TEACHING RESUME
GLENDA FRANK
50 West 97th Street #15A
New York, New York 10025-6081
212-749-0160 glfrank@verizon.net
EDUCATION
Ph. D. , Theatre. Graduate Center, City University of New York. Oct. 1992.
M. Phil., Theatre. M.A., B.A. cum laude, English. Brooklyn College, CUNY.
DISSERTATION: "Family Masks: Father-Child Relationships in the Plays of Eugene O'Neill."
Advisor: Albert Bermel. The study rereads “the daughter plays" as phased experiments.
ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL HONORS
2006-2010 . . . . Speaker, NY Council for the Humanities, Lillian Hellman.
2006-7, 2008-9 FIT Merit Award.
2005-2000 . . . . Speaker, NY Council for the Humanities, Women Playwrights
1997 . . . . . . . . NEH Summer Seminar, The American Playwright:
1920-1950, Columbia U.
1994 . . . . . . . . NEH Consultant for 1995 grants
NEH included my proposal as a model for 1995 grants.
NEH Independent Study:Stage Images of American Jews.
1984-87. . . . . . .CUNY Research Fellowships.
1985 . . . . . . . . Fellow, National Critics Institute, Eugene O'Neill Theatre Center.
1983, 84, 85 . . . National Federation of State Poetry Awards.
1983-84. . . . . . CAPS ( NYSCA) Poetry Award
1974. . . . . . . . . Hon. Fellowship, Columbia U. Ph. D. Program, English (Declined).
THEATRE COMMUNITY RESPONSIBILITIES
Judge, Francesca Primus Award for Women in Theatre, ATCA
Judge, Henry Hewes Design Awards for the American Theatre Wing.
Voter, Drama Desk Awards.
Voter, Theatre Hall of Fame.
2007-8 Member, Drama Desk Awards Nominating Committee
Former chair, Finance Committee. American Theatre Critics Association.
Member, Playwriting workshop, League of Professional Theatre Women
COLLEGE ADMINISTRATIVE RESPONSIBILITIES
Fall 1995 Director. Speech Program, CCNY.
Spring & Fall 1994 Coordinator. Speech Tutoring Program, CCNY.
ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE
Institution Dates Rank
City College, CUNY 1991-2002 Adj. Assoc. Professor
Fashion Institute of
Technology, SUNY 1987-date Adj. Asst. Professor
College of Staten Island, 1990 Lecturer
Performing and Creative Arts
John Jay College 1987-88, 89-90 Lecturer
Marymount College - 1988-89 Lecturer
Tarrytown, Theatre .
New York University 1987-89 Lecturer
Empire State College, 1987-89 Lecturer
SUNY
New York Public Library 1982-92 Workshop leader Playwriting, poetry.
COURSES TAUGHT
Theatre and Speech:
Women in United States Theatre. FIT
History of Theatre. Marymount College
Twentieth century drama. NYU
Comedy (drama and theory). FIT
Theatre Arts: Introduction to Theatre. FIT and CSI, CUNY
Dramatic Literature, FIT
Introduction to Public Speaking. CCNY and John Jay College, CUNY
American literature:
Historical survey. FIT
Twentieth century drama. NYU
Working class themes. Empire State College, SUNY
Literature surveys:
Major writers of the western world. FIT
Short Fiction. FIT
Poetry. FIT
Humanities II. City College, CUNY.
Undergraduate Writing:
Research skills. Empire State College
Rhetorical modes/freshman composition. FIT, Marymount College, and NYU
Creative Writing, FIT.
Workshops: Playwriting (adults) and creative writing (teenagers). NYPL
Private poetry workshop.
PUBLICATIONS
Scholarly Articles
2005 “Fractured Comedy: A Glimpse into Eugene O’Neill’s Tragic Constructs.”
Eugene O’Neill Review 27.
2005 “Rose Franken.” Jewish Women: A Comprehensive Encyclopedia. Shalvi Pub.
2005 “Theresa Helburn.” Jewish Women: A Comprehensive Encyclopedia. Shalvi Pub.
2004 “Tempest in Black and White: All God's Chillun Got Wings." Art, Glitter and Glitz:
The Theatre Of The 1920s Celebrates American Diversity. Greenwood Press.
2003 “Off Broadway.” Facts on File Companion to American Drama.
2003 “Off-off Broadway.” Facts on File Companion to American Drama.
