AWARDS

G. E. Lessing Award, Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas,
Distinguished Professor, 2009-2019
Distinguished Professor
James M. Dolliver National Endowment for the Humanities, ####-####
Faculty Teaching Award, University of Puget Sound, fall 2000, fall 2004
Teacher of the Year, Canby High School, 1979- 80

EDUCATION

PhD (directing and dramatic criticism), Stanford University, June 1988
MFA (directing), Wayne State University, 1977: Hilberry Fellowship
BA (lang. arts tchg. and drama), George Fox College, 1973: Intensified Studies (honors program)

TEACHING

Univ. of Puget Sound, Theatre Arts, 1994-2019

Professor, 2004-2013; Associate Professor, 2000-2004; Assistant Professor, 1994-2000
Chair, Department of Theatre Arts, July 2003 to July 2007; 2013-2014
Courses: First Year Seminar: Dionysus and the Theater, Fundamentals of Acting, Theatrical Experience, Theatre History I: From the Origins of Theatre to the 18th Century, Theatre History II: 19th and 20th Century Theatre, Contemporary Theatre, Theory and Performance, Projects in Dramaturgy, World Theatre 1: African Diaspora, World Theatre 2: Asian Theatre, World Theatre 3: Voices of the Americas; Ugly Beauty: On Ethics, Beauty, and Race

Villanova University, Dept. of Theater, 1988-1994

Assistant Professor, Tenure Track, 1992-1994; Visiting Professor, 1988-1992
Courses: Graduate – Dramaturgy: Classic Traditions, Dramaturgy: Modern Traditions, Greek Tragedy; Undergraduate – Theatrical Experience, Senior Seminar

Stanford University, Dept. of Drama, 1982-1988

Research assistant, “The Shakespeare Project,” interactive CD project sponsored by Stanford University and Apple Computer
Courses: “Intro. to Acting”; teaching assistant for Sandra Richards’s writing intensive course in American drama

Canby High School, Canby, OR, 1974-75; 1977-82

Courses: Advanced Placement English, Humanities

Idylwild School of Music and the Arts, Idylwild, CA, summer 1975

Theater for children

Dayton High School, Dayton, OR, 1973-74

English and drama teacher

THEATRE CREDITS

Academic

University of Puget Sound – Director

My Louisiana Project – C. Rosalind Bell (co-directed and dramaturged with Grace Livingston), fall 2018
The Seagull – Chekhov, fall 2017
Twelfth Night, fall 2016
365 Days/365 Plays (an evening of plays from this work), fall 2014
1620 Bank Street (full production, all versions with Grace Livingston as co-director and dramaturg), fall 2012)
The Trip to Bountiful, spring 2011
As You Like It, fall 2011
1620 Bank Street (reading #2), fall 2010
The Skin of Our Teeth, fall 2009
1620 Bank Street by C. Rosalind Bell (reading #1), fall 2008
The New Orleans Monologues (full productions; all versions with Grace Livingston in the lead role of Elaine Madonna Bergeron), winter 2008 at Broadway Center for the Performing Arts,
fall 2007 at Puget Sound; The New Orleans Monologues (reading #2), winter 2007; The New Orleans Monologues by C. Rosalind Bell (reading #1), fall 2006
A Midsummer Night’s Dream, fall 2006
Angels in America, Part I, fall 2004
Wild Goose Circus by Russell Davis, spring 2004
If I Should Die Before I Wake: Three Short Plays by Thornton Wilder, fall 2002
Three Sisters, fall 2000
Vinegar Tom, fall 1999
Our Town, fall 1998
Our Country’s Good, fall 1997
The Sea Gull, fall 1996
Twelfth Night, fall 1995
Dandelion Wine, spring 1995

University of Puget Sound – Dramaturgy

My Louisiana Project by C. Rosalind Bell (co-dramaturgy with Grace Livingston)
1620 Bank Street by C. Rosalind Bell, 2008-2012 (with Grace Livingston as co-dramaturg and director)
The New Orleans Monologues by C. Rosalind Bell, 2006-2008
Chism Seminar in Contemporary Theater and Performance, spring 2000

Villanova University – Director

Midsummer Night’s Dream, spring 1994;
The Cat Is Dead (new play), spring 1993
Artistic director, Plays-In-Process I, new plays by Jules Tasca, Steve Shade, and David Rabe, fall 1992
Master Harold and the Boys, spring 1992
The Birthday Party, spring 1991
Butchers (new play), fall 1989; spring 1993
Hedda Gabler, (prem. of new translation), spring 1989

Villanova University – Dramaturgy

Dramaturg, Shakuntala, ACTF recognition, fall 1989
Co-Moderator, The Playwrights’ Group at Villanova, fall of 1990 to 1994

Stanford University, 1982-1988

Wayne State University, 1975-77: adaptor and dir., Dandelion Wine (Bradbury); dir., Line

Professional

People’s Light and Theatre: dramaturgy Romeo and Juliet, June 2017: one-week residency devoted to cutting the text.

