John Gronbeck-Tedesco
Professor and Interim Dean of the School of Fine Arts

Department of Theatre and Film
The University of Kansas
Murphy Hall
1530 Naismith Drive, Room 356
Lawrence, KS 66045-3102
Phone: 785-864-3511
Fax: 785-864-5251
Email

Spring 2009 semester
Office hours:
By appointment.
Course assignments:
No courses while serving as Interim Dean of the School of Fine Arts.
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John Gronbeck-Tedesco has been a member of the Department of Theatre and Film faculty since 1979. He formerly served as Associate Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at KU, Chair of the Department of Theatre and Film, and Acting Director of the University Honors Program.

He is the author of Acting Through Exercises: Journeys for the Actor, published in 1992, which received the “Best Book in Theatre Pedagogy and Practice” award from the Association for Theatre in Higher Education. He co-founded and edits the Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism and is the author of several plays including Prairie Fire, Parts I and II, and Coming Here, A Trilogy produced by The University Theatre in 1996. Dean Gronbeck-Tedesco’s play Tony and the Telephone Pole was performed at the Last Frontier Play Festival in 2003 in Valdez, Alaska. John’s recent directing credits at KU include Temptation, Lonestar, The Accidental Death of an Anarchist, and The Mandrake (which he translated).

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