Vita : R. Michael Gros

R. MICHAEL GROS Director/Producer SSDC 785-537-8598 (Home) 805-710-0537 (cell) [email protected] [email protected]

Director Artistic Director of PCPA Theaterfest 2000 – 2006

Romeo and Juliet Kansas State University April 2008 Fiddler on the Roof Kansas State University Keeping Up Make Believe William Inge Center College 24-Hour Plays The Dark at the Top of the Stairs Kansas State University The Guys Kansas State University A Streetcar Named Desire PCPA Theaterfest (AEA U/RTA) Songs for a New World* PCPA Theaterfest (AEA U/RTA) The Tempest PCPA Theaterfest (AEA U/RTA) The Last Night of Ballyhoo PCPA Theaterfest (AEA U/RTA) Copenhagen PCPA Theaterfest (AEA U/RTA) Pyretown* PCPA Theaterfest (AEA U/RTA) Mother’s Day* PCPA Theaterfest (AEA U/RTA) Oleanna PCPA Theaterfest (AEA U/RTA) Xilinx Corporation (Industrial) In-Vision Communications, K. Miller, producer Amelia Ohlone College The Man Who Came to Dinner Ohlone College Arms and the Man Ohlone College Terra Nova El Camino College Meritorious Achievement Ensemble Award, American College Theatre Festival A Christmas Memory* South Bay Rep Theatre (AEA Waiver) (1991, 1992, 1993) One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest University of California, Irvine The Trojan Women University of California, Irvine Happy Birthday, Wanda June University of California, Irvine The Fantasticks Odyssey Theatre II, LA (AEA Waiver) Romeo and Juliet (Asst Dir.) UC Irvine, Brewster Mason (RSC), Director

Producer Equity Productions

Disney’s Beauty and the Beast PCPA Theaterfest My Way PCPA Theaterfest Inventing Van Gogh PCPA Theaterfest Brigadoon PCPA Theaterfest Picasso at the Lapin Agile PCPA Theaterfest Guys and Dolls PCPA Theaterfest As You Like It PCPA Theaterfest Copenhagen PCPA Theaterfest The Wildest!!! (World premiere) PCPA Theaterfest Annie PCPA Theaterfest Light Up the Sky PCPA Theaterfest Quilters PCPA Theaterfest Bullshot Crummond PCPA Theaterfest Hamlet PCPA Theaterfest Fiddler on the Roof PCPA Theaterfest The Last 5 Yrs PCPA Theaterfest Christmas is…A Musical Memory^ PCPA Theaterfest Private Lives PCPA Theaterfest Crazy for You PCPA Theaterfest Honk PCPA Theaterfest Enter the Guardsman PCPA Theaterfest Wonderful Town PCPA Theaterfest Producer

Equity Productions (cont.)

A Flea in Her Ear^ PCPA Theaterfest Chaps! PCPA Theaterfest Measure for Measure PCPA Theaterfest Sweeney Todd PCPA Theaterfest Boy Gets Girl (W. Coast Premiere) PCPA Theaterfest Hello Dolly PCPA Theaterfest A Streetcar Named Desire PCPA Theaterfest Peter Pan PCPA Theaterfest The Last Night of Ballyhoo PCPA Theaterfest Little Women^ PCPA Theaterfest A Servant of Two Masters^ PCPA Theaterfest The Winter’s Tale PCPA Theaterfest Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me PCPA Theaterfest Oleanna PCPA Theaterfest On Golden Pond PCPA Theaterfest 42nd Street PCPA Theaterfest My Fair Lady PCPA Theaterfest The Tempest PCPA Theaterfest Rope (World Premiere) PCPA Theaterfest Scrooge! PCPA Theaterfest Romeo and Juliet PCPA Theaterfest Gypsy PCPA Theaterfest Deathtrap PCPA Theaterfest Anything Goes PCPA Theaterfest The 1940’s Radio Hour PCPA Theaterfest Our Town# PCPA Theaterfest The Taming of the Shrew PCPA Theaterfest Oliver# PCPA Theaterfest Rounding Third# PCPA Theaterfest Dames at Sea # PCPA Theaterfest Anna in the Tropics# PCPA Theaterfest

Producer Equity Staged Readings

Mother’s Day PCPA Theaterfest Pyretown PCPA Theaterfest Dinner with Friends PCPA Theaterfest Kid Simple PCPA Theaterfest Vincent in Brixton PCPA Theaterfest 36 Views PCPA Theaterfest Lessons of Language Learned PCPA Theaterfest Art PCPA Theaterfest Picasso’s Women PCPA Theaterfest The Weir PCPA Theaterfest Brave: An American Play PCPA Theaterfest Two-Headed PCPA Theaterfest Stones in his Pockets PCPA Theaterfest All in the Timing PCPA Theaterfest Songs for a New World PCPA Theaterfest Boy Gets Girl PCPA Theaterfest Speaking in Tongues PCPA Theaterfest

Producer

University, Equity-Waiver (EW) & Non-Equity Productions

GALA opening of the Gary Soren Smith Center for the Fine and Performing Arts featuring Tom Hanks Ohlone College Anything Goes Ohlone College Red, White and Broadway Ohlone College The Man of La Mancha Ohlone College Rodgers and Hammerstein with Hart Ohlone College The Sly Fox Ohlone College Student Directed One Acts Ohlone College The Wiseman in the Wood^ South Bay Repertory Theatre Table Manners South Bay Repertory Theatre A Christmas Memory (‘91,’92,’93) South Bay Repertory Theatre

