Dr. Michael L. Mauldin (Director of the Dramatic Arts Program and Associate Professor) comes to Cleveland State University with a long and diverse background in performance, directing, and academia. Spending nearly 20 years in New York City as a professional actor and director, he appeared on Broadway (Les Miserables and The Tempes), Off Broadway (Tonight at 8:30, The Three Sisters, All's Well That Ends Well, and Othello , among others) and several national commercials including Sharp Typewriters, Kodak, Oxydol, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the United Bank Card. He has appeared an numerous regional theatres across the country, including the Guthrie, the Arena, the Florida Shakespeare Festival, Playwrights' Repertory Theatre, the White River Theatre Festival, Upstairs Stage, and Mad Cow Theatre. As a director, Dr. Mauldin has helmed such productions as Show Boat, The Mystery of Irma Vep, Macbeth, Les Liasons Dangerouses, Oh, Coward!, Side by Side by Sondheim, As You Like It, The Laramie Project, The Bacchae, Story Theatre, Lonely Planet, The Miser, Sugar!, The Robber Bridegroom, Death Takes a Holiday, Green Julia, The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged), Doctor Faustus and Dracula . He has been received several “best season production” awards, including his productions of The Bacchae , The 9/11 Project, and The Secret Garden . He has presented papers at the International Conference on Senior Theatre, the American Society for Theatre Reseearch, the Association for Theatre in Higher Education, the New York University Performance Studies Conference on Tourist Productions, the Southeastern Theatre Conference, the Mid America Theatre Conference, and the SCAENA International Conference on Shakespeare in Performance at Cambridge University , England . Having studied under Stella Adler, Rosemary Harris, Kristin Linklater, and Oleg Tabokov, Dr. Mauldin has worked with such notables as Joshua Logan, Henry Fonda, Dorothy McGuire, Pauline Flanagan, Everett Quinton, Hayden Roark, and Anthony Zerbe. He was instrumental in establishing the “Audio Theatre” component of Reachout Radio, a national reading service for the visually impaired. He received his B. A in Theatre Arts from the University of West Florida , his M.A. in Performance Studies from New York University , and his Ph.D. in Theatre History, Criticism, and Literature from the Ohio State University.

 

 

 

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