People’s Light and Theatre: dramaturgy, Richard III, winter 2016: one-week residency devoted to cutting the text.

Northwest Playwrights Alliance: directed readings of Bootleg by Bryan Willis, fall 2008, spring 2011

New Harmony Project, New Harmony, Indiana, spring 2005: dramaturg with writer Russell Davis and director Danny Jenkins for two-week residency to work on Mahida’s Extra Key to Heaven

Museum of Glass, Tacoma: dramaturgical consultant for dialogue created for “Glass of the Avant-Garde: From Vienna Secession to Bauhaus,” July 200

Museum of Glass, Tacoma: author for interpretive dialogue commissioned by the museum for the exhibit, “The Inner Light: Sculpture of Stanislav Libensky and Jaroslava Brychtova,” July of 2002

Guthrie Theater, Minneapolis: dramaturg, Mark Lamos’ production of Antony and Cleopatra, winter 2001-2002

New Harmony Project, New Harmony, Indiana, spring 2000: dramaturg with writer Russell Davis and director Abigail Adams for two-week residency to work on The Song of Grendelyn

Tacoma Actors Guild, editor, educational dramaturgy for Twelfth Night, 1997-98 season; To Kill a Mockingbird, 1996- 97 season

People’s Light and Theatre: dramaturg, Peter Pan, fall 1993 Arena Stage, Wash., D.C., 1985: assist. dir. to Lucian Pintilie,

Tartuffe
TheatreWorks, Palo Alto, 1985: dir., Foxfire; associate dir., On

the Razzle

Guthrie Theatre, Minneapolis, 1984: assist. dir. to Lucian Pintilie, Tartuffe

PUBLICATIONS

Books
Author, Toward a Dramaturgical Sensibility (Fairleigh Dickinson

UP, 2008; Outstanding Book Award, 2009, Association for

Theatre in Higher Education)
Author, Coming Home Again: American Family Drama and the

Figure of the Prodigal (Fairleigh Dickinson UP, 1997)

Co-editor with Susan Jonas and Michael Lupu and contributor to Dramaturgy in American Theater: A Source Book (Harcourt Brace, 1997)

Articles

Foreword, Katalin Trencsényi’s Dramaturgy in the Making (forthcoming, summer 2014)

Invited Contributor, “Canadian Road Trip: An Oblique State of Mind,” Canadian Theatre Review: Special Issue on Dramaturgy, summer 2004

Invited Contributor, “Dramaturgy and Silence,” Theatre Topics: Dramaturgy Special Issue 13.1 (2003): 25-33.

Invited Contributor, “Rehearsing Dramaturgy: Time Is Passing,” Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism 13.1 (1998): 103- 12.

“Rehearsing Dramaturgy: Olivia’s Moment,” Theatre Topics 9.2 (1999): 197-202.

“Foucault on Discourse; O’Neill as Discourse,” Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism, spring 1990

Articles on “dramaturgy,” the “dramaturg,” and “theatricality” for the Encyclopedia of English Studies, Scholastic Press, 1994

Articles on the teaching of Sophocles, Yeats, and Eliot in the secondary school, Oregon English, 1980, 1982

PROJECTS

Professional Developments Seminars

Leader, James M. Dolliver National Endowment for the Humanities Project, “Engaging Creativity, Criticism, Collaboration, and Community Through the Work of Suzan-

Lori Parks and Her Contemporaries,” fall of 2009-spring 2013: this project would have not been possible were it not for the help of several individuals, among them C. Rosalind Bell and Kurt Walls. Grace Livingston contributed to every stage of this project’s conception and execution.

