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Stage and Screen Education and Inspiration The American Identity

ABOUT THIS DOCUMENTARY

Experts

Experts

Heard in the documentary or on this companion website:

John Andrews
Editor of the Everyman Shakespeare editions, executive director of the Washington, DC, branch of the English-Speaking Union, president of The Shakespeare Guild

Libby Appel
Artistic director of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival

Vicki Botnick
Film historian

Douglas Brode
Professor of cinema studies, S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University, author of Shakespeare in the Movies (2000)

Jonathan Burton
Associate professor of English, West Virginia University

Joe Calarco
Director, adaptor/director of Shakespeare’s R + J (1997)

Charlotte Canning
Professor, department of theater and dance at the University of Texas at Austin

Thomas Cartelli
NEH Professor of Humanities and professor of English, Muhlenberg College

Linda Charnes
Associate professor of English, Indiana University, Bloomington

Michael J. Collins
Professor of English, Georgetown University

James Cook
Associate professor of history and American culture, University of Michigan

Craig Dionne
Professor of literature, Eastern Michigan University

Joe Dowling
Artistic director of the Guthrie Theater, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Gordon Edelstein
Artistic director of the Long Wharf Theatre, New Haven, Connecticut

Mercedes Ellington
Choreographer and director

Gerald Freedman
Dean of the school of drama, North Carolina School of the Arts

Stephen Greenblatt
Cogan University Professor of the Humanities, Harvard University

Kim Hall
Thomas F.X. Mullarkey Chair in English at Fordham University

Patricia King Hanson
Executive editor and project director of the American Film Institute catalog of feature films

Franklin J. Hildy
Professor of theater and performance studies, director of the Shakespeare Globe Center (USA) Research Archive in the Department of Theater at the University of Maryland

Caleen Sinnette Jennings
Professor of theater, American University

Michael Kahn
Artistic director of the Shakespeare Theatre Company, Washington, DC

Scott Kaiser
Head of voice and text at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival

Margaret Knapp
Professor of theater and associate dean in the Herberger College of Fine Arts, Arizona State University

Karen Ordahl Kupperman
Silver Professor of History, New York University

Bernth Lindfors
Professor emeritus of English and African literatures, University of Texas at Austin

Bruce McConachie
Chair of theater arts department and professor of theater, University of Pittsburgh

Walter Mondale
Vice President of the United States, 1977 to 1981; United States Senator from Minnesota, 1964 to 1977

Heather S. Nathans
Associate professor of theater, associate chair of theater department, associate director of the David C. Driskell Center for the Study of the African Diaspora, University of Maryland

Anne D. Neal
President, American Council of Trustees and Alumni

Peggy O’Brien
Senior vice president for educational programming and services, Corporation for Public Broadcasting

P.J. Paparelli
Artistic director of Perseverance Theater, Juneau, Alaska

Peter Rawlings
Graduate-school director of humanities, languages, and social sciences, professor of English and drama, University of the West of England

Benjamin Reiss
Associate professor of English, Emory University
(At the time the interview was conducted, Reiss was associate professor of English at Tulane University.)

Janet Reno
Attorney General of the United States, 1993 to 2001

Francesca Royster
Associate professor of English, DePaul University

Bartlett Sher
Artistic director at Intiman Theatre, Seattle, Washington

Alan Simpson
United States Senator from Wyoming, 1979 to 1997

Bruce R. Smith
College Distinguished Professor of English and professor of theater at the University of Southern California

Kim C. Sturgess
Author, Shakespeare and the American Nation (2004)

Frances Teague
Professor of English, University of Georgia

Alden T. Vaughan
Professor emeritus of history, Columbia University

Virginia Mason Vaughan
Department chair and professor of English, Clark University, Worcester, Massachusetts

Shane White
Chair of history department and professor of history, University of Sydney, Australia