Cary M. Mazer's Home Page
Cary M. Mazer is Associate Professor of Theatre
Arts and English at the University of Pennsylvania; he is active in the
Theatre
Arts Program, the University's interdepartmental undergraduate major in
Theatre, which he chaired for many years.
For a story (in the University of Pennsylvania Almanac about his having received the 2001 School of Arts and Sciences
teaching award for Mentorship of Undergraduate Research, click here.
He is also a regular contributor on local theatre to the Philadelphia
City Paper, where he was a
full-time theatre critic from 1986 to 1999. To read reviews from past
issues of the City Paper, click here. Click here
to read his valedictory essay in City Paper, September 16, 1999). His most recent piece is an article about Philadelphia's dramaturgs in the January
11, 2001 issue.)
To see a c.v., click here.
Click here for Janet Falon's home page.
At Penn, Mazer teaches courses in various periods of Theatre History and
Dramatic Literature. In the spring semester he is teaching, Theatre Arts 112: Theatre, History, and Culture III: Modernism to Post-Modernism, and Theatre Arts 274: Dramaturgy. For
syllabi from past courses, click here.
Among the theatre productions he has directed are:
- Pericles, by William Shakespeare, Theatre Division, Columbia
University, 1978.
- The Devil's Disciple, by G. Bernard Shaw, Princeton Summer
Theatre, 1980.
- Not I and Rockaby, by Samuel Beckett, Intuitons,
University of Pennsylvania, 198l.
- As You Like It, by William Shakespeare, Penn Players, University
of Pennsylvania, 1982.
and, for the Theatre Arts Program at Penn:
- Electra, by Euripides, 1983.
- Richard II, by William Shakespeare, 1989.
- Playing with Peter, based on, and
incorporating the text of, Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie, 1990.
- The Duchess of Malfi, by John Webster,
1992.
- Miss Julie, by August Strindberg, 1995.
- A
Dream
Play, by August Strindberg, at
the University of Pennsylvania and at the 1996 Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
- The
Two Gentlemen of
Verona, by William Shakespeare, 1999
- Old Times, by Harold Pinter, 2000.
- Major Barbara, by G. Bernard
Shaw, 2003.
- Transfixed, an original documentary theatre piece, 2010.
- Look/Alive, an original adaptation of stories by Ovid, Grimm, Anderson, and others, 2011, at the University of Pennsylvania as part of the Philadelphia Fringe Festival, and at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
And semi-staged script-in-hand readings:
- The Spanish
Tragedy, by Thomas Kyd, The Red Heel Theatre, 1993
- The Good Person of Szechwan, by Bertolt Brecht, Theatre Arts Program, 1996.
- Spring Awakening, by Frank Wedekind, Theatre Arts Program, 1999.
- Engaged, by William S. Gilbert, Theatre Arts Program, 2008.
- Cyrano de Bergerac, by Edmond Rostand, translated by Michael Hollinger, adapted by Michael Hollinger and Aaron Posner, Theatre Arts Program, University of Pennsylvania, 2011.
In addition, he has acted (as Kadmos) in the Theatre Arts Program production
of The Bacchae by Euripides, directed by Jim Schlatter (1992); and served as guest dramaturg for
productions of The Importance of Being
Earnest, by Oscar Wilde (1993), Misalliance, by G. Bernard Shaw (1994),
Heartbreak House, by Shaw, and The Merchant of Venice by William
Shakespeare, at People's Light
& Theatre Company
of
Malvern, PA. He has also provided scholarly material and written program notes for the Shakespeare Theatre of
Washington's production of Shakespeare's Richard II (2000) and Shaw's Major Barbara (2008).
Click here for some links (not all of them up-to-date) to other pages and directories that may be of
interest,
Please feel free to contact me at:
cmazer@english.upenn.edu