Alumni Revue Ph.D. Program in Theatre and Performance
Vol. 14 Spring 2017
Alumni Revue Ph.D. Program in Theatre and Performance
The Graduate Center City University of New York
Volume 14 Spring 2017
elcome to the fourteenth edition of our Alumni Revue! This issue once again expands our numbers and updates existing entries. W Thanks to all of you who returned the forms that provided us with this information; please continue to urge your fellow alums to do the same so that the following editions will be even larger and more complete.
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.
Thank you also to Professor Emeritus Elinor Fuchs for her moving and inspirational lecture by one of our most distinguished alums on the occasion of the Alumni Party in December 2016.
For copies of the Alumni Information Questionnaire form, please contact the editor of this revue, Lynette Gibson, Assistant Program Officer/Academic Program Coordinator, Ph.D. Program in Theatre and Performance, The Graduate Center, City University of New York, 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10016-4309. You may also email her at [email protected].
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:
elcome back to the Alumni Revue. We took last year off to decide where we wanted to take this publication. With advancements in W technology, including everything being digitized; most people’s access to computers; and major budget cuts threatening the institution, we decided that the time had come to make this an online publication. As always, I would like to thank our faithful alumni for their contributions to the field and for their generosity to the Theatre and Performance Program, our students, and, most importantly, to the Alumni Revue. I am also always grateful to the Administrative Assistants, who work tirelessly to get up-to-date and relative information.
While you were gone, we hosted two events: a High Tea Party replete with clotted cream and jam on April 7, 2016, and an Alumni Cocktail Party on Thursday, December 4, 2016. Take a look at the back of this publication for all the fun and exciting comments people had to say about the events.
It is truly an honor to see the dedication, love, and labor of the members of our growing community. The fourteenth edition of the Alumni Revue is yet another opportunity for all of us to take pride in the Graduate Center Theatre and Performance Program’s contributions to academia and society.
We hope you enjoy this latest edition. Best regards.
Lynette C. Gibson Editor
From the Editorial and Graphic Arts Assistants
Fidan Eylül Akinci
I felt very inspired while I worked on the Alumni Revue and learned about our colleagues’ accomplishments and interests. It is wonderful to be part of this big and lively community of scholars, artists, and intellectuals.
Joseph Paul Hill
With past volumes of the Alumni Revue, my favorite part of the editing process has been getting the opportunity to read every entry’s final section on “what you would most want your GC colleagues to know.” With this edition, I’m particularly fond of the new section on current interests because it demonstrates the vast range of our alumni’s expertise both in and outside academia.
Hansol Oh
This was my first engagement with the Alumni Revue and it was a pleasure reaching out to so many accomplished and committed scholars and practitioners. I hope this year’s Alumni Revue helps sustain and strengthen this rich community, and I look forward to one day becoming part of our alumni community.
Alison Walls
What begins as a mere editing task always ends up being so much more as we work on the Alumni Revue. It is wonderful to get a sense of the interesting, diverse, and accomplished creative and academic community built over the years in the Graduate Center Theatre Program. It gives strength to those of us still working towards becoming alumni ourselves!
About the Cover Images
The Cover and Title Pages were designed by Joseph Paul Hill, one of our current students. The images are from the New York Public Library’s Digital Collections (https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/). The website is a continually expanding database of prints, photographs, maps, manuscripts, streaming video, and more.
The images used in the Alumni Revue are early twentieth century costume design drawings by Will R. Barnes from the R. H. Burnside collection. From the Digital Collections website:
Showman R.H. Burnside (1870-1952) was born in Glasgow to a theatrical family. His career began at London’s Savoy Theatre in the 1880’s where he worked backstage for the D’Oyly Carte Opera Company on its original productions of Gilbert and Sullivan operettas. After moving to America, Burnside staged over 200 shows during his career, including many musicals for which he wrote music, libretti and lyrics. He was most closely identified with his direction of the popular musical extravaganzas at N.Y.’s Hippodrome Theatre between 1908-1923.
Burnside possessed a treasure trove of memorabilia from the Hippodrome: full color designs and production files from the musical spectacles highlight and comprise the bulk of the collection. The designers whose artistry is featured are Will R. Barnes, Marguerite O’Kane Conwell, Marie Cook, Mark Lawson, Katharine Lovell, Cora MacGeachy, Robert McQuinn, William Henry Matthews, Gladys Monkhouse and Carl Wilhelm. The collection includes choreographic notes and diagrams, promptbooks, production files and portions of Burnside’s dramatic writings.
The images chosen are from a sub-collection titled “Ensemble: Theatre Genres.” The Title Page features Barnes’s drawing of Tragedy. The genres represented on the Cover Page are, from left to right, Grand Opera, Musical Comedy, Minstrelsy, Review, and Vaudeville. You’ll also find Revue and Melodrama in the back pages of the Alumni Revue.
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 is a professional English-language theatre company in Luxembourg. Founded in 2012, we have presented six productions since 2013, with a seventh opening in December 2016. (www.ActorsRep.lu) 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. Professional Director and Actor, Various Direct and act professionally for Actors Rep and others. Independent Scholar
Current fields of interest/research: Contemporary European Theatre and Performance: Carnival
Recent publications/papers: “Shouting at the Devil (and Everyone Else): Yaël Farber’s Production of The Crucible at The Old Vic,” European Stages 3 (Summer 2015); Numerous articles and reviews for Wort.lu/en.
Family: Spouse/Partner: Dena Child(ren): none listed Grandchild(ren): none listed
Hobbies, Community Service, Volunteer: I regularly work on a voluntary basis with a non-profit in York, England, and in 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); “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); “Affective Presents/ Effective Presence: Intensity, Futurity, and the Theatrical Politics of the Child,” in Performance, Identity and the Neo-Political Subject, ed. Matthew Causey and Fintan Walsh (Routledge, 2013).
Family: Spouse/Partner: Jennifer Parker-Starbuck (‘03) Child(ren): 1 Grandchild(ren): none listed
Spring 2017
Hobbies, Community Service, Volunteer: none listed What you would most want your GC colleagues to know: During the past year, I began a new post, as Deputy Dean at Royal Central School of Speech and Drama (still in London) and I’m enjoying that a great deal; it’s a research and administration post, so I’m not in the classroom at the moment (other than PhD supervisions). As well, Jen and I ran the ASTR conference in Minneapolis this year, which was apparently the largest ASTR conference to date. We were very happy with it and it was great to see so many alumni and CUNY colleagues there. I’m still writing on food and performance, hoping to finish the book in the near future. ======
Dr. AJELLO, Linell email: [email protected] 1621 Fern Street [email protected] 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. ======Spring 2017
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): 2 Grandchild(ren): none listed
Hobbies, Community Service, Volunteer: none listed
What you would most want your GC colleagues to know: nothing listed ======
Dr. ARONSON-LEHAVI, Sharon email: Sharon.Aronson- [email protected] 19 Tagore Street, #38 Tel Aviv 6920321
ISRAEL
Graduated: October 2004
Spring 2017
Professional life: Senior Lecturer of Theatre Studies (tenured) and Academic Director of the Tel Aviv University Theatre Department of Theatre Arts Tel Aviv University Tel Aviv, ISRAEL Member of the Israel Young Academy of Sciences (2012-2017) Member of the Global Young Academy (2014-2018)
Current fields of interest/research: Religion and contemporary theatre and performance
Recent publications/papers: Between Identity and Otherness in Biblical Theatre in Israel, forthcoming by the Israel Democracy Institute (Hebrew); Performance Studies in Motion: International Perspectives and Practices in the Twenty-First Century, co-editor together with Atay Citron and David Zerbib (London: Bloomsbury, 2014); “Re: Location,” in Performance Studies in Motion; Gender and Feminism in Modern Theatre (Tel Aviv: Open University Press, 2013; Hebrew); Street Scenes: Late Medieval Acting and Performance (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011); “Raising the Cross: Pre-Textual Theatricality and the York Crucifixion Play,” in The York Mystery Plays: Performance in the City, ed. Margaret Rogerson, 165- 179 (York: York Medieval Press, 2011); Wanderers and Other Israeli Plays, Editor + Introduction, Seagull Books (In Performance Series), 2009.