2003 “The Miss Firecracker Contest.” Facts on File Companion to American Drama.
2003 “All God’s Chillun Got Wings.” Facts on File Companion to American Drama.
2003 “Anna Christie.” Facts on File Companion to American Drama.
2002 “Rachel Crothers.” Dictionary of Literary Biography: Twentieth Century American
Dramatists. V. 228, Second Series. Detroit; Bruccoli Clark Layman: 43-56.
2000 “Tempest in Black and White: The 1924 Premiere of Eugene O’Neill’s All God's Chillun
Got Wings." Resources for American Literary Studies 26.1.
“Rose Franken.” Dictionary of Literary Biography: Twentieth Century American
Dramatists. V. 228, Second Series. Detroit; Bruccoli Clark Layman: 67-72.
1999 “Josephine Hull.” American National Biography. Oxford University Press: 454-455.
“Chrystal Herne.” American National Biography. Oxford University Press: 653-655.
“Three American Daughters: Wendy Wasserstein Critiques Success" in Wendy
Wasserstein: A Casebook. Garland Press.
1997 "Theresa Helburn." Jewish Women in America: An Historical Encyclopedia.
American Jewish Historical Society: 612-614.
1997 “Rose Franken.” Jewish Women in America: An Historical Encyclopedia.
American Jewish Historical Society: 469-470.
1997 "Fun House Mirrors: The Neil Simon - Eugene O'Neill Dialogue" in
Neil Simon: A Casebook. Garland Press.
1995 "The Tiger as Daddy's Girl: A Feminist Reading of Lavinia Mannon."
Eugene O'Neill Review 19: 1 & 2: O'Neill and Gender.
1995 "The Struggle to Affirm: the Image of Jewish Americans on Stage" in Staging
Difference: Cultural Pluralism in American Drama.
1990 . "Coriolanus I.i." Shakespeare Bulletin 8:2: 27-29.
1989 "Albee's Play Children." Mid-Hudson Language Studies 12:1: 81-88.
1986 "Chalk Circles: Brecht, Klabund, and Li. " Gestus I.3-4: 21-39.
Scholarly Book and Theatre Reviews
2006` Theatre review: Passion Play. Theatre Journal.
2006 Theatre review: Emperor Jones (La MaMa, Mabou Mines), eOneill.com.
2006 Theatre review: “Anna Christie.” Eugene O’Neill Review.
2005 Theatre review: Beyond the Horizon. eOneill.com.
2005 Theatre review: Beyond the Horizon. Eugene O’Neill Review 27.
2001 Theatre review: Herod at the Cameri Theatre. Theatre Journal 52.2.
2001 Theatre article. “The Cameri Theatre, Tel Aviv.” Tikkun 17.2.
1998 Theatre review. Maria Irene Fornes, Terra Incognita. Theatre Journal 50:1.
1995 Book reviews. Normand Berlin, O'Neill's Shakespeare, and Travis Bogard,
The Eugene O'Neill Songbook. Theatre Survey 36:2.
1993 Book review. John H. Houchin, The Critical Response to Eugene O'Neill.
Eugene O'Neill Review 17: 1 & 2.
1993 Book review. Coriolanus at the National. Shakespeare Bulletin 11.1.
1992 Theatre review. A Moon for the Misbegotten. Theatre Journal 44.4.
1991 Theatre review. Ninagawa Macbeth. Theatre Journal 43.3.
1990 Theatre review. The Straw. Eugene O'Neill Review 14:1 & 2.
1989 Theatre review. Cymbeline. Shakespeare Bulletin 7.4.
1988 Theatre review. The Merry Wives of Windsor. Shakespeare Bulletin 6.5 & 6.
1987 Theatre review. Ninagawa's Medea. Theatre Journal 39.2.
Commercial Reviews and Articles
2006 - date New York Correspondent, Plays International.
2005 – date Reviewer. New York Theatre Wire.
2003-2005 Theatre columnist, North Shore Woman’s Newspaper
2003-2005 Columnist with Tish Dace, Plays International.
1996-2004 Theatre writer. Back Stage, a national performing arts weekly newspaper.
1998 "The Critic as Her Double" in Critics Quarterly: the Newsletter of the American Theatre Critics Association.
1986-94 Drama critic. Westsider/Chelsea Clinton News (two New York weeklies).
Over forty reviews and articles a year.
