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David Krasner's Vitae 1 David Krasner Office: Thayer House, Dean College Home: 33 Widgeon Pond Road, Plymouth, MA 02360 Home: (508) 747 1345; cell (203) 668 6910 [email protected] & [email protected] www.davidkrasner.com Professional Academic Experience: 2012 - present Dean of the School of the Arts, Dean College, Franklin MA 2007 - 2012 Associate Professor, Head of Acting, Emerson College 1997-2007 Associate Prof. (Adj.) - English, Theater Studies, African American Studies Director of Undergraduate Theater Studies (1997-2003) Yale University Fall, 2004 Tufts University, Graduate Seminar in African American Theatre (History, Drama, Criticism, and Performance) 1995-1997 Assistant Professor of Theater Head, MFA Directing Program Theater Arts Department Southern Illinois University Carbondale, IL 62901 1993-1995 Assistant Professor of Theatre Theatre Arts Department University of Idaho Moscow, ID 83843 1978-1987 Instructor American Academy of Dramatic Arts 120 Madison Ave., NY 10016 Teaching acting (beginning and advanced, voice, speech, movement, Feldenkrais & Alexander Technique) 1 2 Education: (1974) B.F.A., Carnegie Mellon University (Student of Jewel Walker, Edith Skinner, Israel Hicks, B. H. Barry, John Pasquin, Larry Carra, Leon Katz, James Rosenberg, Moshe Feldenkrais, Morty Lawner, Earle Gister) (1990) M.F.A., Virginia Commonwealth University (1996) Ph. D., Tufts University NYC Training Acting Classes with Paul Mann, Kim Stanley, Barbara Loden, Stella Adler (attended lectures on text analysis), Morty Lawner (Meisner Technique) Studied Alexander Technique at the Alexander Technique Center and then private lessons w/ Pam Anderson Membership in Professional Associations Actors Equity Screen Actors Guild AFTRA Directing Plays Directed at the American Academy of Dramatic Art: The Right Honorable Gentleman (1978) Story Theatre (1979) Bintel's Brief (original adaptation) (1980) Drums in the Night (1981) Szwei Banzi is Dead (1982) Under Milkwood (1983) Journey To the Day (1984) Journey of the Fifth Horse (1985) Plays Directed at the University of Idaho: As You Like It (1994) Miss Julie (1995) Plays Directed at Southern Illinois University: Into the Woods (Spring 1996) Angels in America, Part 1, (Fall, 1996) Plays Directed as Yale University: Fool for Love (April 1998) The Independence of Eddie Rose, by William S. Yellow Robe, Jr., Yale University Undergraduate Program (Oct., 1998) (see the publication, 2 3 Seventh Generation: An Anthology of Native American Plays, p. 43, which notes this performance) Hedda Gabler (Feb. 1999) Top Girls (March 2002) Play Directed at Emerson College As You Like It (Greene Theatre, 2008) Pancake Stories (Greene Theatre, 2008), an adaptation from the short stories of Breece D’J Pancake DNA, by Dennis Kelly (Leibergott Theatre, 2012) Plays Written Lillie and Lou: finalist for the Joseph Kesselring award (1982); presented in a workshop at the Actors Studio in 1983 (directed by Estelle Parsons), and another production directed by Doug Moston also in 1983; another presented at the University of Idaho in 1995. Representative Sample of Roles 2011 Eddie Carbone, A View from the Bridge, Buzzards Play Production, Wareham, MA Portions of the performance can be seen on YouTube of Google (DavidKrasner.AViewfromtheBridge) 2009 Ernest in Bedroom Farce, by Alan Ayckbourn, Plymouth Community Theatre 2008 Staged Reading for Blue Fire on the Water, a play about the Katrina Crisis, Boston Center for the Arts, dir. Maureen Shea 2007 Staged Reading of The Waldorf Conference, role of Harry Cohn, Emerson Stage, dir. Maureen Shea 1988-1990 MFA Program in Acting (VCU) (sample of roles) Boyet in Shakespeare’s Loves Labor’s Lost Donald in Christopher Hampton’s The Philanthropist 1987 Within the Year, original play by Sheila Walsh, at the American Theatre for Actors, 314 W 54th St. NY, leading role opposite Catherine Burns, Academy Award nominee. 1986 Peter in The Wise Have Not Spoken, by Paul Vincent Carroll, 18th St. Playhouse, New York 1885 Lorenzo in The Merchant of Venice, The Jewish Repertory Theatre Son in an (NYU) Independent Film, Going to War 3 4 1984 Gloves, an original play by me, 28th St. Playhouse, New York 1983 Roy, in Domino Court, Ensemble Studio Theatre, New York 1980-2 Actor member of the company of the New York Theatre Exchange Sample of major roles — Andy Kragler, in Brecht’s Drums in the Night Andy Mayo in O’Neill’s Beyond the Horizon 1979 National Television commercial for Enderin, an aspirin product 1978 Baal, in Brecht’s Baal, New York Theatre Workshop/Wonderhorse Theatre 1977 Ensemble in Megan Terry’s Comings and Goings (touring) 1976 The Son in Drew Kalter’s The Farewell Party, an original play, The Theatre for the New City (Jane St.) 1975 Original Children’s Musical, Try Not to Love Such a Country, The New Federal Theatre, New