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Biography

ALLAN HAVIS (MFA, Yale School of Drama) Provost, Thurgood Marshall College . Over three decades, Havis has had his plays produced at theatres across the country and in Europe, including San Diego Rep, Old Globe, Seattle's ACT, Odyssey, Long Wharf, South Coast Rep, American Repertory Theatre, Hartford Stage, Virginia Stage, WPA, Berkshire Theatre Festival, Philadelphia Theatre Co. and Rowholt Theater-Verlag (National German Radio). Works commissioned by England's Chichester Festival, Sundance, San Diego Rep, Ted Danson's Anasazi Productions, South Coast Rep, Mixed Blood, CSC Rep, Malashock Dance, Carolina Chamber Chorale, National Foundation for Jewish Culture, and UCSD. Thirteen full length published plays including MOROCCO, HOSPITALITY and THE HAUNTING OF JIM CROW: Penguin/Mentor, Theatre Communications Group, Broadway Play Publishing. University of Illinois Press published his edited volume: AMERICAN POLITICAL PLAYS. Harper/Collins published his children's novel ALBERT THE ASTRONOMER. Recipient of Guggenheim, Rockefeller, Kennedy Center/American Express, CBS, HBO, National Endowment for the Arts Awards, and San Diego Theatre Critics Circle 2003 Outstanding New Play for NUEVO CALIFORNIA(co-written with Bernardo Solano). His book on cult films will be published next year by University Press of America .

 

 

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Theatre Forum - An international theatre journal since 1992
La Jolla Playhouse - UCSD is home to this Tony Award winning theatre
UCSD Home Page - University of California San Diego's main web site

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