Family: Spouse/Partner: Prof. Amnon Lehavi, Professor of Law, Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) Herzliya Child(ren): 1 Grandchild(ren): none listed
Hobbies, Community Service, Volunteer: none listed
What you would most want your GC colleagues to know: 2013-2014: Lisa and Douglas Goldman Visiting Israeli Professor, University of California, Berkeley. ======
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: AStand-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. ======
Spring 2017
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 AHistory 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 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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D r. BACKALENICK, Irene M. email: [email protected] 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 and http://www.newyorktheaterscene.com and www.critics.org.
Family: Spouse/Partner: William Backalenick (retired Graphics Artist) Child(ren): 4 Grandchild(ren): 3
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 32308-8709
Graduated: February 1977
Spring 2017
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 B Senior Assoc. Dir. of Career Services; Fordham University Graduate 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. BAUM, Marlyn V. email: [email protected] 77 Seventh Avenue, #7N New York, NY 10011
Graduated: June 1983
Professional life: Art Education Director Shadow Box Theatre 138 S. Oxford Street Brooklyn, NY 11217
Current fields of interest/research: nothing listed
Recent publications/papers: none listed
Spring 2017
Family: Spouse/Partner: Deceased Child(ren): 1 Grandchild(ren): 2
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 Grandchild(ren): none listed
Spring 2017
Hobbies, Community Service, Volunteer: Seth Baumrin serves as Literary Director for A Laboratory for Actor Training, etc.
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 Grandchild(ren): none listed
Hobbies, Community Service, Volunteer: none listed
What you would most want your GC colleagues to know: nothing listed ======
Dr. BERKIN, Nicole email: [email protected] 94 Elsie Street San Francisco, CA 94110
Graduated: February 2015
Professional life: Assistant Director, High School Summer College Stanford University 450 Serra Mall Stanford, CA 94305
Current fields of interest/research: Teaching, Program Development, Advising, 19th century US cultural history
Recent publications/papers: Book Review of Transatlantic Broadway by Marlis Schweitzer, Theatre Survey Vol. 58 (Jan. 2017); Article: Touring and the Culture of Deception: The Case of Master Diamond.” Theatre History Studies 34 (2015).
Family: Spouse/Partner: Otis Berkin Child(ren): 1 Grandchild(ren): none listed
Hobbies, Community Service, Volunteer: none listed
What you would most want your GC colleagues to know: nothing listed ======
Spring 2017
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 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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D r. BLAKE, Gary email: [email protected] 70A Manor Drive Delray Beach, FL 33435
Graduated: June 1973
Professional life: Retired Professor
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. ======
Spring 2017
Dr. BOLUS, Michael Peter email: [email protected] 6353 Sunset Boulevard Los Angeles, CA 90038
Graduated: June 2004
Professional life: Department Chair, Liberal Arts The Los Angeles Film School 6353 Sunset Boulevard Los Angeles, CA 90038
Current fields of interest/research: nothing listed
Recent publications/papers: See: www.Michaelpeterbolus.com and www.meanstreet.org
Family: Spouse/Partner: Kristin Bolus Child(ren): 2 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): 3 Grandchild(ren): 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
Professional life: Assistant Professor & Program Coordinator, BA and MA in Theatre Studies Montclair State University 1 Normal Avenue Montclair, NJ 07043
Spring 2017
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 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 program! ======
Dr. BRAXTON, Celia email: [email protected] 605 West 170th Street, #3C New York, NY 10032
Graduated: May 2011
Professional life: Program Manager, Women’s Work Project, New Perspectives Theatre Company 456 West 37th Street New York, NY 10018 Adjunct Assistant Professor, Queensborough Community College 222-05 56th Avenue Bayside, NY 11364 Adjunct Assistant Professor, LaGuardia Community College 30-10 Thomson Avenue L.I.C., NY 11101 Adjunct Lecturer, English Dept., Kean University 1000 Morris Avenue Union, NJ 07083
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: none listed
What you would most want your GC colleagues to know: nothing listed ======
Dr. BUTT, Rex W. email: [email protected] 65 Lopes Ave Burlington, VT 05408
Graduated: May 1993
Spring 2017
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): 2 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: “Simple Play Devices are Always Best”: An Examination of the Amateur Play Publishing Industry in the United States in The Papers of the Bibliographic Society of America
Family: Spouse/Partner: Ana Martinez Child(ren): 2 Grandchild(ren): none listed
Hobbies, Community Service, Volunteer: none listed
What you would most want your GC colleagues to know: I will be happy to talk to you about any part of the graduate school process: from teaching to dissertation writing to the job search. ======
Dr. CALLAGHAN, David S. email: [email protected] 625 Shoshone Drive [email protected] Montevallo, AL 35115
Graduated: May 1998
Professional life: Professor, Theatre/Department Chair University of Montevallo Station 6210 – Theatre Montevallo, AL 35115 Spring 2017
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 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] not listed at Graduate’s request
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.
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 Sébastien’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 Grandchild(ren): none listed
Hobbies, Community Service, Volunteer: My dog and my garden What you would most want your GC colleagues to know: Directing Machinal at UGA spring 2017. ======
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 Spring 2017
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] Fine Arts Center, Wabash College Crawfordsville, IN 47933
Graduated: May 2005
Professional life: Associate Professor and Chair of Theater Wabash College, Theatre Department Crawfordsville, IN 47933
Current fields of interest/research: American theater pre-WWWII, puppetry, popular culture, film studies, faculty development.
Recent publications/papers: Session Coordinator and Mentor, “Working Well I and II: Workshops for Early- and Mid-Career Faculty” ATHE 2016. “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. “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, Assistant Professor of English & Coordinator of Writing-Across-the-Curriculum, Wabash College Child(ren): 3 Grandchild(ren): none listed
Hobbies, Community Service, Volunteer: Acting, parenting, trying to figure out home repair.
What you would most want your GC colleagues to know: Just press send already. It’s probably good enough, and then it’s your editor’s problem. ======
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
Spring 2017
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 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 Director, You Can’t Take It With You, (Dec. 2010); R.U.R., (April 2011); Death of a Salesman, (Sept. 2011); Evita, (Nov. 2012); Richard III (Feb. 2013); The Long Christmas Dinner and The Second Shepherd’s Play (Dec. 2013) Actor, Roger Chillingworth in The Scarlet Letter (Feb. 2012); “John in Oleanna (May 2013)”; “Salieri in Amadeus (Feb., 2014)” Casper College 125 College Drive Casper, WY 82601
Current fields of interest/research: nothing listed
Recent publications/papers: Egeria and Performativity of Pilgrimage, Casper College Humanities Festival, February 2011; Gave a paper entitled “Bad Actors: A History of Antitheatrical Prejudice” at the 2012 Humanities Festival her in Casper. My next Hum Fest presentation (Feb. 2013) will be on “Theatres of Power.”; Peer-reviewed Ecumenica published my article “Trans (per) forming Abjection: St. Simeon Stylites” in Vol. 5.1 Spring 2012 edition.