Participant, James M. Dolliver National Endowment for the Humanities Seminar, “Teaching Difficult Texts at Puget Sound” under the leadership of Dolliver Professor Hans Ostrom, spring 2009: a special thanks to Hans for allowing me to participate as a guest in this two-week seminar

Projects: Editorial, Archival

Convener with Lee Devin and Bryan Moore, Hot Topics Session, Annual Conference, Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas, 2004 to present

Editorial Board, LMDA Review, 2011-2014
Archivist, Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas:

2002 to present
Editor and contributor, “Dramaturgy Northwest,” June 1996 to

present
URL: http://www.ups.edu/professionalorgs/dramaturgy/dramaturgy_no rthwest

Contributor, The LMDA Source Book, Vol. 3, Lee Devin, ed. (in- house publication, 2003)

Editor and contributor, LMDA Review, fall 1998 to spring 2001: six issues

Editorial Board, Theatre Topics: 1999 to 2009

Contributor to The LMDA Source Book, Vol. 2, Lee Devin and Susan Jonas, ed.(in-house publication, 1997) : “Dramaturgy and the Internet: Three Projects,” “Dramaturgy and the Liberal Arts”

Compiler, “LMDA Guide to Dramaturgy Programs,” 1997 to 2001

Editor, “LMDA Bibliography,” 1993 to 2010
Founder, Univ. Caucus E-Mail Dist. List for Literary Managers

and Dramaturgs of the Americas, 1994 to present (now the

LMDA Discussion List)
Contributor, The LMDA Source Book, Vol. 1, Susan Jonas, ed.

(in-house publication, 1992)

PANELS AND PRESENTATIONS

“I Swim in Two Currents: Toward a Dramaturgy of Memory,” paper (LMDA/Berkeley, June 2017)

Recipient, G.E. Lessing Award (LMDA/Portland, July 2016) “Chamberlain, SD and the River,” paper (LMDA/New York, June

2015)
“How We Think About It,” paper (LMDA/Boston, June 2014)

“What’s at the heart of our teaching? Big ideas/little steps,” chair and organizer (LMDA/Vancouver, June 2013)

Co-Organizer, “On Collaboration” (Regional Meeting, LMDA, February 2013)

“Healing Fiction/A Dramaturgy, Part 1, Work-in-Progress,” paper (LMDA/Denver, July 2011)

“Writing about Theatre Practice,” invited panelist; recipient, Outstanding Book Award, 2009 (ATHE/New York City, August 2009)

“The Suzan-Lori Parks Project,” brief presentation with C. Rosalind Bell (LMDA/Washington, D.C., July 2009)

“Collaborating with DD Kugler on Toward a Dramaturgical Sensibility,” presentation (LMDA Canada, Mini-Conference on Dramaturgy/Toronto, June 2009)

“Dramaturgy, Our World, and Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra,” paper, IES Seminar on Developments in Contemporary Theatre (London, Sept. 2008)

“Killing Snakes/Eating Strawberries,” presentation (ATHE/Denver, August 2008)

“On The New Orleans Monologues” with C. Rosalind Bell and Grace Livingston (ATHE/New Orleans, July 2007)

“How Do We Get Better at What We Do?” presentation (LMDA/Toronto, June 2007)

“Race, Curriculum, and the Performing Arts: Opportunities and Challenges,” chair and organizer (Race and Pedagogy Conference/Univ. of Puget Sound, Sept. 2006

“Prospero’s Books: Dramaturgs and Archives,” presentation (LMDA/Minneapolis, June 2006)

“Dramaturgy and Pedagogy: Exploring/Exploding the Assumptions,” presentation (ATHE/Toronto, Aug. 2004)

“Toward A Dramaturgical Sensibility (Again): Seven Themes,” paper (LMDA/Philadelphia, June 2004).

“Having Time To Play,” Workshop with Shannon O’Donnell of People’s Light and Theatre Co. (LMDA/Philadelphia, June 2004)

“The Pedestrian, or Walking Along the Curve of the Earth,” paper for panel entitled, “Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas: Exploring the Dramaturgy of a Play,” (ATHE/New York, August, 2003)

Presentation on Dramaturgy Northwest for panel entitled “Dramaturgy and Cyberspace,” (ATHE/New York, August, 2003)

“‘Not Know Me Yet?’: Dramaturgy and The Unexplored,” paper (LMDA/Chicago, June 2003)

Invited Guest Speaker, “The Invisible Art: Dramaturgy in American Theater,” paper (Swarthmore College, Feb. 7-9, 2003)

Invited Guest Speaker, International Dramaturgy Symposium, Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, Massachusetts, March 1-3, 2002

Invited Guest Speaker, “Garden/Map/Poem —Three Graces, Three Pleasures,” essay (Museum of Glass, Alumni Event, Feb. 22, 2003: excerpt published in Arches)

Invited Guest Speaker, Dramaturgy Class, Simon Fraser University: spring 1999, spring 2000, spring 2003, et al.

