times (Palgrave, 2017); “The Thais Scenario: Public Women, Penance, and Performance,” ROMARD 54 (2015), “What Happened to the Black Dog?” Animal Acts (U Michigan P, 2014), “Le Mystère de Saint Sebastian’s Villain: ‘No Cuckoo is a Sparrowhawk’,” Les Mystères: Studies in Genre, Text and Theatricality (Rodopi, 2012).

Family: Spouse/Partner: Tony Dardis, Professor of Philosophy, Hofstra University Child(ren): 1 (male) Grandchild(ren): none listed

Hobbies, Community Service, Volunteer: none listed What you would most want your GC colleagues to know: Affect, Animals, and Autists: Feeling Around the Edges of Human Performance is forthcoming from U Mich P in June 2018, and I have begun a new project on face and related medieval entertainments. ======

Dr. CARROLL, John (Jack) F. email: [email protected] 201 E. Quamasia Avenue, #3A McAllen, TX 78504

Graduated: October 1998

Professional life: Coordinator, Drama Program, Retired South Texas College, Cooper Center for Communication Arts 3200 Pecan Blvd. McAllen, TX 78502

Current fields of interest/research: nothing listed

Recent publications/papers: Recent Productions: “Earthwatch,” a science-fiction play for young audiences, & “44 Plays for 44 Presidents” for South Texas College Players

Family: Spouse/Partner: none listed Child(ren): none listed Grandchild(ren): none listed

Hobbies, Community Service, Volunteer: none listed What you would most want your GC colleagues to know: I think I have a book in me. Stay tuned. Hope all of you are well. Advice: never fracture a patella! ======

Dr. CHERRY, James email: [email protected] Dept. of Theater, Fine Arts Center, Wabash College Crawfordsville, IN 47933

Graduated: May 2005

Professional life: Associate Professor and Chair of Theater; Faculty Marshal Wabash College, Theatre Department 301 W. Wabash Avenue Crawfordsville, IN 47933

Current fields of interest/research American Theater pre-WWII, puppetry, popular culture, film studies, faculty development

Recent publications/papers: “Leather Shadows in a Digital Age: Introducing Students to Chinese Shadow Puppetry.” Asian Studies and the Liberal Arts: A Wabash College and DePauw University Collaboration. 2016. Mellon Asian Studies Symposium Collection. Session Coordinator and Mentor, “Working Well I and II: Workshops for Early- and Mid-Career Faculty” The American Theatre in Higher Education Conference: Summer 2016. “Theater and Ritual in American Politics.” American Political Culture, (ABC-CLIO, 2015): 1097-1103. “Parody, E.E. Cummings, and the Twentieth-Century Rebuilding of Uncle Tom’s Cabin.” Modern Drama 57:2, p. 187-206 (June 2014).

Family: Spouse/Partner: Dr. Crystal Benedicks, Associate Professor of English & Coordinator of Writing- Across -the-Curriculum, Wabash College

Child(ren): 1 (male), 2 (female) Grandchild(ren): none listed

Hobbies, Community Service, Volunteer: Acting, parenting, fixing up old houses

What you would most want your GC colleagues to know: Try to get to the theater as much as you can while you’re still in NYC. Because then you leave, you go to the Midwest, and your options are: the theater you and your colleagues make, or community theatre productions of Shrek: The Musical, Jr. ======

Dr. CHRISTIAN, Samuel email: [email protected] 450 West 47th Street, #1D New York, NY 10036

Graduated: October 1995

Professional life: Assistant Professor Adjunct Fordham University, African-American Studies Rose Hill Campus Bronx, NY 10458

Current fields of interest/research: nothing listed

Recent publications/papers: Played the Marshall in a short film, Greed, shown at The Little Rock Film Festival

Family: Spouse/Partner: Dr. Joseph R. Korevec, Director of Admission and Financial Aid, Columbia University, Mailman School of Public Health Child(ren): none listed Grandchild(ren): none listed

Hobbies, Community Service, Volunteer: My community service includes Theatre Ministry S.A.M. (Spiritually Aware Ministry) Players.

What you would most want your GC colleagues to know: Finally teaching Theatre—Value in Black and White Drama, Harlem Renaissance, and I directed an Off-Broadway

play. ======

Dr. COLEMAN, Patricia email: [email protected] 833 51st Street Brooklyn, NY 11220

Graduated: May 2012

Professional life: Organized readings and performances throughout 2012-2013 of works from the historical Avant-Garde. In May, 2014 staged an adaptation of Medea with Brooklyn Glass Studios, featuring Deborah Czeresko and David Ablon, with soundscape by Richard Kamerman.

Current fields of interest/research: nothing listed

Recent publications/papers: none listed

Family: Spouse/Partner: none listed Child(ren): 1 (male) about to head into college! Grandchild(ren): none listed

Hobbies, Community Service, Volunteer: Working with teens in theatre.

What you would most want your GC colleagues to know: nothing listed ======

Dr. CONTE, William email: [email protected] 1723 S. Cedar Street Casper, WY 82601

Graduated: September 2010

Professional life: Professor, Department of Theatre and Dance, Casper College Casper College 125 College Drive Casper, WY 82601 Director Urinetown (2014); Julius Caesar (2015); The Waste Land (2016); “Motorcycle” Macbeth (2016); Six Characters in Search of an Author (2016), The Rover (2017), Prometheus (staged to coincide with the 2017 total solar eclipse), The King Stag (2017)

Current fields of interest/research nothing listed

Recent publications/papers: Redemptio Dramatis: Or, How the Jesuits Redeemed Dramatic Art and Invented High School Theatre in the Early Modern Era (Casper College Humanities Festival, Feb. 2016).

Family: Spouse/Partner: Jacquelyn Navarro, social worker and private tutor Child(ren): 1 (female) Grandchild(ren): none listed

Hobbies, Community Service, Volunteer: none listed

What you would most want your GC colleagues to know: nothing listed ======

Dr. CORRÊA, Graça P. email: [email protected] Av. Miguel Bombarda, 83-7 Lisboa, 1050-162 PORTUGAL Graduated: June 2010

Professional life: Researcher at CFCUL–Center for the Philosophy of Sciences of the University of Lisbon, Portugal. Science and Art Research Group. Postdoctoral FCT Research Fellow in Transdisciplinary Artistic Studies, at CIAC-Research Center of Arts and Communication, Universidade do Algarve, Portugal Lecturer, Doctoral Program in Philosophy of Science, Technology, Arts and Society of the Faculty of Science, University of Lisbon; Seminars on Dramaturgy and Contemporary Playwriting at In-Impetus, Escola de Actores, Lisboa.

Current fields of interest/research: Science and Art, Neuroaesthetics, Political Drama, Symbolist Theory and Aesthetics, Gothic Theory and Aesthetics, Landscape Theory, Philosophy in Theatre and Film Studies

Books: Sensory Landscapes in Harold Pinter: A Study on Ecocriticism and Recent publications/papers: Symbolist Aesthetics. Saarbrücken, Alemanha: LAP Academic Publishing, 2012; M.Norberto Corrêa: Arquitectura e Urbanismo, coord. Lisboa: Uzina, 2013; Book Chapters: “Landscapes of Dictatorship in Film: Three Aesthetic and Emotional Modes,” in Ditaduras Revisitadas, Eds. Denize Araujo, Eduardo Morettin e Vitor Reia-Baptista. Faro, Portugal: CIAC/Universidade do Algarve, 2016. ISBN: 978-989-8859-01-3; “Para uma Análise Ecofilosófica do Espaço e Paisagem no Teatro,” VIII Jornadas Ibéricas-Debates da Filosofia da Ciência Contemporânea, 2017 [forthcoming]; “I Have Been Here Before: Transdisciplinary Landscapes of the Gothic”, A Inter e a Transdisciplinaridade nas Artes Performativas e Audiovisuais, eds. Júlio Martin Fonseca e Nélia Cruz, 2017. ISBN–978-989-8577 [forthcoming]; Ethical Challenges in Adaptation: Gothic Eurico from Novel to Performance," Ethics of Translation, Adaptation and Dramaturgies, ed. Emer O'Toole, Andrea Pelegri, and Stuart Young. Amsterdam/New York: Rodopi, 2017. [forthcoming]; “Landscapes of synesthesia: views from art, science and philosophy,” Arts and Sciences in Dialogue, ed. Isabel Ponce de Leão, Maria do Carmo Mendes & Sérgio Lira. Porto: Green Lines Institute for Sustainable Development, 2015, 69-80. ISBN: 978-989-8734-03-7; “Dramaturg as Context Manager: A Phenomenological and Political Practice,” The Routledge Companion to Dramaturgy, ed. Magda Romanska. New York: Routledge, 2014; "Urban Scenarios: Gone Vacant, Virtual, and Violent," Once Upon a Place, ed. Pedro Gadanho e Susana Oliveira. Lisboa: Ed. Caleidoscópio, 2014, 140-50. ISBN:978-0-415-65849-2; Articles: “Adorno, Benjamin, and Kracauer on the Politics of Sensory Perception”, Revista Aniki- AIM, nº1, 2014, 108-13; “Social Order and Subconscious Disorder: The Gothic Aesthetic of David Lynch,” Revista Anglo- Saxónica, Centro de Estudos Anglísticos da Universidade de Lisboa, 2014. [forthcoming]; “Outer eye and inner eye: A reading of David Lynch's images in Twin Peaks in the light of Surrealist Eileen Agar's words,” Revista Veronica 2, 2013; “Ecocritical Translation in Christopher Hampton's Savages,” Journal of Adaptation in Film & Performance (JAFP), No. 3, Vol.4, UK: Intellect, 2011, 275-87.

Family: Spouse/Partner: none listed Child(ren): none listed Grandchild(ren): none listed

Hobbies, Community Service, Volunteer: none listed

What you would most want your GC colleagues to know: I will always remember with great affection my wonderful and extremely knowledgeable dissertation advisor at the GC, Professor Daniel Gerould. I became absolutely fascinated by Theatre Theory in a seminar taught by the outstanding and so lively Professor Jean Graham-Jones. ======Dr. COUNTS, Michael L. email: [email protected] 524 Bellamah Avenue, NW Albuquerque, NM 87102

Graduated: June 1983

Professional life: Retired Professor Retired after 21 years as Director of Theatre at Lyon College. Lyon College 2300 Highland Road Batesville, AR 720501

Current fields of interest/research: nothing listed

Recent publications/papers: Title role in short film “We’ll Miss You, Carlo.”

Family: Spouse/Partner: none listed Child(ren): 1 (female) Grandchild(ren): none listed

Hobbies, Community Service, Volunteer: Member of Film Club in Albuquerque/Santa Fe What you would most want your GC colleagues to know: Enjoying retirement. ======

Dr. CRAMER, Michael A. email: [email protected] 81 Ocean Parkway, #41 Brooklyn, NY 11218

Graduated: October 2005

Professional life: Adjunct Assistant Professor, CCNY and BMCC City College, CUNY Convent Avenue and 138th Street New York, NY 10031 Borough of Manhattan Community College, CUNY 199 Chambers Street New York, NY 10007

Current fields of interest/research: nothing listed

Recent publications/papers: Played Hamlet at Times Square Arts Center, July 2014; “Reenactment” in Medievalism: Critical Terms, Boydell and Brewer, 2014; Editor, High in Protean Content, Freelance Academy Press, 2014; Introduction to Shakespeare: Plays, Canterbury Classics, 2014; Introduction to The Adventures of Sherlock Homes and Other Stories (Thunder Bay Press, 2011), Introduction to Robert Louis Stevenson: Seven Novels (Thunder Bay Press, 2011) “Blood on the Boards: Gladiatorial Fighting as Theatre on the London Stage” at the 46th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, May 2011.

Family: Spouse/Partner: Hannah Edwards, Real Estate Agent at Citi Habitats Child(ren): none listed Grandchild(ren): none listed

Hobbies, Community Service, Volunteer: Outdoor Sports, Medieval Re-Creation, Movies What you would most want your GC colleagues to know: That I’m still alive. ======

Dr. CRESPY, David A. email: [email protected] U of Missouri-Columbia 129 Fine Arts Building Colombia, MO 65211 Graduated: October 1998

Professional life: Professor, playwriting, dramatic literature, theatre history, acting University of Missouri, Department of Theatre Artistic Director, Missouri Playwrights Workshop Founder & Co-Director, MU Writing for Performance Program President, Edward Albee Society

Current fields of interest/research Phenomenology of Dreaming of Dramatic Writing, Edward Albee, Lanford Wilson, Sephardic Jewish culture and history, Thessaloniki

Recent publications/papers: Book: Editor, Lanford Wilson: Early Stories, Sketches, & Poetry, University of Missouri Press, Fall 2017; [In Development] Dreamwrighting: Dreamwork for Dramatic Writing for Stage & Screen; Book article: “Coming Back a Short Distance Correctly: Albee’s Absurdist Adventures in Berlin, Moscow, and Vienna.” Edward Albee and Absurdism (Series New Perspectives in Edward Albee Studies), Leiden, The Netherlands, Brill, 2017.

Family: Spouse/Partner: Meg Philips Crespy Child(ren): 3 (male) Grandchild(ren): none listed

Hobbies, Community Service, Volunteer: Volunteering with Mid-Missouri theatres – Talking Horse Productions, Columbia Entertainment Center, and other small theatre groups.

What you would most want your GC colleagues to know: I’m very excited that the MU Writing for Performance program that I founded and co-direct at the University of Missouri received the Region V 2017 KCACTF Gold Medallion. I am busy producing 27 new plays in concert performance in a single week for our 2017 Mizzou New Play Series. I’m also thrilled, as president of the Edward Albee Society, that our first volume of our new book series, New Perspectives in Edward Albee Studies, came out January 2017 – Edward Albee and Absurdism, thanks to our brilliant editor, Michael Y. Bennett. I’m also incredibly excited about the volume of Lanford Wilson’s previously unpublished short stories, sketches, and poetry that I have edited will come out in the fall of 2017 under the University of Missouri Press. I’ll see everyone at the 2017 Mid- America Theatre Conference, the Comparative Drama Conference, and at ATHE this year, as I am presenting various panels and papers celebrating the life of Edward Albee, who passed on September 16, 2016. Check out the wonderful Edward Albee Society webpage: http://edwardalbeesociety.org and join EAS! ======

Dr. CURRY, Jane K. email: [email protected] 1409 Brookstown Avenue Winston-Salem, NC 27101-1126

Graduated: June 1991

Professional life: Associate Professor, Theatre and Dance Wake Forest University Box 7264 Reynolda Station Winston-Salem, NC 27109

Current fields of interest/research: 19th and early 20th century melodrama

Recent publications/papers: Editor of SETC, Theatre Symposium.

Family: Spouse/Partner: Dan Bradley, Systems Programmer Child(ren): twins (male) Grandchild(ren): none listed

Hobbies, Community Service, Volunteer: Distance running

What you would most want your GC colleagues to know: nothing listed ======

Dr. D’APONTE, Miriam Gisofli email: [email protected] 592 Seventh Street Brooklyn, NY 11215

Graduated: June 1973

Professional life: Professor Emerita Baruch College, One Bernard Baruch Way New York, NY 10010 The Graduate Center, CUNY 365 5th Avenue New York, NY 10016

Current fields of interest/research: nothing listed

Recent publications/papers: My Mother’s Front Porch and Other Plays, 2015.

Family: Spouse/Partner: Aniello D’Aponte, deceased 4/20/2017 Child(ren): 3 (female), 1 (male) Grandchild(ren): Angela Bywaters, Luca Herviou, Phoebe Krcmar, Navin Bywaters, Leo Herviou, Pilar D’Aponte, Nello D’Aponte.

Hobbies, Community Service, Volunteer: none listed What you would most want your GC colleagues to know: A staged reading of Brooklyn RX, my play, sponsored by Good Neighborhood of Park Slope, 2016. The five plays in My Mother’s Front Porch have had staged readings and/or productions, four in NY, one in Vermont. ======

Dr. DANBY, Jennifer Renee (Jen) email: [email protected] 205 West Broadway, #7B Long Beach, NY 11561

Graduated: June 2004

Professional life: Actor/Director/Producer/Acting Teacher/Coach Member (as Jen Danby) Actors’ Equity Association and SAG-AFTRA Founder Mississippi Mud Productions Actor Lab and theatre company Founder This American Blonde Actress Theatre/Film/TV/New Media

Current fields of interest/research: Acting and performance and creating original solo and new media projects about American actresses/icons Sharon Tate, Michelle Pfeiffer, and Farrah Fawcett.

Recent publications/papers: “Burning and Stoic Men: Mad Rants and the Performance of Passionate Pain in the Plays of Nathaniel Lee, 1674-1678,” about actors Charles Hart and Michael Mohun. In The Lively Arts of the London Stage, 1675-1725, ed. Kathryn Lowerre (Ashgate, 2014).

Family: Spouse/Partner: Lisa Raymond (married on the 4th of July 2012) Child(ren): Two sweet cats Brick and Maggie and awesome nieces and nephews Grandchild(ren): none listed

Hobbies, Community Service, Volunteer: Films, the beach for downtime, travel, horseback riding. Performance work at Long Beach Library for Women’s History Month and Irish Heritage community outreach. Produced and performed as Blanche DuBois in a staged reading of A Streetcar Named Desire with Mississippi Mud Productions at the Martin Luther King Jr. Center in Long Beach as a fundraiser for MLK, with Geoffrey Owens of “The Cosby Show” and Broadway’s “Romeo and Juliet” as Stanley Kowalski. Raised funds for Big Cat Rescue, a nonprofit big cat sanctuary, from a performance of my original solo show I wrote and perform, Sharon Tate in Heaven. Member Artists in Partnership Long Beach a serving in think tank meetings about arts in the “city by the sea.” Participated in Reading Between the Lions in Long Beach for pre-school children at MLK Center. Volunteer administrator of the “Girls Who Love That Guy Who Loves the Universe” (Sean Patrick, Life/Business Coach) group page on Facebook, a fun, playful, constructive empowering and affirming space for girls and women. What you would most want your GC colleagues to know: My original solo show The Blonde Bombshell Project: Marilyn Monroe (premiered in 2013 in New York City) was invited to Long Beach Public Library for a Project Hope supported by grant funds. I also wrote and perform my original solo show Sharon Tate in Heaven about 1960s actress Sharon Tate and have played it now in New York City, Long Island, Daytona Beach, Key West, Miami, and in Los Angeles for four different tours. The show helps charity, including Big Cat Rescue, Mountain Lion Organization, and select others that help wild cats, wolves, and wild mustangs. My film for New Media version of the show, titled Sharon Tate in Heaven: Super 8, shot in location in LA, was released on YouTube and Vimeo, and my short film for new media project, Sharon Talks, will be released in 2017. My Sharon Tate solo show has now expanded into a Quadrilogy of plays about Miss Tate and three parts will be brought to LA in summer 2017. I have performed in three New Media "Dailies" episodes with The Wooster Group, playing the lead part of Paula (opposite Jim Fletcher of GATZ). Select acting projects include Nina in SeaGull69 (an original adaption by Mud of Chekhov's The Seagull, set in LA in 1969), directed by Austin Pendleton; A Streetcar Named Desire (Blanche, The Cherry Pit, NYC); Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Maggie Pollitt, NYC); and a solo show about actress Vivien Leigh. My solo show about actress Michelle Pfeiffer that deals with acting, Hollywood, film and the arc of a career from teen to “MILF” as a woman star debuted in March 2016 for Women's History Month at Long Beach Public Library. Currently I have a new solo show in development on 1970s icon Farrah Fawcett dealing with fame. I teach and coach stage and film acting. ======Dr. DEE, Edward email: [email protected] 947 Amsterdam Avenue, #3A New York, NY 10025

Graduated: May 1997

Professional life: Associate Dean Plaza College 74-09 37th Avenue Jackson Heights, NY 11372

Current fields of interest/research: nothing listed

Recent publications/papers: none listed

Family: Spouse/Partner: Andrea Gilbert Child(ren): none listed Grandchild(ren): none listed

Hobbies, Community Service, Volunteer: none listed What you would most want your GC colleagues to know: My work site burned to the ground in April 2014. We were able to evacuate without anyone getting hurt. We built and reopened a new college in less than three months. ======

Dr. Des ROCHERS, Rick email: [email protected] ny.edu 429 5th Avenue, #2 Brooklyn, NY 11215

Graduated: September 2013

Professional life: Associate Professor and Director of Theater and Multi-Media Performing Arts Lehman College, CUNY 250 Bedford Park Blvd W. Bronx, NY 10468

Current fields of interest/research: Commedia dell'arte; early twentieth century popular entertainments (especially vaudeville comedy); comedy theory; U.S. Progressive Era popular entertainment and social justice; stage and film work of Buster Keaton, Marie Dressler, and the Marx Brothers

Recent publications/papers: The New Humor in the Progressive Era: Americanization and the Vaudeville Comedian, Palgrave Macmillan 2014; The Comic Offense from Vaudeville to Contemporary Comedy: Larry David, Tina Fey, Stephen Colbert, Dave Chappelle, Bloomsbury, 2014.

Family: Spouse: Ashley Semrick DesRochers Child(ren): 1 (female) Grandchild(ren): none listed

Hobbies, Community Service, Volunteer: nothing listed What you would most want your GC colleagues to know: Recently completed a research fellowship at Harvard Theatre Collection, Houghton Library, Joan Nordell Fellowship AY 2015/16 ======

Dr. DUFFY, Margaret Meghan email: [email protected] 4415 34th Avenue, #2E Astoria, NY 11101

Graduated: September 2011

Professional life: Founder of The Edge Effect Improv Lab and Meghan Duffy Consulting Former Director of the Center for the Advancement of Teaching Teacher in Theatre Department at City College Actor with Playhouse Creatures Creating/Directing devised theatre and solo performance pieces

Current fields of interest/research: nothing listed

Recent publications/papers: none listed

Family: Spouse/Partner: none listed Child(ren): none listed Grandchild(ren): none listed

Hobbies, Community Service, Volunteer: Writer/Performer/Researcher for Stage Struck, part of the League of Professional Theatre Women What you would most want your GC colleagues to know: Life is Good! ======Dr. EDELSON, Loren email: [email protected] 272 West 107th Street New York, NY 10025

Graduated: May 2006

Professional life: Freelance Writer/Teacher 272 West 107th Street New York, NY 10025

Current fields of interest/research: nothing listed

Recent publications/papers: Danjūrō’s Girls: Women on the Kabuki Stage (Palgrave, 2009). “The Female Danjūrō: Revisiting the Acting Career of Ichikawa Kumehachi,” The Journal of Japanese Studies (winter 2008 issue, Volume 34, Number 1). Presented a paper at ATHE (July 2007) as part of Professor Leiter’s panel on “Rising from the Flames: The Rebirth of Theatre in Occupied Japan, 1945-1952.” Co-translation of Heaven’s Sign @ by Matsuo Suzuki, in Half a Century of Japanese theatre, vol. 9 (Kinokuniya: Japan Playwrights Association), 2006.

