John Howard - Volunteer, Peace Corps, India, 1965-67 - now Guest Lecturer/Lighting Designer, Theatre Arts, Mount Holyoke College


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EDUCATION
DEGREE
DATE
INSTITUTION
MAJOR
B.A.
1960-1964 1964-1965
Grinnell College
Drama

1963-1964
Carnegie Inst. of Tech.
Drama

1964 (Summer)
State Univ. of Iowa
Drama
M.A.
1967-1970
Univ. of Washington
Drama
EMPLOYMENT
Shop Assistant, Grinnel College, 1964-65.
Volunteer, Peace Corps, India, 1965-67.
Graduate Assistant, University of Washington, 1967-69.
Assistant Professor, Colby-Sawyer College, 1971-73.
Guest Lecturer, New England College, 1972.
Instructor, Theatre Arts, Mount Holyoke College, 1973-74.
Assistant Professor, Theatre Arts, Mount Holyoke College, 1974-1980.
Designer, Mount Holyoke College Summer Theatre, 1972.
Designer, Philips-Andover Academy Summer Program, 1977.
Guest Lecturer/Lighting Designer, Theatre Arts, Mount Holyoke College, 1980-Present
ARTICLES AND PAPERS
"Platform Clamps," Theatre Crafts, October, 1978.

"Platform Padding," Design and Technology Exchange, April, 1979.

"Theatre Architecture, Lighting, and Scenic Constructions: A Computerized Bibliography for the
Historian and the Practitioner" -- paper presented to the United States Institute of Theatre
Technology Meeting, March 1979.

"Theatre Architecture, Lighting, and Scenic Construction: A Computerized Bibliography for the
Historian and the Practitioner," U.S.I.T.T. Newsletter, May 1979.

Letter to the Editor on boycott of non-ERA states, U.S.I.T.T. Newsletter,
January 1978.

Letter to the Editor "Too Much Broadway?," Theatre Design and Technology,
Summer 1979.

"A Bibliography of Dissertations on Theatrical Lighting, Architecture and Technical Work."
Accepted for publication by Theatre Design and Technology, Fall 1979.

"Bibliography of Theatrical Production," Broadside: Newsletter of the Theatre
Library Association, Spring 1979.

The Bibliography at University of Massachusetts Computer Center. A data base of 10,000 books
and serials on theatre architecture, lighting, and scenic construction.

Letter to the Editor, "Manual Dissolve Unit: Further Suggestions," Theatre Crafts, January 1979.

"A Work Light for Rehearsals," Theatre Crafts, October 1979.

"Platforms for the Liberal Arts Shop," Theatre Crafts, May 1980.

Bibliographic data needed in U.S.I.T.T. Newsletter S/0 1979, Vol. XIX, No.4, P. 14.

New England Theatre Conference Demonstration of Computer.. Bibliography, October 27, 1979,
at University of Massachusetts.

New England Theatre Conference Workshop on Special Effects, January 1980, at University of
New Hampshire.

"Unraveled Spaghetti," (Note to Editor), U.S.I.T.T. Newsletter, November-December 1979, Vol.
XIX, No. 5, P. 9.

Description of computer project: New Actor on Stage: The Computer in New England
Entertainment Digest, November 28, 1979, p. 7.

A Bibliography of Theatre Technology: Acoustics and Sound, Lighting, Properties, and
Scenery, Greenwood Press, 1982



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