1986 “The Story of the Circle of Chalk.” Translation and adaptation with Teh Wah
Teng, who staged the fourteenth century Chinese play at CCNY and the
Graduate Center, CUNY.
1984-85 Drama critic. Stages, a national theatre monthly.
1980-87 Associate editor (drama columnist). Home Planet News, a poetry quarterly.
1973-1984 Articles, book reviews and theatre reviews appeared in The China Daily,
Communications (IBS), Gestus, TheaterWeek, Show Business, Motherroot Journal,
Clinton Coordinator, WomaNews, New York Theater Week, Heights Inwood News.
Poems have appeared in Frogpond (haiku), Mudfish, New Cicada Review, Virtual
Image, Ikon, Prize Poems: National Federation of State Poetry Societies, 1983, 84, 85.
PRESENTATIONS
2006 Long Beach Public Library (Long Island). “Celebrating Lillian Hellman,”
2006 Conference on Creativity at FIT: “Getting to Aha!” “Finding the Arts in Theatre Arts.”
2006 Guest Speaker, Mint Theatre Company, Revival of “A Soldier’s Wife.”
2005 Guest Speaker, Queens College Centennial Celebration. “Lillian Hellman.”
2005 Sixth International Eugene O’Neill Conference. “The Loneliness of Mary Tyrone.”
Sixth International Eugene O’Neill Conference. Roundtable participant: Sexing Up O’Neill.
2005 F.. Scott Fitzgerald Conference, Hofstra U. “The American Girl.”
2001 ALA “Losing the Brogue: O’Neill on the Immigrant Experience” or “Teaching O’Neill in the
American Literature Classroom.”
2000 Susan Glaspell Conference, Tel Aviv: Interactive Arts, Law and Society. “Greenwich Village
Feminists and the Law.”
1999 Fourth International Eugene O'Neill Conference. “Fractured Comedy: A Glimpse into Eugene
O’Neill’s Tragic Constructs.”
1998 NYSSA "The Conflicted Family: Immigration and the Jewish Experience."
1998 NEMLA Facts, Fiction, and Drama: American Jewish Literature, Creator and chair.
"The Invisible Drama: Wendy Wasserstein and Female Empowerment."
1997 NEMLA "America the Dangerous: Jewish-American Stage Images 1900-1930."
Eugene O'Neill panel: The Women of the Provincetown, Creator and chair.
1996 MLA The Convex Mirror: Eugene O'Neill and the Contemporary Playwright, Creator/ chair.
1996 NEMLA Female Literary Icons: Blanche DuBois, Creator and chair.
1995 MLA "Locked Doors and Laughter: Long Day's Journey into Night and Mikhail
Bakhtin's Theory of Carnival." Eugene O'Neill panel.
NEMLA Postmodern Melodramas of Disease, Creator and chair.
Third International Conference: O'NEILL'S PEOPLE. First Nighters Revisited, Chair.
"The Tiger as Daddy's Girl: A Feminist Reading of Lavinia Mannon."
AMERICAN Literature Association. "Every Playwright Needs a Godmother:
Eugene O'Neill and Susan Glaspell."
FIT "Stage Images of the American Jew, 1882-1930."
1994 Hofstra U. Art, Glitter And Glitz Conference: The Theatre of the
1920s Celebrates American Diversity. " Tempest in Black and White:
All God's Chillun Got Wings."
NEMLA "A Touch of the Poet and Bakhtin's Theory of Genre."
1993 ATHE Eugene O'Neill panel: Imagining the Future.
1992 MLA panel: The O'Neill Legacy: Jason Robards and Geraldine Fitzgerald.
ASTR "Stage Design as Interpretation: Eugene O'Neill."
NEMLA "Searching for Ella [O'Neill]."
1991 NETC "Long Day's Journey into Night in Production."
Central MLA "Fathers and Sons in The Iceman Cometh."
1988 Mid-Hudson MLA "Albee's Play Children."
1987 Graduate Center, CUNY Initiated and coordinated a panel of distinguished critics.
1986 NET (pre-ATHE) "Schechner Directs Sam Shepard's Tooth of Crime."
MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES (Current and lapsed)
American Literature Association, American Theatre Critics Association, Association for Theatre in Higher Education, American Society for Theatre Research, Drama Desk, Dramatist Guild, Eugene O'Neill Society, International Theatre Critics Association, League of Professional Theatre Women, Modern Language Association, Northeast MLA, Society of Professional Journalists.