Spring 2017
Family: Spouse/Partner: Jacquelyn Navarro, now teaching 2nd grade at St. Anthony’s Tri-Parish School Child(ren): 1 Grandchild(ren): none listed
Hobbies, Community Service, Volunteer: Moderator of the Chess Club; Distance Ed Committee; Humanities Festival Committee What you would most want your GC colleagues to know: Bill is teaching theatre history and literature for the Department of Theatre and Dance at Casper College. He has been busy directing, acting, publishing, presenting papers, developing new classes, playing chess, and exercising in the great outdoors of Big Wyo. Bill and his family are very happy in their lives in Casper. ======
Dr. CORRÊA, Graça P. email: [email protected] Av. Miguel Bombarda, 83-7 1050-162 Lisboa, PORTUGAL
Graduated: June 2010
Professional life: Researcher, CFCUL–Center for the Philosophy of Sciences Science and Art Research Group University of Lisbon, Portugal Postdoctoral FCT Research Fellow, Transdisciplinary Artistic Studies 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
Recent publications/papers: Books: Sensory Landscapes in Harold Pinter: A Study on Ecocriticism and 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 Spring 2017
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 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: Spring 2017
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 Columbia, 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 for 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 Phillips Crespy Child(ren): 3 Grandchild(ren): none listed
Hobbies, Community Service, Volunteer: Volunteering with Mid-Missouri theatres – Talking Horse Productions and 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 away on September 16, 2016. Check out the wonderful Edward Albee Society webpage: http://edwardalbeesociety.org and join EAS! ======
Spring 2017
Dr. CURRY, Jane K. email: [email protected] Wake Forest University Winston-Salem, NC 27101-1126
Graduated: June 1991
Professional life: Associate Professor, Theatre and Dance not listed at Graduate’s request not listed at Graduate’s request
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): 2 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, Playwriting 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, 2016; “Letter Dialog” of Luigi Pirandello and Marta Abba, PSA 2011; Homeland Security, PSA 2014.
Family: Spouse/Partner: Aniello D’Aponte, retired Travel Consultant, Italian Government Travel Office Child(ren): 4 Grandchild(ren): 7
Hobbies, Community Service, Volunteer: none listed What you would most want your GC colleagues to know: The five plays in My Mother’s Front Porch have had staged readings and/or productions, four in NY, one of 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 Spring 2017
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
Spring 2017
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] 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 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
Spring 2017
What you would most want your GC colleagues to know: Life is Good! ======
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 Graduate’s request
Graduated: June 2016
Professional life: Visiting Scholar G. Tsereteli Oriental Institute Ilia State University Tbilisi, GEORGIA
Current fields of interest/research: My research concerns processes of live cultural production, popular culture, the political economy of consumption and leisure, and spectatorship and audiences in urban Arab contexts and diasporas.
Recent publications/papers: “Resisting ‘Resistance’: On Political Feeling in Arabic Rap Concerts” in Arab Subcultures: Transformations in Theory and Practice, edited by Tarik Sabry and Layal Ftouni. London: I.B. Tauris (forthcoming January 2017); “Call and Response, Radical Belonging, and Arabic Hip Hop in ‘the West’” in American Studies Encounters the Middle East, edited by Alex Lubin and Marwan Kraidy, 106-135. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2016; “From ‘Hip Hop Revolutionaries’ to Terrorist-Thugs’: Blackwashing between the Arab Spring and the War on Terror,” Lateral 5.1 (Spring 2016).
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 ======
Spring 2017
Dr. ERDMAN, Andrew L. email: [email protected] not listed at Graduate’s request
Graduated: February 2001
Professional life: Social Worker and Writer In 2011, I made a decision to go back to school in order to train for a career in clinical mental health treatment and counseling. I am currently working as a family therapist at the Jewish Board of Family & Children’s Services, or JBFCS for short. You can find out more at http://www.andrewerdman.com.
Current fields of interest/research: Psychoanalysis
Recent publications/papers: Queen of Vaudeville: The Story of Eva Tanguay (Cornell University Press, 2012). To learn more please visit: QueenOfVaudeville.com.
Family: Spouse/Partner: none listed Child(ren): none listed Grandchild(ren): none listed
Hobbies, Community Service, Volunteer: I continue to enjoy hiking and generally spending time in the outdoors. What you would most want your GC colleagues to know: As most of you know, I returned to school in 2011 to become a social worker and therapist. I am very happy with the change. Some of you might also know that my book “Queen of Vaudeville: The Story of Eva Tanguay” was published by Cornell Univ. Press last year. You can find out more at Queen of Vaudeville.com. ======
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 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
Spring 2017
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 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): 3 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 Spring 2017
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 Grandchild(ren): 2
Spring 2017
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] not listed at Graduate’s request
Graduated: February 1995
Professional life: Professor 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: “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 Grandchild(ren): 4
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] 211 W. Rincon St. #313 Corona, CA 92880
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 Money and Making Art: Arena Stage in the 1960s,” in The Sixties, Center Stage: Mainstream and Popular Performances in a Turbulent Decade, ed. James Harding and Cindy Rosenthal (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2017); Performance review of Hamilton, “Racializing the American Revolution,” The Advocate 27, no. 2 (2015): 39-42; and Encyclopedia entries in Asian American Culture: From Anime to Tiger Moms, ed. Lan Dong (Santa Barbara: Greenwood, 2016). Spring 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: nothing listed ======
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 Teaching at SUNY Westchester Community College, film Teaching at CUNY Kingsborough Community College, music, dance, education Faculty Senate, SUNY Purchase College
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 Spring 2017
Recent publications/papers: Articles: “Eeph-Soffa-Dill and Eephing: Found in Ragtime, Jazz, and Country Music, from Broadway to a 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 Harms 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 for the not-for-profit Reach Out Arts; Singing Songbirds Community Choir, member; Swimming, Walking.
What you would most want your GC colleagues to know: My wife and I also have a tiny co-op in Midwood in Brooklyn, to help us with our work at Kingsborough Community College. I am working on a book about the earliest enduring ballads of the Great American Songbook. ======
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 organizing an international symposium, “The Evolution of Song and Dance in Hindi Cinema,” to be held at my university in April 2017 (http://gmc.sonoma.edu/event/3285855-the-evolution-of-song-and- dance[gmc.sonoma.edu]). I have also created a new MA program in Film Studies at my university, to be implemented in the fall of 2017 (https://www.sonoma.edu/exed/film/[sonoma.edu]).
Recent publications/papers: “Main Hoon Farah: The Choreographer as Auteur,” in Behind the Scenes: Contemporary Bollywood Directors and Their Cinema, eds. Viswamohan & John (Sage, 2017); “From Vamp to Queen: The Remixed Sound of the Bollywood Scene,” in Music in Contemporary Indian Film: Memory, Voice, Identity, eds. Beaster-Jones & Sarrazin (Routledge, 2016).
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: My most recent book, Twenty-First Century Bollywood (Routledge, 2015), is now available in paperback (https://www.routledge.com/Twenty-First-Century-Bollywood/Gehlawat/p/book/9781138654273[routledge.com]). ======
Spring 2017
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): 2 Grandchild(ren): 4
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 Spring 2017
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 Grandchild(ren): 4
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
Spring 2017
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 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): 4 Grandchild(ren): 4
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. ======
Spring 2017
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 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. GREEN, Sharon L. email: [email protected] C/O Davidson College P.O. Box 7164 Davidson, NC 28035-7164
Graduated: October 1999
Professional life: Associate Professor of Theatre Davidson College Davidson, NC 28036
Current fields of interest/research: none listed
Recent publications/papers: “The Defenders: Theatre are shedding light on bullying’s devastating effects and giving kids tools for coping,” American Theatre, May/June 2012; Book reviews: Jana Sanskriti: Forum Theatre and Democracy in India, by Sanjoy Ganguly, Modern Drama 54 (3): Fall 2011; Monkey Business Theatre, by Robert Laughlin and Sna Jtz'ibajom, Ecumenica, 3 (2), 2011.