“Dramaturgy and Silence,” paper (LMDA/Vancouver, BC), June 2002

“The Problem with Theater and the Work of Rehearsal: A Multi-Media Presentation on the Anti-Theatrical Prejudice and on Rehearsal as a Way of Knowing,” lecture (Regester Lecture, fall 2001, Univ. of Puget Sound): excerpt published in Arches

“Responding to Our Critics: Terry McCabe’s Attack on Dramaturgy” (ATHE/Chicago, August, 2001)

“Guide, Bibliography, Archive, Chronology, and Ecology,” presentation (LMDA, Denver, June 2001)

“Ménage à Trois: Two Part Panel with Designers, Directors, and Dramaturgs” (ATHE/Washington, DC, August 2000)

“Looking at LMDA,” paper (LMDA/Fairfax, Virginia, June 2000): published LMDA Review, fall 2000

“Rehearsing Dramaturgy: Beginnings,” paper for a panel entitled, “Rehearsal: a conversation,” (ATHE/Toronto, July 1999)

Invited Guest, PanCanadian playRites 1999 Visitors’ Blitz Weekend (Calgary, March 1999)

“Rehearsing Dramaturgy: Olivia’s Moment,” paper for a panel entitled “Rehearsal: Script into Play” (ATHE/San Antonio, August 1998)

Participant, Univ. Caucus Hot Topics Panel (LMDA, Columbia Univ., June 1998): see above paper for Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism (“Rehearsing Dramaturgy: Time Is Passing”)

Invited Guest, PanCanadian playRites 1998 Visitors’ Blitz Weekend (Calgary, March 1999, March 1998)

Invited Guest, “Theatrefest 1998,” Texas Educational Theatre Association, panel entitled “A Dialogue with Professional and Academic Dramaturgs in America (Dallas, January, 1998)

“Time in the Air: Autobiography, Playscript, Performance, and Rehearsal,” paper for a panel entitled “Training for Dramaturg-Director Relationships” (ATHE/Chicago, August 1997)

“Rehearsal Moments,” paper (LMDA/Yale Univ., June 1997) “Passion and the Questioning Spirit: A Conversation on the

Role of the Dramaturg in American Theatre and Education,” co-chair and panel coordinator for this double session involving over twenty leaders in the field of dramaturgy from university and professional theatre (ATHE/New York, August 1996)

“Dramaturgy and the Internet,” paper and presentation on three projects involving dramaturgy and new technologies (LMDA/Toronto/June 1996)

“On the Road Again: American Family Drama and the Prodigal Impulse,” paper delivered for a panel entitled “Gone West:

Pilgrim, Prodigal, and Picaro in the Cultural Geography of

Modern Drama” (ATHE/San Francisco, August 1995) “Exploring the Relationship Between Dramaturgy and

Directing,” Jim Christy (Villanova Univ.), Jane Ann Crum (Catholic Univ.), David Krasner (Univ. of Idaho), Harriet Power (Villanova Univ.), John Rindo (Univ. of Puget Sound)”: panel coordinator (ATHE/San Francisco, August 1995)

“Dramaturgy and the Dramaturg in Undergraduate Education,” moderator and paper (LMDA/Los Angeles, June 1995)

“The Images Before Us: Implied Models for the Dramaturg in American Theatre,” paper delivered for a panel entitled “Dramaturgy/Pedagogy: Part I–Educating the Dramaturg” (ATHE/Philadelphia, August 1993)

“Dramaturg Training in Universities,” moderator/bilingual panel (LMDA/Montréal, June 1993)

“Dramaturgs at Work: Creative Theatre Making,” participant in interactive workshop (ECTC/Philadelphia, Feb. 1993)

“The Sentimental Spectator,” paper delivered for a panel entitled “Constituting the Audience”; fellow panelists, Rush Rehm and Charles Lyons of Stanford University (Theory and Crit. Forum, ATHE/Atlanta, August 1992)

“Teaching Dramaturgy,” presentation on curriculum for course in production dramaturgy (ATHE/Seattle, August 1992)

“Training New Dramaturgs,” co-moderator; panelists included Mark Bly (Yale School of Drama), Michael Lupu (Guthrie Theatre), Richard Pettengill (Goodman Theatre) (LMDA/Seattle, June 1992)

