Creativity and Scholarship
Publications
- Inside the Tornado: a Community’s Response to Cataclysm Through Theatre, Editor. Submitted to a university press, (est. publishing date 2015).
- Breaking Boundaries: an Anthology of Original Plays at Focus Theatre, editor Carysfort Press, Dublin Ireland, 2013.
- Stanislavsky in Ireland: Focus at Fifty, co-editor. Carysfort Press, Dublin, Ireland, 2013. (See the video clip below. Read the review on the News & Events page.)
- “Comedy in Long Shot” – book review. Studies in American Humor, Vol. 3, 2012.
- Stage Plays: An Introductory Anthology, editor. Great River Technology, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013.
- “Chasing Shadows” – essay. (Stranmillis University College Residence Program, 2009).
- Andrew P. Wilson and the Early Irish and Scottish National Theatres, 1911-1950 – book. The Edwin Mellen Press, 2008.
- “When Satire More than Closed on Saturday Night: Henry Fielding and the Licensing Act of 1737” – essay. Theatre Symposium, 2008.
- “Intensifying the Light: Harold Pinter’s Holocaust Theatre” – essay. Mofa, 2008.
- “Prisoners of the Tree: Lee Blessing’s American Eden” – essay. Prospects 29: An Annual of American Cultural Studies Winter 2005.
- “Historical Invisibility: the Vexatious A.P. Wilson and the Abbey Theatre” – essay. Theatre History Studies June 2003.
- “Joshua Sobol and the Vilna Trilogy,” “Donald Margulies and The Model Apartment,” and “Jon Robin Baitz’ Three Hotels and The Substance of Fire” – chapters. Holocaust Literature: Two Volumes (Routledge 2003).
- “Arthur Miller and Incident at Vichy,” “Harold Pinter and Ashes to Ashes,” and “Tony Kushner and A Bright Room Called Day” – essays. Reference Guide to Holocaust Literature (St. James 2002).
- “The Seagull” – performance review. Theatre Journal, October 2002.
- “Helen Hayes” – biographical essay. The Oxford Companion to United States History (2001).
- “American Buffalo” - performance review. The David Mamet Review, Fall 2000.
- “Imitation of Life: A Meditation on Victim Art” – essay. Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism, December, 1997.
Director
- Julius Caesar - Rude Mechanicals, Tuscaloosa, AL - 2014
- Shakespeare Spoken and Sung - Rude Mechanicals/Prentice Concert Choir - 2013
- The Winter’s Tale - Rude Mechanicals, Tuscaloosa, AL - 2013
- Lysistrata - Improbable Fictions, Tuscaloosa, AL - 2012
- A Midsummer Night’s Dream - Rude Mechanicals, Tuscaloosa, AL - 2012
- Hecuba - Improbable Fictions, Tuscaloosa, AL - 2011
- The Tempest - Rude Mechanicals, Tuscaloosa, AL - 2011
- Measure for Measure - Rude Mechanicals, Tuscaloosa, AL - 2010
- Talk to Me Like the Rain - APO Guerilla Theatre, UA - 2010
- Macbeth - Rude Mechanicals, Tuscaloosa, AL - 2009
- True West (scene) - APO Guerilla Theatre, UA - 2009
- Taming of the Shrew - Rude Mechanicals, Tuscaloosa, AL - 2008
- Bent (scene) - APO Guerilla Theatre, UA - 2008
- As You Like It - Rude Mechanicals, Tuscaloosa, AL - 2007
- The Comedy of Errors - Rude Mechanicals, Tuscaloosa, AL - 2006
- The Sure Thing - APO Guerilla Theatre, UA - 2006
- Pericles - - Rude Mechanicals, Tuscaloosa, AL - 2005
- Dutchman - APO Guerilla Theatre, UA - 2005
- Words Words Words - APO Guerilla Theatre, UA - 2004
Actor
- The Merchant of Venice (Shylock) - Improbable Fictions - 2014
- Henry IV, Parts One and Two (Henry IV) - Improbable Fictions - 2013
- The Tragedy of Maryam (Constaborus) - Improbable Fictions - 2012
- The Sea Gull (Sorin) - UA Theatre Department - 2011
- A Genesis Found (Dr. McClean) - Wonder Mill Films - 2009
- Something Cloudy, Something Clear - UA Theatre Department - 2008
