Professor of Theatre Arts

All's Well That Ends Well, 2000  
Luckman Fine Arts Complex

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
 
CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, LOS ANGELES

Full Professor 

Acting, Arts Management, Communications, Directing, Emotions, Performance Studies (BA/MFA) 9/89 – Present


FULL-TIME TENURE-TRACK APPOINTMENTS


SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY

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


FORMAL EDUCATION

EUROPEAN GRADUATE UNIVERSITY

Ph. D. Art, Philosophy and Critical Thought ( Media Philosophy)

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 Activism 
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

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)

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Arcadia Ensemble, 2011 

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