Laurence Senelick Explained

Laurence Senelick
Birth Date:12 October 1942
Birth Place:Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Occupation:Educator, scholar, actor, translator, theater director
Alma Mater:Northwestern University (B.A.).[1]
Harvard University (A.M. Ph.D.)[2]
Awards:Barnard Hewitt Award, George Freedley Award, George J. Nathan Award, Oscar Brockett Outstanding Teacher of Theatre in Higher Education, Betty Jean Jones Award of the American Theatre and Drama Society.
Partner:Michael McDowell (1969-1999)

Laurence Senelick (born October 12, 1942) is an American scholar, educator, actor and director.[3] He is the author, editor, or translator of many books.

Teaching

Senelick joined the Department of Drama at Tufts University in 1972, where he was later named Fletcher Professor of Oratory and served as Director of Graduate Studies for 30 years. He retired in 2019.[3] [4]

Scholarship

Senelick's scholarship has focused on popular entertainment, with research into music hall, vaudeville, circus and pantomime.[5] [6] [7] His work on Russian and Soviet theater was honored by the St. George Medal of the Russian Ministry of Culture.[8] His writings also studied gender in performance, culminating in The Changing Room: Sex, Drag and Theatre (2000).[9]

Theater

Senelick has directed productions for many groups, including the Opera Company of Boston,[10] Boston Baroque,[11] the Loeb Drama Center,[12] and the Purcell Society.[13] His productions include the US premieres of the Seneca the Younger/Ted Hughes' Oedipus, Robert David MacDonald’s Summit Conference, and Pedro Miguel Rozos’ Our Private Life.[14] As an actor, he performed Samuel Beckett’s Krapp’s Last Tape when he was 73.[15] He serves on the Board of Directors of the Poets Theatre.[16]

Awards

Senelick's work in the classroom has been honored with the Oscar Brockett Outstanding Teacher of Theatre in Higher Education Award of the Association for Theatre in Higher Education[17] [18] and the Betty Jean Jones Award of the American Theatre and Drama Society as Outstanding Teacher of American Theatre and Drama.[19] His books have received prizes such as the Barnard Hewitt Award of the American Society for Theatre Research,[20] the George Freedley Award of the Theatre Library Association,[21] and the George Jean Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism.[22] His research has been recognized by grants from the Guggenheim Foundation[23] and he has been named a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences,[24] the College of Fellows of the American Theatre,[25] and the Berlin Institute for Advanced Studies[26]

Personal life

Laurence Senelick's brother is the neurologist and author Dr. Richard Senelick.[27] [28] Senelick’s life partner was the novelist and screenwriter Michael McDowell; they were together for 30 years until McDowell’s death in 1999.[29] [30]

Selected bibliography

As author

As editor or translator

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Treasure Trove of Death-Related Oddities.
  2. Web site: Graduate Alumni.
  3. Web site: Tufts University: Department of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies: People. dramadance.tufts.edu.
  4. Web site: Tufts University- Department of Theatre, Dance and Performance Studies: Graduate Newsletter Fall 2019.
  5. Web site: Capturing the Visual History of Theater. February 14, 2019. Tufts Now.
  6. Politics as Entertainment: Victorian Music-Hall Songs. 3825910. Senelick. Laurence. Victorian Studies. 1975. 19. 2. 149–180.
  7. News: THEATER; A Prestidigitator with His Own Journal of Oddities. The New York Times. 11 January 1998. Weber. Bruce.
  8. Web site: Laurence Senelick - Global Theatre Histories - LMU Munich. www.gth.theaterwissenschaft.uni-muenchen.de.
  9. Web site: The Changing Room: Sex, Drag and Theatre.
  10. Web site: SOLD OUT: Bravo! Brava!: Gender, Opera, and The Marriage of Figaro | Boston Athenæum. www.bostonathenaeum.org.
  11. Web site: Purcell's King Arthur. Boston Baroque.
  12. Web site: Theater Review: "Othello" at the American Repertory Theater - Un-moored. 21 January 2019.
  13. Web site: Laurence Senelick. Henry Purcell Society of Boston.
  14. Web site: Tufts University: Department of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies: Performances & Events. dramadance.tufts.edu.
  15. Web site: Tufts University Department of Drama and Dance Annual Newsletter of the Graduate Program September 2012-September 2013.
  16. Web site: Board of Directors. the-poets-theatre.
  17. Web site: Past Awardees - Association for Theatre in Higher Education.
  18. Web site: Laurence Senelick - 2019 Oscar Brockett Outstanding Teacher of Theatre in Higher Education Awardee. www.youtube.com.
  19. Web site: Awards. January 20, 2018.
  20. Web site: Recipient Archive - ASTR.
  21. Web site: Freedley Award Winners, 1969-Present. Theatre Library. Association. September 25, 2020.
  22. Web site: George Jean Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism | Department of Literatures in English Cornell Arts & Sciences. english.cornell.edu.
  23. Web site: John Simon Guggenheim Foundation | Laurence Senelick.
  24. Web site: Laurence Philip Senelick. American Academy of Arts & Sciences.
  25. Web site: Member List.
  26. Web site: Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin: Laurence Senelick. Laurence Senelick.
  27. Web site: Home. Richard C. Senelick, M.D..
  28. Web site: Richard C. Senelick MD | HuffPost. www.huffpost.com.
  29. https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/2000/01/01/screenwriter-michael-mcdowell-dies/39ab364b-f765-4081-bdd8-36375b7e515a/ Screenwriter Michael McDowell Dies - The Washington Post
  30. Web site: How 'Beetlejuice' Was Born. Alan. Siegel. March 30, 2018. The Ringer.

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