“How to Teach Dramaturgy: Pre-Conference, Annual Meeting of Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas,”

presentation on models for the dramaturg/director

relationship (LMDA/Seattle/June 1992)
“Creativity, Collaboration, and the Shakespearean Text: Part I–

Raising Questions, Making Problems; Part II–Generating Approaches; Part III–Exchanging Approaches, Moving On”; three interactive workshops involving directors, dramaturgs, and designers from university and professional theatres (SUNY – Stony Brook, Southern Methodist, Bryn Mawr, Univ. of Pennsylvania, Swarthmore College, Goodman Theatre, Huntington Theatre, Irondale Ensemble, Classic Stage Company), organizer/moderator (ECTC/Baltimore, Feb. 1992)

“Re-Theorizing the Carnivalesque: Models of Communication in Clowning, Rock Music and Theatrical Improvisation,” proposal coordinator (Theory and Crit. Forum,
ATHE/Seattle, Aug. 1991)

“Theatricality: Theory and Practice,” coordinator and par- ticipant with Michael Lupu (dramaturg), Theodora Skipitares (solo performer), Jeff Steitzler (professional director), and Lon Winston (designer) (Directing Forum, ATHE/Seattle, Aug. 1991)

“Creativity and the Collaborative Process,” three panels involving directors, dramaturgs, and other theatre practitioners with backgrounds in academic and profes- sional theatre; coordinator and participant (ECTC/Albany, Feb. 1991)

“Perspectives on Horton Foote,” paper delivered for panel on Horton Foote (Religion and Theatre Forum, ATHE/Chicago, Aug. 1990)

“The Figure of the Prodigal,” paper (ECTC/Wilmington, Feb. 1990)

“Theatre in American Higher Education: Respected Discipline or Academic ‘Poor Cousin,’” respondent (ECTC/Philadelphia, Feb. 1989)

SERVICE

To the Profession

Service Award, Faculty Senate, University of Puget Sound, 2019 President, Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas:

1998-2000
Archivist, Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas:

2002 to present
External Examiner, School for the Contemporary Arts, Simon

Fraser University, spring 2003: one of three examiners brought in for a three day review of the school and its programs

Outside Examiner, Graduate School, Simon Fraser University: 2000-2013, several different thesis projects

Focus Group Rep (chair), Dramaturgy Focus Group of ATHE (Association for Theatre in Higher Education, 1998-2000

Conference Planner, Dramaturgy Focus Group, ATHE, 1996- 1998

Founder, Univ. Caucus E-Mail Dist. List for Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas, 1994 to present
Honors examiner in dramaturgy and theatre history;

Swarthmore College, 1991, 1992, 1993
Vice-President, University Caucus, LMDA, 1993-1995 Co-Founder, LMDA University Caucus Pre-Conference, 1992

National Planning Committee, Annual Conference of Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas, Philadelphia, June 1991

Tenure or promotion reviews for various universities 1990 to present

To the University
Curriculum Committee, 2018-2019
Committee on Diversity, spring 2018
Internal Review Board, 2016-2017
Race and Pedagogy National Conference Arts and Special

Events, 2014, 2018
Attended Pacific Northwest Learning Conference – Assessment

and Improvement, Nov. 15-16, 2013, Pacific Lutheran

University: create department assessment plan
Faculty Representative, Staff Senate, 2013-present
Race and Pedagogy Initiative Advisory Council, 2012-present Diversity Advisory Council, 2011-2015
Race and Pedagogy National Conference Arts and Special

Events Co-Chair (2010)
Student Life Committee, 2009-2012
Chair, Theatre Arts Department: July 2003 to July 2007; 2013-

present
Brown And Haley Lecture Committee: 2002 to present Library, Media, and Academic Computing (LMAC) Committee:

2002-present
Honors Committee, Heather Honahoe, spring 2003 Participant, Software Classes on Flash, Blackboard, and

Dreamweaver, spring 2003.