Family: Spouse/Partner: Garth Green, Anthropologist Child(ren): 2 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. ======
Spring 2017
Dr. GREENE, Alexis email: [email protected] 255 West End Avenue, Apt. 3B New York, NY 10023
Graduated: October 1987
Professional life: Author, Biographer, Editor not listed at Graduate’s request 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 Grandchild(ren): 3
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): 3 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. ======
D r. GUTERMAN, Gad email: [email protected] 5885 Nina Place, #3E St. Louis, MO 63112
Graduated: May 2011
Spring 2017
Professional life: Assistant 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 Sotomayor’s Theatrical Labor” (presentation, ATHE 2016, Chicago); Performance, Identity, and Immigration Law: A Theatre of Undocumentedness (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014); “‘Your Brother Doesn’t Have Papers’: La Victima’s Mixed-Status Family” (presentation, ASTR 2013, Dallas); “Border Games: Immigration Control as Play and Plays about Immigration” (presentation, ATHE 2013, Orlando); “At the Golden Dragon: Mythologizing Undocumented Immigration” (presentation, MATC 2013, Saint Louis).
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- 2300 Sherman Avenue, #2E [email protected] Evanston, IL 60201
Graduated: May 2013
Professional life: Lecturer and Academic Advisor Northwestern University, Department of Theatre 1949 Campus Drive 70 Arts Circle Drive Evanston, IL 60208
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 Grandchild(ren): none listed
Hobbies, Community Service, Volunteer: none listed
What you would most want your GC colleagues to know: nothing listed ======
D r. HELFER, Richard H. email: [email protected] 400 West 43rd 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 Spring 2017
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] 180 Cabrini Boulevard, #94 New York, NY 10033
Graduated: February 1991
Professional life: Senior Instructor, Communications & Media Arts Westchester Community College, SUNY 77 Grasslands Road, Valhalla, NY 10595-1693
Current fields of interest/research: none listed
none listed Recent publications/papers:
Family: Spouse/Partner: Helen Child(ren): 1 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 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, Spring 2017
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): 3 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. HILL, Holly email: [email protected] 5445 Caruth Haven Ln, #1218 Dallas, TX 75225
Graduated: June 1977
Professional life: Professor Emerita, John Jay College, CUNY John Jay College, CUNY 455 West 59th Street, Room 3117 New York, NY 10128
Current fields of interest/research: I am the American representative to the Terrence Rattigan Society in London and have given a lecture to the membership at Oxford and 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): 3 Grandchild(ren): 9
Spring 2017
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] 227 East 111th Street, #3A New York, NY 10029
Graduated: September 2013
Professional life: Assistant 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: Sameer Talati (NYC Public School Principal) 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. 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 St. John’s University 8000 Utopia Parkway Queens, NY 11439 Former Chair, Speech, Communication Sciences and Theatre, St. John’s University
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 ======
Spring 2017
Dr. 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), Keys of Love, CD of original songs: www.cdbaby.com/drsue, Musical (Club of Dreams), Books (Read With Me – Children’s Book of the Month Club, I Am Loved – Poetry), Comedy Plays, Screenplays (Sss…Witch!), 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), “Club of Dreams” (Original Musical - NYFA Sponsorship & Grants); “Angelface” (Play) 1st Prize Hunter Playwrights, “The Golden Heart” “Judy Maccabee” 1st Prize National Contests for youth comedies, “Titanic- Panic” (Comedy, 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” http://www.cdbaby.com/drsue2 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, Many Public Events Licensing/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 and 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: Director of Publications (retired since 9/16/13) Office of Communications and Marketing The Graduate Center, CUNY
Current fields of interest/research: none listed
Spring 2017
Recent publications/papers: Currently coediting with Jack Street an anthology of Italian plays in translation, 1950-2000, forthcoming 2015 Edwin Mellen Press. Past publications: Review of Six Characters in Search of an Author, Journal of the Pirandello Society of America (PSA) (2012); “Foreword” in Jack Street, ed. and trans., Italian Theater of the Late Twentieth and Early Twenty-First Centuries: A Translation from Italian into English of Nine Crucial Plays (Edwin Mellen Press, 2011); various articles and reviews in PSA 2010 and 2011. Readings/Producer and/or Director, as Jane House Productions: “The Other Son” by Pirandello, translator, co-producer, and director, for “50th Anniversary of the Pirandello Society of America,” May 2009. Producer and director, evening with contemporary Italian playwright Roberto Cavosi, Segal Theatre, The Graduate Center, May 2007. Translations from Italian: V. Valentini and B. Marranca, “The Universal: The Simplest Place Possible,” PAJ 77 (May-Aug 2004): 16-25; Antonio Attisani, “Franciscan Performance: A Theatre Lost and Found Again,” PAJ 73 (Jan-Apr 2003): 48-60; Why? by Pirandello PSA XVI (2003); with Anthony Molino, Emergency Exit by Manlio Santanelli (Riverside, CA: Xenos Books, 2000); others in House and Attisani, 20th Century Italian Drama (Columbia University Press, 1995). Unpublished: I Married You for Fun and The Secretary by Natalia Ginzburg; Queen Mother by Manlio Santanelli; The Other Son by Luigi Pirandello. Family: Spouse/Partner: none listed Child(ren): none listed Grandchild(ren): none listed
Hobbies, Community Service, Volunteer: Member of the League of Professional Theatre Women. Concerned about the environment. What you would most want your GC colleagues to know: Politically left leaning. Produce and direct readings of Italian plays in translation through Jane House Productions: http://www.janehouseprods.com. Also love to act. ======
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: single Child(ren): no kids 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 seminars. 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 Spring 2017
Italy, and on to Austria and Slovenia. To celebrate my 70th birthday in January I will head to Portugal and Southern Spain. So I keep busy and enjoy retired life. ======
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. ======
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Dr. HUGHES, Amy email: [email protected] Brooklyn College, Dept. of Theatre 2900 Bedford Avenue Brooklyn, NY 11210
Graduated: May 2009
Professional life: Associate Professor and Deputy Chair for Graduate Studies 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: Under contract (University of Michigan Press): A Player and a Gentleman: The Diary of Harry Watkins, Nineteenth-Century US American Actor, co-edited by Hughes and Naomi J. Stubbs (forthcoming 2018). Monograph in progress: An Actor’s Tale: Theater, Culture, and Everyday Life in Nineteenth-Century US America.