Family: Spouse/Partner: Jeremy Katz Child(ren): three (3) Grandchild(ren): none listed

Hobbies, Community Service, Volunteer: nothing listed What you would most want your GC colleagues to know: Thanks to a grant from the Asian Cultural Council, I studied kyōgen with three master actors/teachers at the Kyoto Arts Center this past summer. My training was organized by Traditional Theatre training, a fantastic program directed by Jonah Salz. I highly recommend the program to students of Japanese theatre and would be happy to speak to anyone interested. ======

Dr. EISLER, Garrett email: [email protected] 510 W. 106th St., #6C New York, NY 10025-3429

Graduated: September 2012

Professional life: Assistant Professor Department of Theatre Arts Ithaca College 953 Danby Road Ithaca, NY 14850

Current fields of interest/research: nothing listed

Recent publications/papers: “Road Show” chapter in forthcoming Oxford Handbook of Sondheim Studies

Family: Spouse/Partner: Alissa Heyman Child(ren): none listed Grandchild(ren): none listed

Hobbies, Community Service, Volunteer: none listed

What you would most want your GC colleagues to know: nothing listed ======

Dr. EL ZEIN, Rayya email: [email protected] Not listed at Alumna’s request Not listed at Alumna’s request

Graduated: June 2016

Professional life: Postdoctoral Fellow Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication (CARGC) Annenberg School for Communication University of Pennsylvania

Current fields of interest/research: Popular culture, affect, politics, performance, and media in urban Arab contexts and diasporas

Recent publications/papers: “Developing a Palestinian Resistance Economy through Agricultural Labor” Journal of Palestine Studies 46 (2017): 7-26; Book review: Freedom without Permission: Bodies and Space in the Arab Revolutions (Duke University Press, 2016) in Politics and Gender 13(2017): 524-527.

Family: Spouse/Partner: none listed Child(ren): none listed Grandchild(ren): none listed

Hobbies, Community Service, Volunteer: none listed

What you would most want your GC colleagues to know: https://iliauni.academia.edu/RayyaElZein ======

Dr. ERDMAN, Andrew PhD, LCSW email: [email protected] 3840 Greystone Ave., #6P Bronx, NY 10463

Graduated: 2001

Professional life: As some of you know, I earned an MSW in 2013 and am currently a psychotherapist practicing in New York City. You can find out more about me, my services, and my approach to treatment at www.AndrewErdman.com. I am also an Associate Therapist at the Sexuality, Attachment, and Trauma Project, a treatment and educational facility in Manhattan (http://www.sexualityproject.org/).

Current fields of interest/research Psychodynamic therapy; attachment theory; addictions; psycholinguistics; sexuality and popular culture.

Recent publications/papers: Erdman, A. “The powerless therapist and the helpless borderline: Acceptance, aloneness, and dyadic joining.” Psychoanalytic Social Work, 24(2): 114-117. June 2017;http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15228878.2017.1323650 Erdman A., Haddad, P., & Pellitiri, J. Toward a psycholinguistics of addiction. (Currently in process.)

Hobbies, Community Service, Volunteer: Hiking and outdoors; writing; mindfulness & meditation.

What you would most want your GC colleagues to know: That if you want, you can still purchase my book Queen of Vaudeville: The Story of Eva Tanguay (2012), published by Cornell University Press, by visiting http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/?GCOI=80140100819830 ======

Dr. FEI, Faye C. email: [email protected] c/o East China Normal University Depart of English & Drama Shangai, CHINA Graduated: October 1991

Professional life: Professor, English & Drama East China Normal University Department of English and Drama Shanghai, CHINA

Current fields of interest/research: nothing listed

Recent publications/papers: none listed

Family: Spouse/Partner: William H. Sun, Vice President/Professor at the Shanghai Theatre Academy Child(ren): 2 (male) Grandchild(ren): none listed

Hobbies, Community Service, Volunteer: none listed

What you would most want your GC colleagues to know: I am on Sabbatical leave at New York University from 2009 to 2010. ======

Dr. FERDMAN, Bertie email: [email protected] 366 23rd Street Brooklyn, NY 11215

Graduated: September 2010

Professional life: Assistant Professor Department of Speech, Communications & Theatre Arts BMCC, City University of New York 199 Chambers Street New York. NY 10007

Current fields of interest/research: nothing listed

Recent publications/papers: Theater, PAJ, Performance Research, HowlRound

Family: Spouse/Partner: Julien Jourdes Child(ren): 2 (female) Grandchild(ren): none listed

Hobbies, Community Service, Volunteer: none listed

What you would most want your GC colleagues to know: nothing listed ======

Dr. FERGUSON, Marcia email: [email protected] 2316 Lombard Street Philadelphia, PA 19146

Graduated: June 2001

Professional life: Senior Lecturer Theatre Arts Program, University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA 19104

Current fields of interest/research: Improvisation and The Art of Collaboration

Recent publications/papers: The Birth of the Eumenides, Nietzsche conference, Temple; aside from teaching, practice is absorbing more of my time lately: appeared in Adam Diller’s (untitled) latest experimental film (2016), in Marty Pottenger’s #PhillySavesEarth at the Painted Bride, Phila.; directed The Eumenides for Philadelphia Fringe Festival 2016; presented “The Birth of The Eumenides” at Temple University Philosophy conference, “Nietzsche’s Birth of Tragedy: Philosophy, Music, Theatre,” 2016; and co-created and performed Ursula Invents Old Woman for Edinburgh Fringe, 2015.

Family: Spouse/Partner: Timothy Corrigan Child(ren): 2 (female), 1 (male) Grandchild(ren): none listed

Hobbies, Community Service, Volunteer: Recently, protesting current administration. What you would most want your GC colleagues to know: CUNY Theatre lives on at Penn, where I am lucky enough to teach alongside colleagues and fellow alums Jim Schlatter and Rose Malague. ======

Dr. FLEISCHER, Mary R. email: [email protected] 3425 37th Street, #7 Long Island City, NY 11101-1308

Graduated: February 1998

Professional life: Professor of Theatre Arts and Chair of Theatre Arts Department Marymount Manhattan College 221 East 71st Street New York, NY 10021

Current fields of interest/research: nothing listed

Recent publications/papers: Embodied Texts: Symbolist Playwright-Dancer Collaborations (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2007). “Incense and Decadents: Symbolist Theatre’s Use of Scent,” in The Senses in Performance, edited by Sally Banes and André Lepecki (New York: Routledge, 2006). “The Elephant Vanishes,” review of the Complicite- Setagaya Public Theatre production at New York State Theatre, Theatre Journal, 2005. Sam Shepard, “Buried Child,” “True West,” “Curse of the Starving Class,” “Fool for Love,” Jane Bowles, “In the Summer House” – entries for the Encyclopedia of Modern Drama (New York: Grolier/Scholastic, 2005). “La collaboration d’Annunzio – Rubenstein,” International Conference at Université de Besançon, France: “L’utopie de la synthèse des arts sur la scène dans la France de l’Entre-deux Guerres: autour d’Ida Rubenstein,” 26-27 May 2005. “Antigone,” review of the Big Dance Theatre’s production of Mar Wellman’s play at Dance Theatre Workshop, Theatre Journal, 55 (2003). “Fighting the Waves: Yeats’s Experiment Towards a Modernist Theatricality,” ATHE Conference, New York, July 2003. Panel Chair, “Building an American Avant-Garde: Gertrude Stein’s Texts and Theory Create a Blueprint for Experimental Performance,” ATHE Conference, New York, August 2003. “Theatre Stillness,” in Movement for Actors, edited by Nicole Potter (New York: Allworth Press, 2003).

Family: Spouse/Partner: none listed Child(ren): none listed Grandchild(ren): none listed

Hobbies, Community Service, Volunteer: Co-founder of the South Steinway Alliance—Community Advocacy Collective

What you would most want your GC colleagues to know: nothing listed ======

Dr. FRANK, Glenda K. email: [email protected] 50 West 97th Street, #15A New York, NY 10025-6081

Graduated: October 1992

Professional life: Adjunct Assistant Professor (CCE), English, Fashion Institute of Technology, SUNY (1987 – current) 27th Street and 7th Avenue New York, NY 10001

Current fields of interest/research: nothing listed

Recent publications/papers: PLAYWRIGHT: Production of The Fourth Estate, New York International Fringe Festival (2010). Equity readings: Little Images, Interart Theatre, NYC (2012); Wedding Bells, winner of New Play Festivals sponsored by the League of Profession Theatre Women, staged at New World Stages, NYC (2011); Target, winner, New Play Festival sponsored by the League of Profession Theatre Women, staged at the Cherry Lane Theatre, NYC (2009); The Beekeeper, National Playwrights Conference, 2014 semi-finalist. Readings of full drafts at Julia’s Reading Room, NYC (2009-2014): The Beekeeper, Little Images, Weight Comedy, Tarazed Gamma. DRAMA CRITIC: currently New York columnist for Plays International and reviews in www.nytheatre- wire.com.

Family: Spouse/Partner: none listed Child(ren): 2 (female) Grandchild(ren): 1 (male)

Hobbies, Community Service, Volunteer: Membership Committee, League of Professional Theatre Women (2010-current); Judge: Henry Hewes Design Awards, American Theatre Wing (2005-current). Voter: Drama Desk Awards, Outer Critics Circle Awards, Theatre Hall of Fame. Speaker, New York Council for the Humanities, Women Playwrights (2000-2010); Drama Desk Awards Nominating Committee, 2007-2008; Chairperson, Set-up Committee. First Symposium of the Women’s Initiative of the Dramatists Guild (2010). What you would most want your GC colleagues to know: It is difficult for a woman, especially a single parent, to develop a mid-life career. Sexism and ageism are pervasive, but there are personal satisfactions in the research, teaching, and the writing. ======

Dr. FUCHS, Elinor email: [email protected] 51 Fifth Avenue, #2B New York, NY 10003

Graduated: February 1995

Professional life: Professor Emerita of Dramaturgy & Dramatic Criticism Yale School of Drama 222 York Street New Haven, CT 06520

Current fields of interest/research: Dramatic and Theatrical Theory; Age Studies

Recent publications/papers: “On Difference.” ASTR, Nov. 2017, “Rehearsing Age,” in Modern Drama, Summer 2016. “From the Sublime of Age to Juvenescence,” ASTR, Minneapolis, November 2016.

Family: Spouse/Partner: John D. Ryan Child(ren): 2 (female) Grandchild(ren): 4 (female)

Hobbies, Community Service, Volunteer: Classical music, politics, landscaping. What you would most want your GC colleagues to know: I will always be grateful for my theatre studies education at the CUNY Graduate Center in the 1970s, which gave me mentors, colleagues, close friends, and a continuing joy in learning and teaching. I continue to mourn the loss of my great mentor Daniel Gerould, whose teaching I have continued in my own variations at the Yale Drama School until my retirement in June 2015. “Retirement” is very busy, as I am working on two books and several articles as well as moving to the address above in early 2017. ======

GALELLA, Donatella email: [email protected] 4707 Brentwood Ave. Riverside, CA 92506

Graduated: May 2015

Professional Life: Assistant Professor University of California, Riverside 900 University Ave. Riverside, CA 92521

Current fields of interest/research: African American theatre, Asian American theatre, casting, musical theatre, critical race studies

Recent publications/papers: “Making Musicals that Matter: George C. Wolfe and Oskar Eustis at The Public Theater,” in The Palgrave Handbook to Musical Theatre Producers, edited by William Everett and Laura MacDonald (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017); “’I Wanna Be like You’: Negotiating Race, Racism, and Orientalism in The Jungle Book on Stage,” co-authored with Emily Clark, Stefanie A. Jones, and Catherine Young, in The Disney Musical on Stage and Screen: Critical Approaches from Snow White to Frozen, edited by George Rodosthenous (London: Methuen, 2017); and “Diversity in Higher Education,” in “Archiving ATHE’s Thirtieth Anniversary Conference Plenaries,” edited by Kelly Howe, Theatre Topics 27, no. 1 (2017): 3-4.

Family: Spouse/Partner: none listed Child(ren): none listed Grandchild(ren): none listed

Hobbies, Community Service, Volunteer: none listed

What you would most want your GC colleagues to know: Calling your representatives everyday makes your voice heard. ======

Dr. GALTON (PETTINELLI), Frances email: [email protected] 211 W Rincon St., Unit 313 Corona, CA 92880-2069

Graduated: May 1988

Professional life: Retired Adjunct Assistant Professor, English and Drama Hunter College, City University of New York New York, NY 10021

Recent publications/papers: Short Plays produced on both coasts; “Nothing In The World Like It,” in Off- Off-Broadway Festival Anthology 20th series (Samuel French); “Apple-uh Pie end Caffay” (2nd Prize) in Lamia Ink, 2003.

Current fields of interest/research: none listed

Family: Spouse/Partner: Robert Galton, Ph.D., Assistant Regional Director, U.S. Public Health Service, Retired Child(ren): none listed Grandchild(ren): none listed

Hobbies, Community Service, Volunteer: Swimming, gardening, and ballroom dancing; running a professional theatre company from 1997-2003.

What you would most want your GC colleagues to know: I taught Drama and English at several CUNY divisions, the last being Hunter College. After retiring in 1997, I founded American Playwrights Theatre in NYC, a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit small theatre company, where from 1997 to 2003 I produced Equity showcases of new American plays in midtown Manhattan, as well as numerous staged readings at the NYC public library. In 2005, my husband and I moved to a large senior complex in Massachusetts, where in 2006 I started The Linden Ponds Players, a troupe of actors I trained aged 60s to 90s. From 2006 to 2012, I wrote, produced, and directed about 16 productions at our fully equipped 250-seat theatre, as well as at nearby senior centers. I also teach courses in our “Lifelong Learning Program” and occasionally interview people on our in-house television show, “Live at Linden Ponds.” In late 2014, I started “The Readers Theatre,” a monthly program of short play readings on our in-house TV station, (LPTV), which has wide distribution among senior communities throughout the U.S. I’m putting together a book of my own one-acts about seniors, plays that have already been produced in NYC and around the country. ======

Dr. GARBER, Michael email: [email protected] 12 Salem Lane South Salem, NY 10590

Graduated: May 2006

Professional life: Teaching at SUNY Purchase College, film, theatre, music Faculty Advisor, SUNY Purchase College, for Communications majors Faculty Advisor, SUNY Purchase College, for the Musical Theater Club Teaching at SUNY Westchester Community College, film

Current fields of interest/research Musical theatre and film; American popular music, 1900-1960; Intersection of performance theory and holism; Comparative studies on maternality and the “politics of tenderness”; Comparative studies on the “sad clown”; Collaboration in theatre and among theatre scholars.

Recent publications/papers: Articles: “Eeph-Soffa-Dill and Eephing: Found in Ragtime, Jazz, and Country Music, from Broadway to the Texas Plantation,” American Music 35:4 (Fall 2017); “Tragicomedy, Melodrama, and Genre in Early Sound Films,” CINEJ Cinema Journal 15, no. 2 (Fall 2016); “Singing to My Melancholy Baby: Torch Songs and Microphone Crooning,” under submission, 2017; Paper presentations: “In Harm’s Way: The Contest Between Stage Producers and Music Publishers for the Control of Broadway Musicals, 1915-1930” (Music in Gotham and Song Stage Screen XI Joint Conference, City College, New York, June 2016); “Theatre Collaborations,” co-presenter (Performance Studies Working Group, Yale) University, New Haven, April 2016).

Family: Spouse/Partner: Dr. Susan Carpenter, CUNY Kingsborough College Child(ren): none listed Grandchild(ren): none listed

Hobbies, Community Service, Volunteer: Music outreach programs, usually intergenerational; Board member and recording secretary of the not-for profit Reach Out Arts; Swimming, Walking.

What you would most want your GC colleagues to know: The book I am working on is an interdisciplinary study of the earliest ballads of the Great American Songbook, in contract with the University of Mississippi. I also assisted my wife with her publication, Arts in Education: A Handbook (2017), being used in teacher-training courses in the performing and visual arts. ======

Dr. GEHLAWAT, Ajay email: [email protected] Sonoma State University 1801 East Cotati Avenue Rohnert Park, CA 94928 Graduated: May 2007

Professional life: Associate Professor of Theatre and Film Hutchins School of Liberal Studies Faculty Director, MA Program in Film Studies Sonoma State University 1801 East Cotati Avenue Rohnert Park, CA 94928

Current fields of interest/research: I am currently working on commissioned chapters for several forthcoming collections, including on James Bond in Bollywood, stardom in Bollywood, and Bollywood in an era of transnational flows. I have also just co-edited a special issue of the journal South Asian Popular Culture (15:2) on the evolution of song and dance in Hindi cinema.

Recent publications/papers: “The Metatext of Bajirao Mastani: Intolerance in the Time of Modi.” South Asian History and Culture, 8:3 (2017): 338-348; “Black Voice, Brown Skin: Auto-tuning Akon for Bollywood.” Cinephiles, Fandoms, and Global Media Cultures: Bollywood from a Transnational Perspective, Roundtable on Popular Hindi Cinema, UC Berkeley, October 2017.

Family: Spouse/Partner: none listed Child(ren): none listed Grandchild(ren): none listed

Hobbies, Community Service, Volunteer: none listed What you would most want your GC colleagues to know: I am currently teaching the introductory course in the new graduate program in Film Studies that I created at my university. ======

Dr. GERSON, Lydia Alix email: [email protected] 535 West 110th Street, #3E New York, NY 10025

Graduated: October 1990

Professional life: Director, Gateway Academic Center (GAC) City College New York, CUNY 160 Convent Avenue New York, NY 10031

Current fields of interest/research: none listed

Recent publications/papers: none listed

Family: Spouse/Partner: none listed Child(ren): none listed Grandchild(ren): none listed

Hobbies, Community Service, Volunteer: none listed

What you would most want your GC colleagues to know: nothing listed ======

Dr. GOLDFARB, Alvin email: [email protected] 3016 Thornwood Lane Bloomington, IL 61704

Graduated: February 1978

Professional life: President Emeritus Western Illinois University 1 University Circle Macomb, IL 61455

Current fields of interest/research: Continue to catalog drama dealing with the Holocaust for the on-line Holocaust Catalog hosted by the University of Miami.

Recent publications/papers: Living Theatre, 7th edition is forthcoming with Norton in 2017. Theater: The Lively Art, will be in its 10 edition in 2018 along with its revised digital version (co-authored with Edwin Wilson). Served as the primary scholarly advisor to the Holocaust Theatre Catalog.

Family: Spouse/Partner: Elaine Goldfarb, Early Childhood Education Child(ren): 1 (male), 1 (female) Grandchild(ren): 2 (female), 1 (male)

Hobbies, Community Service, Volunteer: Travel, theatregoing, member of Chicago’s Jefferson Awards Committee. What you would most want your GC colleagues to know: How much I enjoy retirement and how much I appreciate the outstanding education I received at Queens College, Hunter College, and The Graduate Center. ======

Dr. GOLDSTEIN, Imre email: [email protected] 2 HaRav Uziel Street, #13 Tel-Aviv 62333, ISRAEL

Graduated: February 1975

Professional life: Professor Emeritus (former Head of Acting/Directing Program) Tel-Aviv University, Department of Theatre Arts Tel Aviv, ISRAEL

Current fields of interest/research: none listed

Recent publications/papers: None for now or for the coming year

Family: Spouse/Partner: Roberta Goldstein, English & Educational Counseling, Tel-Aviv University Child(ren): 2 (female) Grandchild(ren): 2 (female), 2 (male)

Hobbies, Community Service, Volunteer: none listed What you would most want your GC colleagues to know: The memories of my years at the GC have been growing fonder... ======

Dr. GONSHER-VINIK, Debra email: [email protected] 93 Paulin Boulevard Leonia, NJ 07605

Graduated: June 1980

Professional life: Chairperson, Communication Arts & Sciences Bronx Community College 2155 University Avenue Bronx, NY 10453 Documentary Producer, Diva Communications, Inc.

Current fields of interest/research: Documentary and faith and immigration/refugees

Recent publications/papers: Beauty of Their Dreams (1 hour documentary began airing on ABC affiliated stations starting May 20, 2016; Every Word Has Power: The Poetry of Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel (1 hour documentary on ABC affiliated stations, 2015.

Family: Spouse/Partner: David Vinik Child(ren): none listed Grandchild(ren): none listed

Hobbies, Community Service, Volunteer: none listed What you would most want your GC colleagues to know: I have managed to keep a foot in academia while producing documentaries (18 in the last 20 years, 4 Emmys) all the while navigating the shoals of marriage. Who could have imagined it was possible? ======

Dr. GOURYH, Admer email: [email protected] 203 Cypress Court Ramsey, NJ 07446-1163

Graduated: June 1983

Professional life: Adjunct Assistant Professor BMCC English Department, CUNY 199 Chambers Street New York, NY 10007

Current fields of interest/research: none listed

Recent publications/papers: The Prague Semiotics of Theatre (Syria: Ministry of Culture Press, 1997); Walid Ikhlasi, Pleasure Club 21, Trans. Admer Gouryh & Christopher Tingley, in Short Arab Plays, Ed. Salma Khadra Jayyusi (Mass: Interlink Books, 2003); Al-khoury, Touma, A Stranger at the Door: Lebanese Short Stories, Trans. Admer Gouryh (New Jersey: Gorgias Press, 2003); Walid Ikhlasi, Oedipus, Trans. Admer Gouryh, in The Arab Oedipus, Ed. Marvin Carlson (New York: Martin E. Segal Theatre Center, 2005).

Family: Spouse/Partner: Dalal Gouryh, Accounting Child(ren): 1 (male) Grandchild(ren): none listed

Hobbies, Community Service, Volunteer: Editor of Syriac Studies, a quarterly journal dealing with Syriac Literature.

What you would most want your GC colleagues to know: nothing listed ======

Dr. GRAY Jr., Alfred Rudolph email: [email protected] 34-35 76th Street, #6E Jackson Heights, NY 11372

Graduated: May 1994

Professional life: Playwright-in Residence The Thirteenth Street Repertory Theatre 15 West 13th Street New York, NY 10011 New website is rudygray.com

Current fields of interest/research: none listed

Recent publications/papers: My novel D’N’D has been published, see www.barnesandnoble.com, www.- amazon.com, www.iuniverse.com, www.blackbookplus.com. My filmscript rewrite is now at Blockbusters as Half Slave, Half Free. My Play Conversation with A Kleagle won First Prize in the New Works of Merit contest 2005 and was produced at the Thirteenth Street Repertory Theater where I was made playwright-in-Residence, The Ensemble Studio Theatre has shown interest in presenting it at The Harold Clurman (one of my Professors) Theatre. My horror filmscript Leviasting was a quarterfinalist at a Hollywood filmscript contest, making the top 10% of contestants. I am working on a play about black Germans in the Ruhr Valley during the Third Reich. Scenes from this play, Mischelling, can be read at the website www.timesquareplay- wrights.com. My newest novel is THANK GOD for MR. CHANEY. Seaborn Publishers has published it. I have been giving lectures on black theatre, film, playwriting and general literature. I have done so on TV as well.

