R. REX STEPHENSON Professor Emeritus of Drama |
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Phone: (540) 489-6284 (home) |
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Blue Ridge Dinner Theatre | ||||
Links | Resume | Publications | Additional Experience | Awards | ||
AppLit Bibliography of Publications by and about R. Rex Stephenson The Jack Tale Players and Jack Tale Storytellers Web Site Study Guides for Jack Tales Dramas R. Rex Stephenson Receives 2007 SETC Child Drama Award “Interview with Rex Stephenson on The Jack Tale Players.” Guest blog on 2015 40th anniversary of Jack Tale Players "Capturing Characters on Stage for the College and Community: An Interview with Playwright Rex Stephenson" Appalachian Storytelling Event. Virginia Tech 2013 30th Anniversary of Jack Tales to be Celebrated Dec. 9th. Press release "Play it Again and Again." Article by Laurie Edwards on BRDT, 2010 R. Rex Stephenson Honored at Start of 25th BRDT Season. Press release with photos Old Michie Theatre to Present Stephenson’s Treasure Island. Jan. 2005 press release Too Free for Me Concludes BRDT Anniversary Season. Review by Lana A. Whited BRDT Revives First Play for 25th Season. Press Release on Too Free for Me Theatre Department puts on Grandmother Tales. Short review in The Tartan, Radford U, 12/09/03 The Blue Ridge Dinner Theatre: A Recipe for Success (article in Stage of The Art magazine, 2002) Strong Women in Appalachian Folktale Dramatizations by R. Rex Stephenson (article in AppLit) Press Release on The World is My Parish (October 2002) Press Release on Dec. 2001 Production of Treasure Island Productions of Stephenson Adaptation of The Jungle Book at Radford University Author Information at Eldridge Plays Web Site Ferrum College Press Release
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TEACHING
EXPERIENCE 2014-18: Ferrum College Summer Enrichment Camp, drama instructor 1973-2012: Ferrum College Drama Department Also taught drama at Bretton Hall Academy of the Performing Arts for NYU summer abroad program, |
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List of Complete Plays and Tales (2018 pdf at this link) Plays: Radio play The Cricket on the Hearth, with Jody D. Brown. Leicester Bay Theatricals, 2018. The Three Old Women's Bet. I. E. Clark, 2002. Reprint Dramatic Publishing. Glorious Son of York: A Play for Two or More People about
King Richard III. Revised reprint Leicester Bay Theatricals, 2016. Galileo: Man of Science, with co-author Mike Trochim, 1996. Rpt. Dramatic Publishing. "Jack and his Lump of Silver," in The United States of Storytelling: Folktales and True Stories from the Eastern States. Ed. Dan Keding. Santa Barbara, CA: Libraries Unlimited, 2010. Originally published in Blue Ridge Traditions July 1995. Reprinted in ALCA-Lines: Journal of the Assembly on the Literature and Culture of Appalachia, vol. VI (Fall 1999): 6-7. Reprinted at this link in AppLit, 2001. "Mutsmag," in AppLit, 2002. An online picture book adaptation, illustrated by children in grades K-3, Franklin County, VA. Script in Crosscurrents of Children's Literature: An Anthology of Texts and Criticism, Oxford UP, 2006. "Jack and the Giants," in AppLit, 2010.
"Jack and
the King's Girl." ALCA-Lines: Journal of
the Assembly on the Literature and Culture of Appalachia, vol.
IX (2001): 14-15. Also published with guidelines for dramatizing with
children, in Nellie McCaslins Creative Drama in the Classroom,
5th ed. Longman, 1990. Reprinted
at this link in AppLit. "Teacher
Resource Guide" for Galileo: Man of Science (with Jon
Cohn, Kara-Beth Oliver, Madison Williams, Donna Speidel, and Mike
Trochim). In Nellie McCaslins Creative Drama in the Classroom,
7th ed. NY: Longman, 2000. "The Making of a Musical," with Emily Rose Tucker. Aquila Review 1 (Fall 2008): 61-67. "Aurand, the Mentor." In Aurand Harris Remembered: A Monograph Celebrating America's Giant Playwright for Little People. Ed. Olin Corey. Anchorage Press, 1999. pp. 29-30. "Feedback and Follow Up," with John Hodgson. Virginia
English Bulletin, Spring 1995. "The Folk Tales of the Eastern Blue Ridge," with Jody Brown. In Blue Ridge Parkway: Agent of Transition. Appalachian Consortium Press, 1986. pp. 167-72. |
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ADDITIONAL
THEATRICAL AND SCHOLARLY EXPERIENCE
Producer/Director,
Blue Ridge Dinner Theatre 1979-2012 Actor in over 100 plays |
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AWARDSWinner of Floyd [VA] Community Theatre Guild Playwriting Competition, 2017, for Stories My Kinfolk Told to Me Award for Outstanding Teaching in Appalachia,1990, the University of Kentucky Award in National Archives One-Act Playwriting Competition for Charity for All American Alliance for Theatre and Education award in Unpublished Play Reading Project, 1995, for Too Free for Me IUPUI National
Youth Theatre Playwrighting Competition award for "Excellence
in Playwrighting" ECTC Theatric Excellent Award, 1997 Sara Spencer Child Drama Award, Southeastern Theatre Conference, 2007 Ferrum College Faculty Resolution Commemorating 35th Anniversary of the Jack Tale Players, December 2010 (photo at right) Ferrum College Cheatham Fellowship for research, 1999 and 2002 |
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