Producer

Educational Touring & Outreach Productions

Robin Hood PCPA Theaterfest Seagirl PCPA Theaterfest Yankee Ciudadano^ PCPA Theaterfest Intrepido^ PCPA Theaterfest (Bi-lingual production) (Bi-lingual production) Alice in Wonderland PCPA Theaterfest Sword in the Stone PCPA Theaterfest A Thousand Cranes PCPA Theaterfest Jerry Finnegan’s Sister PCPA Theaterfest Shakespeareance PCPA Theaterfest The Reluctant Dragon PCPA Theaterfest (’03, ’04, ’05)

Production & Stage Management

Production Manager South Bay Center for the Arts at El Camino College 1987 - 1993 (180, 400, 2048 seat theatres) 400 annual performances Production Manager Shakespeare Santa Cruz (inaugural season) 1982 Stage Manager Music Center On Tour, LA Music Center 1984 - 86 Stage Manager Very Special Arts Festival, LA Music Center Ed Div ‘84 - 86 Stage Manager DANCEWORKS, Merce Cunningham Studio, New York, J. Sachs and B. Brilliant, Choreographers 1984 Stage Manager Pleasure and Repentance, (AEA and RSC actors) Shakespeare Santa Cruz, University of California Santa Cruz ‘82 Stage Manager Robots Mark Taper Forum (AEA staged reading) ‘82 Stage Manager The Guardsman (AEA actors), Utah Shakespearean Festival ‘81 Assist. Stage Manager Hamlet (AEA actors) Utah Shakespearean Festival ‘81 Assist. Stage Manager Much Ado About Nothing (AEA) Utah Shakespearean Festival ‘81 Production Assistant Guns Mark Taper Forum, Improvisational Theatre Project, Jack Bender - Director, four month touring production ‘82 Production Assistant A Song for a Nisei Fisherman (AEA actors), Mark Taper, Taper Too, Mako - Director ‘82

^ Adaptations, Translations and/or New Work commissioned by R. Michael Gros * Stage Readings under AEA contract, 32 hours rehearsal, and 3 performances with post show discussions # All creative teams, preliminary designs, and principal casting by R. Michael Gros - no further producing responsibilities on these productions

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Assistant Professor of Theatre, Kansas State University 2006 - current Graduate level seminars in: Directing and Greek and Roman Theatre Undergraduate courses in: Acting, Professional Development Thesis Advisement, elected member of the Graduate Faculty Associate Dean, Allan Hancock College 2000 – 2006 Directing, Theatre Appreciation Assistant Professor of Theatre and Dance, Ohlone Community College 1993-2000 Directing, Producing student productions

TEACHING EXPERIENCE (cont.)

Assistant Professor of Theatre, The University of Akron, spring 1993 (one sem. appointment) Graduate level courses in Audience Development, Legal Aspects of Arts Administration, Colloquium on the Arts, Research and Readings, Thesis Advisement, member of the Graduate Faculty Lecturer, California Institute of the Arts, fall 1991 Performing Arts Management (graduate level seminar course) Lecturer, El Camino College 1986 -1991 Play direction, stage management and technical production, curriculum development and Division/Department committee assignments. Lecturer, California State University Northridge 1986 Introductory Acting for the non-major Teaching Assistant, University of California, Irvine 1979 -1981 Masters level Acting for Television, Beginning and Intermediate Acting

PROFESSIONAL CONFERENCES & WORKSHOPS (selected)

 Inge Festival, 2007  Association of Theatre in Higher Education, 2005, 2006, 2007  HUMANA Festival of New American Plays, Actors Theatre of Louisville, invited Professionals participant 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007  Non-profit Arts Leaders Fellowship, Stanford University Graduate School of Business/National Arts Strategies, a two-week residency program for 48 invited international non-profit arts leaders2005  Invited guest teacher, Bowling Green State University, Ohio. Master class in audition technique, conducted portfolio reviews of actors, stage managers, directors and playwrights 2004  New America Playwrights Festival, San Jose, invited participant 2002  Theatre Communications Group, New Works, New Ways, Portland, invited participant 2002  NEA/TCG Theatre Residency Program for Playwrights, reader/evaluator 2002  Scandinavia on Stage, invited participant to two-day conference, New York April 2001  Invited guest teacher, University of California, Irvine. Master class in directing for BA honors in directing program (King Lear) and seminar for MFA directing students (Cloud Nine), Keith Fowler, directing program head  TCG Artistic Directors Leadership Retreat, Ashland, OR 2000  Participant, “Artist to Artist: A Business Seminar,” Ohio State Arts Council; Marketing, Development and Booking 1993  Participant, “Dialogue with Donors,” Foundation Center, Cleveland; Corporate and Foundation Funding 1993  Participant, Ohio Governor’s Conference on the Arts, Arts Advocacy, Ohio Citizens for the Arts and Ohio State Arts Council March 1993  California Governor’s Conference on the Arts II, Creative Capital for California’s Future: Economic Development and the Arts, participant, California Arts Council 1992  The Classics in Contemporary Theatre; UC San Diego, seminar participant 1990 Attended 19 USITT conferences between 1988 and 2007, frequent presenter on leadership and management topics

EDUCATION

MFA University of California Irvine (Drama - directing) Thesis: The Trojan Women in Performance BA University of California Los Angeles - Magna Cum Laude (Theatre)