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. 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, W. 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: Publications/Papers: Edited Collections: Theatres of Affect. Volume 4. New Essays on Canadian Theatre (Toronto: Playwrights Canada Press, 2014); Once More, With Feeling: Five Affecting Plays (Toronto: Playwrights Canada Press, 2014). Special Journal Issue: Hervé Guay and Erin Hurley, “Le théâtre québécois sans frontières,” Special issue of Theatre Research in Canada / Recherches théâtrales au Canada 35:2 (Fall 2014): 295-369. Book Chapter: “Double Identity: Performing (as) Objects on the contemporary Montreal stage,” in Ireland and Quebec: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on History, Culture and Society, eds. Margaret Kelleher and Michael Kenneally (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2016), 227-42. “The Multiple Bodies of the Cirque du Soleil,” in Cirque Global: Québec's Expanding Circus Boundaries, eds. Charles Batson and Louis Patrick Leroux (Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2016). Revised and updated English-language version of “Les corps multiples du Cirque du Soleil.” “Performance Services: The Promises of the Cirque du Soleil,” in Cirque Global: Québec's Expanding Circus Boundaries, Spring 2017
eds. Charles Batson and Louis Patrick Leroux (Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2016), 71-78. Presentation: Bridgewater State/McGill/SUNY- Plattsburgh Inaugural Rotating Lecture in Canadian Studies, 2014. Awards: 2014 Prix du meilleur ouvrage sur le théâtre québécois, prix trienniel de la Société québécoise d’études théâtrales, pour la période de 2011 à 2013; Visiting Scholar, Centro de Estudos de Teatro, Universidade de Lisboa, December 2014.
Family: Spouse/Partner: Mark Elkin Child(ren): 2 Grandchild(ren): none listed
Hobbies, Community Service, Volunteer : Keeping on top of what my kids are interested in. Attending Comicon 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 Washington University 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 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 Grandchild(ren): 1 Spring 2017
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
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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 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 South Windsor, CT 06074
Graduated: February 2000
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 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 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
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Professional life: Associate Dean for Faculty (2011-2014) Professor of Theatre 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: “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 the Associate Dean for Faculty in the College of 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); Presentations and Projects: “The English Language and the American Musical Theater”-- National English- Speaking Union, The Breakers, West Palm Beach, Florida, April 24, 2009;
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Featured Speaker: “The English Language and the American Musical Theater” -- National English-Speaking Union, Miami, Florida, November 23, 2008.
Family: Spouse/Partner: none listed Child(ren): 1 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] 225 Summer Street Buffalo, NY 11105
Graduated: February 2016
Professional life: Visiting Assistant Professor, of Theatre (through summer 2017) Assistant Professor, of Theatre (starting fall 2017) University at Buffalo, State University of New York Department of Theatre and Dance Buffalo, NY 14228
Current fields of interest/research: cultural studies, popular entertainment, critical theory
Recent publications/papers: Co-Editor of Lateral, the journal of the Cultural Studies Association. csalateral.org; Broderick Chow, Eero Laine, and Claire Warden, eds., Performance and Professional Wrestling (London: Routledge, 2016); Eero Laine and David Allen, “Who Owns a Gesture?: Negotiating Creation and Collaboration in Theatre Arts Practice,” NANO: New American Notes Online 10 (December 2016); http://www.nanocrit.com/issues/10-2016/who-owns-gesture- creation-and-collaboration-theatre-arts-practice.
Family: Spouse/Partner: Christine Marks 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. LEVITT, Harold N. email: [email protected] 2417 Glasco Turnpike Woodstock, NY 12498
Graduated: June 1972 1st GC Theatre PhD graduate!
Professional life: Retired Theatre Professor (from) Hunter College, CUNY 695 Park Avenue New York, NY 10021
Current fields of interest/research: none listed
Recent publications/papers: Five Comedies (published June 2007, iUniverse), Selected Plays (November 2008); Novels: Martinis and Roses and The Furies.
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Family: Spouse/Partner: Terrin Levitt, Crystalline-Glaze Porcelain Ceramist Child(ren): 3 Grandchild(ren): 1
Hobbies, Community Service, Volunteer: none listed What you would most want your GC colleagues to know: I’d like to share a few stimulating memories of what the Ph.D. Theatre Program was like in 1970. We were a fierce little group of dedicated students, most of whom had already slugged it out in such disparate worlds as advertising, teaching and Off-Broadway Theatre (there was no Off-Off-Broadway; one “Off” was far enough away). The Faculty was superb: people like Alois Nagler of Yale, Alan Downer of Princeton, Dan Gerould and Bernie Dukore. I recall a fantastic course given by a distinguished classics Scholar from N.Y.U. (forgive me for having forgotten his name) during which we spent the entire term studying Sophocles’ Antigone line by line! It really was invigorating. After classes we’d go out into the night on West 42nd Street and mosey around the theatre district, some of us hitting Hector’s Cafeteria, some the steak place on the south side of the street (grilled steak on a platter for $1.69), and some even taking in free Broadway shows after the Intermissions. Incidentally, the waitresses at Hector’s Cafeteria were mostly actresses who knew we were theatre students so they gave us the necessary considerations on the bills. All in all, it was a glowing time! ======
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
Recent publications/papers: Working on essay for Anthology on Afromodernism
Family: Spouse/Partner: none listed Child(ren): none listed Grandchild(ren): none listed
Hobbies, Community Service, Volunteer: Volunteer service: Junior League of Boston
What you would most want your GC colleagues to know:
Working on a new project at the Trotter Institute: www.theemancipatedcentury.com. Just joined the board for new Federal theater in New York ======
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 Spring 2017
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). Book: Strip Show Routledge (2002). 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 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 Toledo, OH 43606
Graduated: February 2006
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: “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 (forthcoming, Springer Publications); “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).
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Family: Spouse/Partner: Risa Cohen Child(ren): 2 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: In addition to my academic research, I still write, direct, produce, and act in theatrical productions. Last summer I took an original musical entitled House of Vinyl to the Toronto Fringe Festival. ======
Dr. LIVINGSTON, Lindsay Adamson email: [email protected] not listed at Graduate’s request
Graduated: February 2013
Professional life: Assistant Professor
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): 2 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. 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 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 Spring 2017
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
Current fields of interest/research: none listed
Recent publications/papers: none listed
Family: Spouse/Partner: Joyce Levy Mann, Retired Child(ren): 3 Grandchild(ren): 2
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] 2524 East 7th Street [email protected] Tucson, AZ 85716
Graduated: February 2013
Professional life: Adjunct Professor Tisch School of the Arts, NYU 721 Broadway New York, NY 10003
Current fields of interest/research: My research interests include: 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: Kevin Byrne Child(ren): 2 Grandchild(ren): none listed
Hobbies, Community Service, Volunteer: none listed What you would most want your GC colleagues to know: My research interests include: Mexican and Latin American theatre and performance, site-specific performance, and scenography. ======
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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): 3 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: none listed
Recent publications/papers: none listed
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
Spring 2017
Professional life: Chair, Department of Communications and The 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: Review of “The Goat” by Edward Albee, Theatre Journal
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 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 Directed Jeff Stetson’s Fraternity, Ebony Repertory Theatre, Los Angeles, CA, 2012; Presenter: “Back to the Future: In Search of a New “Black Theatre Aesthetic,” Ebony Repertory Theater, 2011; “Theorizing Black Theatre: An Introduction,” Ralph Bunche Author’s Series, UCLA, 2011; “Valorizing the Ancestors,” National Black Theatre Festival, Winston-Salem, NC, 2011. 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
Spring 2017
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 Child(ren): 1 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] not listed at Graduate’s request
Graduated: not listed at Graduate’s request
Professional life: Assistant Professor, Theatre California State University, Northridge 18111 Nordhoff Street Northridge, CA 91330
Current fields of interest/research: Urbanism; performance & real estate; cultural policy; New York history; sociology of culture; playwriting; writing pedagogy.
Recent publications/papers: Book, Drop Dead: Performance in Crisis, 1970s New York City (Northwestern UP, 2016); forthcoming article, “Subject to Punishment: Julie Bovasso’s Angelo’s Wedding and the Politics of the Unproduced,” Theatre Survey 58, no.2; 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.
