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I have been an Adjunct Professor in Theatre Arts at Sierra College in California since 1986, a SAG / AFTRA member for just about as long. I am a playwright, actor, and director and have been for 40+ years. I've worked at numerous other jobs including broadcasting for Sacramento's NPR affiliate, teaching high school theatre, instructing microphone/vocal technique to radio announcers and more. As a theatre artist, I am especially fond of Beckett, Shakespeare, Euripides, and the city of Edinburgh, where I directed at the Fringe Festival in 2014. I have either acted in directed, produced, written well over 200 performance pieces. A favorite is the co-authorship with the incredible Terry Riley of the "opera" The Saint Adolf Ring with toured the US, France, and Switzerland in the early 90s.
I have written lots of short pieces on varied topics for journals and the local paper, including much theatre and music criticism. You can find many of my short pieces on Substack. A previously published academic work is Make Sweet the Minds of Men: Early Opera and Tragic Catharsis. My new work is The Song of Thomas Ely: Plots, Persecutions, and the Power of Music. Composers William Byrd and Claudio Monteverdi are pivotal characters, as is the demi-god Orpheus himself!
I love my family, our dog, gardening, our dog, our cat, the fish in our pond, J. S. Bach, our property, reading all sorts of books, listening to all sorts of music, our dog, cinema, a good play, trees, flowers, birds, Bob Marley, the English language, our tortoise, Dylan (both), the visual arts, history, did I say my dog? I love vegetarian cooking, sleep, kindness, and seeing students thrive. All of this and more, and not necessarily in this order.