Family: Spouse/Partner: Louise Hellinger Gray, Vice President of Administration Child(ren): 3 (female), 1 (male) Grandchild(ren): 3 (female), 1 (male)

Hobbies, Community Service, Volunteer: I am working on a novel, contemplating the next, and planning to get back to painting – water colors and oils. What you would most want your GC colleagues to know: I was a pretty good husband, father, grandfather, human being, teacher, and athlete. My writing made people laugh, cry and learn something good about themselves, and I was not too electronically challenged. ======

Dr. GREEN, Amy S. email: [email protected] 837 Carleton Road Westfield, NJ 07090-1601

Graduated: February 1991

Professional life: Associate Professor, Communications & Theatre Arts and Interdisciplinary Studies John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York Consortial Faculty Member, Master of Arts in Applied Theatre School of Professional Studies 455 West 59th Street New York, NY 10128

Current fields of interest/research: none listed

Recent publications/papers: “Size Matters: Mabou Mines Dollhouse,” in Feminist Theatrical Revisions of Classic Texts, ed. Sharon Friedman (North Carolina: McFarland and Company, 2008).

Family: Spouse/Partner: Steve Gorelick Child(ren): 3 (female) Grandchild(ren): none listed

Hobbies, Community Service, Volunteer: President, Board of Trustees, Contact We Care Crisis, Suicide Prevention Hotline What you would most want your GC colleagues to know: I am still fascinated by and excited about theater – making it, seeing it, sharing it with my students. ======

D r . G R E E N , S h aron L. email: [email protected] C/O Davidson College P.O. Box 7164 Davidson, NC 28035-7164 Graduated: October 1999

Professional life: Professor of Theatre Davidson College 405 N. Main Street Davidson, NC 28036

Current fields of interest/research none listed

Recent publications/papers: “Teaching Theatre in ‘Precarious Times’: Strategies for survival in the liberal arts curriculum.” Theatre Topics 25.1 (March, 2015): 37-49; “Bullying Prevention Troupe: A Pedagogic Experiment.” Pathways: The Center for Civic Engagement Magazine, Davidson College, Inaugural Issue, (May, 2015): 8-9; “Coming Out: An Orientation Play,” in Out and Allied Volume 2: An Antthology of Performance Pieces by LGBTQ Youth and Their Allies, Addverb Productions: Portland, Maine, 2014; “What Does it Take to Be a ‘Good Mother’?: Contemporary motherhood ideology and the feminist potential of Lisa Loomer’s dramaturgy,” Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism, 28 (1) (Fall, 2013): 5-22.; Performance Review Essay. The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs, by Mike Daisey, Theatre Journal, 65.1 (March, 2013): 105-6.

Family: Spouse/Partner: Garth Green, Anthropologist Child(ren): 2 (male) Grandchild(ren): none listed

Hobbies, Community Service, Volunteer: none listed

What you would most want your GC colleagues to know: I encourage any other Graduate Center Alum in the North Carolina area to be in touch. ======

Dr. GREENE, Alexis email: [email protected] 255 West End Avenue, Apt. 3B New York, NY 10023

Graduated: October 1987

Professional life: Author, Biographer, Editor 255 West End Avenue New York, NY 10023

Current fields of interest/research: Working on biography of Emily Mann for Southern Illinois University Press

Recent publications/papers: Editor, play collection by Yvette Heyliger, 2017

Family: Spouse/Partner: Gordon R. Hough Child(ren): 2 (male) step children Grandchild(ren): 2 (male), 1 (female)

Hobbies, Community Service, Volunteer: Gardening What you would most want your GC colleagues to know: I marched in the NYC Women’s March on January 21, 2017: Resist! ======

Dr. GROSS, Brenda S. email: [email protected] 23191 Ricks Way Melbourne Bch., FL 32951-3066

Graduated: February 1989

Professional life: Philanthropic Consultant and Grant Writer Back to freelance writing and consulting! I wrote grants and major gifts letters in Development for the past four years at the National Center for Disability Services. Prior to that, I created publications for YWCA. I’m on the search for new writing gigs – short-term or long-term.

Current fields of interest/research: none listed

Recent publications/papers: none listed

Family: Spouse/Partner: Daniel Geier, Aerospace Engineer Child(ren): 1 (female), 2 (male) Grandchild(ren): none listed

Hobbies, Community Service, Volunteer: Going to theatre, swimming, travelling, walking at Jones Beach, going to museums. Enjoying my kids’ plays, volleyball games, etc. What you would most want your GC colleagues to know: The world is changing. I would love to know if anyone is doing any online teaching. ======

[email protected] D r . G U T E R M A N, Gad email: 5885 Nina Place, #3E St. Louis, MO 63112

Graduated: May 2011

Professional life: Associate Professor, Conservatory of Theatre Arts Webster University 470 East Lockwood Avenue St. Louis, MO 63119-3141

Current fields of interest/research Performance and law, theatre education

Recent publications/papers: “’The Most Public Justice Ever’: Sonia Sotomayer’s Theatrical Labor” (presentation, ATHE 2016, Chicago); Performance, Identity, and Immigration Law: A Theatre of Undocumentedness (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014).

Family: Spouse/Partner: Alan Florendo Child(ren): none listed Grandchild(ren): none listed

Hobbies, Community Service, Volunteer: none listed

What you would most want your GC colleagues to know: nothing listed ======

Dr. HEINZE-BRADSHAW, Roxane email: roxane.heinze- [email protected] 3846 Four Winds Way Skokie, IL 60076

Graduated: May 2013

Professional life: Lecturer and Academic Advisor Northwestern University, Department of Theatre 70 Arts Circle Drive, Evanston, IL 60208 Rm. 5-193

Current fields of interest/research: Chicago Theatre History, Amateur Theatre, Musical Theatre History

Recent publications/papers: “Guilty until Paid Up: The Amateur Producer as Transgressive Consumer” (presentation, ASTR, 2016).

Family: Spouse/Partner: Thomas Bradshaw Child(ren): 2 (male) Grandchild(ren): none listed

Hobbies, Community Service, Volunteer: none listed

What you would most want your GC colleagues to know: nothing listed ======

Dr. HELFER, Richard H. email: [email protected] 400 West 43 rd Street, #43F New York, NY 10036

Graduated: May 1990

Professional life: Associate Professor, St. Francis College Retired

Current fields of interest/research: none listed

Recent publications/papers: North American Editor for The New Penguin Dictionary of the Theatre

Family: Spouse/Partner: Peter Koegler Child(ren): none listed Grandchild(ren): none listed

Hobbies, Community Service, Volunteer: none listed What you would most want your GC colleagues to know: Go to www.rhelfer.com for samples of my poetry (From Inside the Sky) and the opening of Why, my explanation of the world. ======

D r. HEMINGWAY, Alan E. email: [email protected] 857 Blackberry Lane Ashland, OR 97520

Graduated: February 1991

Professional life: University Seminar Instructor Southern Oregon University 1250 Siskiyou Blvd. Ashland, OR 97520

Current fields of interest/research: none listed

Recent publications/papers: none listed

Family: Spouse/Partner: Helen Child(ren): 1 (male) Grandchild(ren): none listed

Hobbies, Community Service, Volunteer: none listed

What you would most want your GC colleagues to know: nothing listed ======

D r. HERRERA, Patricia email: [email protected] 2000 Wren’s Nest Road Richmond, VA 23235

Graduated: October 2007

Professional life: Associate Professor, Department of Theatre and Dance University of Richmond Modlin Center for the Arts 28 Westhampton Way University of Richmond, VA 23173

Current fields of interest/research: Latinx Theater, Hip Hop Theater, Documentary Theater, Solo Performance, Community-Based Theater

Recent publications/papers: “Listening to Afrolatinidad: The Sonic Archives of Olú Clemente,” in Afro- Latinos in Movement: Critical Approaches to Blackness and Transnationalism in the Americas (Palgrave Macmillan, July 2016); “Pedagogy Notebook: Hamilton, Democracy, and Theatre in America,” Café Onda: The Journal of the Latina/o Theatre Commons (HowlRound, May 2016). Dramaturg & Co-director: Church Hill: A Changing Neighborhood, written by students in “Documenting A Changing Neighborhood: A Richmond Community Project” in collaboration with (cont’d) students from the Armstrong Leadership Program, Armstrong High School, Richmond, Virginia, April 12, 2016. Co-curator: Made in Church Hill, in collaboration with Laura Browder, Michael Lease, Traci Garland, Vaughn Garland, and our students at UR and VCU, Valentine Museum, January 22-June 28, 2015. “She Wears the Masks: Bluefacing in Nilaja Sun’s Black and Blue and La Nubia Latina,” African American Review (September 2013); “An Archive, Public Participation, and a Performance: Five Perspectives,” Public: A Journal of Imagining America (October 2013); “Civil Rights and Education in Richmond, Virginia: A Documentary Theater Project,” The Journal of Inclusive Scholarship and Pedagogy, 23.1 (Summer 2012), 15-35.

Family: Spouse/Partner: Rider Babbit, Early Childhood Educator Child(ren): 2 (male), 1 (female) Grandchild(ren): none listed

Hobbies, Community Service, Volunteer: Serve as the community outreach for The Conciliation Project. https://www.theconciliationproject.org

What you would most want your GC colleagues to know: Got tenure Spring 2015 and am now enjoying sabbatical this year 2016-2017! ======

D r . H I L L , H o l l y email: [email protected] 9215 White Rock Trail #339 Dallas, TX 75238

Graduated: June 1977

Professional life: Professor Emerita John Jay College, CUNY 455 West 59th Street, Room 3117 New York, NY 10128 Vice President of Terrence Rattigan Society (along with Lord Julian Fellows; President is David Suchet)

Current fields of interest/research: I am currently the Vice President of the Terrence Rattigan Society in London along with Lord Julian Fellows, with President David Suchet. I am also its American representative, and have given a lecture to the membership at Oxford. I write for the TRS Newsletter. Rattigan was the subject of my 1977 dissertation.

Recent publications/papers: none listed

Family: Spouse/Partner: none listed Child(ren): none listed Grandchild(ren): none listed

Hobbies, Community Service, Volunteer: Animal shelter volunteer What you would most want your GC colleagues to know: It is deeply gratifying to have written my dissertation on the plays of Terence Rattigan when his artistic reputation was under a cloud and to be part of its gradual progress back up the ladder of artistic recognition. ======

Dr. HILL, Lyn S. email: [email protected] 395 Bergen Street Brooklyn, NY 11217

Graduated: February 1982

Professional life: Vice President, Communication and External Affairs New York Methodist Hospital 506 Sixth Street Brooklyn, NY 11215

Current fields of interest/research: none listed

Recent publications/papers: none listed

Family: Spouse/Partner: Forbes I. Hill, semi-retired, Professor of Communication Arts, Media Studies, died November 5, 2008 Child(ren): 1 (female), 2 (male) Grandchild(ren): 3 (female), 6 (male)

Hobbies, Community Service, Volunteer: I am still active in community affairs in Park Slope and Brooklyn. I sit on several boards, including Park Slope Schoolhouse, Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce and Visions. What you would most want your GC colleagues to know: I’ve found much happiness and fulfillment outside of academia, but I am very grateful for the experience and work I did for the Ph.D. and never regret the time and energy that went into it. ======

Dr. HOLMSTROM, Bethany email: [email protected] Not listed at Alumna’s request Not listed at Alumna’s request

Graduated: September 2013

Professional life: Associate Professor of English LaGuardia Community College, CUNY 31-10 Thomson Avenue Long Island City, NY 11101

Current fields of interest/research none listed

Recent publications/papers: “Civil War Memories on the 19th Century Amateur Stage: Preserving the Union (and Its White Manly Parts),” Theatre History Studies 33 (2014): 4-34.

Family: Spouse/Partner: none listed Child(ren): none listed Grandchild(ren): none listed

Hobbies, Community Service, Volunteer: nothing listed

What you would most want your GC colleagues to know: nothing listed ======

Dr. HORN, Barbara L. email: [email protected] 352 East 55th Street, #4B New York, NY 10022

Graduated: September 1982

Professional life: Professor and Assistant Chair Rhetoric, Communication & Theatre Former Chair, Speech, Comm. Sciences & Theatre, St. John’s Univ. St. John’s University 8000 Utopia Parkway Queens, NY 11439

Current fields of interest/research: none listed

Recent publications/papers: none listed

Family: Spouse/Partner: none listed Child(ren): none listed Grandchild(ren): none listed

Hobbies, Community Service, Volunteer: none listed

What you would most want your GC colleagues to know: nothing listed ======

D r. HOROWITZ, Susan “Dr. Sue” email: [email protected] 80 North Moore Street, #17G New York, NY 10022 www.drsue.com Graduated: February 1988

Professional life: Adjunct Associate Professor, Writer and Performer Borough of Manhattan Community College, CUNY 199 Chambers Street New York, NY 10007

Current fields of interest/research: none listed

Recent publications/papers: Book: Queens of Comedy, based on interviews with famous comediennes (print/e-book), For Heroes and Lovers, CD of original songs: www.cdbaby.com/cd/drsue2, Comedy: Reel Romance www.ReelRomance.com New York New Works Theatre Festival, Songs: Women of Substance (WOS) Radio Musical (SssWitch!), Books (Read With Me – Children’s Book of the Month Club, I Am Loved – Poetry), Comedy Plays, Screenplays (Planet of the Ticklebops) On-Air Host-interviewer (JCT Multi-Media), Keynotes (Journey to Success, Celebrate Diversity, Genius of Jewish Comedy, Queens of Comedy, Laugh Yourself Well) Web: www.drsue.com.

Family: Spouse/Partner: none listed Child(ren): none listed Grandchild(ren): none listed

Hobbies, Community Service, Volunteer: Professional Singer-Songwriter-Comedian-Speaker. Hobbies include dancing, swimming, travel, and painting. Mentor to many students, some of whom have achieved outstanding success. What you would most want your GC colleagues to know: Susan “Dr. Sue” Horowitz is a Writer/Performer/Author. Original Musicals/Plays: “SssWitch!” (Anti-Bullying Musical), “Angelface” ( Play ) 1 st Prize Hunter Playwrights , “The Golden Heart” “Judy Maccabee” 1st Prize National Contests for youth comedies, “Titanic-Panic” (Manhattan Repertory Theatre); “Doctor Dick” (One Woman Musical Show) “Poe-tic Justice: A Naughty Thriller” www.infinity-stage.com[infinity-stage.com]; Published

Scenes/Monologues: Applause Theatre & Cinema Books. Screenplays: “Planet of the Ticklebops” (Cine Golden Eagle Award), “Leroy & Lebowitz” (Finalist Blue Cat Screenplay Contest), Books: “Queens of Comedy” (interviews with Lucille Ball, Carol Burnett, Joan Rivers, Phyllis Diller, and more!). “Read with Me” Children’s Book of the Month Club, “I Am Loved” (Poetry Book). Singer/Songwriter: CD of Original Songs: “For Heroes and Lovers” www.cdbaby.com/drsue2[cdbaby.com]. Singer/Songwriter: Radio Songs: Women of Substance Radio (WOS) “The Heroes of Nine-Eleven” “Happy Hanu-Krismas” “Slow As Honey”; Singing Finalist NYCHA Singing Contest, Lincoln Center Atrium, Make Music New York, Public Events. Trademarks: Teddly® Teddly & Buddyfly® My Teddyfriend®. Media Personality: Good Day New York, E! Entertainment, BBC (International Pick of the Week), NBC, MTV, WBAB-WLIB, JCT Multimedia, etc. Education/Training: B.A. University of Chicago, Graduate Work/Ph.D. Yale School of Drama/City University of New York (Graduate Center), BMI Musical Theatre Workshop, Second City Improvisation, Songwriting Workshops/Classes: Summersongs, SAMW Music Camps, Songwriters Hall of Fame, Private Studies. Memberships: Dramatists Guild, Theater Resources Unlimited, Manhattan Association of Cabarets and Clubs. ======

Dr. HOUSE, Jane E email: [email protected] 609 Kappock Street #7H Bronx, NY 10463

Graduated: May 1988

Professional life: Retired since 9/16/13 Formerly Director of Publications Office of Communications and Marketing, The Graduate Center, CUNY Member of Screen Actors Guild, and Actors’ Equity Association

Current fields of interest/research Italian theatre; currently pursuing projects in watercolor and sculpture.

Recent publications/papers: Jane House, forthcoming (2018), translator, Origin of the World by Lucia Calamaro, The Segal Center/TCG. Jane House, forthcoming (2018), translator, Neighbors by Fausto Paravidino, The Segal Center/TCG, in a collection of three contemporary Italian plays. Jane House and Jack Street (2015), editors, annotators, and translators of six-volume Mellen Collection of Contemporary Italian Drama 1950-2001. This collection includes: Vitaliano Brancati, The Governess; Eduardo De Filippo, Grief Enchained and The Top Hat, two one acts; Giuseppe Patroni Griffi, One Can Die of Love; Dino Buzzati, Home Alone, The Windows, The Prompters, three one acts; Giuliano Scabia, Wild Boars at the Forest’s Edge, a one act; Dario Fo, Opera Guffaw; Franca Rame, The Heroine; Natalia Ginzburg, I Married You for Happiness; Dacia Maraini, Two Women from the Provinces; Annibale Ruccello, Ferdinando; Roberto Cavosi, Beautiful Maria. Jane House and Antonio Attisani, editors, 20th-Century Italian Drama: An Anthology 1900-1950, Columbia University Press, 1995, includes translations by Jane House and others.

Family: Spouse/Partner: none listed Child(ren): none listed Grandchild(ren): none listed

Hobbies, Community Service, Volunteer: Sculpture, Watercolor

What you would most want your GC colleagues to know: nothing listed ======

Dr. HRKACH, Jack J. email: [email protected] 421 Duncan Chapel Road, #137 Greenville, SC 29617

Graduated: May 1990

Professional life: Associate Professor (Retired), Theatre Arts Ithaca College 953 Danby Road Ithaca, NY 14850

Current fields of interest/research: none listed

Recent publications/papers: none listed

Family: Spouse/Partner: none listed Child(ren): none listed Grandchild(ren) none listed

Hobbies, Community Service, Volunteer: International Travel, Jazz and Classical Music What you would most want your GC colleagues to know: In May 2012 I retired from Ithaca College, after 20-plus years of teaching, that included courses in theatre history, introduction to the theatre and several upper level semi nars. In my last academic year I taught at our London Center (ICLC), an honors seminar on arts (literary, visual, performing) and the French Revolution, inspired by a great seminar I took while at CUNY on Theatre and the French Revolution, taught by two brilliant professors, Marvin Carlson and Dan Gerould. My class included a weekend-long trip to Paris and several guided walks in that city as well as in London. A wonderful way to end my teaching career! I have been retired nearly 4 ½ years now, enjoying the great weather of “Upcountry” South Carolina and the nearby North Carolina mountains. I have spent as much time as I could afford traveling abroad, first a trip to Spain, and others including Ireland, Switzerland and Germany, France from Paris to Carcassonne, sub-Alpine France and two weeks in Italy. My most recent trip took me back to Italy, and on to Austria and Slovenia. To celebrate my 70th birthday this January, I traveled to the Yucatan Peninsula to see Mayan Ruins. In May of this year I visited Portugal, and as of November 2017, I am just back from Andalusia. More to come if good health continues.

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Dr. HUFF, Helen email: [email protected] 405 West 50th Street New York, NY 10019

Graduated: June 2000

Professional life: Professor and Deputy Chair Speech, Communication and Theatre Arts Department Borough of Manhattan Community College, CUNY 199 Chambers Street New York, NY 10007

Current fields of interest/research: none listed

Recent publications/papers: Publications: “A Land of Despair and Change: Landscapes of Wealth and Poverty in Selected Plays of Naomi Wallace,” Revista de Estudios Norteamericanos 15 (2012); “Spring Theatre in Spain,” Western European Stages (2011); Book Review of New Women Dramatists and American Women Theatre Critics, Theatre History Studies 32 (2012); “An (Un)discovered Archive: The Records of the Twelfth Night Club, Inc.,” Broadside 38, no.3 (Summer 2011), Theatre Library Association; “An American in London: Spring 2008,” Western European Stages 20, no. 3 (Fall 2008), Martin E. Segal Theatre Center. Conference Papers, Presentations and Workshops: “Macbeth Goes to War and Takes His Audience with Him, or the Audience Takes Macbeth to War?, Shakespeare’s War Play During the American Civil War and Iraq War” (seminar participant, Performing War: Theatrical Histories Working Group, American Society for Theatre Research Conference, Nashville, 2012); “Exploring Women’s Knowledge through Oral History” (NYU/Faculty Resource Network, 2012); “Actresses Between the Lines: Solo Performance/Performers in the Twelfth Night Club” (Association for Theatre in Higher Education, August 2012, Washington, DC); “‘Nor need her lameness defeat her of success’: From the Recently Discovered Archives of the Twelfth Night Club, Inc., 1890-2012: The Scandalous Case of Marie Nevins (Mrs. James G. Blaine, Jr.)” (History of Women in the Americas [SHAW] 5th Annual Conference, March 2012, Brunel University, London); “A Land of Despair and Change: Landscapes of Wealth and Poverty in Selected Plays of Naomi Wallace” (10th Biannual International Spanish Association for American Studies Conference, Universidad de Alcalá, Madrid, Spain, 2011); “Macbeth Goes to War: Wartime Productions and American Civil Life, 1863 and 2004” (panel organizer and presenter, American Theatre and Drama Society Panel, Association for Theatre in Higher Education, NYC, 2009).

Family: Spouse/Partner: Luis Acevedo, Social Security Administration Child(ren): none listed Grandchild(ren) none listed

Hobbies, Community Service, Volunteer: St. Luke’s Lutheran Church What you would most want your GC colleagues to know: I am now Professor and Deputy Chair of the Speech, Communication, and Theatre Arts Dept. at BMCC. I teach Theatre History, Intro to Theatre, and Voice and Articulation courses. I continue to professionally direct and act in the New York City area. I received a grant from PSC-CUNY to transcribe scripts from the Twelfth Night Club dating from 1894 for the book I am completing on the Twelfth Night Club. ======

Dr. HUGHES, Amy email: [email protected] Brooklyn College, Dept. of Theatre 2900 Bedford Avenue Brooklyn, NY 11210 Graduated: May 2009

Professional life: Associate Professor Brooklyn College, CUNY Department of Theatre 2900 Bedford Avenue Brooklyn, NY 11210

Current fields of interest/research: Nineteenth-century US theater, American Studies, Disability Studies, social history, documentary editing, digital humanities

Recent publications/papers: A Player and a Gentleman: The Diary of Harry Watkins, Nineteenth-Century US American Actor, co-edited by Hughes and Naomi J. Stubbs (University of Michigan Press, Fall 2018). Monograph in progress: An Actor’s Tale: Theater, Culture, and Everyday Life in Nineteenth-Century US America.