Family: Spouse/Partner: none listed Child(ren): none listed Grandchild(ren): none listed
Hobbies, Community Service, Volunteer: Recently I’ve been enjoying exploring SoCal’s endless hiking trails, as well as learning about the LA theatre scene. 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] not listed at Graduate’s request
Graduated: June 2010
Professional life: I’m in my second year with the School of Theatre Dance at East Carolina University. Co-Curator of the Annual Jane Chambers Feminist Playwriting Contest for the Women & Theatre Program and ATHE
Current fields of interest/research: Fat studies, theories of embodiment, feminist playwrights & performance, dramaturgy
Recent publications/papers: Female Bodies on the American Stage: Enter Fat Actress, Palgrave, 2014. Spring 2017
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): 2 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 joy 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): 2 Grandchild(ren): 3
Hobbies, Community Service, Volunteer: none listed
Spring 2017
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 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 P.O. Box 129188 Abu Dhabi, UAE
Graduated: February 2011
Professional life: Senior Lecturer and Associate Director for the Writing Center New York University Abu Dhabi P.O. Box 129188 Abu Dhabi, UAE
Current fields of interest/research: none listed
Recent publications/papers: “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; “Utopian Crossing: Reading Homebody/Kabul in Abu Dhabi” (paper presentation, the Crossing Borders: Theatre and Cultural Encounters conference in Helsinki, Finland, in May 2015).
Family: Spouse/Partner: David Smedley Child(ren): none listed Grandchild(ren): none listed
Hobbies, Community Service, Volunteer: none listed
Spring 2017
What you would most want your GC colleagues to know: nothing listed ======
Dr. NILES, Richard email: [email protected] 57 West 75th 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 ======
Spring 2017
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 Grandchild(ren) none listed
Hobbies, Community Service, Volunteer: none listed
What you would most want your GC colleagues to know: nothing listed
Dr. PARKER-STARBUCK, Jennifer email: [email protected] 126 Casewick Road [email protected] West Norwood, London SE27 0SZ UNITED KINGDOM Graduated: May 2003
Professional life: Head of Department and Professor, Theatre and Performance Studies Department of Drama, Theatre & Performance Studies Roehampton University, School of Arts-Jubilee Roehampton Lane London, SW15 5PH, UNITED KINGDOM Co-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: 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); “Chasing its Tail: Sensorial Circulations of One Pig,” Antennae: The Journal of Nature in Visual Culture. Special issue on Bioacoustics, Issue 27. Winter 2013 http://www.antennae.org.uk; “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); “Reflective Viewing: ORLAN’s Hybridized Harlequin, Banksy, Bacon, and the Animal Human Divide,” in Performance, Identity and the Neo-Political Subject, eds. Matthew Causey and Fintan Walsh, (London and New York: Routledge, 2013); Monograph: Cyborg Theatre: Corporeal/Technological Intersections in Multimedia Performance, Palgrave, 2011 (Paperback release, November 2014).
Family: Spouse/Partner: Joshua Abrams Child(ren): 1 Grandchild(ren) none listed
Spring 2017
What you would most want your GC colleagues to know: I have been serving as co-Editor of Theatre Journal for the past two years and will be assuming the editorship this summer 2017. Josh Abrams and I co-organized the 2016 ASTR Conference around the theme “Trans- “in Minneapolis, MN and it was great to see so many CUNY people there! I am usually at ATHE, ASTR, and Psi ======
Dr. PEDERSON, Nadine D. email: [email protected] 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 Cats: 2 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
Spring 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: nothing listed
email: [email protected] Dr. POTTS, Kathleen not listed at Graduate’s request
Graduated: May 2015
Professional Life: Lecturer and Deputy Chair The City College of New York, CUNY 160 Convent Avenue, Compton-Goethals 322 New York, New York 10031
Current Fields of Interest: Playwriting, Dramaturgy, Devised Theatre, & Professionalism
Recent publications/papers: The Professional Actor’s Handbook, (w/Julio Agustin)
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 remain grateful for my time at the Grad Center. ======
Dr. POURCHOT, Eric E. emails: [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. ======
Spring 2017
Dr. POWELL, Susana emails: [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] c/o Hostos Community College 500 Grand Concourse Bronx, NY 10451
Graduated: June 2001
Professional life: Associate Professor and Chair Humanities Department Hostos Community College 500 Grand Concourse Bronx, New York 10451
Current fields of interest/research: none listed
Spring 2017
Recent publications/papers: 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); “Wise Guys.” Theatre Journal, 61.2 (2009); “Elisabeth,” Theatre Journal, 60.2 (2008); Director: Metamorphoses Hostos Repertory Theatre, (Spring 2010); Author and Performer: “Nothing Fits,” Performed in Kneed at PS 122, 2010; Mobius, Boston, 2011; Performer: Seven and Six Degrees of Separation, Hostos Repertory Theatre.
Family: Spouse/Partner: none listed Child(ren): 1 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 expected son, Eric Lyons Roost, arrived on January 7, 2017 and is healthy and beautiful. ======
Dr. ROTTÉ, Joanna email: [email protected] not listed at Graduate’s request
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 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: Professor and Department Chair Wagner College One Campus Road Staten Island, NY 10301
Current fields of interest/research: I presented at the SAMLA conference. It was a paper titled “Seduction at the Ballet: Léon Bakst, the Ballets Russes, and Costuming the New Ballet Body.”
Recent publications/papers: none listed
Spring 2017
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 still feel the influence of Dr. Daniel Gerould in my classroom and am deeply grateful to him. ======
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
Spring 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: 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] not listed at Graduate’s request
Graduated: May 2005
Professional life: Assistant Professor, Theatre and Performance Purchase College, CUNY 735 Anderson Hill Road Purchase, NY 10577 http://openscholar.purchase.edu/jordanschildcrout
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); Review: "A Man's A Man at Classic Stage Company," Theatre Journal (December 2014); Chapter: "Drama and the New Sexualities," The Oxford Handbook of American Drama (Oxford University Press); Panels/Presentations: "Queer New York: 1980s to Today," And Baby Makes Seven Post-Show Panel, New Ohio Theatre; "The Intermeddlers: The Case Against The Children's Hour" Post-Show Discussion, MESTC, CUNY Graduate Center; "Introducing Tim Miller: Performing Que(e)ries," CLAGS, CUNY Graduate Center.
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. 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
Spring 2017
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 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 play The Duel was produced in November 2006 as part of New Jersey Repertory’s Theatre Brut Festival.
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-GILES, 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
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; ten scholarships have been awarded.
Spring 2017
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 South Gardiner, ME 04539
Graduated: May 1997
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.
Recent publications/papers: none listed
Family: Spouse: none listed Child(ren): 1 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): 2 Grandchild(ren): none listed
Hobbies, Community Service, Volunteer: none listed
What you would most want your GC colleagues to know: nothing listed ======
Spring 2017
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: 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, March 2012, Honorable Mention for the Martin Stevens 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. 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): 2 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 Spring 2017
(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; Amazon E-book; In The Shadow of Etna (2014) on Amazon.com; New e-Book: Comfort is the Enemy of Chic, (2014), on Amazon.com.