York 1974 Stanley Kowalski, A Streetcar Named Desire, Pittsburgh Summer Playhouse/Red Barn Theatre, directed by Norman Rene (director of Prelude to a Kiss) 1973 Alabama Shakespeare Festival: Don Juan in Much Ado About Nothing Macduff in Macbeth Corin in As You Like It Editorial Advisory Board: African American Review (since 1995) Theatre Annual (1997-2010) Text & Presentation: Journal of the Comparative Drama Conference (2000-2010) Theatre Journal (2003-2009) Theatre Survey (2004-2006) New England Theatre Journal (since 2005) Proquest (online) Literary Encyclopedia (online) Series Editor University of Michigan Press (coeditor, with Rebecca Schneider of Brown University) of "Theater: Theory/Text/Performance" (formerly edited by Enoch Brater), beginning 2006. 4 5 Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism: Series editor for theatre and drama. Sample of Classes Taught: Acting & Directing (Advanced, Intermediate, Beginner – Graduate and Undergraduate level) Voice & Speech (nine years at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts) Shakespeare Theatre and Philosophy Dramatic Theory and Criticism: advanced seminar from the Greeks to the present African American Theatre, Drama, and Performance (Graduate and Undergraduate): advanced seminar from minstrelsy/African Grove Theatre to the present, examining drama and performance studies Survey of Theatre and Drama: introductory lecture course, history of theatre and examining selected dramatic literature and performance Five American Playwrights: advanced seminar on Mamet, Shepard, August Wilson, Kushner, and Vogel Five British Playwrights: advanced seminar on Pinter, Stoppard, Bond, Churchill, and Sarah Kane Ibsen, Strindberg, and Chekhov: advanced seminar on the playwrights and their impact on modern drama Expressionism: advanced seminar examining German Expressionism and Brecht, and their influence on American Expressionism. Edward Albee: advanced seminar Teaching Awards & Honors: Betty Jean Jones Award from the American Theatre and Drama Society, 2008, for the best teacher of American theatre and drama. Twice recipient of the Errol Hill Award from the American Society for Theatre Research (1998, 2002), for the best book on African American Theatre. 5 6 Dow Scholar, Michigan State University at Saginaw, April 2003. Received $2000 Grant to teach an Honors Seminar, "Women in Theatre," at the University of Idaho, 1995. Hilles Fund (Yale University) six times awarded funds for support. Publications: Books: A History of Modern Drama, Vol. 2. Blackwell Press, forthcoming, 2015. An Actor’s Craft: The Art and Technique of Acting. Palgrave Macmillan Press, 2012. A History of Modern Drama, Vol. 1. Blackwell Press, 2012. Theatre in Theory 1900-2000: An Anthology, editor, Blackwell Press, 2008. This anthology comprises 82 previously published essays concerning dramatic theory and performance studies, with Introduction and biography of each contribution. American Drama, 1945-2000: An Introduction, Blackwell Press, 2006. Part of Blackwell’s Introduction to Literature Series. Choice Academic Book Award, 2007 Staging Philosophy: New Approaches to Theatre, Performance, and Philosophy, coeditor, Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2006. This collection comprises 15 original essays by Phil Auslander, Noël Carroll, Martin Puchner, Jon Erickson, Alice Raynor, and others. A Companion to Twentieth-Century American Drama, editor, Blackwell Press, 2005. This collection comprises 33 original essays on American Drama and Theatre. A Beautiful Pageant: African American Theatre, Drama, and Performance, 1910- 1927. New York: Palgrave, 2002. (2002 Finalist for the Theatre Library Association's George Freedley Memorial Award) African American Performance and Theater History: A Critical Reader, coeditor, New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. (Recipient of the 2002 Errol Hill Award from ASTR) Method Acting Reconsidered: Theory, Practice, Future, editor, New York: St. Martin's Press, 2000. 6 7 Resistance, Parody and Double Consciousness in African American Theatre, 1895- 1910. New York: St. Martin's Press, Scholarly & Reference Division, 1997. (Recipient of the 1998 Errol Hill Award from ASTR) Guest Editor: Journal of American Drama and Theatre 17.2 (Spring 2005), plus Introductory essay, 5- 6. Scholarly Articles in Journals: “The Genius of Bob Cole,” African American Review 44.1-2 (Spring/Summer 2011): 9- 11. “Dark Tower and the Saturday Nighters: Two Directions in African American Drama,” American Studies 49: 1/2 (Spring-Summer 2008): 5-30. "African American Theatre: State of the Profession," special 50th anniversary issue, Theatre Survey 47.2 (November 2006): 191-2. "The Theatre of Shepard Randolph Edmonds," New England Theatre Journal 16 (2005): 21-42. "Forum on African American Theatre,"
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