Summary Teaching Resume
Ph.D. Theatre and Speech Communication, University of Minnesota/Minneapolis (1975)
M.A. Theatre and Speech Communication, University of Minnesota/Minneapolis (1968)
B.A. English, Rice University (1966)
*Tenured Associate Professor of Theatre, Northwestern University (1976-89)
In this capacity I won teaching awards; administered the Ph.D. in Theatre and Drama as well as the Playwriting Program; taught courses at every level in history, literature, theory, playwriting, and research; taught every kind of class from small seminar to large lecture; directed independent studies; and directed as well as advised dozens of dissertations and theses.
I resigned to undertake new challenges.
*Other college-level teaching includes Pomona College (Visiting Professor, Playwriting), University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire (Visiting Professor of Theatre), and University of Minnesota (Teaching Associate, Instructor).
*Extra-university adult teaching includes playwriting workshops at Stateville Prison (Illinois) and Victory Gardens Theatre (Chicago). I taught preparation for the Law School Admissions Test for five years (through the Princeton Review in Los Angeles).
*Elementary and Secondary teaching: I taught English and SAT/ACT preparation to grades 6-10 at Lycee International de Los Angeles (2003-2004). Also, I have tutored students aged nine through seventeen in language arts, writing, history, and SAT verbal test preparation.
In 2002 I was trained and certified to substitute in the Los Angeles public schools.
* I tutored autistic children 3-8 years old in the Autism Services clinic of Fort Worth's Child Study Center. See www.cscfw.org
Summary Resume as Writer, Editor and Teacher
Ph.D. Theatre and Speech Communication, University of Minnesota/Minneapolis (1975)
M.A. Theatre and Speech Communication, University of Minnesota/Minneapolis (1968)
B.A. English, Rice University (1966)
Since returning to Fort Worth, Texas (where I grew up) to care for my mother, I have written editorials and blogged online for the
Fort Worth Star-Telegram. I created website copy for Lone Star Chorus.
The third edition of my anthology
Women and American Theatre, co-authored and co-edited with Helen Krich Chinoy, was published in 2006 by Theatre Communications Group. It is available through Amazon.
Helen and I began this project in 1975, when there wasn't enough scholarship on the topic to write a book about women's contributions to and participation in American theatre. For our first edition, published by Crown in 1981, we generated a community of scholars who explored primary documents, interviewed artists and educators, and shared a generous spirit of collaboration and mutual support. Through the American Theatre Association's Women in Theatre Program - which I helped organize - we inspired panels, papers and performances.
By the second edition in 1987 we were able to put feminist studies in our field at the forefront of the profession. We dropped approximately one-third of the first edition to include new information and ideas that had emerged since our project began.
With the third edition we finally were able to create the anthology we had only been able to dream about in 1975.
1989-2006: I critiqued screenplays and books for television and film producers in Los Angeles. Clients include USA Cable, Granada America, Harpo (Oprah Winfrey's company), CBS, NBC, HBO, Fox, ICM, The Family Channel, The Disney Channel, All Girl Productions (Bette Midler's company), Turner Movies, IRS Media, Imagine Television, Cosgrove-Meurer, Vin di Bona, American Zoetrope, and numerous independent producers.
In 1992 I wrote proposals, internal documents and website copy for Let There Be Hope, a small private biomedical research institute, where I served as Development Director.
In 1990 I was a producer and co-writer for a Lifetime special on women's health (for
Physician's Journal Update). I co-wrote a Native American-themed children's animation special for ABC-TV and a documentary on Kiowa Indians for public television.
From 1976-1989 I taught playwriting at Northwestern University, where I was a tenured Associate Professor in the Theatre Department. I served as Chair of Northwestern's Interdisciplinary Ph.D. in Theatre and Drama and advised dozens of dissertations and masters theses. I produced student plays through a festival I established.
In Chicago, while on the Northwestern faculty I served as dramaturge for Wisdom Bridge and Victory Gardens theatres. In addition, I was Resident Scholar for the Goodman Theatre. I helped to create and was a member of the Chicago New Plays Festival.
I edited and wrote introductory essays for two volumes of original plays from the Children's Theatre Company of Minneapolis (where I was an actress and Literary Editor), published by the University of Minnesota Press in 1975. In addition, I published numerous scholarly essays about theatre and performance, with expertise in women's studies, Native American studies, and multicultural issues.
As a scholar and public speaker, I keynoted conferences and was in residence at Stanford, NYU, New Haven, Ohio State, DePauw and Smith, among other institutions, from 1976-1989. I was the invited speaker for the Northwestern School of Speech Convocation in 1985.
Other college-level teaching includes Pomona College, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, and University of Minnesota. Extra-university adult teaching includes playwriting workshops at Stateville Prison (Illinois) and Victory Gardens Theatre (Chicago).
