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Curriculum Vitae

Education / Training / Credentials

City University of New York Graduate Center: Ph.D. Theatre
Stella Adler Conservatory of Acting, NYC (3 years)
Kripalu Yoga Teacher Training, Lenox, MA: advanced teacher training certificate
Zen Yoga Dojo, Mishima, JAPAN: teaching certificate (2 years)
Directing Internship & Scene Study w/ Harold Clurman, NYC (1 year)
Actors Equity Association member (inactive)

Employment

Villanova University: Professor of Theatre (1983 - present)
Stella Adler Conservatory: Master Class Instructor (2000 - 2004)

Publications

Books
Acting With Adler (Limelight Editions, NY) 2000.
Scene Change: Prague, Moscow, Leningrad (Limelight Editions, NY) 1994.
Vision: A Holistic Guide to Healing (Japan Publications, Tokyo) 1986.

Articles
"An Interview with Stella Adler," Theatre Topics (Fall 2002) 191-202.
"Stella Adler: Teacher Emeritus," The Journal of American Drama and Theatre (Fall 1999) 63-79.
"Feldenkrais Revisited: Tension, Talent and the Legacy of Childhood," New Theatre Quarterly
    (Winter 1998) 351-6.
"Clurman, Harold" American National Biography, Oxford (1999) V, 88-9.
"Deeter, Jasper" American National Biography, Oxford (1999) VI, 335-7.
"Getting Physical with Eugenio Barba," Movement Theatre (Spring 1994) 3-6.
"Questions of Life & Art: Recollecting Harold Clurman," New Theatre Quarterly (Fall 1992) 241-248.
"Theatre Training Moscow Style," The Drama Review (Summer 1992) 81-96.
"Seeing the World through a Child's Eyes," Chronicle of Higher Education (7/91)
"Collegiality: Women in Administration," Communications Bulletin (1990)
"The Context of the B.A. in Theatre," Communications Bulletin (1989)
"Treat Your Eyes Right," East West Journal (12/86)
"Natural Beauty," in Holistic Health Directory, High Meadow Publications, 1983.
"Secrets of Natural Beauty," East West Journal (2/81)
"Making Baby Feel at Home," East West Journal (9/80)
"Exercise for Natural Childbirth," East West Journal (4/80)
"Yoga for Couples," East West Journal (3/80)
"Better Loving through Exercise," East West Journal (2/80)
"A Samurai and the Churches," East West Journal (1/80)
"The Basics with Lima Ohsawa," East West Journal (3/78)
"Every Activity under Heaven," East West Journal (8/77)
"A Woman among Samurai," East West Journal (7/77)
"The Maine Way," East West Journal (11/76)
"A Macrobiotic Restaurant Strictly Kosher," East West Journal (9/76)
"How Not to Cure Cancer," East West Journal (8/76)
"Changing Gluttony to Love," East West Journal (5/76)
"Women and Gurus," East West Journal (8/75)

Productions

Plays Written & Produced
Don't Tell Anybody (two acts on the subject of sexual assault)
    • Villanova Theatre (staged reading), 4/05

Prajna (adaptation with original music of a play by Chogyam Trungpa, Rinpoche)
    • Philadelphia Fringe Festival, 9/01 ("Fringe Recommended")

Death of the Father
    • National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C., 5/98
    • Villanova Theatre, 10/98
    • Three Rivers College, Norwich, CT, 4/99
    • Philadelphia Fringe Festival, 9/99 ("Fringe Recommended")

Art Talk (featuring Arthur Danto)
    • Villanova Studio Theatre, 7/97
    • Philadelphia Fringe Festival, 9/98

Plays Directed
Don't Tell Anybody (Rotté) Villanova Theatre (4/05)
Summer and Smoke (Williams) Villanova Theatre (2/04)
True West (Shepard) Villanova Theatre (10/02)
Waiting for Godot (Becket) Villanova Theatre (11/01)
Light Shining in Buckinghamshire (Churchill) Villanova Theatre (10/00)
Endgame (Beckett) Villanova Theatre (2/00)
Art Talk (Rotté) Philadelphia Fringe Festival (9/98)
In the Boom Boom Room (Rabe) Villanova Theatre (2/98)
Art Talk (Rotté) O.T.C. Productions, PA (7/97)
The Art of Dining (Howe) Villanova Theatre (11/96)
Tooth of Crime (Shepard) Villanova Theatre (2/96)
Owners (Churchill) Villanova Theatre (2/95)
The Mayor's Wife (premiere) Villanova Theatre (11/92)
Ice Cream (Churchill) O.T.C. Productions, PA (8/92)
Ice Cream (Churchill) Villanova Theatre (10/91)
Fen (Churchill) Villanova Theatre (11/90)
Vinegar Tom (Churchill) Villanova Theatre (2/90)
Top Girls (Churchill) Villanova Theatre (2/89)
Lysistrata (original adaptation) Villanova Summer Theatre (85)
Don Perlimplin (Lorca) Villanova Studio (2/84)

Roles Performed (recent)
Claire Zachanassian in The Visit (Durrenmatt) Villanova Theatre (11/04)
The Catwoman in By the Bog of Cats... (Carr) Villanova Theatre (2/03)
Jaye in Rotté's Death of the Father
    • Philadelphia Fringe Festival, 9/99
    • Villanova Theatre, 10/98
    • National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C., 5/98