Theater Arts Faculty Directory

Concentration: 

Playwriting

Lee Blessing

Head of Playwriting Program

Lee Blessing has become a major voice in the modern American theater. His plays have been nominated for Tony and Olivier awards and a Pulitzer Prize. Recent plays in New York, Thief River, Cobb and Chesapeake, received Drama Desk nominations and an award, plus nominations from the Outer Critics Circle. He's had two grants from the National Endowment for the Arts as well as from the Guggenheim, Bush, McKnight and Jerome Foundations. His plays include A Walk In The Woods, Eleemosynary, Two Rooms, Down The Road and Going To St. Ives among many others, and have been performed throughout the world. His work has been stage-read in eight different summers at the O'Neill Playwrights Conference in Waterford, Ct.


Joseph Hart

Ensemble and Playwright

Joseph Hart is a master teacher of ensemble theater and creative dramatics as well as playwright, actor and director. His eight years of study under the late mythologist Joseph Campbell contributed to the creation of The Shoestring Players, a unique theatrical approach to world folklore. As a playwright he has merited three national awards and numerous regional theater productions. The Shoestring Players were named among the "Top Ten" at the 1992 Edinburgh Festival. In 1989 his Off Broadway ensemble production The People Who Could Fly was called "two hours of theatrical magic" by the New York T94's Edinburgh Fringe Festival Shoestring became the only theater company for young audiences ever to receive the Fringe First Award for excellence. In 1996 Shoestring was guest artist at the National Black Arts Festival in Atlanta. His professional touring company of Shoestring performs an annual 30 week season across the USA.


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