Family: Spouse/Partner: Jean Somerville, Telecommunications Child(ren): 1 Grandchild(ren): none listed
Hobbies, Community Service, Volunteer: none listed
What you would most want your GC colleagues to know: nothing listed ======D======r. SPATZ, Ben jamin email: [email protected] not listed at Graduate’s request [email protected]
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: not listed at Graduate’s request Child(ren): 1 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 ======D======r. STAN=====DING , 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 Spring 2017
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.” ======
email: [email protected] Dr. STEVENSON, Jill 114 Clinton Street, #5G Brooklyn, NY 11201
Graduated: May 2006
Professional life: Associate Professor of Theatre Arts Marymount Manhattan College 221 East 71st Street New York, NY 10021
Current fields of interest/research: Medieval performance; religious performances across periods, but especially in the Middle Ages and in contemporary evangelical Christian contexts; 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: “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. In addition, 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. Other forthcoming publications include, “Playing with Time’s End: Cultivating Sincere Contrition in Medieval Last Judgment Performances,” in Routledge Companion to Early Drama and Performance, ed. Pamela King (Taylor and Francis, 2016), 118-136; “Passion Playing: An Interview with Sarah Ruhl,” Oberammergau 2010: Critical Essays and Critical Contexts, ed. Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr. (McFarland, 2017); and, “Sarah Ruhl’s Passion Play and Contemporary Expressions of Spring 2017
Medieval Performance,” in The Theatre of Sarah Ruhl, Critical Companions series, ed. Amy Muse (Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, 2017).
Family: Spouse/Partner: Kelly Matika, McKinsey and Company 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 currently the President of our college’s Faculty and am also co-chairing our institutional Strategic Planning Steering Committee. It’s proving quite the education! In addition, I am ASTR’s Vice President for Conferences through the 2018 conference in San Diego. I hope to see many of you at both ATHE and ASTR in the future. ======
Dr. STOLLER, Terry email: not listed at Graduate’s request not listed at Graduate’s request
Graduated: October 2003
Professional life: Self Employed
Current fields of interest/research: none listed
Recent publications/papers: Tales of the Tricycle Theatre, Methuen Drama and the Society for Theatre Research, 2013. "Designing the Great Game: A Conversation with Pamela Howard" (2009), HotReview.org . 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, Lydia D. email: [email protected] none listed
Graduated: February 1992
Professional life: Playwright, Essayist, Editor & Teacher
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 ======
Spring 2017
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): 2 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, Na omi email: [email protected] not listed at Graduate’s request
Graduated: February 2012
Professional life: Assistant 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: Journal of American Drama and Theatre (co-editor); Publications: “The American Path: From Pleasure Garden to Amusement Park.” Popular Entertainment Studies 5, no. 2 (September 2014): 6-23. Presentations: “Great Expectations: Harry Watkins and his 1860-1863 Tour.” Celebrity Encounters: Transatlantic Fame in Nineteenth-century Britain and America. University of Portsmouth, UK, July. Roundtable participant, “Digital Scholarship Panel,” and “Spotlight on New Works: Discussion of Newly Published Works in the Fields of American Theatre, African-American Theatre, and Latino/a Theatre,” ATHE. “Student-Faculty Collaboration in Liberal Arts Scholarship: The Challenges and Surprises of the Harry Watkins Diary Project.” Co-presented with Medeli Tavarez (LaGuardia student). 10th Annual CUE Conference: Learning Inside and Outside the Classroom, May.
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’m currently serving as the liaison between the [British] Society for Theatre Research (STR) and ASTR. If you’re working on a British theatrical subject, please let me know! ======
Spring 2017
Dr. SUTTON, Dana R. email: [email protected] 303 West 66th Street, #9EW New York, NY 10023
Graduated: February 1999
Professional life: Retired Professor
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 Grandchild(ren): 1
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 Graduate’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 Spring 2017
Current fields of interest/research: Material culture and performance of the Middle Ages
Recent publications/papers: "Iberian Theater and Performance." In Oxford Bibliographies in Medieval Studies, ed. Paul E. Szarmach. Oxford University Press, (Sept. 29, 2015); 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.
Family: Spouse/Partner: not listed at Graduate’s request Child(ren): 2 Grandchild(ren): none listed
Hobbies, Community Service, Volunteer: Attending rallies and protests. Riding a bike. Gardening
What you would most want your GC colleagues to know: nothing listed ======
Dr. SZALCZER, Eszter email: [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); “A Modernist Dramaturgy” in The Cambridge Companion to August Strindberg (Cambridge University Press, 2009).
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: Partner, Tackel & Varachi, LLP, (Law Firm) White Plains, NY 10601 Adjunct Assistant Professor Hunter College, City University of New York
Current fields of interest/research: none listed
Recent publications/papers: none listed
Spring 2017
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, Kurt 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 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. TENNERIELLO, 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
Spring 2017
Hobbies, Community Service, Volunteer: none listed What you would most want your GC colleagues to know: Still swimming. ======
Dr. VENNING, Dan email: [email protected] 203 West 90th Street, #10-B New York, NY 10024
Graduated: June 2016
Professional life: Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Communication Studies, Baruch College, CUNY 55 Lexington Avenue New York, NY 10010 Adjunct Instructor, Department of Drama, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University 721 Broadway New York, NY 10003
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: Performance reviews: “Double Falsehood and The 1599 Project.” Shakespeare Bulletin 34, no. 3 (Fall 2016): 537-44 and “Something Rotten and Sleep No More,” Shakespeare Bulletin 34, no. 1 (Spring 2016). Reviews assigned for Theatre Journal; Book reviews: assigned and forthcoming reviews in Theatre History Studies, Theatre Survey, and Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism; Conference presentations: 2016 presentations at IFTR and ASTR. 2017 presentations scheduled for FOOT, MATC, ATHE, and ASTR.
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 am actively on the job market looking for tenure-track positions and postdoctoral fellowships. I continue to teach courses as an adjunct in the Communication Studies department at Baruch College, CUNY, as well as in the Department of Drama at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, where I regularly teach the "Studies in Shakespeare" course as well as a course on German theatre and drama of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. My research centers on the role of theatre in the construction of national identity--a crucial topic now!--both in classical and contemporary theatre and performance. One project I am pursuing is the publication of a section of my dissertation; an article about Ludwig Tieck's nineteenth-century Shakespeare studies. I am also working on a number of projects related to Taylor Mac's extraordinary work of political performance A 24-Decade History of Popular Music. These projects range from a performance review for Theatre Journal to conference presentations I'll be giving at MATC, ATHE, and ASTR this year, and a collection of essays, Get Up and Play: Taylor Mac’s “A 24-Decade History of Popular Music,” which I will be co-editing with Sean F. Edgecomb and David Román. ======
Dr. VEY, Shauna A. email: [email protected] 325 Riverside Drive New York, NY 10025
Graduated: October 1998
Spring 2017
Professional life: Professor, Humanities New York City College of Technology, CUNY 300 Jay Street, A-630 Brooklyn, NY 11201
Current fields of interest/research: Legal emancipation of child actors; musical theatre
Recent publications/papers: Childhood and Nineteenth-Century American Theatre: The Work of the Marsh Troupe of Juvenile Actors. Theatre of the Americas Series, 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: none listed
Recent publications/papers: “Giving Voice to New Playwrights: Blurring the Distinction Between Readings and Fully Staged Productions Without the Trimmings,” ATHE 2009. Family: Partner/Spouse: Jesse Waldinger, Attorney/Playwright Child(ren): 2 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 December 1st to March 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: I am currently working on a book and blog devoted to developing the skills and business models for becoming an Independent Artist. (http://www.creativeinsubordination.com[creativeinsubordination.com])
Spring 2017
Recent publications/papers: “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 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 am Director of the Center for Rural Arts, Development, Leadership and Education (CRADLE— http://www.cradlearts.org) and have received a grant to pilot a new approach to rural arts in Bakersville, NC. ======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): 1 Grandchild(ren): 2
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
Spring 2017
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): 2 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: Four Millenial Plays From Belgium, Martin E. Segal Theatre Center, 2014; A Maeterlinck Reader, Francophone Belgium Series, Peter Lang Publishers, 2011.
