Paul Nelsen - Theater
"I love the challenge of exploring how theater intersects with diverse territories of learning,"
says Paul Nelsen. "It draws together so many different areas of learning and experience, from the
historical to the technological, from the pragmatic to the spiritual." As a teacher, Paul endeavors
to provide students with as many opportunities as possible to expand and develop their artistic interests,
whether it be through acting, directing, scriptwriting, designing or dramaturgical analysis. To Paul,
the discipline embraces "such a wide range of knowledge and skills that the study of theater represents
in itself a pursuit of liberal education."
Paul has published more than 80 articles and reviews in leading Shakespeare and theater journals and his essays are included in several books. He co-edited a volume of essays on Shakespeare in performance: Acts of Criticism: Performance Matters in Shakespeare and His Contemporaries. From 1989-1999, he served on the academic advisory board for the reconstruction of Shakespeare’s Globe in London and he acts as a contributing editor for the academic journal Shakespeare Bulletin: A Journal of Performance, Criticism, and Scholarship. He organizes and conducts biannual seminars examining current theater in London and has during his career been actively involved in more than three hundred stage productions.
A.B., Lafayette College, 1969; M.F.A., Brandeis University, 1971; Marlboro College, 1978-