Family: Spouse/Partner: Scott Dexter Child(ren): none listed Grandchild(ren): none listed

Hobbies, Community Service, Volunteer: none listed

What you would most want your GC colleagues to know: nothing listed ======

Dr. HURLEY, Erin J. email: [email protected] McGill University, English Department 853 Sherbrooke Street, W. Montreal, QC H3A 0G5, CANADA Graduated: June 2000

Professional life: Associate Professor, Undergraduate Studies Department of English McGill University 853 Sherbrooke Street West Montreal, QC H3A 0G5, CANADA

Current fields of interest/research: I am working on a history of English-language theatre in Quebec from 1930 to 2015 and continue to follow the contemporary performance by women artists.

Recent publications/papers: Book: De l'Expo 67 à Céline Dion: essai sur la performance nationale. Trans. Anne-Marie Régimbald. Collection Études culturelles. Montréal: Éditions Nota bene, 2017. Theatres of Affect. Volume 4. New Essays on Canadian Theatre. Gen. Ed. Ric Knowles. Toronto: Playwrights Canada Press, 2014. Article: “Townships Theatres: Identities and Circuits 1935 – 1982.” Journal of Eastern Townships Studies/Revue d’études des Cantons-de-l’Est 46 (Spring 2016): 15-35. Book Chapters: “Monsters and Motivations: Nathalie Claude’s Solo Performances.” Interview of Nathalie Claude. Queer/Play: Contemporary Queer Canadian Women’s Performance and Plays. Ed. Moynan King. Toronto: Playwrights Canada Press, 2017, 78-83. “Occupying the Object: Leslie Baker and Andréane Leclerc in Performance.” In Performance Studies in Canada. Eds. Laura Levin and Marlis Schweitzer. Montréal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2017, 262-84. http://www.mqup.ca/performance-studies-in- canada-products-9780773549852.php?page_id=73&; “Double Identity: Performing (as) Objects on the contemporary Montréal stage.” Ireland and Québec: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on History, Culture and Society. Eds. Margaret Kelleher and Michael Kenneally. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2016, 227- 242. “The Multiple Bodies of the Cirque du Soleil.” Cirque Global: Québec's Expanding Circus Boundaries. Eds. Charles Batson and Louis Patrick Leroux. Montréal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2016. Revised and updated English- language version of “Les corps multiples du Cirque du Soleil.” 122-139. “Performance Services: The Promises of the Cirque du Soleil.” Cirque Global: Québec's Expanding Circus Boundaries. Eds. Charles Batson and Louis Patrick Leroux. Montréal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2016, 71-78. “Making Fun and Making Time: Pedagogic Principles.” The Only Way Home is Through the Show: The Performance Work of Lois Weaver. Ed. Jen Harvie and Lois Weaver. London: Intellect, 2015, 248. Plenary and Keynote Addresses: “Woman, Object, Contortion” Keynote address. Inter/Action: Conceptions of Identity, Memory, and Space, MA Studies in Comparative Literatures and Arts (SCLA) conference. Brock University, St. Catharines, ON, 11 February 2017. https://www.facebook.com/events/1663875133905317/; “English-language Theatre in the Québec Townships and the North Country.” Fulbright Distinguished Chair lecture, Institute for Québec Studies, State University of New York (SUNY), Plattsburgh, Plattsburgh, NY, 14 April 2016. http://web.plattsburgh.edu/news/news.php?wl_mode=more&wl_eid=2374. Awards: Member of the College of New Scholars, Artists, and Scientists of the Royal Society of Canada, 2015; Louis Dudek Award for Excellence in Teaching, Department of English Students Association, McGill University, 2015.

Family: Spouse/Partner: Mark Elkin Child(ren): 1 (male), 1 (female) Grandchild(ren): none listed

Hobbies, Community Service, Volunteer : Keeping on top of what my kids are interested in. Attending Comic Con annually. Watching How to Get Away with Murder.

What you would most want your GC colleagues to know: nothing listed ======

Dr. JORDAN, Julie A. email: [email protected] 805 Arlington Glen Dr. Fenton, MO 63026-3976

Graduated: June 2001

Professional life: Lecturer Webster University Conservatory of Theatre Arts 470 East Lockwood Avenue St. Louis, MO 63119

Current fields of interest/research: none listed

Recent publications/papers: none listed

Family: Spouse/Partner: Declan T. Fitzpatrick, Public School Administration Child(ren): 4 (male) Grandchild(ren): none listed

Hobbies, Community Service, Volunteer: none listed

What you would most want your GC colleagues to know: nothing listed ======

Dr. KAPLAN, Zoė C. email: [email protected]

314 West 100th Street, #32 New York, NY 10025

Graduated: June 1979

Professional life: Professor of “The Play’s the Thing” New York University Lecturer on Jane Austen Former Adjunct Assoc. Prof. of Speech & Theatre at John Jay College, CUNY

Current fields of interest/research: none listed

Recent publications/papers: Articles on Jane Austen – JASNA’s “Persuasions;” Biography of ‘Eleanor of Aquitaine,’ Chelsea Press; Poems in various Poetry Journals

Family: Spouse/Partner: Divorced Child(ren): 1 (female) Grandchild(ren): 1 (female)

Hobbies, Community Service, Volunteer: Member of the League of Professional Theater Women. What you would most want your GC colleagues to know: I write and publish poetry and give professional dramatic and poetry readings. In terms of acting I do occasional staged readings, e.g. for the Shaw Society. ======

Dr. KARTEN, Harvey S. email: [email protected] 230 Jay Street, #11B Brooklyn, NY 11201-1942

Graduated: June 1991

Professional life: Senior Film Critic CompuServe, Columbus OH Film Journal International, NY Rotten Tomatoes, Emeryville, CA

Current fields of interest/research: Reviewing films, data-based on Rotten Tomatoes.com

Recent publications/papers: Film reviews on: http://rottentomatoes.com/author-1123; http://imdb.com; http://go.compuserve.com/showbiz; http://www.azreporter.com

Family: Spouse/Partner: Tammy Karten, Editor Child(ren): none listed Grandchild(ren): none listed

Hobbies, Community Service, Volunteer: I founded the Online Film Critics Society in 1997 and the New York Film Critics Online in 1999 and am currently director of New York Film Critics Online.

What you would most want your GC colleagues to know:

Though I trained in theatre with a dissertation entitled Classics in Rotation: A History of the Jean Cocteau Repertory, I switched to writing film reviews where I now post to a half-dozen web sites. ======

D r. KERAMIDAS, Kimon email: [email protected] 180 West 93rd Street, #3B New York, NY 10025

Graduated: May 2008

Professional life: Assistant Professor and Director of the Digital Media Lab, Bard Graduate Center Director, Digital Initiatives, Martin E. Segal Theatre Center Adjunct Instructor, Bard Graduate Center (2009-present), The Cooper Union (2009) CUNY Online Instructional Technology Fellow (2008-2009)

Current fields of interest/research: none listed

Recent publications/papers: “Thoughts on the Relational Exhibit in Digital and Analog Media” (co-author with Aaron Glass), in Objects of Exchange: Social and Material Transformation on the Late Nineteenth-Century Northwest Coast, ed. Aaron Glass (New York: Bard Graduate Center, 2011); “Coming Soon to a Cinema/Television/Website/Video Game/Theatre Near You…: Theatre, Intellectual Property Rights, and the Control of American Culture,” in Theater Und Medien (Theatre and the Media), eds. Henri Schoenmakers, Stefan Bläske, Kay Kirchmann, Jens Ruchatz (Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag, 2008); “On the Performative Nature of Rings Tourism” (co-author with Henry Bial and Ryan Reynolds), in Studying the Event Film: The Lord of the Rings, eds. Sean Cubitt, Thierry Jutel, Barry King and Harriet Margolis (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2008); “Integrating Digital Media at the Programmatic and Institutional Level: Building a Humane Cyberinfrastructure at the Bard Graduate Center,” Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy 2 (Fall 2012); “Afterword: The DML and the Digital Humanities,” Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy 2 (Fall 2012); “What Games Have to Teach Us about Teaching and Learning: Game Design as a Model for Course and Curricular Development,” Currents in Electronic Literacy 11 (Spring 2010). Family: Spouse/Partner: Margaret Magnarelli Child(ren): 1 (male) Grandchild(ren): none listed

Hobbies, Community Service, Volunteer: Soccer, Baking, Cooking, Video gaming

What you would most want your GC colleagues to know: nothing listed ======

Dr. KLEIN, Sabine Macris email: [email protected] 6 Mallard Place home phone: 860-610-0577 South Windsor, CT 06074 office phone: 413-572-8119 office fax: none listed Graduated: February 2000 cell phone: none listed

Professional life: Professor and Coordinator, Theatre Arts Program Westfield State University 577 Western Avenue Westfield, MA 01086

Current fields of interest/research: German theatre history, women in theatre history

Recent publications/papers: “The City of Leipzig as the Cradle of German Professional Theatre” (presentation, Northeast American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies, Trinity College, Hartford, October 2015); “The Muse of Tragedy Battles Hanswurst: Friederike Caroline Neuber’s Struggle for the Royal License to Perform at the Leipzig Fair in 1733-34” (presentation, Northeast American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies, Yale University, New Haven, October (cont’d) 2013); “The Theatre Reforms of Friederike Caroline Neuber: German Theatre Pioneer” (presentation, New England Theatre Conference, Natick MA, October 2013); “Hartford Stage, 2012-2013 Season,” New England Theatre Journal, December 2013.

Family: Spouse/Partner: none Child(ren): 2 (female) Grandchild(ren): none listed

Hobbies, Community Service, Volunteer: none listed

What you would most want your GC colleagues to know: I'm currently serving as President of the New England Theatre Conference. ======

Dr. KOBIALKA, Michal A. email: [email protected] 330 South 21st Avenue Minneapolis, MN 55455

Graduated: February 1987

Professional life: Paul W. Frenzel Professor, Liberal Arts Faculty Director, CLA Learning Abroad Programs University of Minnesota, Department of Theatre Arts & Dance 580 Rarig Center 330 21st Avenue South Minneapolis, MN 55455

Current fields of interest/research: none listed

Recent publications/papers: “Walencje awangardy: o ‘Maszynie miłości i śmierci’ Tadeusza Kantora i o dialektyce przestrzeni” (a Polish version of: “Valences of the Avant-garde: of Tadeusz Kantor’s Machine of Love and Death and Spatial Dialectics”), Didaskalia, 138 (2017; Poland): 62-70; “A Requiem for Tadeusz Kantor,” Performing Arts Journal, 114 (September 2016): 3-18; “A Note on Spatial Dialectics,”

Performance Research, 21, 3 (Spring 2016): 54-64; “A Requiem for Tadeusz

Kantor,” Performing Arts Journal, 114 (September 2016): 3-18; “Possible Worlds of the Pomarańczowa Alternatywa” (refereed) in Theatre Journal 67.4 (December 2015): 605-623; “Memento Mori et Amori: zagadka „Maszyny miłości i śmierci” Tadeusza Kantora jako obraz dialektyczny” (Mementori Mori et Amori: The Riddle of Tadeusz Kantor’s “The Machine of Love and Death” as a Dialectical Image; invited) in Tadeusz Kantor: Cholernie Spadam, ed. Małgorzata Paluch-Cybulska (Kraków: Cricoteka, 2015): 25-44; “Sobre objetos e máquinas/Of Objects and Machines” (in Portuguese and in English; invited) in Máchina Tadeusz Kantor, eds. Jarosław Suchan and Ricardo Muniz (São Paulo: Sesc São Paulo, 2015): 69-84; Theatre/Performance Historiography: Time, Space, Matter, eds. Rosemarie Bank and Michal Kobialka (New York: Palgrave, 2015); “Of Adorno’s Beckett” in Adorno and Performance, eds. Will Daddario and Karoline Gritzner (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014): 23-37; “Epilogue: Tadeusz Kantor’s Theatre of Personal Confessions” in Tadeusz Kantor Today: Metamorphoses of Death, Memory and Presence, eds. Marta Bryś, Anna Burzyńska and Katarzyna Fazan (Frankfurt am main: Peter Lang, 2014): 241-254; “Epilog. Teatr Osobistego Wyznania Tadeusza Kantora: uwagi o późnym stylu” (a Polish version of “Epilogue: Tadeusz Kantor’s Theatre of Personal Confessions”) in Dziś Tadeusz Kantor!: Metamorfozy śmierci, pamięci i obecności, eds. Marta Bryś, Anna Burzyńska and Katarzyna Fazan (Kraków: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellonskiego, 2014): 243-267; “Performans w praktyce: materialnose spotkania,” Didaskalia 117 (2013; Poland); “Performance/Teatro Politico,” bucho Ruminant (January 2013; Sao Paulo, Brazil); “Representational Practices and Real Abstractions in Early XVIIIth-century London” in Neoliberalism and Global Theatre: Performance Permutations, eds. Lara D. Nielsen and Patricia Ybarra (London: Palgrave, 2012); “The Politics of Being on Stage: Tadeusz Kantor’s Annexed Reality” in The Politics of Being on Stage, eds. Anja Klöck (Hildesheim, Germany: Georg Olms Verlag, 2012); “There is a World Elsewhere: The Endgame of Theory and Practice” in Playing with Theory in Theatre Practice, eds. Megan Altruz, Julia Listengarten, M. Van Duyn Wood (London: Palgrave, 2012); Teatrul lui Tadeusz Kantor (Cluj-Napoca: Casa Cărţii de Ştiinţa, 2010)—a translation into Romanian of my A Journey Through Other Spaces (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993); “Of Space Forevermore,” Forum 10 (Spring 2010); see also: www.forumjournal.org/issue/view/45; “Of Last Things in Memento Mori: Silence, Eternity and Death,” Performance Research 15, no. 1 (Spring 2010): 131-39.

Family: Spouse/Partner: none listed Child(ren): none listed Grandchild(ren): none listed

Hobbies, Community Service, Volunteer: Running What you would most want your GC colleagues to know: I have presented papers on medieval, contemporary European theatre, and theatre historiography at various regional, national, and international conferences. I also held a McKnight Land-Grant Professorship from 1991 to 1993, a Fessler-Lampert Professorship in the Humanities from 2003 to 2004, and an Eminent Hoffman Scholar Chair at Florida State University from 2004 to 2005. In June 2005, I presented a series on lectures on the theatre of Tadeusz Kantor in Teatro Fábrica São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil. In 2006, I was designated as Scholar of the College in the College of Liberal Arts, University of Minnesota (2007-10). In 2007-09, I held a Belle van Zeuylen Professorshipat Utrecht University, The Netherlands, and the Imagine Fund Arts and Humanities Chair at the University of Minnesota (2010-12). Right now, I am a Paul W. Frenzel Professor in Liberal Arts, University of Minnesota. ======

Dr. KOVACS, George email: [email protected] 4333 Trevi Court Lake Worth, FL 33467

Graduated: February 1981

Professional life: Writer/Editor “The Einstein of English” – “The Potentate of Poetry” “The Epitome of Epigrams” – “The Apogee of Aphorisms/Apothegms”

Current fields of interest/research: none listed

Recent publications/papers: Multifarious: “(The) Calm during the Storm” The Palm Beach Post, Sunday, May 25, 2008; “How to Invest What You Have in What You Already Have” The Palm Beach Post, Friday, April 25, 2008; “Inner and Outer Peace: The Ineffable Connection” (Hippocrates, Spring-Summer, 2007); (The Hippocrates Health Institute Newsletter, August, 2003); Contributor, The Drug-Court Handbook (Springer-Verlag, 2006-7); “Healthsthetics -- Only at Hippocrates” (Hippocrates, Summer, 2006); “Dubya”-dumbness: Jokes at the Expense of Dumbbell “Dubya” -- the Joke that Rules at the Expense of Others (August, 2005); The Inversion Process (with Sheldon Bryman); (Neuronal Research Institute Press, 2004-5); LifeForce (with Brian Clement) (Hippocrates Publications, 2004-5); Health and Healing (with Anna Maria Clement and Brian Clement); (Hippocrates Publications, 2004-5); Longevity (with Brian Clement) (Hippocrates Publications, 2005); Sports Haiku: Mobius, The Poetry Magazine, Fall-Winter 2004-5; Hippocrates Health Institute Life-Change-Program Manual, 2004; “The Universal Field,” The Hippocrates Health Institute Newsletter, June, 2004; “Equality;” “Fear Itself;” “Footnote to Feminism;” “Pointless . . .” -- Midwest (cont’d) Poetry Review (August, 2001); “Eulogy to a Man” -- Midwest Poetry Review (October, 1998); “Pain of Creation” -- Midwest Poetry Review (July, 1998); “Rounded with a Sleep” -- Midwest Poetry Review (October, 1997); “Man;” “The Question of Whether” -- Palm-Mensa (November, 1996); Hoops Zen: The Spiritual Beauty of Basketball (The Edwin Mellen Press, 1994); Literal Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know First (The Edwin Mellen Press, 1993); Literal Literacy II: What Every American Needs to Know Second (The Edwin Mellen Press, 1993); “The Baseball Game of Life” -- Fan (Fall, 1992); “William Shakespeare Goes to Hollywood” – Mensa Bulletin (January/February, 1994); Tributary (July, 1991). Presentations and Projects: “The English Language and the American Musical Theater”-- National English-Speaking Union, The Breakers, West Palm Beach, Florida, April 24, 2009; Featured Speaker: “The English Language and the American Musical Theater” -- National English- Speaking Union, Miami, Florida, November 23, 2008; Featured Speaker: “Words, Words, Words” -- National English Speaking Union, University Club, Winter Park, Florida, September 10, 2007; Featured Speaker: “Nothing Amusing about Amusing Aspects of Abuse of Language” -- Fountains Residents-Club, West Palm Beach, Florida, November 20, 2006; Featured Artist/Performer, Florida Atlantic University Boca Raton, Florida, December 29, 2005; Featured Speaker: “The English Language” -- Women’s American ORT: West Palm Beach, Florida, March 28, 2005; Cover/feature article: “George Kovacs: Man of Letters” The Palm Beach Post, Sunday, February 20, 2005; Interview: “Literal Literacy” -- South Florida Today, WXEL-TV -- May 28, 2003; Address: “Literal Literacy” -- The Kiwanis, The Breakers, Palm Beach, Florida, February 22, 2003; The Palm Beach Business Group, The Ritz-Carlton Hotel, Palm Beach, Florida, January 17, 2003; Cover/Feature Article: “Father and Daughter Put Art at Center of Their Lives: Cara and George Kovacs: Father and daughter writers, lyricists, poets” The Palm Beach Post, Wednesday, January 9, 2002; Performer: Heritage Night -- Heritage Elementary School, May 18, 2001; Featured Speaker: The Second Annual BookFest -- Friends of the Library, Greenacres Community Center, Greenacres, Florida, February 3, 2001; Address: “Peculiarities of English” -- Palm Beach MENSA – 1996; Presentation: “Hedonic Forms and Pathology” -- International Conference on Crime, Drugs and Public Order, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, June, 1994.

Family: Spouse/Partner: none listed Child(ren): 1 (female) Grandchild(ren): none listed

Hobbies, Community Service, Volunteer: Writing; editing; rectifying illiteracy; musical theater; vegetarianism; transcendental meditation; propriety/ decorum.

What you would most want your GC colleagues to know:

Dr. George Kovacs: “What do we share? Of course: Life! So how do we dare / to cause strife? Whatever you do / will come back to you. So make it your goal / to save your soul!!” ======

Dr. LAINE, Eero email: [email protected] 143 Mariner Street Buffalo, NY 14201

Graduated: February 2016

Professional life: Assistant Professor of Theatre University at Buffalo, State University of New York Department of Theatre and Dance, Alumni Arena 285 Buffalo, NY 14260

Current fields of interest/research: cultural studies, popular entertainment, critical theory

Recent publications/papers: Co-Editor of Lateral (csalateral.org), the journal of the Cultural Studies Association; Broderick Chow, Eero Laine, and Claire Warden, eds., Performance and Professional Wrestling (London: Routledge, 2017); Felipe Cervera, Shawn Chua, João Florêncio, Eero Laine, and Evelyn Wan. “Thicker States.” GPS: Global Performance Studies 1, no. 1 (2017). http://gps.psi-web.org/issue-1- 1/thicker-states/.

Family: Spouse/Partner: Christine Marks Child(ren): none listed Grandchild(ren): none listed

Hobbies, Community Service, Volunteer: Secretary, Performance Studies international

What you would most want your GC colleagues to know: nothing listed ======

Dr. LEWIS, Barbara B. email: [email protected] c/o U of Massachusetts, Boston 100 Morrissey Boulevard Boston, MA 02125-3393 Graduated: June 2000

Professional life: Director, Trotter Institute University of Massachusetts, Boston 100 Morrissey Boulevard Boston, MA 02125-3393

Current fields of interest/research I am concentrating on the plays of Alice Childress and working on New England family narratives.

Recent publications/papers: I am blogging regularly for The Public Humanist at Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities.

