BeckyBecker

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Becky Becker

    Associate Professor of Theatre
    Columbus State University
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Dr. Becky Becker, Associate Professor of Theatre, received her BA in English and BS/BSed in Communications (Theatre emphasis) from Minot State University, her MA in Theatre Arts from the University of North Dakota, and her Ph.D. from Bowling Green State University. She is head of the BA Program at Columbus State University and teaches courses in Theatre History, Script Analysis, Playwriting, and Devising Performance, among others. In 2011 she was honored to receive an Outstanding Teacher of Writing Award at CSU. Directing credits include: The Conduct of Life, Once On This Island, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Violet (Another musical with libretto by Jeanine Tesori), Machinal, Cloud Nine, and Eurydice, as well as two Larry Corse Playwriting Competition winners, The Gravedigger’s Tango and Compañeras.

Becky has conceived, written, and directed numerous oral history performances, including Collected Lives: Memory in Motion, focusing on the civil rights movement, Westville: Collected Lives, describing the founding of an historic 1850s village in Georgia, and Bibb City: Collected Lives From a Mill Town, chronicling mill life on the Chattahoochee River. Her most recent oral history script is inspired by Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man and interviews collected by her collaborator, Darryl Holloman, with plans to do a staged reading in the near future. Becky developed an interest in Nigeria and Nollywood, the film and home video industry there, after visiting Nigeria on a faculty development seminar in 2008, interviewing Nigeria-born playwright, Tess Onwueme, and helping to plan a conference on Onwueme’s work in Abuja, Nigeria in 2009. Her interest in International Education extends to other parts of the globe, including Japan, where she will lead a study abroad program in 2013, and England, where she has led programs for several years both at CSU and elsewhere. Becky’s published work may be found in Theatre Journal, Feminist Teacher, Theatre Symposium, and an edited volume on the Works of Neil Labute.