Academic Degrees
Ph.D.
Cancer and The Healing Arts (ABD)
European Graduate University
Expected Date of Completion: 2024
The Vismistic Triadic (Ph.D)
Claremont Graduate University
Completion: October 2011
MA
Global Artivism (Cultural Documentary) (MA)
Claremont Graduate University
Completion: October 2009
MFA
Shakespearean Performance: Volumnia (Coriolanus)
University of California, Irvine
Completion: May 1983
BA
Modern Drama & Dance
Loyola Marymount University
Completion: May 1977
Cancer and The Healing Arts (ABD)
European Graduate University
Expected Date of Completion: 2024
The Vismistic Triadic (Ph.D)
Claremont Graduate University
Completion: October 2011
MA
Global Artivism (Cultural Documentary) (MA)
Claremont Graduate University
Completion: October 2009
MFA
Shakespearean Performance: Volumnia (Coriolanus)
University of California, Irvine
Completion: May 1983
BA
Modern Drama & Dance
Loyola Marymount University
Completion: May 1977
Career Positions
PROFESSOR of THEATRE
BUSINESS
COMMUNICATIONS
CULTURAL STUDIES
DOCUMENTARY / FILM / MEDIA
SOCIOLOGY
All's Well That Ends Well, 2000
Luckman Fine Arts Complex
FULL TIME
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, LOS ANGELES
Full Tenured Professor
Acting, Arts Management, Communications, Directing, Emotions, Performance Studies (BA/MFA) 9/89 – 3/18
SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY
Tenure Track Assistant Professor
MFA Performance Training: Directing, Acting, Voice, Movement, Film, TV Acting, Women's Studies
8/86 – 8/89
SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY AT CARBONDALE
Visiting Assistant Professor
Performance Training MFA: Directing , Acting , Voice, Movement
8/84 – 8/86
ADJUNCT APPOINTMENTS
NATIONAL UNIVERSITY
Core Adjunct Faculty
Adult Experience, Argument and Debate, Art History, Business, Communications, Cultural Diversity, Global Cultural, Culture, Technology & Society, History, Humanities, Information Literacy, Media Studies, Music, Political Science, Portfolio, Sociology, Theatre, and Film
8/84 - 3/11
SPRINGFIELD COLLEGE
Adjunct Faculty
Behavior Science, Communications, Human Resources, Writing, Women’s Studies-5/02-12/07
AMERICAN INTERCONTINENTAL UNIVERSITY
Adjunct Faculty
Art, Business, Literature, Sociology, Global Cultural Relations-4/99-12/07
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, IRVINE
MFA Instructor
Acting-9/80 – 7/83
GUEST LECTURING
USC
Los Angeles, CA. 1993
UCLA
Los Angeles, CA. 1992
GLENDALE COMMUNITY COLLEGE
Glendale, CA. 1991
CHULALONGKORN UNIVERSITY
Bangkok, Thailand. 1990
CSU SUMMER ARTS
Lake Tahoe, CA 1988
SANTA CLARA UNIVERSITY
Santa Clara, CA 1988-89
OBERLIN COLLEGE
Oberlin, Ohio 1986
EDUCATION - FORMAL DEGREES
EUROPEAN GRADUATE UNIVERSITY
Ph. D. Art, Philosophy and Critical Thought ( Media Philosophy) 2024
Dissertation: Cancer and the Healing Arts
Specialization: Politics of Global Public Health
(ABD: Anticipated Completion: 2024)
CLAREMONT GRADUATE UNIVERSITY
Ph. D. Cultural Studies, 2011
Dissertation: The Vismistic Triadic
Specialization: Performing Grassroots Artivism
MA Cultural Studies, 2009
Thesis: Global Artivism
Specialization: Cultural Documentary
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, IRVINE
MFA Drama, 1983
Thesis: Volumnia in Shakespeare's Coriolanus
Specialization: Shakespearean Performance 1983
LOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY
BA Dance and Drama, 1977
PROFESSIONAL TRAINING
ROYAL ACADEMY OF DRAMATIC ART
Intensives, 1975-76
LONDON ACADEMY OF MUSIC AND DRAMATIC ART
Intensives, 1975-76
Studied and worked with numerous master teachers in the arts, acting, dance, cultural and media studies, most notably Robert Cohen, Brewster Mason, William Needles, Keith Fowler, Augusto Boal, Jerzy Grotowski, Stella Adler, Pamela Barnard, Henry Marshall, Bella Lewitski, Karen Bell, Teodoro Morca, Tony Barr, and Eric Kline.
