Sam McCready: Curriculum Vitae





Education

Master of Arts, University of Wales
B.A., Stranmillis College, Belfast, N. Ireland
Acting and Speech Diploma, Guildhall School of Music & Drama, London


Experience in Higher Education

University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC), Professor, Department of Theatre, 1999-2001
University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC), Associate Professor, Department of Theatre, 1989-99
University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC), Assistant Professor, Department of Theatre, 1984-89
Stranmillis College, Belfast, Chair and Head of Theatre Department, 1978-83
University College of N. Wales, Lecturer in Drama, Department of Theatre, 1970-78


Experience in Other Than Higher Education

Theatregoround, Artistic Director, 2002-
Lyric Theatre, Belfast, Artistic Director, 1980-81
Orangefield Boys Secondary School, Belfast, Chair of English Department, 1967-70
Orangefield Boys Secondary School, Belfast, Chair of Drama Department, 1963-67
Berkshire International (U.K.) Ltd., N. Ireland Advertising Manager, 1961-63<
Fane Street School, Belfast, Art Teacher, 1959-61


Publications

The Theatre in the North of Ireland, 1968-98, Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press. Work in Progress
A William Butler Yeats Encyclopedia. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1997
Lucille Lortel: A Bio-Bibliography. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1993
Loie Fuller, Lillian Gish, Lucille Lortel, and Irene Worth, Notable Women in the American Theatre, eds. Barranger, Roberts, and Robinson. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1989
No Country for Old Men, MARYLAND POETRY REVIEW, Summer 1987
Dressing the Idea: Costume Designs by Elena Zlotescu. Baltimore: Albin O. Kuhn Gallery, University of Maryland Baltimore County, 1987
"Imperceptibly into Song," A Needle's Eye. Belfast: Lyric Theatre, 1981
"Das Ist Fleisch," The Listener. London: B.B.C. Publications, 1980
"Relying on Britten," Radio Times. London: B.B.C. Publications, July 21, 1979
A Biographical Supplement to XVth Guildhall Anthology. London: Guildhall School of Music & Drama, 1978
"Drama in Violence," Concord Magazine, Dublin: Society of Teachers of Speech, 1977
A Biographical Supplement to Xlllth Guildhall Anthology. London: Guildhall School of Music & Drama, 1975
A Biographical Supplement to Xllth Guildhall Anthology. London: Guildhall School of Music & Drama, 1973


Original Plays and Adaptations

The Deirdre Project, 1997
Songs of Wandering Aengus (with Joan McCready), 1995
The Tutor, 1992
Lifelines, 1991
Salome, 1990
The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1988
Spring's Awakening, 1987
The Importance of Being Oscar, 1986
The Fall of the House of Usher, 1984
A Fantastic Voyage with W. B. Yeats, 1983
Yeats in Limbo, 1981
Paradise Lost, 1980
Hands Up Ubu Roi, 1979
The Oscar Wilde Extravangza, 1973
Rock Tempest, 1972
Power, 1970
Expression '66, 1966


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