- The Crucible (Francis Nurse) - Theatre Tuscaloosa - 2006
- Death of a Salesman (Charley) - Theatre Tuscaloosa - 2005
- You Can’t Take It With You (Grandpa) - UA Theatre Department - 2004
- West Side Story (Doc) - - UA Theatre Department - 2003
Playwright
- Is My Verse Alive? a stage play about Emily Dickinson; staged reading at University of Alabama, Department of Theatre and Dance (April 2014)
- War Drums - Staged reading, University of Alabama, Department of Theatre and Dance - 2011
- Moby-Dick - a stage adaptation; full script; produced at University of Alabama, Department of Theatre and Dance (February 2011)
Related Projects
“Conversation with John Sayles and Maggie Renzi,” (moderator), Sidewalk Moving Picture Festival, Birmingham, Alabama (September 2006)
“Crafting Your Radio Play,” manual and anthology, (author and editor), New College 490 Creative Imagination and Radio Drama Course Reader (August 2006), an extension of Crafting Your Play, a manual I wrote and have used as a Course Reader since teaching a course as a graduate teaching assistant in1995. You may access it here.
“Women in the Theatre,” Feminist Thought in the 21st Century, New College Radio Lab (panelist), University of Alabama (April 2006)
Mentored two student prize-winners for 2006 Undergraduate Research and Creative Activity Oral and Poster Presentations Competitions (April 2006)
“Learning to Curse While Abjuring the Rough Magic: Shakespeare’s The Tempest in Some Late Twentieth-Century Intervention,” (paper presentation) Blount Convocation, University of Alabama (October 2005)
“Dramatic Storytelling,” Secondary Gifted Program: a course for local gifted high school students, sponsored by Allegheny College (Fall 2001-Spring 2002)
A View From the Terrace: drama commissioned for the sesquicentennial celebration of University of Wisconsin (1998), produced by the University of Wisconsin Madison (February 1999)
Kiss It Good-Bye: a multimedia collaborative dramatic workshop by Theatre Arts Department of Northern Illinois University to educate middle and high school students on issues surrounding teen-age drinking and driving in Illinois (1994-1995), produced by Northern Illinois University (April 1995)
“Crafting Your Radio Play,” manual and anthology, (author and editor), New College 490 Creative Imagination and Radio Drama Course Reader (August 2006), an extension of Crafting Your Play, a manual I wrote and have used as a Course Reader since teaching a course as a graduate teaching assistant in1995. You may access it here.
“Women in the Theatre,” Feminist Thought in the 21st Century, New College Radio Lab (panelist), University of Alabama (April 2006)
Mentored two student prize-winners for 2006 Undergraduate Research and Creative Activity Oral and Poster Presentations Competitions (April 2006)
“Learning to Curse While Abjuring the Rough Magic: Shakespeare’s The Tempest in Some Late Twentieth-Century Intervention,” (paper presentation) Blount Convocation, University of Alabama (October 2005)
“Dramatic Storytelling,” Secondary Gifted Program: a course for local gifted high school students, sponsored by Allegheny College (Fall 2001-Spring 2002)
A View From the Terrace: drama commissioned for the sesquicentennial celebration of University of Wisconsin (1998), produced by the University of Wisconsin Madison (February 1999)
Kiss It Good-Bye: a multimedia collaborative dramatic workshop by Theatre Arts Department of Northern Illinois University to educate middle and high school students on issues surrounding teen-age drinking and driving in Illinois (1994-1995), produced by Northern Illinois University (April 1995)
