Biography of Stephen A. Schrum |
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| Stephen A. Schrum, with a Ph.D. in Dramatic Art from the University of
California, Berkeley, is, since Fall 2005, Assistant Professor of Theatre
Arts at the University of Pittsburgh
at Greensburg, teaching courses in Theatre, and directing campus theatre
productions. With interests in virtual performance, digital filmmaking and
playwrighting, he also advises Interdisciplinary
Arts Capstone projects. |
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Professionally, he has chaired panels and has presented at national and
international conferences, including the Association of Theatre in Higher
Education (ATHE). He edited Theatre
in Cyberspace: Issues of Teaching, Acting and Directing, and is
currently working on a project in Second Life to model Antonin Artaud's
Theatre of Cruelty with the technology of Virtual Reality. |
Steve is also a writer, and has written play scripts (one-acts and
musical adaptations of Henrik Ibsen's Peer Gynt and Euripides'
Iphigenia in Aulis/Tauris) and screenplays. He is presently seeking
a publisher for a book of short stories, entitled Buttcracks and Willful
Ignorance: Monologues, Dialogues and Other Stories. (Some of the
stories can be found on this website.)
The current "big project" is turning Dog Assassin
into a musical with the help of Jeremy
dePrisco. Tentative production date: Spring 2012. |
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