Dr. Tom Markus

Curriculum Vita


EDUCATION:

Tulane University Ph.D., MFA     Pomona College B.A.


TEACHING EXPERIENCE:

Yale School of Drama, American University in Cairo, Florida State University,

City University of New York, Temple University, University of Utah,

University of California, Santa Barbara

Guest Professorships:

Flinders University of South Australia,University of Colorado,
University of California, San Diego. Mountview Theatre School, London


HONORS:

Who’s Who in America, 2016; Outstanding People of the 20th Century, 2000;

College of Fellows of the American Theatre, 2015

National Theatre Conference (national honorary society); two Phoebe Awards for “Best Director” (Richmond critics)


ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE:

Artistic Director: TheatreVirginia, Theatre by the Sea, Shakespearean Theater of Maine; Associate Producing Director: Roundabout Theatre; Treasurer: National Theatre Conference; Chairman: University of Utah Department of Theatre


PUBLICATIONS:

BOOKS:

How to Read a Play; An Actor Behaves; The Professional Actor

Co-authored with Linda Sarver: Another Opening, Another Show, 2/e;

The Cairo Diaries; Let’s Go to the Theatre; A Novel Approach to Theatre


SELECTED ARTICLES:

Looking for America,” Theatre Design & Technology; “Wrighting the Play,” On-Stage Studies; “Through the Piercing Eyes of Edvard Munch,” JDT&C; “The Chapel in the Moonlight,” On-Stage Studies; “Four Tough Questions,” American Theatre


COURSES TAUGHT:

Intro to Theatre, Script Analysis, Acting (scene study, Shakespeare, period styles), Directing (all levels through MFA), History of Theatre, History of Dramatic Literature, Playwriting, Theatrical Collaboration, Theory of Comedy/Tragedy, Modern Drama, Theatre of the Absurd, Elizabethan/Jacobean Drama, History of the American Musical, Ibsen/Strindberg


PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS:

National Theatre Conference, Association of Theatre in Higher Education, American Society of Theatre Research, Ibsen Society of America, Shakespeare Theatre Association of America, Actors’ Equity Association, Screen Actors Guild, American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, Stage Directors and Choreographers Society.