Peter Glazer - CV - April 2021

Curriculum Vitae Peter Glazer 1001 46th Street #506 Emeryville, CA 94608 e-mail: prg@berkeley.edu cell: 510-967-9212 EMPLOYMENT Associate Professor, University of California, Berkeley, Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies. July 2004 to the present.

Assistant Professor, University of California, Berkeley, Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies. July 2001 to June 2004.

Director and Playwright for the stage, 1984 – present.

EDUCATION Ph.D. in Performance Studies, Northwestern University, 2001.

M.A. in Performance Studies, Northwestern University, 1997.

B.A. in Drama, Yale University, 1975, cum laude, departmental distinction in Drama.

GRANTS, AWARDS, RESIDENCIES Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA) – artist residency to complete stage adaptation of Karen Shepard’s novel The Celestials, and present public readings. January – June, 2020.

Humanities Research Fellowship, UC Berkeley, Sabbatical Year, 2019-2020.

Moore Institute Visiting Research Fellowship, National University of Ireland, Galway, 2018.

Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA) – artist residency, to develop stage adaptation of The Celestials. January 2017.

Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA) – artist residency, to develop stage adaptation of The Celestials. and August 2016.

Moore Institute Visiting Research Fellowship, National University of Ireland, Galway, 2016.

Puffin Foundation Special Grant, $15,000, to support student production of Heart of Spain, and related commemorative events, recognizing the 80th anniversary of the Spanish Civil War. UC Berkeley, 2016.

San Francisco Foundation Grant, $3,500, to support TDPS production of Heart of Spain: A Musical of the Spanish Civil War and related commemorative events, 2016.

Puffin Foundation Grant in Theater, $2,500, to complete the musical score for Heart of Spain: A Musical of the Spanish Civil War, and present the songs in concert at the Freight & Salvage Coffeehouse, March, 2015.

Mellon Project Grant, UC Berkeley. Freedom Beat: National Anthems, Patriot Games, Emblems of Belief – A Musical Performance of Scholarship. The maximum grant was awarded: $32,000. 2012-2013.

Humanities Research Fellowship, UC Berkeley, Sabbatical Year, 2012-2013.

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Bay Area Theater Critics Circle Award Nominations – Best Production of a Musical and Best Director of a Musical, Woody Guthrie’s American Song, Marin Theater Company, Mill Valley, CA. 2010.

Colorado Theatre Guild Henry Award Nominations – Outstanding Production of a Musical, Woody Guthrie’s American Song; Outstanding Direction of a Musical, Peter Glazer. Colorado Shakespeare Festival, Boulder, 2008.

Research Assistantship in the Humanities Grant, UC Berkeley. National Anthems: American Songs of Patriotic Contention, 2007 – 2008.

Rockefeller Humanities Foundation Fellowship: “Theorizing Cultural Heritage.” One month residency at Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage, Washington, DC. Spring, 2007.

Humanities Research Fellowship, UC Berkeley, 2005.

PUBLICATIONS Books La Guerra Es Bella de James Neugass (Autor), Peter N. Carroll (Introducción), Peter Glazer (Introducción), Felipe Osanz (Traductor). Global Rhythm Press; Edición: 1. 3 de febrero de 2014.

War is Beautiful: An American Ambulance Driver in the Spanish Civil War, a lost memoir

by James Neugass, edited and with an introduction by Peter Glazer and Peter N. Carroll. The New Press, New York, NY. October 2008.

Radical Nostalgia: Commemorating the Spanish Civil War in America. University of Rochester Press, August 2005.

Essays and Articles “Pete Seeger: Veteran of the Good Fight (1919 – 2014).” Obituary. The Volunteer. March 2014.

“Songs of the Spanish Civil War: The New Edition.” The Volunteer, September, 2014. “‘El Puño en Alto’: El Mundo Escénico Y La Guerra Española, Nueva York, 1936-1939.” In Frente Al Fascismo: Nueva York Y La Guerra Civil Española. Peter N. Carroll y James N. Fernandez, editors. Museo de la Ciudad de Nueva York & NYU Press, 2008. [Translation of next item.] “‘The Lifted Fist’: Performing the Spanish Civil War, New York City, 1936-1939.” In Facing Fascism: New York & The Spanish Civil War. Peter N. Carroll and James N. Fernandez, editors. New York University Press, 2007.