Family: Spouse/Partner: none listed Child(ren): none listed Grandchild(ren): none listed

Hobbies, Community Service, Volunteer: nothing listed

What you would most want your GC colleagues to know: I presented a lecture on Phillis Wheatley, which was broadcasted by C-SPAN in 2017. ======

Dr. LIEPE-LEVINSON, Katherine email: [email protected] One Station Square Forest Hills, NY 11375

Graduated: February 1993

Professional life: Artist, Tour de Force Photography Educational Consultant, Muse Educational Resources, Inc. One Station Square, #701 Forest Hills, NY 11375 Theatre Photographer, Guest Teacher, Guest Performer Player-Dancer with Tino Sehgal in This Situation Marianne Goodman Gallery, 57th Street, NYC (2007-2008)

Current fields of interest/research: none listed

Recent publications/papers: Tour de Force Photography (another kind of mise-en-scène), http://katherine- liepelevinson.zenfolio.com/ (2011 to present); photos for Centered Heart Fitness (2011 to present); photo essay for “American Gothic” with Diane Richardson, Victorian Homes Magazine (August 2010); “Brambles” cover and theme for ETC: A Review of General Semantics (October 2008); “The Technology of Story…,” ETC: A Review of General Semantics (July 2008); Play: On the Shoulders of Apes, Sponsored and presented at the Albert Ellis Institute (January 2007). Book: Strip Show Routledge (2002); Articles and Book Chapters: “Act Cool to Stay Cool,” ETC: A Review of General Semantics, Spring 2006; “A General Semantics Approach to School-Age Bullying,” ETC: A Review of General Semantics, Winter 2005; “Desire, Mimetic Jeopardy and Performing Spectators,” in Performance Studies, ed. Erin Striff (Palgrave Macmillan, 2003). Handbooks and Teaching Materials: “Act Cool to Stay Cool,” primary author and consultant for new Anger Management program currently used in NYC Public Schools, 2006; “Thinking on Your Feet: Helping Students Make Healthy Choices Through Role Play,” primary author and consultant of this new curriculum sponsored by a CDC Synergy grant for all NYC public school children, elementary through high school, 2005; “Looking for Shakespeare in the Bronx,” curriculum for The Learning Project’s Literacy Program, contributor, 2004; “A General Semantics Approach to School-Age Bullying,” pre-print of ETC article for the National Council of English Teachers Conference, in A General Semantics Curriculum to Reduce Alienation, IGS 2004; Theatre Dynamics for Critical Thinking (Manuscript in process), a Handbook for teachers, counselors, parents, and students to promote critical thinking and reduce stress in all areas of learning (materials used by teachers and counselors in NYC and Northern California 2000-2004); “Reducing Alienation—Grades 7-9” (contributor to original curriculum written exclusively for drug prevention use), 2003. Plays: Signal Problems, co-author, a short play about road rage and anger management, ETC: A Review of General Semantics, Fall 2003; Aphrodite’s Last Visit: A Period Piece, Jeffrey Scott Elwell, editor, Twenty Three Plays from the New Play Development Workshop, ATHE Press, 1994. Recent Papers/Workshops at Major Conferences: “General Semantics in the 21st Century,” 67th annual Conference New York State Communication Association, October 2009; “Story Technology and Human Success?” 65th annual Conference New York State Communication Association, Failing to Communicate, October 2007; “How Do We Act to Survive as a Species?” sponsored by the Institute for General Semantics, Natural Museum of History, NYC, 2005; “Moving Beyond Stereotypes: Cultural Diversity Training Using Drama,” NCTE (National Council of Teachers of English) convention in Indianapolis, November, 2004; “Anger Management Using the Techniques of the Actor for Self-Management,” Summer Institute for Conflict Resolution, New York City Department of Education, DC- 37 Building, July 2004; “Toward a Civil Society: Anger Management for the 21st Century Using the Techniques of the Actor,” Peace Summit, St. John’s University, New York City, May 2004; “Enhancing Students’ Feeling/Thinking Vocabularies Using the Techniques of the Professional Actor,” National English Teachers Conference, Convention Center, San Francisco, November 2003. Photography: “Babel—My Life,” Best in Show, for Diversity exhibition, East End Arts Council, Riverhead NY, January 18-March 1, 2013; “Making the Familiar Unfamiliar,” Lecture for Language and Symbol Use in Politics and Other Arenas Conference, sponsored by the Institute for General Semantics, Princeton Club, NYC, Oct 26-28, 2012; “Dental Work,” best in show for photography, Animals Exhibition, East End Arts Council, Riverhead NY June 2012.

Family: Spouse/Partner: Dr. Martin H. Levinson, Prevention Services for At-Risk Youth Author, Teacher for Teachers at New York City UFT (United Federation of Teachers) Child(ren): none listed Grandchild(ren): none listed

Hobbies, Community Service, Volunteer: NGO to the United Nations for the Institute for General Semantics. Photo Artist: exhibits in Queens, NY, photos for theatre productions, and journal covers for TDR and ETC. 1997-2009. New Member of Circle East Playwrights Group. What you would most want your GC colleagues to know: In New York City and the Hamptons. Focusing on Photography as mise-en-scène. Private coaching for actors and non-actors in emotional management. I also give workshops on my work nationally and internationally. Writing and researching on popular culture, applied theatre, and short plays. ======

Dr. LINGAN, Edmund email: [email protected] 3409 Cheltenham Road home phone: none listed Toledo, OH 43606 office phone: 419-530-2855 office fax: 419-530-8439 Graduated: February 2006 cell phone: 646-924-8778

Professional life: Chair/Associate Professor of Theatre University of Toledo, Department of Theatre and Film 2801 West Bancroft Toledo, OH 43606-3390

Current fields of interest/research: none listed

Recent publications/papers: “Joséphine Péladan and Occult Art of the Rosy+Cross Salons,” in PAJ: A journal of Performance and Art (forthcoming); “Spirituality and Theatre,” in Routledge International Handbook of Spirituality in Society (London: Routledge, forthcoming); “The Nature Theatres of the Occult Revival: Nature, Performance, and Modern Esoteric Spirituality,” in The Changing World Religion Map (Springer Publications, 2017); “The Contested Maps, Multiple Worlds, and Negotiable Borders of Theatre,” in Mapping Across Academia (Springer Publications, 2015). The Theatre of the Occult Revival: Alternative Spiritual Performance from 1875 to the Present (Palgrave Macmillan, November, 2014); “Invocation,” Ecumenica (Fall 2014); “Medieval Drama and Contemporary Dramaturgy: Problem-Based Learning in the Twenty-First Century,” Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Teaching (Fall 2014); “Performance Tactics for the Study of Medieval Drama,” (multi-author article), in Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Teaching (forthcoming); “Note from the Editor,” Performance and Spirituality, vol. 3 (2012); “Katherine Tingley’s Theosophical Theatre: Greek Revivalism and New Religion in Lomaland, USA,” Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism 31, no. 1 (Fall 2011); “A Point of Transition: Broadened Research and New Directions in Performance and Spirituality,” Performance and Spirituality 2 (2011); “Plato and the Theatre of the Occult Revival: Edouard Schuré, Katherine Tingley, and Rudolf Steiner,” Religion and the Arts 14, no. 4 (2010); Book Review: Lance Gharavi, “Western Esotericism in Russian Silver Age Drama: Aleksandr Blok’s The Rose and the Cross,” Theatre Survey 61, no. 3 (October 2009); “Is the Performance Religious or Spiritual: Distinctions for the Discourse,” a paper presented at ATHE 2009; “The Alchemical marriage of Art, Performance, and Spirituality,” PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art 91 (January 2009). “A Note from the Editor: Delineating the Field,” Performance and Spirituality 1 (March 2009); Book Review: William S. Haney II, Postmodern Theatre and the Void of Conceptions (Cambridge Scholars Press, 2006) in The Journal of Religion and Theatre 6, no. 2 (Fall 2007); “Katherine Tingley’s Theatrical Theosophical Mission to Cuba” (paper presentation, ASTR 2007); “Contemporary Forms of Occult Theatre,” PAJ; “Profile: Institute for the Study of Performance and Spirituality,” Baylor Journal of Theatre and Performance 3, no. 1 (2006).

Spouse/Partner: Risa Cohen Family: Child(ren): 2 (male) Grandchild(ren): none listed

Hobbies, Community Service, Volunteer: KCACTF (Region III) Adjudicator, harmonica, guitar, bass guitar, songwriting, playing gigs at bars and restaurants.

What you would most want your GC colleagues to know: Remember to pursue your true interests in your research. ======

Dr. LIVINGSTON, Lindsay Adamson email: [email protected] 1191 E 930 N home phone: none listed Provo, UT 84604 office phone: none listed office fax: none listed Graduated: February 2013 cell phone: 845-282-3347

Professional life: Assistant Professor Brigham Young University 150 E 1230 N Provo, UT 84604

Current fields of interest/research: Race and Ethnicity, Material Culture

Recent publications/papers: “Picking Up the Gun: Spectacular Performances of Firearm Ownership in the Long Civil Rights Movement,” in Performance in a Militarized Culture.

Family: Spouse/Partner: Patrick Livingston Child(ren): 1 (female), 1 (male) Grandchild(ren): none listed

Hobbies, Community Service, Volunteer: We spend a lot of time swimming, visiting dinosaur museums (Utah is full of them), and getting to know our neighbors (we just bought a home near Brigham Young University). What you would most want your GC colleagues to know: I miss the GC! Especially the amazing people who made my time there so enjoyable. ======

Dr. LOAYZA, Milton email: [email protected] 119 W Oneida Street Oswego, NY 13126

Graduated: May 2008

Professional life: Visiting Assistant Professor of Spanish Modern Languages and Literature Department State University of New York at Oswego Oswego, New York 13126 Actor at numerous opera productions of Maria de Buenos Aires, by Piazzola/ Ferrer in the role of Duende (Atlanta Opera, New Orleans Opera, Mill City Summer Opera in Minneapolis, Syracuse Opera, Grand Rapids Opera, Anchorage Opera, Eugene Opera OR) Founder and Artistic Director of Autopista del Sur Theatre Group (Syracuse, NY): have presented 6 Latin American works since 2012, including original theatrical adaptation of Cortazar’s short stories.

Current fields of interest/research: Theatre and the Anthropocene, performance and indigenous world views, performance and philosophy, Latin American theatre

Recent publications/papers: “The Antrhopo(s)cenography of Ricardo Monti’s Marrathon, Journal of American Drama and Theatre 29.2 (2017). “Planes of Immanence: Deleuzian Assemblage as a Mode of Thought in the Theatre of Ricardo Monti,” Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism 30.2 (2016). Entries on “Grotesco Criollo” and “Armando Discépolo” in The Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism (2016). Acting/ Directing with Autopista del Sur Theatre Group: Asunción, by Ricardo Monti (2011), Are you Mr. Friedman? by Julio Recalde (2012), Ella/She by Susana Torres Molina (2013), Don’t Blame Anyone by Cortazar/Loayza (2015), Tango and Borges: a musical presentation (2018).

Family: Spouse/Partner: Inna Lozanovskaya, M.D. Child(ren): 1 (female), 1 (male) Grandchild(ren): none listed

Hobbies, Community Service, Volunteer: Argentine tango dancing/instruction, performance projects with campus community including Climate Change Theatre Action.

What you would most want your GC colleagues to know: nothing listed ======

D r. LUBER, Steve email: [email protected] 161 Old Norwich Road Quaker Hill, CT 06375-129

Graduated: February 2013

Professional life: Visiting Assistant Professor and Program Director of Theatre University of New Haven 300 Boston Post Road West Haven, CT 06516

Current fields of interest/research: Multimedia performance, video games and performance

Recent publications/papers: “Convergence and Contingency: The Early Media Work of Reid Farrington,” Theatre Journal 68, 3.

Family: Spouse/Partner: Virginia Anderson Child(ren): 1 (one) Grandchild(ren): none listed

Hobbies, Community Service, Volunteer: Playing with 2 dogs and 2 cats at home What you would most want your GC colleagues to know: In addition to teaching and writing, I’m directing an Evening of Radio Plays and the Ellen MacLaughlin adaptation of The Trojan Women this year. ======

Dr. MALAGUE, Rosemary email: [email protected] Kings Court, Box 216 3465 Sansom Street Philadelphia, PA 19104 Graduated: June 2001

Professional life: Senior Lecturer University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA 19104 Also Faculty Fellow in residence, Kings Court/English College House at Penn

Current fields of interest/research: none listed

Recent publications/papers: An Actress Prepares: Women and the Method (Routledge, 2012).

Family: Spouse/Partner: none listed Child(ren): none listed Grandchild(ren): none listed

Hobbies, Community Service, Volunteer: none listed

What you would most want your GC colleagues to know: I continue happily in my position at Penn, where I teach a variety of undergraduate courses in theatre and direct student productions; my next project is On the Town (though I acted in musical theatre “back in the day,” this is a new directing venture). I have been invited to contribute a chapter to the Stanislavsky Companion, which will be published by Routledge in 2013; the essay’s working title is “Stanislavsky, the System, and Women.” And I have received a fellowship from the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin to spend a month studying the Stella Adler archive. Highlights of the last year include seeing CUNY friends at ATHE, WTP, and ASTR—I look forward to future conference “reunions.” ======

Dr. MANN, Martin A. email: [email protected] 309 West 104th Street, #3A New York, NY 10025

Graduated: February 1974

Professional life: Retired Professor none listed none listed

Current fields of interest/research: none listed

Recent publications/papers: none listed

Family: Spouse/Partner: Joyce Levy Mann, Retired Child(ren): 2 (male), 1 (female) Grandchild(ren): 1 (female), 1 (male)

Hobbies, Community Service, Volunteer: none listed What you would most want your GC colleagues to know: I am retired in New York: I usher Off-Broadway and see lots and lots of good and not-so-good theatre. ======

Dr. MARTINEZ, Ana email: [email protected] 2810 East Devon Street Tucson, AZ 85716

Graduated: February 2013

Professional life: Adjunct Professor School of Theatre, Film & Television, University of Arizona The University of Arizona Tucson, AZ 85721 Designer and Dramaturg Splitseed Productions

Current fields of interest/research: Mexican and Latin American theatre and performance, site-specific performance, and scenography.

Recent publications/papers: Book Chapters: “Distrito Federal: ‘Global City, Ha, Ha, Ha!’” in Performance and the Global City, eds. D.J. Hopkins and Kim Solga, (New York: Palgrave, 2013); “Scenographies behind the Scenes: Mapping, Classifying, and Interpreting John Rich's 1744 Inventory of Covent Garden,” in The Stage's Glory: John Rich (1642–1761), eds. Jeremy Barlow and Berta Joncus (Newark, DE: University of Delaware Press, 2011).

Family: Spouse/Partner: Dr. Kevin Byrne Child(ren): 1 (female), 1 (male) Grandchild(ren): none listed

Hobbies, Community Service, Volunteer: none listed What you would most want your GC colleagues to know: nothing listed ======

Dr. McCULLOUGH, Jack Wheelock email: [email protected] 1382 Newtown Langhorne Rd. Newtown, PA 18940-2418

Graduated: June 1981

Professional life: Director (Retired) The College of New Jersey NJ Governor’s School of the Arts

Current fields of interest/research: none listed

Recent publications/papers: none listed

Family: Spouse/Partner: Mary Louise, retired from Mercer County Community College (Biology) Child(ren): 2 (female), 1 (male) Grandchild(ren): none listed

Hobbies, Community Service, Volunteer: Still attending McCarter Theatre Center, Princeton; Off-Broadstreet Theatre (Hopewell, NJ); and a scattering of other venues.

What you would most want your GC colleagues to know: Having become a “genealogy nut” in retirement, I have traced my Wheelock ancestors to 1636 in America and to 1450 in Shropshire, England. My McCullough ancestors in America, are known only to 1830 in Ohio, but I would love to find a connection to 19th century American actor John McCullough, if anyone can suggest an ancestral link to him. ======

Dr. MEACHAM, Thomas email: [email protected] 34 Jacobs Hill Road Mansfield Center, CT 06250

Graduated: September 2012

Professional life: Assistant Professor in Residence, Dramatic Arts Department Associate Dean, Undergraduate Studies for the School of Fine Arts University of Connecticut Storrs, CT 06269

Current fields of interest/research: Medieval performance and LGBTQ theory and performance

Recent publications/papers: The Performance Tradition of the Medieval English University: The Works of Thomas Chaundler. Early Drama, Art, and Music Monograph Series (Kalamazoo: Western Michigan University) -- in contract and under review.

Family: Spouse/Partner: Dale Edwards Child(ren): none listed Grandchild(ren): none listed

Hobbies, Community Service, Volunteer: Editor and Cinematographer of the You Tube series, “Steve Hayes: Tired Old Queen at the Movies” http://www.youtube.com/user/STEVEHAYESTOQ

What you would most want your GC colleagues to know: Liber apologeticus de omni statu humanae naturae. ======

Dr. MEDOFF, Richard Brad email: [email protected] 23 West 73rd Street, #1016 New York, NY 10023

Graduated: October 1993

Professional life: Associate Dean, School of Liberal Arts Director, Liberal Education Curriculum Mercy College, 555 Broadway Victory, Room 211A Dobbs Ferry, NY 10522

Current fields of interest/research: none listed

Recent publications/papers: “From the Middle Ground between Light and Shadow: The Twilight Zone, Lost and The Leftovers,” given at SAMLA (November 2017). Review of “The Goat” by Edward Albee, Theatre Journal; Paper: “The Antigone Project,” given at the ATHE conference in San Francisco (August 2005).

Family: Spouse/Partner: none listed Child(ren): none listed Grandchild(ren): none listed

Hobbies, Community Service, Volunteer: none listed

What you would most want your GC colleagues to know: nothing listed ======

Dr. MERWIN Edward (Ted) P. email: [email protected] 7916 Stevenson Road Baltimore, MD 21208

Graduated: May 2002

Professional life: Part-Time Associate Professor, Religious and Judaic Studies Dickinson College Carlisle, PA 17013

Current fields of interest/research: The representation of Jewish food in popular culture

Recent publications/papers: Pastrami on Rye: An Overstuffed History of the Jewish Deli (NYU Press, 2015).

Family: Spouse/Partner: Andrea Lieber, Professor of Judaic Studies Child(ren): 3 (female) Grandchild(ren): none listed

Hobbies, Community Service, Volunteer: Jewish social justice activities

What you would most want your GC colleagues to know:

I am speaking widely on university campuses on the subject of my recent book, which is on the history of the New York Jewish delicatessen, including representations of the deli in theater, film and television. ======

Dr. MILLER, Henry D. email: [email protected] P.O. Box 111 Yonkers, NY 10704-0111

Graduated: February 2003

Professional life: Speaker, Play Readings and Presenter 2012: Directed Jeff Stetson’s Fraternity, Ebony Repertory Theatre, Los Angeles, CA; 2011: Presenter (Ebony Repertory Theater): “Back to the Future: In Search of a New “Black Theatre Aesthetic.”; “Presenter (UCLA): “Theorizing Black Theatre: An Introduction,” Ralph Bunche Author’s Series. “Presenter (National Black Theatre Festival): “Valorizing the Ancestors,” Winston-Salem, NC. Magnet Fellowship Scholar; Dean’s List and National Key Honor Society

Current fields of interest/research: Editor and Contributor: New Book Proposal: Blackface, Broadway, Bandstands and Hollywood

Recent publications/papers: “Valorizing Ancestors Discourse,” Continuum Journal (2016); Theorizing Black Theatre (McFarland Text Book, 2011); “Absurdism: African American Style” (Apex Blog, 2007)

Family: Spouse/Partner: Mrs. Stephanie O. Miller, Adjunct Professor of Education, Hunter College (CUNY) Child(ren): 1 (male) Grandchild(ren): none listed

Hobbies, Community Service, Volunteer: Uptown Playwrights’ Workshop (Former Co-Director): Harlem Playwrights 21 (active) members. What you would most want your GC colleagues to know: As a dramatist, director, and theatre scholar, I’m dedicated to the notion that the apparent gulf between theatre practice and theatre scholarship needs to be dramatically reduced in the American theatre as a whole and, most especially, in the fields of African American drama and theatre. ======

Dr. MILLER, Hillary email: [email protected] 1762 N Verdugo Rd. Glendale, CA 91208-2737

Graduated: May 2013

Professional life: Assistant Professor, Theatre Graduate Coordinator, MA Theatre California State University, Northridge 18111 Nordhoff Street Northridge, CA 91330

Current fields of interest/research: 20th & 21st century performance; theatre & urban policy; contemporary theatre; sociology of culture; playwriting; writing pedagogy.

Recent publications/papers: Book, Drop Dead: Performance in Crisis, 1970s New York City (Northwestern UP, 2016), winner, 2017 Barnard Hewitt Award from the American Society for Theatre Research and the 2017 John W. Frick Book Award from the American Theatre and Drama Society; “Subject to Punishment: Julie Bovasso’s Angelo’s Wedding and the Politics of the Unproduced,” Theatre Survey 58.2 (May 2017); forthcoming book chapter, “Marching Off-Beat and On Screen: New York’s Reform Movements & Charles Hale Hoyt’s A Milk White Flag,” in Performing the Progressive Era: Immigration, Urbanism, and Nationalism on Stage, 1890- 1920 (University of Iowa Press); online article, “Hidden Vacancies: Theatre and Real Estate,” Contemporary Theatre Review 27.2 (2017), invited contribution for “Interventions.”

Family: Spouse/Partner: Tracy Hazas Child(ren): none listed Grandchild(ren): none listed

Hobbies, Community Service, Volunteer: I enjoy exploring SoCal’s hiking trails, as well as learning about the LA arts offerings. Other hobbies: pizza.

What you would most want your GC colleagues to know: Please feel free to get in touch if you are traveling through the Los Angeles area. ======

Dr. MOBLEY, Jennifer Scott email: [email protected] 3719 Cattail Lane, Greenville, NC 27858

Graduated: June 2010

Professional life: I’m in my third year with the School of Theatre and Dance at East Carolina University. Co-Coordinator of the Annual Jane Chambers Feminist Playwriting Contest for the Women & Theatre Program and ATHE Co-Program Chair for ASTR 2017: “Extra/Ordinary Bodies: Interrogating the Performance and Aesthetics of Difference”

Current fields of interest/research: Fat studies, theories of embodiment, feminist playwrights & performance, dramaturgy

Recent publications/papers: “Melodrama, Sensation, and Activism” in A Critical Companion to Lynn Nottage, Routledge, 2016. Female Bodies on the American Stage: Enter Fat Actress, Palgrave, 2014.

Family: Spouse/Partner: Mark D. Ransom Child(ren): none listed Grandchild(ren): none listed

Hobbies, Community Service, Volunteer: none listed

What you would most want your GC colleagues to know: nothing listed ======

Dr. NADLER, Paul D. email: [email protected] 133 Woodside Avenue Metuchen, NJ 08840

Graduated: October 1995

Professional life: Assistant Professor Program in Educational Theatre New York University 82 Washington Square East New York, NY 10012

Current fields of interest/research: none listed

Recent publications/papers: none listed

Family: Spouse/Partner: Anne Newman, Journalist Child(ren): 1 (female), 1 (male) Grandchild(ren): none listed

Hobbies, Community Service, Volunteer: Hiking, Guitar, Boy Scout Assistant Scoutmaster What you would most want your GC colleagues to know: Since 1994 I have taught masters-level theatre history, dramatic literature, and theory in New York University’s Program in Educational Theatre while simultaneously continuing my day job as an information technology project manager. But my greatest pride is my family. My wife Anne and I have two kids, Elizabeth (now a Duke senior minoring in theatre) and Joel (a high school junior adept at building and striking sets). Incidentally, Anne and I returned from our honeymoon the day before my first class at the Graduate Center. ======

Dr. NICHOLSON, David B. email: [email protected] 140 North Broadway, #1-3 Irvington, NY 10533-1216

Graduated: June 1982

Professional life: Professor, English and Humanities Riverdale Country School 5250 Fieldston Road Riverdale, NY 10471

Current fields of interest/research: none listed

Recent publications/papers: Riverdale Country School 1972-1984: The Stillman Years (a history of the school during a tumultuous period of time in its recent history, and a biography of the headmaster during that time).