(List upon request)
Conferences
Pedagogy & Theatre of the Oppressed Conference - Oxford, Ohio 2013
Talk: VISMS: A Paradigm of Performance Philosophy, Praxis, and Peaceful Artivism
LA Media Reform
Los Angeles Progressive, Occidental College 2011
Performance/Workshop/Panel
February 2011
9th Annual Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities
Performing The Visms
Performance/Workshop
January 2011
California Educational Theatre Association
Performing The Visms
Presenter/Workshop Leader
October 2010
Los Angeles Theatre Center
Guest Lecturer: Reflections on Adapting Bless Me, Ultima
August 2010
Ventura County CLUE
Non-Violence Training
Presenter/Workshop Leader 2010
Legislative Theatre-Ventura
Workshop Leader
August 2009
American College Theatre Festival
Discoursing RaceFebruary 2008
Smithsonian Freer Gallery of Art
Mine’ Okubo
February 2007
American College Theatre Festival
Diversity in the UniversityFebruary 2007
Riverside Museum of History
On Staging Mine’ OkuboFebruary 2006
11th Annual Pedagogy of the Oppressed
Theatre of the Oppressed Conference
(The Renaissance Hotel, Hollywood)
Conference Planner / Videographer / Workshop Presenter / May 2005
Spiritual Activism
(Citizens for Peaceful Resolutions, Ventura) Lecturer / December 2004
Legislative Theatre
(USC)
Workshop Presenter / November 2004
Creative Tools for Critical Times
(24th Street Theatre / USC)
Conference Planner / Workshop Presenter (with Doug Kaback) / June 2004
Directing Activism
(American College Theatre Festival / San Bernardino)
Panelist / February 2004
Greek Theatre
(Sacramento Theatre Company / July 2001)
Guest Artist / Hydra, Greece
Representative Workshops Conducted at Numerous Universities
Adapting Novels: Bless Me, Ultima (NEA Big Read)
Legislative Theatre
Directing in Today's Theatre (Association for Theatre in Higher Education)
Fundraising Strategies for Academia
Producing for Equity-Waiver Theatre in Los Angeles
Working on a New Play
Shakespearean Script Analysis (Glendale Community College)
Scansion
Shakespearean Performance
Scoring, Orchestrating and Scanning Test for Character
Approaches to Ensemble Script Development
Protocol in the Theatre
Directorial Ethics
Nuts & Bolts of Professional Entry
Acting as a Business
Auditioning
Monodramas
Directing for the American Stage
Women & Violence in Film
Acting for the Camera
Stage Fright
Shakespeare's Romances: The Winter’s Tale and The Tempest
Interviewing Skills
English as a Second Language
Effective Communications
Film & Society
Film & Theatre
Feldenkrais & the Actor's Movement Map
Unarmed Combat/Fencing/Quarterstaff and Small Blades
Movement for Actors
Transformational Acting
Greater Los Angeles Theatre Festival (Conference Creator, Planner, and Co-Coordinator) 1991
ATHE Conference Planning (Coordinated over 300 conference panels, workshops and presentations) 1985-1990
PRESENTING PERFORMANCES / 1988
Time Flies While You’re Alive
Culture Clash
Lili Biti
(Chulalongkorn U, Santa Clara University, CSU Fresno, San Diego State, CSU Bakersfield, CSU Stanislaus, UC Irvine, Loyola Marymount University, Oberlin University, UNLV, Glendale Community College, Irvine Valley College, USC, etc.)
Talk: VISMS: A Paradigm of Performance Philosophy, Praxis, and Peaceful Artivism
LA Media Reform
Los Angeles Progressive, Occidental College 2011
Performance/Workshop/Panel
February 2011
9th Annual Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities
Performing The Visms
Performance/Workshop
January 2011
California Educational Theatre Association
Performing The Visms
Presenter/Workshop Leader
October 2010
Los Angeles Theatre Center
Guest Lecturer: Reflections on Adapting Bless Me, Ultima
August 2010
Ventura County CLUE
Non-Violence Training
Presenter/Workshop Leader 2010
Legislative Theatre-Ventura
Workshop Leader
August 2009
American College Theatre Festival
Discoursing RaceFebruary 2008
Smithsonian Freer Gallery of Art
Mine’ Okubo
February 2007
American College Theatre Festival
Diversity in the UniversityFebruary 2007
Riverside Museum of History
On Staging Mine’ OkuboFebruary 2006
11th Annual Pedagogy of the Oppressed
Theatre of the Oppressed Conference
(The Renaissance Hotel, Hollywood)
Conference Planner / Videographer / Workshop Presenter / May 2005
Spiritual Activism
(Citizens for Peaceful Resolutions, Ventura) Lecturer / December 2004
Legislative Theatre
(USC)
Workshop Presenter / November 2004
Creative Tools for Critical Times
(24th Street Theatre / USC)
Conference Planner / Workshop Presenter (with Doug Kaback) / June 2004
Directing Activism
(American College Theatre Festival / San Bernardino)
Panelist / February 2004
Greek Theatre
(Sacramento Theatre Company / July 2001)
Guest Artist / Hydra, Greece
Representative Workshops Conducted at Numerous Universities
Adapting Novels: Bless Me, Ultima (NEA Big Read)
Legislative Theatre
Directing in Today's Theatre (Association for Theatre in Higher Education)
Fundraising Strategies for Academia
Producing for Equity-Waiver Theatre in Los Angeles
Working on a New Play
Shakespearean Script Analysis (Glendale Community College)
Scansion
Shakespearean Performance
Scoring, Orchestrating and Scanning Test for Character
Approaches to Ensemble Script Development
Protocol in the Theatre
Directorial Ethics
Nuts & Bolts of Professional Entry
Acting as a Business
Auditioning
Monodramas
Directing for the American Stage
Women & Violence in Film
Acting for the Camera
Stage Fright
Shakespeare's Romances: The Winter’s Tale and The Tempest
Interviewing Skills
English as a Second Language
Effective Communications
Film & Society
Film & Theatre
Feldenkrais & the Actor's Movement Map
Unarmed Combat/Fencing/Quarterstaff and Small Blades
Movement for Actors
Transformational Acting
Greater Los Angeles Theatre Festival (Conference Creator, Planner, and Co-Coordinator) 1991
ATHE Conference Planning (Coordinated over 300 conference panels, workshops and presentations) 1985-1990
PRESENTING PERFORMANCES / 1988
Time Flies While You’re Alive
Culture Clash
Lili Biti
(Chulalongkorn U, Santa Clara University, CSU Fresno, San Diego State, CSU Bakersfield, CSU Stanislaus, UC Irvine, Loyola Marymount University, Oberlin University, UNLV, Glendale Community College, Irvine Valley College, USC, etc.)