Biography:
Active as an actor, director, designer and producer in professional, community and educational theatre for forty years, Dr. Schultz (Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara) served on the faculties of the University of Minnesota, Duluth and the University of Houston-Clear Lake before coming to A&M. Among his over eighty directing credits are the works of Sameul Beckett, Bertolt Brecht, Anton Chekhov, Athol Fugard, Henrik Ibsen, Arthur Miller, Harold Pinter, William Shakespeare, Bernard Shaw, Thornton Wilder and Tennessee Williams. Included in his many teaching and artistic awards are: the Southwest Theatre Association Presidential Citation for “outstanding service and leadership in educational theatre;” Texas Educational Theatre Association University Educator of the Year; Texas A&M University Diversity Award for “commitment to multicultural education”; Texas A&M Distinguished Service Award for Teaching; and over thirty Kennedy Center/American College Theatre Festival awards. He was also the Inaugural Fellow in the African Arts Fund’s Cultural Fellows Exchange Program.
His scholarly work has been published in The Drama Review, Theatre History Studies, Didaskalia: Ancient Theater Today, and Encyclopedia of American Theatre Companies. He and colleagues, Michael Greenwald, Roberto Pomo, and Ann Marie Welsh are the authors/editors of The Longman Anthology of Drama and Theater: A Global Perspective and The Longman Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Drama: A Global Perspective. He is currently working with his associate editors, Peter Schultz and Caitlin Verfenstein, on Theatres of Antiquity: An Encyclopedia of Graeco-Roman Theatres in the Mediterranean to be published both electronically and in traditional printed form. For a sneak preview of some of the images, browse Theatres of Antiquity.