Family: Spouse/Partner: Esther D’Lower Nicholson Child(ren): 1 (male) 1 (female) Grandchild(ren): 1 (female) 2 (male)

Hobbies, Community Service, Volunteer: none listed

What you would most want your GC colleagues to know: nothing listed ======

Dr. NIELSEN, Alan W. email: [email protected] 810 West Main Street Nacogdoches, TX 75964

Graduated: February 1989

Professional life: Professor Emeritus of Theatre Stephen F. Austin State University P.O. Box 6090 SFA Nacogdoches, TX 75962-6090

Current fields of interest/research: As Emeritus Professor, I provide occasional guidance or assistance in School of Theatre productions, and also work with a Music Professor who teaches composition and sometimes has a student interested in composing for theatre. I provide him with lyrics that are of course unfamiliar to his students for them to work with.

Recent publications/papers: The Great Victorian Sacrilege (1990; re-issued in paperbound edition, Spring 2013)

Family: Spouse/Partner: none listed Child(ren): none listed Grandchild(ren): none listed

Hobbies, Community Service, Volunteer: Helped in fundraising for East Texas Blood Center. What you would most want your GC colleagues to know: I am still writing and doing some video editing. Reluctant Rebel: A Musical Portrait of Stephen F. Austin will be produced in 2017 by Brazosport Center Stages, and then tour the Texas Gulf area. My best wishes to all our many graduates currently enjoying careers in theatre, TV and film. ======

Dr. NIELSEN, Ken email: [email protected] New York University Abu Dhabi, Office 382 P.O. Box 129188 Abu Dhabi, UAE Graduated: February 2011

Professional life: Senior Lecturer in the Writing Program Associate Director of the Writing Center Director of the Writing Center at NYU Abu Dhabi New York University Abu Dhabi P.O. Box 129188 Abu Dhabi, UAE

Current fields of interest/research: Theatre history, LGBTQ studies, Writing Studies, Performance Studies, drama and performance in the Middle East

Recent publications/papers: Presentations: Participation in “A Community of Writers: Collaborations Across the Liberal Arts,” Chair of Writing Across the Curriculum: What is It and Does it Work? YaleNUS, November 8-11, 2017; Participation in “Developing Writing Curriculum in Context,” Forman Christian College, Lahore, Pakistan, October 18-21, 2017; Participation on Pedagogy Roundtable at NonfictionNOW, Reykjavik 2017, June 1-4, 2017; “Reconstructing Bent Identities: Performance, Gay History, and the Present Past,” International Federation for Theatre Research, June 13-17, 2016; “Subversive Sangerindepavillioner: the Popular, Pleasure, and Queer Political Subversion,” Nordic Theatre Scholars Conference, Reykjavik, March 11-13, 2016; ”Utopian Crossing: Reading Homebody/Kabul in Abu Dhabi,” Crossing Borders: Theatre and Cultural Encounters, Helsinki, May 5-8 2015; Publications: “Utopian Alienation: or How I Learned to Write in the U.S.A.” in Graduate Study in the USA: Surviving and Succeeding eds. Christopher McMaster, Caterina Murphy, and Audrey Threlkheld, Peter Lang Publishing, NY, 2016; “Gone with the Plague: Negotiating Sexual Citizenship in Crisis,” Nordic Theatre Studies 25 (2014): 59-70; Review of Sexual Politics in the Works of Tennessee Williams: Desire over Protest, Michael S. D. Hooper (Cambridge University Press, 2012) in Theatre Survey 55, no. 3 (Fall 2014): 409-11.

Family: Spouse/Partner: David Smedley Child(ren): none listed Grandchild(ren): none listed

Hobbies, Community Service, Volunteer: none listed

What you would most want your GC colleagues to know: nothing listed ======

Dr. NILES, Richard email: [email protected] 57 West 75 th Street, #6A New York, NY 10023

Graduated: October 1993

Professional life: Professor of Theatre Arts Marymount Manhattan College 221 East 71st Street New York, NY 10021

Current fields of interest/research: none listed

Recent publications/papers: “Wigs, Laughter and Subversion,” in The Drag Queen Anthology (Harrington Park Press, 2004); Encyclopedia of Theatrical Performance (OUP, 2004). Directed Karen Akers’ new cabaret show, “When a Lady Loves” which opened at the Algonquin Oak Bar, April 12, 2005.

Family: Spouse/Partner: none listed Child(ren): none listed Grandchild(ren): none listed

Hobbies, Community Service, Volunteer: none listed

What you would most want your GC colleagues to know: nothing listed ======

Dr. NUNES, Luiz Arthur F. email: [email protected]

Av. Nossa Senhora de Copacabana 109/1203 Copacabana 22020-002 Rio de Janeiro RJ, Brazil Graduated: February 1987

Professional life: Professor/Researcher at Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (UNIRIO) Av. Pasteur, 458 Urca, Rio de Janiero RJ, 22290-255, BRAZIL Theatre Director

Current fields of interest/research NELSON RODRIGUES / BRAZILIAN THEATRE / RHAPSODIC(NARRATIVE) THEATRE / MELODRAMA

Recent publications/papers: Preface to Nelson Rodrigues: Teatro Completo : Peças Psicológicas

Family: Spouse/Partner: none listed Child(ren): none listed Grandchild(ren): none listed

Hobbies, Community Service, Volunteer: none listed

What you would most want your GC colleagues to know: All the information in this entry form can be available to my GC colleagues. ======

Dr. ORANI, Aviv email: [email protected] 292 North 5th Avenue Highland Park, NJ 08904

Graduated: October 1986

Professional life: Chief Information Architect, Financial Markets International Business Machines (IBM) 590 Madison Avenue New York, NY 10022

Current fields of interest/research: none listed

Recent publications/papers: none listed

Family: Spouse/Partner: Adrienne Rubinstein, Professor of Audiology Child(ren): 2 (female) Grandchild(ren) none listed

Hobbies, Community Service, Volunteer: none listed

What you would most want your GC colleagues to know: nothing listed

D r. PARKER-STARBUCK, Jennifer email: [email protected] [email protected] 126 Casewick Road home phone: West Norwood, London SE27 0SZ office phone: UNITED KINGDOM office fax: Graduated: May 2003 cell phone:

Professional life: Head of Department and Professor of Theatre and Performance Studies, Department of Drama, Theatre & Dance Royal Holloway, University of London Egham Hill Egham, TW20 0EX UNITED KINGDOM Editor, Theatre Journal

Current fields of interest/research Multimedia and "Cyborg" performance, Animal Studies, and animality and performance, contemporary theatre and performance, directing and devising

Recent publications/papers: “Karaoke Theatre: Channeling Mediated Lives,” Contemporary Theatre Review 27.3 (November 2017); “Surveilling the Scene: “We’re Watching,” Bard College 29 April, 2017,” review essay for Theater (forthcoming); “A Cabinet of (Medical) Performance Curiosities,” in Performance and the Medical Body, eds Alex Mermikides and Gianna Bouchard, (Bloomsbury, 2016); Performance and Media: Taxonomies for a Changing Field, with S. Bay-Cheng and D. Saltz, (University of Michigan Press, 2015); Performing Animality: Animals in Performance Practices, co-edited with Lourdes Orozco (Palgrave, March 2015); “Animality, Posthumanism,” in Performance Studies: Key Words, Concepts, and Theories, ed. Bryan Reynolds, (Palgrave, November 2014); “The Spectator and Her Double: Seeing Performance Through the Eyes of Another,” Theatre Topics (June 2014); *“Animal Ontologies and Media Representations: Robotics, Puppets, and the Real of War Horse,” Theatre Journal, special issue on “Interspecies.” Vol. 65, Number 3, October 2013 (*Received the ATHE Outstanding Article Award); Monograph: Cyborg Theatre: Corporeal/Technological Intersections in Multimedia Performance, Palgrave, 2011 (Paperback release, November 2014).

Family: Partner: Josh Abrams Child(ren): 1 (female) Grandchild(ren): none listed

Hobbies, Community Service, Volunteer: nothing listed What you would most want your GC colleagues to know: I have recently taken a new position in the London area as Chair of the Department at Royal Holloway, University of London. I am looking forward to the new opportunities there. Over the summer I became Editor of Theatre Journal and will serve for two more years. Please feel free to discuss your ideas with me! I am usually at ATHE, ASTR, and PSi so hope to catch up with CUNY folks at the conferences. ======

email: [email protected] Dr. PEDERSON, Nadine D. 400 East University Way Ellensburg, WA 98926-7460

Graduated: October 2004

Professional life: Graduate Coordinator & Assistant Professor, Theatre Studies Department of Theatre Arts Central Washington University McConnell Hall, Room 107E 400 East University Way Ellensburg, WA 98926-7460

Current fields of interest/research: none listed

Recent publications/papers: Recent Publications & Works-in-progress: Book Manuscript (proposal under consideration), The Paris Stage, 1500-1560: Legal Reform and Urban Stability; Edition (work in-progress): Documents Relating to the Early Office of Master of the Revels in France; “A View from the Bridge: Parisian Audiences and the Seine, 1500-1560,” (invited lecture for “Waterborne Pageants and Festivities in the Renaissance: A Conference in Honour of Professor Ronnie Mulryne,” Venice, Italy, March 2010). Recent Grants: CWU College of Arts and Humanities Summer Research and Creativity Grant (2009) and CWU Office of Graduate Studies and Sponsored Research SEED Grant (2009).

Family: Spouse/Partner: none listed Cat(s): Jasper and Napoleon Grandchild(ren): none listed

Hobbies, Community Service, Volunteer: none listed What you would most want your GC colleagues to know: I started a new MA Theatre Studies degree at CWU in 2009-10 (for PhD-bound students) to complement my department’s existing MA in Theatre Production (for high school theatre teachers). ======

Dr. PEREIRA, John W. email: [email protected] 210-19 26th Avenue, #1N Bayside, NY 11360-2478

Graduated: October 1986

Professional life: Assistant Professor and Adjunct Assoc. Professor, Department of Theatre Nassau Community College, One Education Drive, Garden City, New York 11530 Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Drama, Theatre and Dance Queens College, CUNY 65-30 Kissena Boulevard Queens, NY 11367

Current fields of interest/research: none listed

Recent publications/papers: none listed

Family: Spouse/Partner: none listed Child(ren): none listed Grandchild(ren): none listed

Hobbies, Community Service, Volunteer: none listed

What you would most want your GC colleagues to know: nothing listed

email: [email protected] Dr. POTTS, Kathleen 397 N. Broadway, #3Q Yonkers, NY 10701

Graduated: May 2015

Professional life: Assistant Professor The City College of New York Department of Theatre and Speech 160 Convent Avenue (C-G 311) New York, NY 10031

Current fields of interest/research Playwriting, dramaturgy, new play collaborations

Recent publications/papers: The Professional Actor’s Handbook (with Julio Agustin) 2017

Family: Spouse/Partner: none listed Child(ren): none listed Grandchild(ren): none listed

Hobbies, Community Service, Volunteer: none listed

What you would most want your GC colleagues to know: Thank you to Lynette Gibson and her assistants at the Graduate Center for this publication. ======

Dr. POURCHOT, Eric E. email: [email protected] 7110 Coventry Road Alexandria, VA 20036-1811

Graduated: May 1999

Professional life: Institutional Advancement Director American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works 1156 15th Street NW Washington, DC 20005

Current fields of interest/research: none listed

Recent publications/papers: Articles on Romanian topics for the Oxford Encyclopedia of Theatre and Performance

Family: Spouse/Partner: Married Child(ren): With a family Grandchild(ren): none listed

Hobbies, Community Service, Volunteer: none listed What you would most want your GC colleagues to know: I have found my life to be revolving around grants, project management, and strategic planning these days. I hope to get back to writing about Romanian and East European theatre again at some point. ======

Dr. POWELL, Susana email: [email protected] 9323 Shore Road Brooklyn, NY 11209

Graduated: May 1988

Professional life: Professor and Chair, Speech, Communications and Theatre Borough of Manhattan Community College, CUNY 199 Chambers Street New York, NY 10007

Current fields of interest/research: none listed

Recent publications/papers: none listed

Family: Spouse/Partner: none listed Child(ren): none listed Grandchild(ren): none listed

Hobbies, Community Service, Volunteer: none listed

What you would most want your GC colleagues to know: nothing listed

======Dr. PRICE, David email: [email protected] 34-41 85th Street, #4S

Jackson Heights, NY 11372

Graduated: June 1978

Professional life: Professor, Retired Borough of Manhattan Community College, CUNY New York, NY 10007

Current fields of interest/research: none listed

Recent publications/papers: none listed

Family: Spouse/Partner: none listed Child(ren) none listed Grandchild(ren): none listed

Hobbies, Community Service, Volunteer: none listed What you would most want your GC colleagues to know: I try to get to Europe once a year and to the theater here. I frequently volunteer for events at St. Bart’s, my church. ======

Dr. ROOST, Alisa email: [email protected] Not listed at Alumna’s request Not listed at Alumna’s request

Graduated: June 2001

Professional life: Chair of the Humanities Department and an Associate Professor Hostos Community College 500 Grand Concourse Bronx, New York 10451

Current fields of interest/research: Musical Theatre, politics and masculinity

Recent publications/papers: Has an article coming out on Hamilton and hyper-masculinity this summer; Alisa Roost had articles in Academe, “Supporting Veterans in the Classroom” and in Modern Drama: “Remove Your Mask”: Character Psychology in Introspective Musical Theatre-Sondheim’s Follies, La Chiusa’s The Wild Party, and Stew’s Passing Strange” this summer; “Sex and Singing Gal (of a Certain Age). Journal of American Drama and Theatre. 24.2 (2012).

Family: Spouse/Partner: none listed Child(ren): 1 (male) Grandchild(ren): none listed

Hobbies, Community Service, Volunteer: Show Director and Stage Manager for Netroots Nation What you would most want your GC colleagues to know: My son, Eric Lyons Roost, arrived on January 7, 2017 and is healthy and beautiful. ======

Dr. ROTTÉ, Joanna email: [email protected] 507 3430 Cooper Street Stone Ridge, NY 12484

Graduated: February 1983

Professional life: Emerita Professor of Theatre, Villanova University 800 East Lancaster Avenue Villanova, PA 19085

Current fields of interest/research: Meditation and Creativity; Dharma Art

Recent publications/papers: http://www.shambhala.com/no-time-to-lose; Broad Street Review: http://broadstreetview.com

Family: Spouse/Partner: none listed Child(ren): 1 (male) Grandchild(ren): none listed

Hobbies, Community Service, Volunteer: Meditation Instructor, Shambhala What you would most want your GC colleagues to know: Retired from Villanova University, awarded Emerita after 30 years of service. ======

Dr. RUFF, Felicia J. email: [email protected] 105 Luppatatong Avenue Keyport NJ 07735

Graduated: June 1991

Professional life: Department Chair of Theatre and Speech Wagner College One Campus Road Staten Island, NY 10301

Current fields of interest/research: Wilde, Fashion/Costumes

Recent publications/papers: "What Would Oscar Do?" at the Church of the Village's Oscar Wilde Temple.

Family: Spouse/Partner: none listed Child(ren): none listed Grandchild(ren): none listed

Hobbies, Community Service, Volunteer: Labrador Retriever Rescue What you would most want your GC colleagues to know: I miss Professor Gerould. ======

Dr. RUSSELL, Martin email: [email protected] Guangzhou Guangdong, CHINA

Graduated: October 1997

Professional life: Artistic Director/CEO HAOLIHAI ARTS Research & Development Company, Ltd. Hong Kong

Current fields of interest/research: none listed

Recent publications/papers: 何坚宁油画 He Jianning's Oil Painting III 林资奇油画 Lin Ziqi's Oil Painting 孙枫油画 Sun Feng's Oil Painting 董一点作品集; OH, YEAH! Dong Yidian's Charcoal Sketches

Family: Spouse/Partner: none listed Child(ren): none listed Grandchild(ren): none listed

Hobbies, Community Service, Volunteer: Loving, learning, sharing, laughing, rock’n’roll…and cooking

What you would most want your GC colleagues to know: At HAOLIHAI ARTS (“haolihai” means “amazing”), I continue to champion exceptional, emerging artists of various disciplines, as well as continuing my producing/directing/teaching work in experimental, collaborative performance. I also teach university courses in film-creation, interactive web programs, contemporary Western theatre theory and practice, Western culture, writing and oral English. Plans include “Doc Martin’s Chinglish Corner---arts, hearts, views & blues,” a radio to tv & online interactive arts and English platform. ======

Dr. SCHACHTER, Beth A. email: [email protected] 1031 North 21st Street Allentown, PA 18104

Graduated: June 2000

Professional life: Professor and Chair of Theatre Muhlenberg College 2400 Chew Street Allentown, PA 18104

Current fields of interest/research: Feminist Theatre & Theory, Dramatic Literature and Theatre – U.S.A., Inclusivity and Diversity in the Classroom

Recent publications/papers: Essay in the recent Suzan-Lori Parks in Person eds. Philip C. Kolin and Harvey Young

Family: Spouse/Partner: none listed Child(ren): none listed Grandchild(ren): none listed

Hobbies, Community Service, Volunteer: none listed What you would most want your GC colleagues to know: Just finished directing a wild early Sondheim, “Anyone Can Whistle” for the show’s 50th birthday and am looking forward to continuing work on a new play by Brighde Mullins, The Bourgeois Pig. ======

Dr. SCHILDCROUT, Jordan email: [email protected] 325 West 45th Street, #716 New York, NY 10036

Graduated: May 2005

Professional life: Associate Professor of Theatre and Performance Purchase College, CUNY 735 Anderson Hill Road Purchase, NY 10577 https://www.purchase.edu/live/profiles/301-jordan-schildcrout

Current fields of interest/research: none listed

Recent publications/papers: Book: Murder Most Queer: The Homicidal Homosexual in the American Theater (University of Michigan Press); Article: “Legitimate: Jerry Douglas’s Tubstrip and the Erotic Theatre of Gay Liberation” (Journal of American Drama and Theatre); Conference Presentation: “Queer Theater and the Politics of Visibility in Doric Wilson’s Street Theater” (Queer Visibility Matters Conference, London); Dramaturgy: Private Manning Goes to Washington, produced by The Representatives (Edinburgh Festival and New York); Service: ATDS Treasurer; Award: SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching

Family: Spouse/Partner: David Zellnik, Playwright Child(ren): none listed Grandchild(ren): none listed

Hobbies, Community Service, Volunteer: none listed

What you would most want your GC colleagues to know: nothing listed ======

Dr. SCHLATTER, James F. email: [email protected] 505 South 18th Street Philadelphia, PA 19146

Graduated: June 1992

Professional life: Senior Lecturer, Theatre Arts University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA 19104

Current fields of interest/research: none listed

Recent publications/papers: none listed

Family: Spouse/Partner: Dr. Amy S. Hodgdon, Education Director Philadelphia Young Playwrights Child(ren): none listed Grandchild(ren): none listed

Hobbies, Community Service, Volunteer: none listed

What you would most want your GC colleagues to know: nothing listed ======

Dr. SCHWARTZ, Jerry M. email: [email protected] 309 East 90th Street, Apt# 15 New York, NY 10128

Graduated: October 1999

Professional life: Actor/Playwright/Director/Author 309 East 90th Street, Apt# 15 New York, NY 10128

Current fields of interest/research: none listed

Recent publications/papers: My book Four Plays by Jean-Jacques Rousseau co-authored by Kathleen Huber, containing our introductions and translations of Rousseau's Pygmalion was published by Amazon in 2016 and is now available at Amazon.com; My book Rousseau’s Theatre for the Parisians will be available in January 2018 on Amazon.com.

Family: Spouse/Partner: Kathleen Huber, Actress/Playwright/Director Child(ren): none listed Grandchild(ren): none listed

Hobbies, Community Service, Volunteer: none listed What you would most want your GC colleagues to know: I am now retired and busily pursuing an active career in theatre and academia. I plan to have some adaptations of Rousseau of plays presented soon and eventually published. My short play Visitation Rites was presented in October 2010 at the Shortened Attention Span Horror Festival at the Players' Loft on MacDougal Street, NYC. My short play Overalls was presented on Feb 23-26, 2011 at the Richmond Shepard Theatre. Just completed the final draft of my full-length Melodrama Roebling’s Dream, the story of the building of the Brooklyn Bridge, to be presented as a staged reading in the Spring. Hope to have published my and my wife Kathleen Huber’s modern adaptations of and introductions to the Comedies of Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Completed The Getaway, an Enlightened Comedy in 2 Acts. ======Dr. SCOTT-GILE S, Freda L. email: [email protected] 114 McNutts Creek Drive Athens, GA 30606

Graduated: May 1990

Professional life: Emerita Professor, Theatre and African-American Studies University of Georgia Department of Theatre and Film Studies Athens, GA 30602

Current fields of interest/research: none listed

Recent publications/papers: Managing Editor, Continuum: the Journal of African/Diaspora Drama, Theatre and Performance (online journal) http://www.continuumjournal.org

Family: Spouse/Partner: Lee Roy Giles (deceased) Child(ren): none listed Grandchild(ren): none listed

Hobbies, Community Service, Volunteer: Started a scholarship at UGA in honor of my late husband; seven scholarships have been awarded.