Family: Spouse/Partner: Peggy Dean, Mathematician Child(ren) 1 plus nieces and nephew Grandchild(ren): none listed Spring 2017
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: Theatre and Pedagogy, LGBTQ Theatre and Performance
Recent publications/papers: “‘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. Wayne State University Press, 2016: 141-162; “A Theatrical Case for Gay Rights: Culture, Law, and The Intermeddlers” with Jordan Schildcrout. Introduction to Intermeddlers: The Censorship of Lillian Hellman’s The Children’s Hour. Sarah Stites and Frank Hentschker, eds. Segal Center Publications, 2016: xx-xxvi; Foreward. Troupers of the Gold Coast: The Rise of Lotta Crabtree (1928) by Constance Mayfield Rourke. Reprinted Edition. New York: Skyhorse Publishing, 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: nothing listed ======
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; 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- Spring 2017
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, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRXoBD4eQXw&list=PLDA62B1E255FC D655&index=4, 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) 2 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 am scheduled to take a sabbatical in the spring semester of 2017. I will study Italian at the Università per Stranieri di Siena and then take extended stays in Lucca, Padova, and Rome. I will be researching theatre at a number of national and international arts festivals.
Spring 2017
Recent publications/papers: I coordinated a panel and presented a paper (American Dreams: Dramatic Literature that Captures the First Generation Experiences of Immigrants to America) at the 2016 ATHE conference in Chicago. For Western Illinois University I directed The Tempest and for Starry Night Repertory Theatre I directed and performed a cameo in the musical, I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change. I also produced Shooting Star by Stephen Dietz for Starry Night. I also developed and taught a new graduate course, “Introduction to the Profession of Academic Theatre” in which I guided MFA students through the job search and application process. I am hoping to continue this work in the future as either a course or an extended workshop. Family: Spouse/Partner: Dan Woods, Artist/Actor Child(ren): none listed Grandchild(ren): none listed
Hobbies, Community Service, Volunteer: My community service is centered in my work with Starry Night Repertory Theatre. I also like to spend time on home improvement and any kind of travel.
What you would most want your GC colleagues to know: nothing listed ======
D======r. WORTH, Jen nifer 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 Spring 2017
Current fields of interest/research: none listed
Recent publications/papers: none listed
Family: Spouse/Partner: Antonio Marques, Retired Ship Captain Child(ren): 2 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] not listed at Graduate’s request
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): 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 ======D======r. 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 Purpleman Theater Co. Purplemantheater.com
Current fields of interest/research: Feminist Performance
Spring 2017
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. ======
Spring 2017
What Can We Say About Our Events? That would be boasting, so here are a few comments from others …
Jay Golan, Sr. Vice President for Institutional Advancement
Lynette puts on the most wonderful Theater celebrations, from the over-the-top Tea Party to drinks and foods from many lands and many hands. The Tea Party, in particular, also featured her creativity in finding beautiful unmatched sets of cups, saucers and teapots from consignment stores, and building trays of multi-level proper sandwiches and sweets. Yum!
Alumna Jennifer Parker-Starbuck, Ph.D.
I was surprised that the Tea Party happened to be during time when I was traveling through New York so I was delighted to be able to attend, and came over from England to do so. Having been to some fancy teas here in the UK, I can say that Lynette and her assistants gave the Brits a run for their money! The ta- bles were gorgeous and the assortment of teas and cakes impres- sive. Thanks to all who made the event so successful. The at- mosphere was so warm and inviting and I loved being able to meet current students and see old friends and mentors.
Alumna Susan Horowitz, Ph.D.
Our Theatre Program Cocktail Party was stimulating, support- ive and a grand success! The food—delicious! The company— even better! Lynette Gibson, our talented program coordinator, put it all together with her usual finesse! Thanks for letting me sing my original song “Celebrate Your Life.” Also thanks for letting me take two plastic champagne glasses, which I promptly used onstage in my romantic comedy “Titanic-Panic: Move Over Baby!”
Here Are a Few More Comments!
Alumnus James Wilson, Ph.D.
Dear Lynette, Once again, you and your crew (with a special shout-out to the amazing Joseph and his technicolor designs!) presented the most exquisite, enjoyable, and well-organized party of the season! I don’t know how you keep topping your- selves, but you do. Thank you, and congratulations. Now get some rest!
Fidan Eylül Akinci, Graduate Student
For the 2016 Cocktail Party I was responsible for preparing a playlist, some visuals, and picking a bouquet for our guest of honor alumna Elinor Fuchs. I got the most exciting parts of preparations, I’d say. Elinor Fuchs’s speech was so moving that I almost forgot to present the flowers! Against the grainy foot- ages of New York across decades, it was wonderful to see different cohorts and generations of theatre scholars come together at the heart of the city. I am thrilled to have been part of this meaningful event.
Alumna Susan Horowitz, Ph.D.
Folks! The alumni cocktail parties are now becoming legendary. Lynette, Jim, and graduate crew pull off each soiree with aplomb. (They even serve booze AND red wine!) These are THE BEST parties seen in that Green Room, and I thought our generation of graduates threw some pretty outstanding shindigs! So, if you are in the New York area (or can come to the New York area in the fall), please join us. It truly is a lovely event to reconnect over libation and fabulous snacks.
Lynette and Crew would like you to know that it is always a pleasure to host these events!
Recent Theatre Program Graduates A warm welcome to our new alumni
Name Graduation Dr. DEL VECCHIO, Jessica 2016 “Straddling Feminisms: Post-Wave Pop Politics and Experimental Performance” Dr. EL ZEIN, Rayya 2016 “Performing el Rap el ‘Arabi 2005-2015: Feeling Politics amid Neoliberal Incursions in Ramallah, Amman, and Beirut” Dr. FRIEDMAN, Andrew 2016 “Theatres of Reality, Fiction, and Temporality: Vegard Vinge and Ida Müller’s Ib- sen-Saga (2006-2015)” Dr. JUST, Alexandra Sascha 2017 “The Interdependence of Theatricality, Gender, and Race in Cinematic and Performative Representations of New Orleans— from Jim Crow to Hurricane Katrina” Dr. LAINE, Eero 2016 “Professional Wrestling and/as Theatre: Bodies, Labor, and the Commercial Stage” Dr. VENNING, Dan 2016 “Shakespeare for the Volk: Shakespeare and the Development of the Idea of German Nationhood, 1817-1867” Dr. WATT, Kenn 2016 “Occupy Citizenry: Participatory Performance in New York City: 2009-2015” Dr. YOUNG, Catherine 2016 “Animal Performance in Big-Time Vaudeville”
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 Dr. LOAYZA, Milton 2008 Dr. LUBER, Stephen 2013
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 these friends and colleagues
Name Graduation Dr. ALEANDRI, Emelise F. 1984 Dr. AMITAI, Raziel 1989 Dr. ASERMELY, Albert 1973 Dr. BAILEY, Christine E. 1985 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. 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
Acknowledgements
My thanks to my four (4) editorial assistants Fidan Eylül Akinci, Joseph Paul Hill, Hansol Oh, and Alison Walls 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, Assistant Program Officer/Academic Program Coordinator
Editorial Assistant: Fidan Eylül Akinci, Ph.D. Student Editorial Assistant: Joseph Paul Hill, Ph.D. Student Editorial Assistant: Hansol Oh, Ph.D. Student Editorial Assistant: Alison Walls, Ph.D. Student
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