Kanbar Institute of Film & Television

Courses

Art of Sound, Creative Sound Design, Sound Image, AudioCraft, Radio Drama, Traditions in Narrative, Modern Playwrites: Samuel Beckett, Fundamentals of Dramatic and Visual Writing, Writing the Short Screenplay

Education

B.A., M.A., Connecticut; Ph.D., Iowa (NDEA Fellow).

Biography

Project director, SoundPlay, the first yearlong nationally distributed series of one-hour radio dramas since 1975, which included the SoundPlay Hörspiel series of German radio dramas and originally commissioned work from American artists and writers, 1991-1992. Director, "The Beckett Festival of Radio Plays," 1986-1989, which earned two gold medals, International Radio Festival of New York; the Arts and Humanities Award, Corporation for Public Broadcasting; and the Undas Gabriel Award. Project director: Stories from the Spirit World: The Myths and Legends of Native Americans, 1986, 1992. Executive producer of radio drama and special projects, and project director, "The Spider's Web," WGBH, Boston, 1982-1985. Founding director, Voices International. Professor of English and humanities, California State University, Fresno, 1969-1985. Director of drama and literature, KPFK, Los Angeles, 1971-1973. Project director, radio drama, KPFK, 1973-1976. American representative to international radio drama meetings of the European Broadcasting Union, 1984, 1986, 1989, 1992 (keynote address). Coeditor, German Radio Plays (Continuum); guest editor, special radio edition, Theatre Journal, October 1991. NEA, NEH media panelist and consultant. Independent producer with numerous media grants from NEA, NEH, CPB, California, Massachusettes and New York Arts Council. Writer, producer, director, Vietnam: A Prophesy (U.S. Nominee for the Prix Futura). Memberships include the International Society of Electronic Arts (ISEA), Modern Language Association (MLA), Audio Independents in Radio (AIR), and AIUF.