Book Reviews William W. Demastes and Iris Smith Fischer, eds. Interrogating America through Theatre and Performance. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. In Modern Drama. 50.4 (Winter 2007). 641-642.

CDs “Woody Guthrie’s American Song – Live from the Freight & Salvage Coffeehouse” A concert production of the award-winning musical. Double CD set. Peter Glazer, Executive Producer. Released 2014.

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“Songs of the Spanish Civil War,” released 2014 by Smithsonian Folkways, SFW40188.

This is a high quality, glossy reissue of two previous Folkways releases, with extensive liner notes and song annotations by Peter Glazer.

CREATIVE WORK Writing for the Stage (works marked with a +plus were also directed by Peter Glazer) + The Celestials by Peter Glazer, based on the novel by Karen Shepard. Workshop held at Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA), North Adams, MA. March, 2021. + The Celestials by Peter Glazer, based on the novel by Karen Shepard. Two readings held at MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA. February – May, 2020. [The final two readings, one part of the MASS MoCA performance season, were postponed due to Covid-19]. + Heart of Spain: A Musical of the Spanish Civil War. Book and Lyrics by Peter Glazer, Music and Lyrics by Eric Bain Peltoniemi. UC Berkeley Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies, 2016. + Heart of Spain: A Musical of the Spanish Civil War. Concert Performance, Freight & Salvage Coffeehouse, Berkeley, CA 2015. + Freedom Beat: Songs of Nation, Songs of Dissent. A performance of scholarship, written, compiled, and narrated by Peter Glazer; music by MAD NOISE, Misner & Smith, Randy Craig. Freight & Salvage Coffeehouse, June, 2014. + Citizen Tom Paxton. Songs by Tom Paxton, conceived by Peter Glazer and Tom Paxton.

A musical based on the songs of celebrated songwriter. Writers Retreat, TheatreWorks, Mountainview, CA, 2014. + The Golden Door, by Melanie O‘Reilly and Peter Glazer, a musical based on the lives of 3 women who came to America from Ireland in the 19 th century. Writers Retreat, TheatreWorks, Mountainview, CA, 2006.

Woody Guthrie’s American Song conceived and adapted by Peter Glazer, songs and writings by Woody Guthrie.

Vashon Repertory Theatre, Vashon, Island, WA, 2021.

Axiom Repertory Theatre, Redding, CA, 2021.

Penobscot Theatre Company, Bangor, ME, 2019.

PenArts, Pensacola, FL, 2019.

Palm Beach Dramaworks, Palm Beach, FL, 2018.

Company of Fools, Hailey, ID, 2018.

Heritage Theatre Festival, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, 2017.

Intrepid Theatre Company, San Diego, CA, 2016.

Commonweal Theatre Company, Lanesboro, MN, 2015.

St. Michael’s Playhouse, Colchester, VT 2015 Meadville Community Theatre, Meadville, PA, 2015 Chenango River Theatre, Greene, NY 2015 Shadowland Stages, Ellenville, NY 2015 Western Stage, Salinas, CA, 2014.

