Teaching
1998 - present Assistant Professor of Theatre History and Literature at the
College of Charleston. Courses taught include:
Introduction to Theatre, Theatre History and Literature, Acting 1, Dramaturgy,
Theory and Criticism, Stage Management
As a director at the College of Charleston, I have directed Sophie Treadwell's
Machinal, which won Best Non-Spoleto production in Charleston for 1999,
and will be directing Caryl Churchill's Vinegar Tom in November of 2000.
Fall 1997 - Acting I - Allegheny College
Spring 1997 - Oral Interpretation - Allegheny College
1993/1994 - Teaching Assistant to Dr. John Brokaw at UT-Austin. Theatre History
for Theatre Majors. Job involved grading papers, tutoring students, and lecturing
several times a semester.
1988/1989 - Teaching Assistant to Dr. Miles Coiner at Emerson College. Theatre
History for Performing Arts Majors. Job involved creating, administering and
grading quizzes and exams, creating study guides, and personal tutoring.
November 1995 - Acting for Business Professionals and Improvisation - Meadville
Council on the Arts
1994/1995 - Improvisation and Acting for Business Professionals - Informal Classes,
University of Texas-Austin
Summer 1991 - Beginning Acting, Beginning Acting (Children), Improvisation -
Florida Studio Theatre, Sarasota, Florida
I have also taught one-day Stage Management Seminars and Improvisation Master
Classes
Publications
Book - Essays on Audience Participation (working title) - forthcoming, Greenwood
Press, 2002.
Book - Sketches
and Afterpieces from the Vaudeville Theatre of Tony Pastor - Greenwood
Press, 1998.
Managing Editor - Theatre Insight - Vol.5, no.1, Dec. 1993.
Article - "Absence as a Site for Debate: Modern Feminism and Victorianism
in the Plays of Susan Glaspell" - New England Theatre Journal -
Vol. 7, 1996.
Article - "Tony Pastor's Vaudeville: Serving the New York Community"
- Library Chronicle of the University of Texas at Austin - Vol. 25, no.
3, 1995.
Book Review - Theatre Insight - Vol. 4, 1993.
Presentations (sample of presentations)
April 2000 - "A Relationship in Flux: Variety Theatre and Government in the 20th Century" - Theatre Symposium, Berry, GA
August 1999 - "La Petomane Couldn't Cut It: the Decline of the Freak Show Act in America" - paper presentation and panel chair - ATHE Convention - Toronto, Canada
April 1999 - "Seeing the Political Through the Popular: Post Civil War Politics in the Vaudeville Afterpiece" - Theatre Symposium - Greenville, SC
August 1998 - Presentation on Interactivity in Cybertheatre - Association for
Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE) Convention - San Antonio, TX
March 1998 - "Afterpieces from the Vaudeville Theatre of Tony Pastor: reflecting perceived immigrant experience" - Southeastern Theatre Conference (SETC) - Birmingham, AL
August 1997 - Chair of panel on Audience Participation - Transcending Genre
- ATHE Convention - Chicago, IL
August 1995 - Chair of spotlight panel on Chaos Theory and Performance - ATHE
Convention - San Francisco, CA (This presentation and the above both included
paper presentations, available upon request)
April 1995 - Paper presentation - Esther's Follies and the Ideal Popular Variety
Theatre Space - National Popular Culture Convention - Philadelphia, PA - cowritten
with Michael Mehler
June 1994 - Paper presentation - The Dramaturg Conceived of as Voice - Theatre
Symposium - Atlanta, GA
Computer Skills
I have web page writing capabilities in Macromedia Dreamweaver, Adobe PageMill
and in HTML programming language.
I am a programmer at ATHEMOO (Telnet moo.hawaii.edu 9999) and run tutorials
there to teach MOO communication methods.
Professional Memberships
Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society
Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE) (where I serve on the Electronic
Technology Committee)
American Society for Theatre Research (ASTR)
American Theatre and Drama Society (ATDS) (where I serve as the Listserv moderator)
Popular Culture Association
I also have extensive production experience, primarily in the areas of Directing, Acting and Stage Management. A production resume is available upon request.