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Shirley Huston-Findley

Associate Professor

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Department/Affiliation: Theatre & Dance
Phone: 330-263-2543
Office Address: Wishart
Email: sfindley@wooster.edu

Degrees

  • B.A., Indiana University at South Bend 1986
  • M.A., Miami of Ohio
1989
  • Ph.D., University of Missouri 1998

Courses Taught

  • THTD 121: Performance Practicum
  • THTR 244: Origins of Western Drama
  • THTR 245: Feminism and Theatre
  • THTR 246: Realism and Beyond
  • THTD 301: Playwriting

Publications

  • Directing credits at the College include, Anna Deveare Smith’s Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992; Paula Vogel’s How I Learned to Drive; Marsha Norman’s Getting Out; Moliere’s Tartuffe, Arthur Miller’s All My Son’s, and Adam Rapp’s Nocturne, which received a performance at the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival in Washington, D.C. in April 2007.
  • Shirley has presented papers at the Southeastern Theatre Conference, The Mid-American Theatre Conference and the Association for Theatre in Higher Education.
  • Her article, Re-visioning The Rainmaker, co-authored with Dr. Suzanne Burgoyne, can be found in Text and Performance Quarterly, and her anthology Footpaths and Bridges: Voices from the Native American Women Playwrights Archive was released by The University of Michigan Press in 2008

Notes

  • Research regarding creativity and aging and intergenerational theatre has lead to the development of three dramatic texts: In Memory of Me, Letting Go, her latest work Past Missing.
  • Interests in South Asia have led to the creation of a Wooster in India project entitled Exploring India at Home and Abroad Through the Arts.

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