What you would most want your GC colleagues to know: I retired from UGA in June 2014. ======Dr. SEYMOUR, James C. email: [email protected] 139 Riverside Road home phone: 207-315-5253 South Gardiner, ME 04539 office phone: none listed office fax: none listed Graduated: May 1997 cell phone: same as home

Professional life: Adjunct Professor in English Composition and Film University of Maine-Augusta 9 Park Street Bath, ME 04530 Husson University 1 College Circle Bangor, ME 04401

Current fields of interest/research: My doctorate from the GC has enabled me to reach out into other areas – especially College Writing, which I’ve come to love as a discipline. I continue my writing, mostly for the theatre, and directing for the stage, as well. Upcoming: Spring, 2017; directing three Samuel Beckett pieces titled krapp/TUNE for Commonwealth Shakespeare Co., Boston.

none listed Recent publications/papers: Family: Spouse: none listed Child(ren): 1 (female) Grandchild(ren): none listed

Hobbies, Community Service, Volunteer: none listed What you would most want your GC colleagues to know:

Whatever endeavor emanates from the heart will sustain you throughout the years. ======

Dr. SHANKS, Samuel email: [email protected] 503 Leicester Avenue Duluth, MN 55803

Graduated: February 2008

Professional life: Independent Scholar 4131C Meadow Parkway Hermantown, MN 55811

Current fields of interest/research: none listed

Recent publications/papers: none listed

Family: Spouse: Jenna Soleo-Shanks Child(ren): 1 (male), 1 (female) Grandchild(ren): none listed

Hobbies, Community Service, Volunteer: none listed

What you would most want your GC colleagues to know: nothing listed ======

Dr. SOLEO-SHANKS, Jenna email: [email protected] 4131C Meadow Parkway Hermantown, MN 55811

Graduated: February 2009

Professional life: Assistant Professor of Theatre, University of Minnesota, Duluth Previous: Adjunct Instructor, Briar Cliff University (Sioux City, IA); Morningingside College (Sioux City, IA); Marymount Manhattan College (New York, NY); St. John’s University (Jamaica, NY)

Current fields of interest/research: none listed

Recent publications/papers: PUBLICATIONS: Articles: “From Stage to Page: Siena’s Caleffo dell’Assunta, Spectacular Machines, and the Promotion of Civic Power in a Medieval Italian City-State,” in Exploring the Thresholds of Medieval Visual Culture, ed. Jill Stevenson and Elina Gertsman, pp. 281-301. Boydell & Brewer,PU Award for Best New Essay in Early Drama Studies from the Medieval and Renaissance Drama Society, 2013. Articles-in-progress: “Resurrecting Callimachus: Pop Music, Puppets, and Pageantry in Teaching Medieval Drama” (accepted for inclusion in Teaching Medieval and Early-Modern Cross-Cultural Encounters Across Disciplines and Eras, ed. Lynn Shutters and Karina Attar.); “The Spectacle of Sainthood: Politics and Performance in the History of La festa et storia di Sancta Caterina in Siena.” (under review for inclusion in Performance and Theatricality in the Middle Ages, ed. Markus Cruse.) Book Review: Max Harris. Sacred Folly: a New History of the Feast of Fools. Cornell University Press, 2011. Theatre Journal 65:1 (March 2013), pp. 142-144. CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION: Panels Organized: “Medieval Post- Performance: A Workshop and Roundtable Discussion on Performance Theory

and/of Praxis” American Society f21or Theatre Research (ASTR) Conference. Dallas, TX, 2013 (upcoming); “What the Middle Means: New Histories in Medieval Performance Culture,”; American Society for Theatre Research (ASTR) Conference. Nashville, TN, 2012. Plenary Session: “The Spectacle of Sainthood: Politics and the Performance of La Festa et Storia di Sancta Caterina in Siena,” American Society for Theatre Research (ASTR) Conference. Montreal, Canada, 2011.

Family: Spouse/Partner: Samuel Shanks Child(ren): 1 (female), 1 (male) Grandchild(ren): none listed

Hobbies, Community Service, Volunteer: none listed

What you would most want your GC colleagues to know: nothing listed ======

Dr. SOMERVILLE, Paul email: [email protected] 808 West End Avenue, #203 New York, NY 10025

Graduated: February 1997

Professional life: Adjunct Lecturer, Retired College of New Rochelle, Rosa Parks Campus 144 West 125th Street New York, NY 10027

Current fields of interest/research: none listed

Recent publications/papers: Meridian Ring (Play), 2016, on Amazon.com; Meeting People on Line (Play), 2016, on Amazon.com; Games Women Play, 2016, on Amazon.com; New York, Great Expectation, 2015, on Amazon.com; How to Grow Old in Style (Play), 2015, on Amazon.com; new book TEL AVIV, The Show Must Go On, 2014, The Unbearable Feeling of Love & Betrayal, 2014, on Amazon.com; E- book; In The Shadow of Etna (2014) on Amazon.com; e-Book: Comfort is the Enemy of Chic, (2014), on Amazon.com. New books on Amazon.com: The Divorce; Happy New Year; and The Meridian Ring.

Family: Spouse/Partner: Jean Somerville, Telecommunications Child(ren): 1 (female) Grandchild(ren): none listed

Hobbies, Community Service, Volunteer: none listed

What you would most want your GC colleagues to know: nothing listed ======Dr. SPATZ, Ben jamin email: [email protected]; [email protected] Drama Department, Milton Building University of Huddersfield, Queensgate Huddersfield, HD1 3 DH, United Kingdom Graduated: September 2013

Professional life: Senior Lecturer in Drama, Theatre and Performance University of Huddersfield, UK (starting 2014) Drama Department, Milton Building Queensgate, Huddersfield, HD1 3DH, UK

Current fields of interest/research: Critical embodied practice, embodied research, video epistemology

Recent publications/papers: “Embodiment as First Affordance: Tinkering, Tuning, Tracking” in Performance Philosophy 2.2 (2017)

Family: Spouse/Partner: Michelle Goldsmith, M+S, LCAT, R-DMT Child(ren): 1 (male) Grandchild(ren): none listed

Hobbies, Community Service, Volunteer: Editor, Journal of Embodied Research; Convener, IFTR Embodied Research Working Group. What you would most want your GC colleagues to know: Contacts in the UK and Europe are very welcome! Website: www.urbanresearchtheater.com ======Dr. STANDING , Sarah email: [email protected] 222 Thompson Street, #20 New York, NY 10012

Graduated: May 2008

Professional life: Tenured Assistant Professor New York City College of Technology, CUNY 300 Jay Street Brooklyn, NY 11201

Current fields of interest/research: none listed

Recent publications/papers: “Greenpeace’s Performative ‘Save the Whales’ Campaign: Towards a Rupture of the Neoliberal Agenda” paper presented at Restoring Balance: Ecology, Sustainability, Balance, Australasian Association for Theatre, Drama and Performance Studies. Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. June 27, 2014. Standing, Sarah Ann. “Eco-Theatre: R. Murray Schafer and Eleanor James in Conversation with Sarah Ann Standing.” PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art 36.1 (January, 2014): 35-44. Print. Standing, Sarah Ann. “R. Murray Schafer’s Eco-temporality” paper presented at 19th annual Performance Studies International conference: Now Then: Performance and Temporality. Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA. June 27th, 2013. Standing, Sarah Ann. “R. Murray Schafer and the Re-Enchantment of Theatre” paper presented at the 11th Annual Hawaii International Conference of Arts and Humanities, University of Louisville Center for Sustainable Urban Neighborhoods. Honolulu, HI. January 12, 2013. Standing, Sarah Ann. “Copy and Original: Greenpeace, Nature, and Technology” paper presented for working group session of annual meeting of the American Society for Theatre Research. Nashville, TN. November 2, 2012. Standing, Sarah Ann. “Earth First!’s ‘Crack the Dam’ and the Aesthetics of Ecoactivism.” Readings in Performance and Ecology. Eds. Theresa May and Wendy Arons. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. 147-155. Print. (To be reprinted in paperback 2015). Standing, Sarah Ann. “Greenpeace as Intermediated Theatre” paper presented at the third Earth Matters On Stage Conference. Carnegie-Mellon University. Pittsburgh, PA. June 1, 2012. Standing, Sarah Ann. “Telling Our Stories: Community-Created Theatre as Intra-Cultural Diplomacy in a Transnational World.” Theatre Topics Special Issue: Theatre and Cultural Diplomacy 21.2 (September, 2011): 139-149. Print.

Family: Spouse/Partner: none listed Child(ren): none listed Grandchild(ren): none listed

Hobbies, Community Service, Volunteer: Director, The Passion of Saint John, Church of the Ascension, April 18th, 2014; The Passion of Saint Matthew, April 13th, 2014; The Passion of Saint John, March 24th, 2013; The Passion of Saint Luke, March 19th, 2013. .

What you would most want your GC colleagues to know: Sarah Standing was one of six faculty members chosen from throughout CUNY for a Faculty Fellowship at the Center for Place, Culture and Politics at the Graduate Center of CUNY for 2013-2014. Seminar title: “Remaking Worlds: Insurgencies, Revolutions, Utopias.” ======Dr. STEVENSON , Jill email: [email protected] 114 Clinton Street, #5G Brooklyn, NY 11201

Graduated: May 2006

Professional life: Professor of Theatre Arts Marymount Manhattan College 221 East 71st Street New York, NY 10021

Current fields of interest/research: Medieval performance; religious performance; contemporary evangelical culture; theories of time; theories of absence, silence, and emptiness. I am particularly interested to talk with anyone who is working on this last area of research and to share sources that explore absence/silence/emptiness in performance and other cultural formations

Recent publications/papers: “Playing with Time’s End: Cultivating Sincere Contrition in Medieval Last Judgment Performances,” in The Routledge Companion to Early Drama and Performance, ed. Pamela King (Taylor and Francis, 2017), 118-136; “Passion Playing: An Interview with Sarah Ruhl on the Shaping Influence of Oberammergau,” The Oberammergau Passion Play: Essays on the 2010 Performance and the Centuries-Long Tradition, ed. Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr. (McFarland, 2017), 168-175; “Performing Devotion as a Mode of Religious Study,” in Volume 6: Material Religion. Macmillan Interdisciplinary Handbooks: Religion, ed. Diane Apostolos-Cappadona (MacMillan Publishing, 2016), 175-94; “Poised at the Threatening Edge: Feeling the Future in Medieval Last Judgment Performances,” Theatre Journal 67, no. 2 (2015): 273-93. My book Sensational Devotion: Evangelical Performance in 21st-Century America (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2013) was reprinted in paperback in fall of 2015. I am currently editing an anthology Performing the Family Dream House: Space, Ritual, and Images of Home (under contract with University of Iowa Press) with Emily Klein and Jennifer-Scott Mobley.

Family: Spouse/Partner: Kelly Matika Child(ren): none listed Grandchild(ren): none listed

Hobbies, Community Service, Volunteer: Biking around the city.

What you would most want your GC colleagues to know: I am ASTR’s VP for Conferences through the 2018 conference and hope to see many of you at the 2017 conference in Atlanta and the 2018 conference in San Diego. I also serve at the President of Marymount Manhattan College’s Faculty Council. ======

Dr. STOLLER, Terry email: [email protected] Withheld at alum’s request Withheld at alum’s request

Graduated: October 2003

Professional life: Self Employed Withheld at alum’s request Withheld at alum’s request

Current fields of interest/research: none listed

Recent publications/papers: “Profiles in Art,” on Westbeth.org. Tales of the Tricycle Theatre, Methuen Drama and the Society for Theatre Research, 2013.

Family: Spouse/Partner: none listed Child(ren): none listed Grandchild(ren): none listed

Hobbies, Community Service, Volunteer: none listed What you would most want your GC colleagues to know: I am continuing to write the Profiles in Art column. It's a series of long-form interviews with the artists who live at Westbeth Artists Housing. I am also interviewing Westbeth's staff for a Behind the Scenes column and have begun to contribute items about poets who formerly lived at Westbeth to the Boldface column—all three columns are on Westbeth.org. ======Dr. STRYK, Lyd ia D. email: [email protected] none listed none listed

Graduated: February 1992

Professional life: Playwright, Essayist, Editor & Teacher not listed not listed

Current fields of interest/research: none listed

Recent publications/papers: none listed

Family: Spouse/Partner: none listed Child(ren): none listed Grandchild(ren) none listed

Hobbies, Community Service, Volunteer: none listed What you would most want your GC colleagues to know: www.lydiastryk.com ======

Dr. STUART, Roxana email: [email protected] 55 Bethune Street, #G 360 New York, NY 10014

Graduated: May 1993

Professional life: Director/Teacher American Musical & Dramatic Academy 2109 Broadway New York, NY 10023

Current fields of interest/research: none listed

Recent publications/papers: none listed

Family: Spouse/Partner: Scott O. Rhyne, Restaurant Business Child(ren): 1 (male), 1 (female) Grandchild(ren): none listed

Hobbies, Community Service, Volunteer: none listed

What you would most want your GC colleagues to know: I have been at American Musical & Dramatic Academy since 1994 and direct six to seven productions a year. ======

Dr. STUBBS, Naomi email: [email protected] English Department, E-103 LaGuardia Community College 3110 Thomson Ave., Long Island City, NY 11101 Graduated: February 2012

Professional life: Associate Professor, English Department LaGuardia Community College, CUNY 31-10 Thomson Avenue Long Island City, NY 11101

Current fields of interest/research: Nineteenth-century American theatre and popular entertainments, critical editing, pleasure gardens.

Recent publications/papers: Co-Editor, Journal of American Drama and Theatre (JADT). “Cultivating Self to Self-Curation: The Diary of Harry Watkins and His Audience,” and “Nineteenth-century Scholars in the Twenty-first Century Community College” presented at the Nineteenth-Century Studies Association (NCSA), Charleston, SC. February 2017.

Family: Spouse/Partner: none listed Child(ren): none listed Grandchild(ren): none listed

Hobbies, Community Service, Volunteer: none listed What you would most want your GC colleagues to know: The diary of Harry Watkins, which I am co-editing with fellow alumna Amy E. Hughes, will be published in 2018- -stay tuned! ======

email: [email protected] Dr. SUTTON, Dana R. 303 West 66th Street, #9EW New York, NY 10023

Graduated: February 1999

Professional life: Retired Professor not listed

Current fields of interest/research: none listed

Recent publications/papers: none listed

Family: Spouse/Partner: none listed Child(ren): none listed Grandchild(ren) none listed

Hobbies, Community Service, Volunteer: none listed

What you would most want your GC colleagues to know: nothing listed ======

Dr. SWAIN, Elizabeth email: [email protected] 5286 College View Avenue Los Angeles, CA 90041

Graduated: May 1984

Professional life: Professor Emeritus, Marymount Manhattan College (Retired 2008) Member of The Antaeus in Los Angeles, a company dedicated to the classics through productions, teaching and community outreach. Also on its board. A voter for LA’s Ovation Awards; a free-lance director, teacher and coach Spent the summer playing a witch in “Macbeth,” then in the chorus of Kenneth Cavender’s “Oedipus the Man,” and have been in several play readings.

Current fields of interest/research: none listed

Recent publications/papers: 2011 Directed Marston’s “The Malcontent,” Aphra Behn’s “The Lucky Chance,” “Our Country’s Good,” and “King John” all for Antaeus, Wertenbaker’s “The Love of the Nightingale,” and a workshop of scenes, monologues and songs from Shakespeare for AMDA LA.

Family: Spouse/Partner: none listed Child(ren): 1 (female) Grandchild(ren): 1 (male)

Hobbies, Community Service, Volunteer: Outreach for Antaeus, volunteer in grandson’s school What you would most want your GC colleagues to know: LA has a vibrant cultural scene! And yes, I miss New York. ======

D r. SW IFT, Christopher email: [email protected] Not listed at alum’s request Not listed at alum’s request

Graduated: May 2012

Professional life: Assistant Professor New York City College of Technology, CUNY Department of Humanities 300 Jay Street Brooklyn, NY 11201

Current fields of interest/research: Material culture and performance of the Middle Ages

Recent publications/papers: “Towards a Theory of Tragic Performance Space in the Middle Ages.” In A Cultural History of Tragedy, ed. Rebecca Bushnell (Bloomsbury, forthcoming); “Iberian Theater and Performance.” In Oxford Bibliographies in Medieval Studies, ed. Paul E. Szarmach. Oxford University Press, (2017); “Robot Saints.” Preternature: Critical and Historical Studies on the Preternatural 4, no. 1 (2015): 52-77; “Technology and Wonder in Thirteenth-Century Iberia and Beyond.” In Performing Objects and Theatrical Things, eds. Marlis Schweitzer and Joanne Zerdy, 21-35. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. “A Penitent Prepares: Affect, Contrition, and Tears.” In Crying in the Middle Ages: Tears of History, ed. Elina Gertsman, 79-101. London: Routledge, 2011.

Family: Spouse/Partner: Lori Swift, Sweet 180 Talent Management and Production Child(ren): 2 (male) Grandchild(ren): none listed

Hobbies, Community Service, Volunteer: Gardening and viniculture. Organized a bike-a-thon in October 2017 to raise money for autism education. What you would most want your GC colleagues to know: Over the last couple of years, I have been developing interdisciplinary curricula between theatre studies and architecture technology. This work grew out of two NEH grant projects – A Cultural History of Digital Technology and Making Connections: Engaging the Humanities at a College of Technology. The first iteration of this work is an ID History of Theatre class with an emphasis on the study of theatre architecture and adapted spaces for performance. I have also developed and taught a research skills course in performance studies in New York City. In this course, students engage with the living archive of NYC theatre as well as archives containing historical materials in museums and libraries. ======

Dr. SZALCZER, Eszter email: s [email protected] 123 Berry Street, #2A Brooklyn, NY 11211

Graduated: October 1997

Professional life: Associate Professor University at Albany, SUNY, Department of Theatre 1400 Washington Avenue Albany, NY 12222

Current fields of interest/research: none listed

Recent publications/papers: August Strindberg (London: Routledge, 2010; Routledge Modern and Contemporary Dramatists series); Writing Daughters: August Strindberg's Other Voices (London: Norvik Press, 2008); “A Modernist Dramaturgy” in The Cambridge Companion to August Strindberg (Cambridge University Press, 2009); “Performing Theatre History: The Case of Strindberg's Modernity” in Changing the Subject: Marvin Carlson and Theatre Studies 1959-2009 (University of Michigan Press, 2009); “Svoboda Meets Strindberg in Albany: Jarka Burian’s Dream Play Production” North-West Passage no. 6 (2009); “Teaching Oscar Wilde’s Salomé in a Theater History and Dramatic Literature Seminar” in Approaches to Teaching the Works of Oscar Wilde (New York: MLA, 2008).

Family: Spouse/Partner: Tamás Szalczer, Architect, Sculptor, Set Designer Child(ren): none listed Grandchild(ren): none listed

Hobbies, Community Service, Volunteer: none listed

What you would most want your GC colleagues to know: nothing listed ======

Dr. TACKEL, Martin S. email: [email protected] 60 Highpoint Road Scarsdale, NY 10583

Graduated: September 1982

Professional life: Attorney/Arbitrator Theatre Producer/Adjunct Professor

Current fields of interest/research: none listed

none listed Recent publications/papers: Family: Spouse/Partner: Abbe Raven Child(ren): grown Grandchild(ren): none listed

Hobbies, Community Service, Volunteer: none listed

What you would most want your GC colleagues to know: nothing listed ======Dr. TAROFF, Ku rt email: [email protected] 43 The Boulevard Belfast, BT7 3LN, United Kingdom

Graduated: October 2005

Professional life: Lecturer The Queens University of Belfast, Drama Department 11 University Square Belfast BT7 1NN, United Kingdom

Current fields of interest/research: none listed

Recent publications/papers: “All My Sons: A Play by Arthur Miller and Henrik Ibsen,” The Arthur Miller Journal 8:1 (2013), 1-14; “Whose Play is it Anyway: Theatre Studies, Translation Studies, and Translation for the Stage,” Journal of Adaptation in Film and Performance 4.3 (2012), 241-254; “Screens, Closets, and Echo- Chambers of the Mind: The Struggle to Represent the Stream of Consciousness on Stage,” Forum Modernes Theater 25.2 (2011), 65-80.

Family: Spouse/Partner: Trish McTighe Child(ren): 1 (male) Grandchild(ren): none listed

Hobbies, Community Service, Volunteer: none listed What you would most want your GC colleagues to know: Having fun here on the other side of the pond. Come over and visit Belfast! ======Dr. TENNERIEL LO, Susan email: [email protected] 173 East 91st Street, #3G New York, NY 10128

Graduated: June 2004

Professional life: Associate Professor Baruch College, City University of New York 1 Bernard Baruch Way New York, NY 10010

Current fields of interest/research: none listed

Recent publications/papers: Spectacle Culture and American Identity:1815-1940 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013)

Family: Spouse/Partner: none listed Child(ren): none listed Grandchild(ren): none listed

Hobbies, Community Service, Volunteer: none listed

What you would most want your GC colleagues to know: Still swimming ======D r. VENNING, Dan email: [email protected] 203 West 90th Street, #10-B New York, NY 10024

Graduated: June 2016

Professional life: Assistant Professor, Departments of Theatre and English Union College 807 Union Street Schenectady, NY 12307

Current fields of interest/research: Theatre and nationalism; Shakespearean and English Renaissance drama; German theatre and drama of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries; contemporary performance; dramaturgy.

Recent publications/papers: Essay in edited collection: “Isaac Asimov’s Shakespeare,” in M. Keith Booker, ed., Critical Insights: Isaac Asimov (Ipswich, MA: Salem Press, 2017). Performance Review: “Review Essay: Subject Histories of Taylor Mac’s ‘Radical Faerie Realness Ritual’ History,” with David Román, Kalle Westerling, Jennifer Buckley, Miriam Felton-Dansky, Kim Marra, César Alvarez, and Erik Patterson, Theatre Journal 69, no. 3 (September 2017): 403- 15. Book Reviews: “Playing God: The Bible on the Broadway Stage by Henry Bial,” Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism 31, no. 2 (Spring 2017): 172- 74; “Shaping Shakespeare for Performance: The Bear Stage, ed. Catherine Loomis and Sid Ray,” Theatre Survey 58, no. 3 (September 2017): 408-10. Conference Presentations: Papers at FOOT (Toronto, Feb. 2017), MATC (Houston, Mar. 2017), ATHE (Las Vegas, Aug. 2017), Mellon Forum (Union College, Nov. 2017), and ASTR (Atlanta, Nov. 2017).

Family: Spouse/Partner: Emma Halpern Child(ren): none listed Grandchild(ren): none listed

Hobbies, Community Service, Volunteer: Manhattan Choral Ensemble, International House New York Area Alumni Committee

What you would most want your GC colleagues to know: I just joined the faculty at Union College in Schenectady, NY, where I teach in both the English and Theatre departments. It’s a wonderfully welcoming scholarly community at this four-year college in a beautiful part of New York’s Capital District. I’m just getting used to the new job, but incredibly excited to be here. I teach six courses per year (over three ten-week terms) and am working on a variety of articles, as well as co-editing, with Sean F. Edgecomb and David Román, a collection of essays on Taylor Mac’s A 24-Decade History of Popular Music. My spouse still lives in NYC, so I travel down many weekends and get to see a great deal of theatre. ======

Dr. VEY, Shauna A. email: [email protected] 325 Riverside Drive New York, NY 10025

Graduated: October 1998

Professional life: Professor, Humanities Department New York City College of Technology, CUNY 300 Jay Street, A-630 Brooklyn, NY 11201

Current fields of interest/research: Childhood; 19th-century American theatre

Recent publications/papers: Jane Eva Baxter, Shauna Vey, Erin Halstad McGuire, Suzanne Conway, and Deborah Blom. “Reflections on Interdisciplinarity in the Study of Childhood in the Past.” Childhood in the Past, 10;1 (2017): 57-71. Shauna Vey. Review of Reading Children: Literacy, Property, and the Dilemmas of Childhood in Nineteenth-Century America by Patricia Crain. Childhood in the Past, V.10, No. 2 (2017): 147-49. Shauna Vey. Review of Child Labor in The British Victorian Entertainment Industry, 1875-1914 by Dyan Colclough. Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth 10.1 (Winter 2017): 139-141. Shauna Vey. Childhood and Nineteenth-Century American Theatre: The Work of the Marsh Troupe of Juvenile Actors, Southern Illinois University Press, 2015

Family: Spouse/Partner: Jim Sherwood Child(ren): none listed Grandchild(ren): none listed

Hobbies, Community Service, Volunteer: none listed

What you would most want your GC colleagues to know: nothing listed ======

Dr. WALDINGER, Barbara M. email: [email protected] 134 Top of Dean Hill Road Canaan, NY 12029

Graduated: February 1999

Professional life: Artistic Director, HRC Showcase Theatre Tel# 518-781-4085

Current fields of interest/research: Theatre Critic for Berkshire On Stage, an online publication

Recent publications/papers: “Giving Voice to New Playwrights: Blurring the Distinction Between Readings and Fully Staged Productions Without the Trimmings,” ATHE 2009; “iGen Live: Performance, Pedagogy and the Millennial Generation,” ATHE 2008; “Why They Loved the 10-20-30,” Journal of American Drama & Theatre; Performance Review, No Mother to Guide Her, Theatre Journal; “Life Upon the Wicked Stage Ain’t Ever What a Girl Supposes” ATHE, 2006. Family: Partner/Spouse: Jesse Waldinger, Attorney/Playwright Child(ren): 1 (female), 1 (male) Grandchild(ren): none listed

Hobbies, Community Service, Volunteer: Director, New Play Development Workshop, ATHE, Respondent, and Director, Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival What you would most want your GC colleagues to know: HRC Showcase Theatre is an Equity company in Hudson, NY specializing in staged readings of original plays. Please submit scripts for our annual playwriting contest from November 1st February 1st to HRC Showcase Theatre, Box 940, Hudson, NY 12534. Please check our website for play submission guidelines: hrc-showcasetheatre.com. ======Dr. WALTERS, Scott E. email: [email protected] 127 Cleve Silver Road Bakersville, NC 28705

Graduated: October 1998

Professional life: Professor, Drama Department University of North Carolina at Asheville Drama Department, CPO #1700 Asheville, NC 28804

Current fields of interest/research: Prison education and ministry

Recent publications/papers: New edition of Introduction to Play Analysis released by Waveland Press; “Charlie Flynn-McIver and Scott Treadway: Western North Carolina’s Funniest Acting Team Unites Disparate Talent and Audiences,” in American Theatre Magazine (October 2010); “Mile Wiley: One’s a Crowd” in American Theatre Magazine (April 2011). Curated Rural Arts Week on HowlRound.com.

