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Susan Vick

Professor
Director of Theatre

Faculty Listing
Office: Salisbury Laboratories, 19
Phone: +1-508-831-5682
Fax: +1-508-831-5932
svick@wpi.edu

Related Information

• Drama/Theatre at WPI

Educational Background

• A.B., Catawba College, 1967
• M.F.A., Southern Methodist University, 1969
• Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign, 1979

Research & Teaching Interests

Theatre; drama; developing new works for the theatre; discovering new playwrights for the contemporary theatre; acting, directing, dramaturgy, and design; specialization in Shaw, Shakespeare, the Greeks, and modern British and American drama.  Published and produced playwright and theatre commentator.

Recent Publications

• Vick, Susan (Ed.) (1989).  From Valley Playwrights Theatre, Volume II.  Amherst, MA:  Playwrights Press.

• Vick, Susan (Ed.) (1986).  From Valley Playwrights Theatre, Volume I.  Amherst, MA:

              Playwrights Press.

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Honors & Awards

• The Trustees Award for Outstanding Teaching, WPI, 1997 ("professor of the year," highest WPI award)
• Susan Smith Blackburn Nominee

Professional Experience & Activities

• Founder and Executive Dramaturg, New Voices (1982-present), WPI
• Give My Love to Everyone But..., (produced) Edinburgh International Festival, Festival Fringe, 1990
• Editorial Advisory Board, Collegiate Press, 1993-95
• Guest Director and Playwright, Upstart Theatre, Racine, Wisconsin. Give My Love to Everyone But..., 1994
• Sojourner, Inc. The Women's Forum, Theatre Editor, 1994-1998
• Dramaturg, Samuel French Off Off Broadway New Play Festival [2004-present]
• ord-Way ames-Gay (manuscript), The Actors Studio (NYC), Scene study, ongoing
• Script Consultant, Clyde Unity Theatre, Glasgow and London (ongoing)

Professional Societies/Memberships

• The Dramatists Guild, Associate Membership
• Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers, Associate Membership
• National Association of Schools of Theatre, Individual Membership
• Association for Theatre in Higher Education
• United States Institute of Theatre Technology
• New England Theatre Conference
• Southeastern Theatre Conference
• The Writers Guild of America
• Theatre Communications Group

Media Coverage

• Who's Who of American Women, 19th Edition
• Who's Who in America, 2002
• Who's Who in Entertainment, 2003

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