PROFESSIONAL/ACADEMIC RESUME.............PAUL R. RATHBUN

CURRENT ADDRESS: Post Office Box 9101, Durango, CO 81302 PHONE:(970)385 0927

e-mail: nativedrama@usa.net

CURRENT POSITION: Managing Director, Intertribal Theatre Project

www.intertribaltheatre.com

ACADEMIC PREPARATION

Institution Dates Degree/Major (gpa)

University of Wisconsin-Madison 1996 PhD-Theatre Lit/Crit/Hist

University of Wisconsin-Madison 1990 MA-Theatre History

University of Puget Sound 1985 BA-Communications: Theatre

Seattle University 1982-83 Psych/Behavioral Science

Everett (WA) Community College 1982 Associate of Arts: Theatre

MA THESIS

The Comfortable Subject: Scopic Regimes and Social Order in 19th Century Popular Entertainments, A Study of John Stevens Sioux Massacre Panoramas (1989)

DISSERTATION

American Indian Dramaturgy: Situating Native Presence on the American Stage (1996)

EXPERIENCE - TEACHING

Teaching Assistant, teaching four Introduction to Drama classes weekly, 1985 to 1989, Theatre Department, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Tutor, for individual foreign graduate students 1989-1993

Adjunct Professor, teaching Directing and Graduate History, Spring 1994, Theatre Department, University of Tennessee-Knoxville

Assistant Professor, (Six semesters Full-time) Theatre Director Fall 1994-July 1996, Brevard Community College, teaching Theatre History, Introduction, Literature, Native American Theatre, and Acting/Performance/Auditioning

Visiting Instructor, University of Central Florida, Spring 1997, teaching Stage Make-up, Honors Theatre Survey, Theatre Survey (Intro to Theatre)

Visiting Professor, Fort Lewis College: Durango, CO, Fall 1997-Spring 2002, teaching College Composition, Introduction to Theatre, American Indian Theatre, Performance Techniques, Ancient & Classical Theatre, Modern Theatre, Stagecraft, Children's Theatre, Sociology of Theatre, Public Speaking, Southwest Studies.

COMMENTS

Teaching support materials: 1500-piece theatre/performance slide transparency collection, (text/ visuals), w/Native theatre. 3000+ volume library of theatre, drama, Native history, related fields-includes 225 MA, MFA, PhD theses. Library includes at least 250 contemporary Native plays. 75+ video tapes of Native theatricals (plays, performances) and interviews with Native Theatre Artists; complete video (approx 20 hrs.) of both "Returning the Gift" conferences of Native Writers in Norman Oklahoma, 1992-1993. 200 piece collection (inherited) of 19^th Century Plains Indian Art (Museum Quality, has been shown at McClung Museum in Knoxville, TN).

As part of Intertribal Theatre Project, but owned personally: materials for theatre organization, including theatre shop (power tools, hand tools, raw materials): 30' x 7' (5) Mirrors for rehearsal/dance space: bench seating for 125, padded theatre seats for 25: properties shop with paint and supplies: several dozen masks, giant puppets in Navaho/kachina styles: costumes for current, past and future productions: portable stages: work benches and tables.