Family: Spouse/Partner: Laura S. Walters Child(ren): 2 (male) Grandchild(ren): none listed

Hobbies, Community Service, Volunteer: I live on 15 acres in Bakersville, NC and own sheep and alpacas! What you would most want your GC colleagues to know: I will be going to phased retirement beginning in the fall during which time I will move toward ordination as a Deacon in the Episcopalian Church with a focus on prison ministry. ======

Dr. WEISS, Rosemary Shevlin email: [email protected] 110 Riverside Drive, #10C New York, NY 10024

Graduated: February 1985

Professional life: Retired Executive Director of Development City College, City University of New York 160 Convent Avenue New York, NY 10031

Current fields of interest/research: none listed

Recent publications/papers: none listed

Family: Spouse/Partner: Marc B. Weiss, Theatre Designer & Artist Child(ren): 2 (female) Grandchild(ren): 1 (female), 1 (male)

Hobbies, Community Service, Volunteer: Docent, Metropolitan Museum of Art What you would most want your GC colleagues to know: The Ph.D. program greatly enriched our lives. I’ve called upon what I’ve learned in all my subsequent careers. ======

D r. WE ISSTUCH, Mark email: [email protected] 11011 Queens Boulevard, #27H Forest Hills, NY 11375

Graduated: June 1982

Professional life: Administrative Vice President, Retired Temple Emanu-El (from 1985 to 2014) Currently teaching Jewish History courses at Adult Education Programs

Current fields of interest/research: none listed

Recent publications/papers: none listed

Family: Spouse/Partner: none listed Child(ren): none listed Grandchild(ren): none listed

Hobbies, Community Service, Volunteer: none listed

What you would most want your GC colleagues to know: nothing listed ======

Dr. WICKSTROM, Maurya email: [email protected] 42 S. Ridgewood Road South Orange, NJ 07079

Graduated: February 2002

Professional life: Professor, Doctoral Faculty, Theatre Program The Graduate Center, City University of New York 365 Fifth Avenue, Room 3112 New York, NY 10016-4309 Professor of Drama and Coordinator, Drama Program Department of Performing and Creative Arts College of Staten Island, CUNY 2800 Victory Boulevard Staten Island, NY 10314

Current fields of interest/research: Temporality and Performance

Recent publications/papers: “M. Lamar: Singing Slave Insurrection to Marx” in Theatre Survey, 58:1, January 2017; “Desire and Kairos: Cassil’s Terisias” in TDR 58:4, Winter 2014, Performance in the Blockades of Neoliberalism: Thinking the Political Anew, Palgrave Macmillan, 2012; Under Contract for August 2017 with Bloomsbury Methuen Engage Series: Fiery Temporalities in Theatre and Performance: The Initiation of History.

Family: Spouse/Partner: Joel Reynolds, Deceased May 2015 Child(ren): 1 (female), 1 (male) Grandchild(ren): none listed

Hobbies, Community Service, Volunteer: none listed What you would most want your GC colleagues to know: During the 2015/2016 academic year taught a class in Performance and Temporality in the Dramaturgy Department of the Yale School of Drama, and at the Graduate Center. I was privileged to have wonderful and brilliant students in both institutions. I was on sabbatical leave in the Fall of 2015, and then again in the Fall of 2016 in order to work on my next book. In the spring of 2017 I will be directing Far Away by Caryl Churchill at the College of Staten Island. ======

Dr. WILLINGER, David P. email: [email protected] 238 West 106th Street, #4D New York, NY 10025

Graduated: February 1980

Professional life: Professor of Theatre City College, CUNY 138th Street & Convent Avenue New York, NY 10031

Current fields of interest/research: none listed

Recent publications/papers: “Arne Sierens: Theatre Poet of the Concrete, “Plays International; “A Renascence in Belgium, Western European Stages; The Sacrament and Other Plays About Forbidden Love by Hugo Claus; 7 articles for Grolier’s Encyclopedia of Modern Drama; “3 Plays and an Opera,” Western European Stages; “Traduire Ghelderode en Anglais,” La Papegaie; “Overview of Contemporary Belgian Theatre,” Western European Stages, Spring 2001; Theatrical Gestures of Belgian Modernism, Peter Lang, 2002; Paul Willems: Figure of Transition and Intersection in the Belgian Dramatic Tradition, Paul Willems l’Enchanteur, Peter Lang, 2001; Jean Louvet et le cul de sac american, Alternatives Théâtrales, 2001; Tam-Tam, Analysis of a Controversial but Underestimated Work, Lettres ou... ne pas Lettres: Melanges pour Roland Beyen, Archives du Futur, Louvain, 2001.

Family: Spouse/Partner: Peggy Dean, Mathematician Child(ren) 1 (male) step child Grandchild(ren): 2 (female), 1 (male)

Hobbies, Community Service, Volunteer: Zumba

What you would most want your GC colleagues to know: nothing listed ======

Dr. WILSON, James F. email: [email protected] 529 West 42nd Street, #4P New York, NY 10036

Graduated: June 2000

Professional life: Doctoral Faculty, Theatre Program, CUNY Graduate Center 365 Fifth Avenue, Room 3112 New York, NY 10016-4309 Professor of English La Guardia Community College, CUNY 31-10 Thomson Avenue Long Island City, NY 11101

Current fields of interest/research: African American Theatre and Performance, Theatre and Pedagogy, LGBTQ Theatre and Performance

Recent publications/papers: “The Somewhat Different Diva: Impersonation, Ambivalence and the Musical Comedy Performances of Julian Eltinge.” Studies in Musical Theatre (March 2018). “‘Who Does She Hope to Be?’: Celluloid Ghosts, Queer Utopias, and the Boys Onstage” in The Boys in the Band: Flashpoints of Cinema, History, and Queer Politics. Matt Bell, ed. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2016. Academic Performance Reviews: Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Parts 1 and 2 (London’s West End). Theatre Journal 69 (March 2017). Billy Elliot the Musical (Budapest Opera). European Studies 8.1 (Fall 2016).

Family: Spouse/Partner: Kevin Lustik, UCC Specialist Child(ren) none listed Grandchild(ren): none listed

Hobbies, Community Service, Volunteer: none listed

What you would most want your GC colleagues to know: I continue to serve as co-editor (with fellow alum Naomi Stubbs!) of the Journal of American Drama and Theatre (JADT). ======

Dr. WILSON, Katherine email: [email protected] 458 West 25th Street New York, NY 10001

Graduated: September 2012

Professional life: Interim p/t Assistant Director, Middle Eastern Studies The Graduate Center, CUNY 365 Fifth Avenue New York, NY 10016 Adjunct Professor, Arabic Theatre Hunter College, CUNY Adjunct Professor, Politics of Cultural Performance (MA-MES) Adjunct Professor, Clothing/Fashion Fordham University

Current fields of interest/research: Material culture (books & clothes); Arabic Theatre & Performance; Community-based or Applied or Social Theatre (Arab & other).

Recent publications/papers: (Book review) Inside/Outside: Six Plays from Palestine and the Diaspora. In Arabic Literature (In English), Feb 2, 2016. www.arablit.org[arablit.org]; Ashtar: Palestinian Theatre for Social Change. Research in Drama Education. 20:3 (August 2015): 357-362; Book Review: Doomed by Hope: Essays on Arab Theatre. In International Journal of Middle East Studies, 47: 2 (2015) pp. 393- 395; “Melodrama Remediated: the Political Economy of Literary Database Paratexts,” In Examining Paratextual Theory and its Applications in Digital Culture. Edited by Nadine Desrochers and Daniel Apollon. Hershey (PA): IGI Global (forthcoming); “Lists in the Limelight: The Dramatis Personae in Popular Nineteenth-Century Playbooks.”11th Int’l on the Book, Germany. Video submission [http://www.youtube.com/] Sept. 2013

Family: Spouse/Partner: none listed Child(ren): none listed Grandchild(ren): none listed

Hobbies, Community Service, Volunteer: none listed

What you would most want your GC colleagues to know: nothing listed ======

Dr. WILSON, Marion E. email: [email protected] 3352 Stellar Drive San Diego, CA 92123

Graduated: October 2005

Professional life: Assistant Director, Muir College Writing Program (currently serving as interim Director) University of California, San Diego 9500 Gilman Drive #0106 La Jolla, CA 92093-0106

Current fields of interest/research: none listed

Recent publications/papers: none listed

Family: Spouse/Partner: John McMurria Child(ren) 1 (female), 1 (male) Grandchild(ren): none listed Hobbies, Community Service, Volunteer: So Say We All non-profit arts collective, board member and performing artist (check out some of my performances on YouTube!) What you would most want your GC colleagues to know: Come see me in San Diego! ======

D r. WO ODS, Jeannie M. email: [email protected] 41 Flag Road Macomb, IL 61455-8961

Graduated: May 1989

Professional life: Professor of Theatre Department of Theatre and Dance, Western Illinois University 1 University Circle, 102A Browne Hall, Macomb, IL 61455 Artistic Director Starry Night Repertory Theatre, P.O. Box 6, Macomb, IL 61455

Current fields of interest/research: I recently developed a course called “American Dreams: Immigrant Stories on the Stage” which examined plays about the immigrant experience. I also developed a graduate course for our MFA in Theatre students. That course, “Introduction to the Profession of Academic Theatre,” trained students in how to conduct a successful job search. I took a sabbatical in the spring of 2017 and spent three months in Italy researching and experiencing theatre and related arts

Recent publications/papers: My creative work has remained focused on directing and producing. For my company, the Starry Night Repertory Theatre, I directed I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change and produce two to three productions a year. For the Theatre and Dance Department at WIU I just completed directing As It Is in Heaven by Arlene Hutton and have begun preparation to direct the Kate Hamill adaptation of Sense and Sensibility next spring.

Family: Spouse/Partner: Daniel C. Woods Child(ren): none listed Grandchild(ren): none listed

Hobbies, Community Service, Volunteer: I continue to enjoy traveling. My primary volunteer work is as a mentor to junior colleagues and students. What you would most want your GC colleagues to know: I shall retire from teaching in May 2018! I plan to be at the ATHE conference in Boston next summer and hope to see my CUNY colleagues there! ======

Dr. WORTH, Jennifer email: [email protected] [email protected] 231 W. 113th Street, Apt.# 2 New York, NY 10026

Graduated: May 2011

Professional life: Administrative Director of the Reacting Consortium at Barnard College, as of September 2016: I also teach in the First Year Seminar program at Barnard each Fall Barnard College 3009 Broadway New York, NY 10027

Current fields of interest/research: Pedagogy, Assessment

Recent publications/papers: “Who Let In One of Them Mothers?”: Maternal Perversity on the American Musical Stage, in Theatre History Studies Vol 35 (2016), 255-268.

Family: Spouse/Partner: David Langkamp Child(ren): none listed Grandchild(ren): none listed

Hobbies, Community Service, Volunteer: Cooking, reading, volunteering with Infinite Hope Animal Rescue What you would most want your GC colleagues to know: I probably should have taken an accounting class at some point in my many years of schooling. If you’re

considering an alt-ac route—which you should—think about acquiring some boring-but-practical skills like book- keeping, project management, or coding. ======

Dr. WYLIE-MARQUES, Kathryn email: [email protected] 721 Ridgewood Road Milburn, NJ 07041

Graduated: September 1984

Professional life: Associate Professor, Retired September 1, 2014 John Jay College, City University of New York 524 W. 59th St. New York, NY 10019

Current fields of interest/research: none listed

Recent publications/papers: none listed

Family: Spouse/Partner: Antonio Marques, Retired Ship Captain Child(ren): 1 (male), 1 (female) Grandchild(ren): none listed

Hobbies, Community Service, Volunteer: none listed What you would most want your GC colleagues to know: I am directing a cross-cultural collaborative production of Mother Courage with The American University in Kuwait in Spring 2008. ======

Dr. YOUNG, Catherine M. email: [email protected] 57 Park Terrace West, Apt. W1C New York, NY 10034

Graduated: June 2016

Professional life: Adjunct Instructor, Department of Drama NYU Tisch School of the Arts 721 Broadway New York, NY 10003 Communication Fellow Bernard L. Schwartz Communication Institute, Baruch College 55 Lexington Avenue New York, NY 10010

Current fields of interest/research: vaudeville, animal studies, circus, Broadway, twentieth century and contemporary US drama

Recent publications/papers: “‘I Wanna Be Like You’: Negotiating Race, Racism and Orientalism in The Jungle Book on Stage.” Co-authored with Emily Clark, Donatella Galella, and Stefanie Jones, in The Disney Musical on Stage and Screen: Critical Approaches from Snow White to Frozen, edited by George Rodosthenous, Bloomsbury Methuen Drama (Forthcoming June 2017); I’ll present my paper “Tapping into Shuffle Along’s Temporal Transformations” at the Transtemporalities of Minoritarian Performance Symposium, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN in May 2017.

Family: Spouse/Partner: Jason Smith Child(ren): one (1) Grandchild(ren): none listed

Hobbies, Community Service, Volunteer: Baking, hula hooping, and carrying my elderly dog around my neighborhood.

What you would most want your GC colleagues to know: nothing listed ======Dr. ZAYTOUN, Constance email: [email protected] 200 West 20th Street, #102 New York, NY 10011-3559

Graduated: September 2011

Professional life: Actor (AEA ▪ SAG–AFTRA) Professor Producer Purplemantheater.com 1530 Naismith, 317 Lawrence, KS 66045

Current fields of interest/research: Feminist Performance

Recent publications/papers: none listed

Family: Spouse/Partner: Marc Stuart Weitz, Producing Director for the New Ohio Theatre/theatre director/adjunct Professor, Baruch College and BMCC, CUNY Child(ren): none listed Grandchild(ren): none listed

Hobbies, Community Service, Volunteer: none listed What you would most want your GC colleagues to know: Purpleman is currently in pre-production for a web series focusing on NY artists. For updates and other upcoming productions, please go to ConstanceCooks.com. ======

Dr. ZAZZALI, Peter email: [email protected] University of Kansas, Department of Theatre 1530 Naismith, 317 Lawrence, KS 66045 Graduated: September 2012

Professional life: Assistant Professor University of Kansas Department of Theatre 1530 Naismith, 317 Lawrence, KS 66045

Current fields of interest/research: none listed

Recent publications/papers: Recent article released in Fall 2013 in The European Legacy.

Family: Spouse/Partner: Felicia Di Salvo Child(ren): none listed Grandchild(ren): none listed

Hobbies, Community Service, Volunteer: none listed What you would most want your GC colleagues to know: I appreciate my experience at The Graduate Center, especially as it applied to the faculty and colleagues with whom I worked. ======

Our Recent Graduates A warm welcome to our new alumni! Name Graduation El Zein, Rayya 2016 “Performing el Rap el ‘Arabi 2005-2015: Feeling Politics amid Neoliberal Incursions in Ramallah, Amman, and Beirut”

Araneo, Margaret 2017 Nervous Salomes: New York Salomania and the Neurological Condition of Modernite”

Mytilinaki, Maria 2017 “Modern Greek Theatre: Hellenism, the European Crisis, and the Politics of Translation”

Jones, Stefanie 2017 “Acts of Provocation: Antiracism on/through the Twenty-First Century US Commercial Stage”

Fuller, John (Zack) 2017 “One Endless Dance: Tanaka Min’s Experimental Practice”

Wong, Melissa Wansin 2017 “Performing Human Rights in Neoliberal Asia: Artistic and Activist Engagements in Hong Kong, Malaysia, and Singapore”

Goldstein, Julia 2017 Twenty-First-Century Transnational Theatre Development in the Cases of Theatre du Soleil/Aftaab and Sundance Institute East Africa: Cultural Politics, Performance Aesthetics, and Global Circulation

James Armstrong 2017 Fit for the Stage: Regency Actors and the Inspiration Behind Romantic Drama

Juan Recondo 2017 Contrasting Otherness: The Spanish-Cuban-American War and the Performance of Difference in the U.S. and Cuba

Sarah Bess Rowen 2017 The Line Between the Lines: Stage Directions as Fluid, Physical Collaborations Between Playwrights and Actors

PC: Louise Price Alumni with Whom We’ve Lost Contact (A- L)

Name Graduation Dr. AMAN, Michael 2009 Dr. ANTHONY-MOORE, Ellen 2011 Dr. BASIOUNY, Dalia 2009 Dr. BERG, Frederic 1990 Dr. BOTUCK, Wendy S. 1991 Dr. BRONE, Jeffrey D. 1990 Dr. BRUSSELL, Judith E. 1993 Dr. DAVIS, Robert 2013 Dr. DOHERTY, Lynn 1989 Dr. FECHTER, Steven J. 1993 Dr. HODESS, Kenneth Mark 1978 Dr. HODGES, Peter Britt 1991 Dr. HUFF, Stephen 2012 Dr. ISRAEL, Mary Catherine 1979 Dr. JONES, Richard L. 1984 Dr. KANDEL, Gerald 1978 Dr. KIM, Deukshin 1987 Dr. KIM, Moonki 2001 Dr. KNAPP, Margaret 1982 Dr. KOOLSBERGEN, William 1989 Dr. KOTZAMANI, Marina 1997 Dr. LEGON, Elisa 2011 Dr. LIEBERMAN, Joseph A. 1981 Dr. LIN, Yu-Shian (Ivy) 2009 Dr. LO, Wai Luk 1994

PC: Leo Palmer Alumni with Whom We’ve Lost Contact (M-Z)

Name Graduation Dr. MARLIS, Alan P. 1974 Dr. MASTERS, James M. 1996 Dr. MINTZ, Marilyn L. 1990 Dr. MOLLINEDO, Maria 1991 Dr. MORRISON, Richard M. 1992 Dr. O’LEARY, Deirdre 2005 Dr. PARKER, James Walter 1974 Dr. PLOTNIKI (Wilkins), Rita 1979 Dr. PLUM, Jay 2005 Dr. POPE, Deborah 2002 Dr. ROARTY, Robert 2002 Dr. ROSENBERG, Hillary 2010 Dr. RYZUK, Mary 1986 Dr. SFYRIS, Panagiotis 1998 Dr. SIGEL, David 1982 Dr. SLOAN, Ronna 1983 Dr. STEIN, E. Jimmee 1976 Dr. STERN, Kenneth A. 1983 Dr. TAAV, Michael 1997 Dr. TANNER, Jo 1989 Dr. UNGER, Roni Joyce 1979 Dr. VASQUEZ, Eva C. 2001 Dr. WINSON, Alan 2013 Dr. WOODS, Chrisita J. 1992 Dr. ZEID, Wagdi Ahmed 1989 Dr. ZUKERMAN, Robert 1981 Dr. ZVONCHENKO, Walter W. 1987 Deceased Theatre Alumni We regret the passing of our friends and colleagues.

Name Graduation Dr. ALEANDRI, Emelise F. 1984 Dr. AMITAI, Raziel 1989 Dr. ASERMELY, Albert 1973 Dr. BAILEY, Christine E. 1985 Dr. BAUM, Marilyn 1983 Dr. BURGE, James 1985 Dr. CARNEY, Saraleigh 2003 Dr. CLARK, Constance 1984 Dr. CLARK, Richard 1976 Dr. CONTRERAS, Cynthia 1989 Dr. CREAMER, Richard 1990 Dr. DEZAGO, Frank 1988 Dr. ELLIOTT, John 1977 Dr. FRANK, Felicia Nina 1976 Dr. HART, Steven 1982 Dr. ILSON, Carol 1985 Dr. JONES, Eugene H. 1984 Dr. JUSTESEN, Joel 1998 Dr. KIRLE, Bruce 2002 Dr. LARSEN, June Bennett 1982 Dr. LERMAN, Philip 1985 Dr. LEVITT, Harold N. 1972 Dr. MAGGIAR, Michael 1990 Dr. MONOS, James 1981 Dr. PROSSER, William L. 1977 Dr. ROOD, Arnold 1981 Dr. ROSTEN, Bevya 1998 Dr. TAYLOR, Betty S. 1985 Dr. TROY, Shari 2002 Dr. WEINGARTEN, Aaron 1972 Dr. WYNN, Nancy 1982

PC: Ian Britton

Acknowledgements

My thanks to my editorial assistants Mayurakshi Sen, Christine Snyder, and Jennie Youssef who worked with me to get this revue to you in a timely manner.

I would also like, once again, to acknowledge the continued financial support of the Theatre Program Alumni, who have been most generous. Most donors wish to remain anonymous, which speaks volumes to their giving spirits.

I thank you all on behalf of the students, faculty, and administration of the Graduate Center Theatre Program.

Editor: Lynette C. Gibson, Academic Program Coordinator/Assistant Program Officer

Editorial Assistant: Mayurakshi Sen, Ph.D. Student Editorial Assistant: Christine Snyder, Ph.D. Student Editorial Assistant: Jennie Youssef, Ph.D. Student

Lynette C. Gibson

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