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Concert Performance, Freight & Salvage Coffeehouse, Berkeley, CA 2014 UC Berkeley Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies, 2012 Camelot Theater, Talent, OR 2012 + Concert Performance, Freight & Salvage Coffeehouse, Berkeley, CA, 2012 Actors’ Summit, Akron, OH 2012 Ferndale Rep, Ferndale, CA, 2012 Lost Nation Theater, Montpelier, VT, 2011 Iowa Theater Artists Company, Amana, Iowa, 2011 Arizona Stage Co., Tucson and Phoenix, AX, 2011 + Marin Theater Company, Mill Valley, CA. 2009 Stage 3 Theater Company, Sonora, CA, 2009 Vermont Stage Company, Middlebury VT, 2009 Heritage Theater, Grand Rapids, MI, 2009 Theatre Three, Dallas, TX, 2009 Blindfaith Theatre, Chicago, IL, 2008-9 Ramapo College of New Jersey, Ramapo, NJ, 2009 + 20th Anniversary Production, Colorado Shakespeare Festival, Boulder, CO, 2008 Vermont Stage Co., Burlington, VT, 2008 White River Valley Players, Rochester, VT, 2008 Elmira College, Elmira, NY, 2008 Stage 3, Sonora, CA, 2008 Willows Theatre Company, Concord, CA, 2006 University of San Diego, San Diego, CA, 2005 Ukiah Players Theatre, Ukiah, CA, 2004 Foothill Theatre Co., Nevada City, CA, 2004 Southern Appalachian Repertory Theater, Mars Hill, NC, 2004 University of San Diego, San Diego, CA, 2004 The Sherman Players, Sherman, CT, 2004 Anchorage Community Theatre, Anchorage, AK, 2004 Southern Appalachian Repertory Theatre, Asheville, NC, 2004 Texas State University, San Marcos, TX, 2004 NOTE: 40 additional productions were presented between 1988 and 2004 +

Plays in Active Development, 2021 The Celestials, a stage adaptation of the historical novel by Karen Shepard. Artist’s residency with the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA) Summer 2016, Winter 2017; workshop at Williams College, 2018; public readings, MASS MoCA 2020, 2021.

Come Dance with me in Ireland: A Pilgrimage to Yeats Country, a musical play written in collaboration with Celtic Harper Patrick Ball. Residency grants, National University of Ireland Galway, June 2016 and May 2018.

The Beggar King, a new musical based on The Beggar King and the Secret of Happiness

by Joel ben Izzy. Concept and book by Joel ben Izzy and Peter Glazer, music and lyrics by Ethan Treiman and Ethan Riordan.

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Additional Stage Directing A Murder of Crows by Mac Wellman. UC Berkeley Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies, 2015.

Silence by Harold Pinter and Springtime by María Irene Fornés. UC Berkeley Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies, 2009.

Measure for Measure by William Shakespeare. UC Berkeley Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies, 2008.

Seven Lears by Howard Barker. UC Berkeley Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies, 2006.

The Magic Banjo by Michael Miles. Milwaukee Repertory Theatre, Milwaukee, WI, 2004.

Commemorative Activities and Performances Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives (ALBA) Live Online Gala, Facebook Live Event.

Co-writer. Featuring Dr. Mona Hannah-Attisha, Sarah Lee Guthrie, Pedro and Luis Pastor, among others. Also featured was the awarding of the 2019 Puffin-ALBA Human Rights Award of $100,000 to No More Deaths/No Más Muertes. May, 2020.

UC Berkeley Commemorates the 80th Anniversary of the Spanish Civil War. Program Coordinator for a range of commemorative events on the Berkeley campus, including film screening at Pacific Film Archive, archival exhibits at Bancroft Library and The Townsend Center for the Humanities, a poetry reading in collaboration with the Department of English, book talks, seminars, a Human Rights public discussion, Heart of Spain – A Musical of the Spanish Civil War, and the annual gathering of the Bay Ares Friends and Family of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade. Fall 2016.

This Land is Our Land: Internationalism, Citizenship, Resistance. Co-writer and director.

Commemorative event honoring the Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade, and awarding Puffin ALBA Human Rights Award to United We Dream, a national network of youth-led immigrant activist organizations fighting for the rights of millions of undocumented immigrants in the United States. 77th Annual Celebration.

Freight & Salvage Coffeehouse, October, 2013.

Despedida Anniversary Commemoration. Performer and co-creator of commemoration remembering celebratory events in 1938 honoring the American volunteers in the Spanish Civil War upon their departure from Spain. King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center, New York University, 2008.

What They Stood For. Co-writer, director, and keynote speaker for the 71st annual commemoration honoring the Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade, Oakland, CA, 2008 The Lives and Times of the Lincoln Battalion. Director, co-producer, script and media consultant, Calvin Simmons Theatre, Oakland, CA and Skirbal Center, New York University, 2005 Patriots Act! Co-writer and director for the 67th annual commemoration honoring the Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade, Oakland, CA, and New York, NY, 2004 \

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ACADEMIC SERVICE University Service, Berkeley Division of the Academic Senate Space Assignments and Capital Improvements Committee (SACI), 2018-2020.

