Contributors

Contributors Keynote Speakers Rob Franklin Fox is the director for the Institute of Outdoor Drama at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He served as general manager for PlayMakers Repertory Company from 1999 to 2007. Fox had been with the Department of Dramatic Art in the College of Arts and Sciences at UNC Chapel Hill for more than ten years. He has served as a lecturer, teaching a course in theatre management. Fox began his stay at UNC Chapel Hill as an assistant box office manager for PlayMakers Repertory Company in 1997. Fox has fourteen years of theatre management experience and holds a Master of Business Administration degree in Arts Management from Oklahoma City University. While at OCU he performed with the OCU Children’s Theatre and was box office manager for Oklahoma Opera and Musical Theater Company. He has served as box office manager for the American Dance Festival in Durham, North Carolina, and Florida Studio Theatre in Sarasota, Florida. Fox earned his BA in history from Belhaven College in Jackson, Mississippi. While at Belhaven, he performed with The Socks and Buckskins Players and The Millsaps Players. He is past president of the Triangle Network of Theaters, former board member of the Canton Community Players, and a member of the North Carolina Theatre Conference. Scott J. Parker was, from 1990 until his retirement in 2007, the director of the Institute of Outdoor Drama, a national advisory and research agency at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, which serves 132 C O N T R I B U T O R S 110 outdoor theatres in thirty-seven states (historical dramas, Shakespeare festivals, religious dramas) and thirty communities across the country, developing new outdoor theatres. During his seventeen years at the IOD he conducted forty feasibility studies in twenty-five states, planned and presided over seventeen national conferences, and advised more than one hundred organizations across the country on the development of new nonprofit theatre companies. He is the former producer of Paul Green’s The Lost Colony, the nation ’s first outdoor historical drama located on Roanoke Island, North Carolina, and coauthor of Creating Historical Drama (2005), a resource book for playwrights and professional and amateur theatres. He taught in the Drama Department at Duke University as its managing director for six years, was a professor and managing director for seven years in the Theatre Department at East Carolina University, and in the late 1970s managed entertainers for Walt Disney World in Orlando . Scott holds an MFA in directing from the University of Virginia , an MA in Dramatic Art from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and a BA in English from Guilford College, which presented him with its Alumni Excellence Award in 2002. On graduation from college in 1968, Scott entered the U.S. Army, where he served as a television production specialist for two years at the White House, the Pentagon, and Fort Belvoir, Virginia. He is a former president of the National Theatre Conference based in New York City, is a founding member of the Association for Theatre in Higher Education, and has traveled throughout the country as an adjudicator for the American College Theatre Festival and the Festival of American Community Theatre. He was a chief regional officer for the American Theatre Association and has served as president of the Southeastern Theatre Conference, the North Carolina Theatre Conference (which presented him with the Marian A. Smith Distinguished Career Award in 2007), the North Carolina Association of Professional Theatres , and Arts Advocates of North Carolina, a professional lobbying organization . Since 1990 he has been the vice president of the Paul Green Foundation. In 2000 he was inducted into the College of Fellows of the American Theatre, the honor society based at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC, and is currently serving as dean of the college. In 1992 he received the Suzanne M. Davis Award for distinguished service to theatre in the South by the Southeastern Theatre Conference, and in 1991 he was elected to membership of the Players Club in New York City. In 2007 he was elected as only the third Lifetime...