Shirley Huston-Findley

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.