ACADEMIC RESUME.........PAUL R. RATHBUN, PhD
ACTIVITIES
Current: Managing Intertribal Theatre Project a touring performance group featuring educational and diversity training/performative workshops and performances (non-profit 501c3 applied for)
1999-2002: Substance Abuse Counselor for Southwest Colorado Mental Health 1999-2002, 2700 hours/CAC I training completed
1997-2002: Directed/Produced/Constructed 10 touring Native American-centered theatrical productions, founder, advisor, and director of Intertribal Theatre Project of Durango, CO and Monument Valley, AZ:
the Essence, Evening at the Warbonnet, Coyote Tails, Traditionally Urban, of Coyote and Water Monster, Indian Radio Days, Vanishing Red Man, Doing a Good One for the Red Man, Evening at the Warbonnet 2002, Coyote Tails 2002.
1999-2000: Produced/Constructed 3 touring Children's Plays: Coyote Stories, How to eat Like a Child, The Three Little Wolves and the Big Bad Pig.
Cited as "ground breaking" editor and critic fundamental to new field of Native Theatre studies in SEVENTH GENERATION an anthology of American Indian plays, TCG 1999.
1998-2001 Directed 3 mainstream plays for Fort Lewis College Mainstage: Lonely Planet, The Fever, Mandragola.
1997-2001: Technical Work on 8 Mainstage productions, Fort Lewis College, shop supervision, props, set building, costume shop supervisor, facility design and construction.
Published two interview/articles in Project Hoop, a textbook for teaching American Indian theatre and performance, ed. by Hanay Geiogamah & Jaye Darby (UCLA, Fall 1999).
Keynote speaker "Learning to Listen: American Indian Dramatic Literature." for World Literature Conference. Boone, North Carolina, April 1998.
Workshop presenter "Let's Get Honest: Approaching Native Literature in a Historical Context." for World Literature Conference. Boone, North Carolina, April 1998.
Faculty Presenter, "In the Playwrights' Words." Family in Crisis Conference, Institute Integral Health, (Santa Fe, April '98). Award Recipient: Writer of the Year in Academic Writing. Presented at the RETURNING THE GIFT VI Conference Wordcraft Circle of Native Writers and Story tellers, (Tahlequah, Oklahoma, October 1997).
Conference Paper Reading: "Social Issues and Artistic Metaphors: Representations of Alcohol and Alcoholism in American Indian Drama." ATHE, (August 1997).
Keynote/introductory speaker for Yellow Umbrella awards banquet, Melbourne FL (May 1, 1997)
Keynote speaker for Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society induction, Valencia Community College (April, 1997).
Composed and directed dramatic presentation for Orlando Museum of Art Imperial Tombs of China exhibit (May-September, 1997).
Visiting Instructor, U. of Central Florida Theatre: Teaching Stage Make-up & Intro, production work.
Directed The Good Doctor, by Neil Simon, Brevard Community College (Spring 1996).
Wrote and Directed Turnaround, a one-act play for Space Coast Playwrights' club (March 1995)
Directed Waiting for Lefty and The Wizard of Oz (BCC, Fall 1994).
Editor and publisher, Native Playwrights' Newsletter,1992-96. Published numerous articles and interviews in NPN, which includes playscripts in most issues.
Active voting member, "Native Writer's Circle of the Americas;" 1992-98; cited in their directory as Professional Journalistic/Creative writer and Storyteller.
Free-lance lecturing on Moving Panoramas (with slides) and Native Drama; Diversity Workshops speaker.
Delivered two papers at ATHE '94 Conference in Chicago, other conference papers/appearances
Dramaturg for two plays (Eddie Rose and Evening at the Warbonnet) at Native Voices Play Festival, Illinois State U. Nov 28-Dec 4 1994.