Working Group, Planning for the Next Decade, spring and fall 2003: one of ten faculty chosen to work to review strategic plan for the next decade

Admissions trip to Minneapolis with Mel Reed: April 2002 and other occasions

Participant, Fast Track to Macromedia Flash MX training, June 2002: two days training seminar

Prelude Committee, three year term: fall, 1998 to fall 2001. Admissions dinner for visiting guidance counselors: April 2001 Admissions trip to Minneapolis with Mel Reed: March 2001 Co-ordinator, Bill T. Jones Visit, Norton Clapp Visiting Artist,

spring 2001
Student Life Committee, fall 2000 to spring 2001
Chair, Proehl’s Sabbatical Leave Replacement, spring 2001 Design Leave Replacement Search, spring 2001: wrote job

description and rationale
Participant, Murdock Technology Initiative, spring 2001 to

winter 2002
Member, Faculty Club, spring 2000 to present
Student Life Committee: 2000-2001
Education presentations about Three Sisters: Humanities

Seminar (5 visits), as well as Julie Neff-Lipman’s and

Florence Sandler’s classes, fall 2000
Speaker and tour guide, Theater Alumni Reunion, fall 2000 Faculty Leader (usually with Peter Greenfield), Oregon

Shakespeare Festival Weekend, Office of Alumni

Relations, annually from June 1999 to 2002
Coordinator for Programming and Logistics, Chism Seminar in

Contemporary Theater and Performance, Univ. of Puget

Sound, spring 2000: guests (each for three day residencies) were George Thorn, Tandy Beals, Susan Haedicke, Guillermo Gomez-Pena, Lee Devin, Roberta Uno, Harry Elam, DD Kugler, Abigail Adams, and Heidi Gilpin

Departmental Search Committee for faculty member to fill position in theater history and criticism, 1998-1999

Incoming freshman presentation, “Ideas at Work and Play: The Luminous Surface of Things,” Sept. 24, 1998

Participant, Nancy Sommers Writing Workshop, June 1998 Honors Committee, Kristen Jacobsen, spring 1998 Presentations for Prospective Student Week-End, 1998 and

other years
Co-ordinated department and campus visits for Pulizer prize-

winning playwright Robert Schenkkan (“Voices of the American Theater” series), for Leonid Anisimov (Russian director, head of Pacific Theatre in Vladivostok), and for the “Living with Theatre: Journies from Here to There” speaker series, 1996 to present

Departmental Search Committee for faculty member to fill position in organizational and intercultural communication (January/February 1998)

Presentation for Prospective Students with the Office of Admissions (Peter Jones and Melanie Reed), Minneapolis, Feb. 1998

Teacher, “Prelude,” Univ. of Puget Sound, 1996-1998 Teacher, “Singing for Actors,” Univ. of Puget Sound, Music

Dept, 1995-1998

Curriculum Committee, University of Puget Sound, fall 1996- 1999

Scholarship Coordinator for Theatre Students, Univ. of Puget Sound, fall 1995 to present

Honors Committee, Shannon O’Donnell, spring 1997 Interviewed and videotaped for new admissions video, Office

of Admissions, 1996-1997
Advisor, Honors Thesis, Sara Freeman, Univ. of Puget Sound,

spring 1996

To the University: Advising
Advising Classes: THTR 275, fall 2013; HUM 131, fall 2010;

THTR 275, fall 2005; HUM 120, fall 2003; THTR 275, fall

2002, et al.
Established informal email distribution list for current students

and graduates looking for jobs, internships, and grad. schools as a way of passing on useful information, winter 2002

Created handout for graduating students: “Next Steps: Looking for a Theater Job, Internship, Grad School, Summer Training Programs, etc.”

Actively maintain contacts with individuals in graduate programs and professional theaters and work with students to find appropriate placement opportunities before and after graduation

Sponsor on campus an ongoing series of guest speakers from local, regional, national, and even international locales in order to better introduce the students to challenges and opportunities they will encounter upon graduation: past

guests have included, Michael Lupu, Guthrie Theatre; DD Kugler, Simon Fraser University; Liz Engelman, A Contemporary Theater; Suzy Willhoft, Stadium High School; Kurt Beattie, A Contemporary Theatre; and many alumni

Bring students as participants and volunteers into national conferences for Association for Theatre in Higher Education and Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas: e.g. — Louise Lytle helped plan and coordinate two conferences (1999 and 2000) for LMDA; Gretchen Haley, planned the Denver conference for LMDA in June of 2001; a former student (from Villanova) is currently the president of LMDA

Created department file cabinet with information on opportunities for theatre students before and after graduation

To the Community
Member, Education Committee, Museum of Glass: January

2002 to 2004.
Established ongoing relationships between Puget Sound

theater program and teachers in local high schools: 1997

to present
Volunteer, Wainwright Elementary: assist with sound and sets

for elementary school music programs, 2001 to present Juror, Tacoma Artists Initiative Program, Dec. 1999

Professional Associations

Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE)

Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of America (LMDA) Pacific Northwest Writers Association (PNWA)

Geoff Proehl, Writer, Pacific Northwest

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