BCU’s Richard Poole Presents Paper
at Southeastern Theatre Conference
SIOUX CITY, Iowa – Briar
Cliff University’s Richard Poole, chairperson of the theatre and
speech communication department,
presented a paper titled “The Play’s the Dadburn Thing: Marginalized
Rural American Theatre Playscripts” at the Southeastern Theatre
Conference, March 6-9, in Chattanooga. Tenn.
At the conference, Poole also presented the
opening monologue from his play “The Medicine Show of the Great Dr.
Balthazar Presents.” Additionally, he was appointed to be a reader
for the undergraduate/graduate prize in theatre history offered by
the South Eastern Theatre Conference.
A Fulbright Scholar, Poole
joined Briar Cliff in 1978 and teaches acting, directing, theatre
history, voice and speech communication courses at the university.
He has written and published extensively on theatre forms and venues
in the rural Midwest.
Briar Cliff University
is a Catholic institution with an enrollment of more than 1,100
students from 26 states,
