Profile

Experienced writer and teacher of creative writing and composition. Have taught all subjects in a GED program.  Have led playwriting workshops and directed theatre productions, including 5th graders presenting Shakespeare. Write, direct, act and produce satirical American history show for cable television.

                                                                    

Teaching

Instructor, Pre-GED, Borough of Manhattan Community College                                                2010

Teacher, Composition, New York Institute of Technology (HEOP)                             2009 to present

Adjunct Professor, Composition, New York University, NYC                                      2000 to present

Instructor, GED, Lehman College, NYC                                                                      1991 to present

Director, Shakespeare workshop, PS 123, Brooklyn, NY                                               1990 to 2004

Adjunct Professor, Composition & Creative Writing,                                                       1989 to 1993

        Fairleigh Dickinson University, Madison, NJ

Adjunct Professor, Composition,                                                                                     1992 to 1993

        Upsala College, East Orange, NJ

Adjunct Professor, Composition, Queens College, NYC                                                             1989

Teacher, “Artist in the Schools” programs, CT and NYC                                                1976 to 1987

High School Teacher, all subjects, Unalaska Public School, Alaska                              1967 to 1968

Education

MFA, Fiction, Columbia University                                                                                               1989

Playwriting, Yale Drama School                                                                                      1970 to 1971

BA, English, SUNY, Albany                                                                                                          1965

Geology, Penn State University                                                                                      1959 to 1962

Fellowships/Awards/Memberships

Clair Woolrich Graduate Writing Fellowship, Columbia University                                  1987 to 1989

Playwriting Fellow, National Endowment for the Arts                                                                   1976

Playwriting Grant, Connecticut Foundation for the Arts                                                               1974

Playwriting Grant, Vermont Council on the Arts                                                                           1972

John Golden Fellow in Playwriting, Yale University                                                        1970 to 1971

Member: The Dramatists Guild

Member: Emerging Artists Theatre                                                                             2007 to present

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