PROFESSOR
of
THEATRE
~
COMMUNICATIONS
CULTURAL STUDIES
DOCUMENTARY / FILM / MEDIA
SOCIOLOGY
All's Well That Ends Well, 2000
Luckman Fine Arts Complex
FULL TIME
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, LOS ANGELES
Full Tenured Professor - Retired
Acting, Arts Management, Communications, Directing, Emotions, Performance Studies (BA/MFA) 9/89 – 3/18
SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY
Tenure Track Assistant Professor
MFA Performance Training: Directing, Acting, Voice, Movement, Film, TV Acting, Women's Studies
8/86 – 8/89
SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY AT CARBONDALE
Visiting Assistant Professor
Performance Training MFA: Directing , Acting , Voice, Movement
8/84 – 8/86
ADJUNCT APPOINTMENTS
NATIONAL UNIVERSITY
Core Adjunct Faculty
Argument and Debate, Art History, Business, Communications, Cultural Diversity, History, Humanities, Information Literacy, Media Studies, Music, Political Science, Sociology, Theatre, and Film
8/84 - 3/11
SPRINGFIELD COLLEGE
Adjunct Faculty
Behavior Science, Communications, Writing, Women’s Studies-5/02-12/07
AMERICAN INTERCONTINENTAL UNIVERSITY
Adjunct Faculty
Art, Business, Literature, Sociology, Global Cultural Relations-4/99-12/07
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, IRVINE
MFA Instructor
Acting-9/80 – 7/83
GUEST LECTURING
USC
Los Angeles, CA. 1993
UCLA
Los Angeles, CA. 1992
GLENDALE COMMUNITY COLLEGE
Glendale, CA. 1991
CHULALONGKORN UNIVERSITY
Bangkok, Thailand. 1990
CSU SUMMER ARTS
Lake Tahoe, CA 1988
SANTA CLARA UNIVERSITY
Santa Clara, CA 1988-89
OBERLIN COLLEGE
Oberlin, Ohio 1986
EDUCATION - FORMAL DEGREES
EUROPEAN GRADUATE UNIVERSITY
Ph. D. Art, Philosophy and Critical Thought ( Media Philosophy) 2018
Dissertation: Cancer and the Healing Arts
Specialization: Politics of Health in Performance
(ABD: Anticipated Completion: 2018)
CLAREMONT GRADUATE UNIVERSITY
Ph. D. Cultural Studies, 2011
Dissertation: The Vismistic Triadic
Specialization: Performing Grassroots Artivism
MA Cultural Studies, 2009
Thesis: Global Artivism
Specialization: Cultural Documentary
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, IRVINE
MFA Drama, 1983
Thesis: Volumnia in Shakespeare's Coriolanus
Specialization: Shakespearean Performance 1983
LOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY
BA Dance and Drama, 1977
PROFESSIONAL TRAINING
ROYAL ACADEMY OF DRAMATIC ART
Intensives, 1975-76
LONDON ACADEMY OF MUSIC AND DRAMATIC ART
Intensives, 1975-76
Studied and worked with numerous master teachers in the arts, acting, dance, cultural and media studies, most notably Robert Cohen, Brewster Mason, William Needles, Keith Fowler, Augusto Boal, Jerzy Grotowski, Stella Adler, Pamela Barnard, Henry Marshall, Bella Lewitski, Karen Bell, Teodoro Morca, Tony Barr, and Eric Kline.
(List upon request)