Berkeley Divisional Council (DIVCO), elected member-at-large, 2015-2017.

Berkeley Divisional Council (DIVCO), elected member-at-large, 2012-2013.

Berkeley Divisional Council (DIVCO), elected member-at-large, 2009-2010 Committee on Research (COR), co-Chair, member of Humanities sub-group, 2009-2010 Committee on Research (COR), Member, Humanities sub-group, 2008-2009 University Service, Division of Arts and Humanities Humanities Research Fellowship/Mellon Project Grant Evaluation Committee, Fall 2014.

Arts Council, convened by Arts and Humanities Dean Anthony Cascardi, 2012-2013.

Board of Trustees, Cal Performances, 2010-2013.

Search Committee, Dean of Arts and Humanities, Spring 2011.

Ad Hoc Tenure Review Committee, Spring 2009.

Chair, Humanities Research Fellowship/Mellon Project Grant Evaluation Committee, 2008-2009.

Ad Hoc Committee to develop guidelines for evaluating academic performance in the Performing Arts, 2008-2009.

Humanities Research Fellowship/Mellon Project Grant Evaluation Committee, Fall 2007-2008.

University Service to the Faculty and Campus Berkeley Faculty Association, Board Member. “The BFA is a representative of the Berkeley faculty, legally empowered to provide a voice to faculty outside the regular channels of the Academic Senate and University administration.” 2011 - present.

SAVE the University, Co-Chair and Founding Member. SAVE was a group of Berkeley faculty formed to address key issues responding to a budget crisis in the University of California system. The crisis resulted in significant campus unrest. We organized faculty, and advocated for both faculty and students to the campus administration, and the general public. 2009-2011.

Departmental Service, Department of Theater, Dance and Performance Studies Chair, Acting, Directing, and Playwriting Subcommittee, 2016-2021.

Undergraduate Curriculum Committee, 2002 – 2012, 2014-2018, 2020-2021.

Public Programming Executive Committee, 2016-2018.

Production Committee, co-chair, 2015-2018 Executive Committee, Graduate Group in Performance Studies, Member, 2015-2018 Architectural Master Plan Steering Committee, 2015-2016 Search Committee, Theater Historian, 2015-2016 Head Graduate Advisor and Chair of Executive Committee for the Graduate Group in Performance Studies, 2014-2015 Events Committee, 2014-2015.

Department Chair, 2010-2013

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Search Committee Chair for Lecturer in Lighting Design, 2013.

Search Committee Chair for Production Manager hire. The TDPS Production Manager is our most essential staff member next to the MSO, supervising 9 employees, overseeing a dozen production events a year, and managing a substantial budget.

2012-2013.

Chair, Production Committee, 2002-2010 Graduate Program Executive Committee, 6 out of 8 years, 2002-2008 PROFESSIONAL SERVICE Board of Governors, Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives (ALBA), the national organization of scholars, artists, and activists devoted to the preservation and dissemination of the history of the American volunteers in the Spanish Civil War. 2001 – present.

Vice-Chair, Board of Directors, Berkeley Society for the Preservation of Traditional Music, Freight & Salvage Coffeehouse, Berkeley, CA, 2018-2019.

Member, Board of Directors, Berkeley Society for the Preservation of Traditional Music, Freight and Salvage Coffeehouse, Berkeley, CA, 2010-2019.

Member, Board of Directors, Crowded Fire Theater Company, San Francisco, CA 2007-2016.

Chair, Board of Directors, Crowded Fire Theater Company, San Francisco, CA 2011-2015.

ACADEMIC MENTORSHIP Graduate Dissertation Committees at UC Berkeley Rebecca Lomnicky – Ethnomusicology (in progress) Claire Marie Stancek – English, 2014 Sarah Lynn Townsend – English, 2011 Michelle Renee Baron – Performance Studies (Chair), 2011 Joanne Stoddard – Performance Studies (Co-Chair), 2011 Kathleen Cameron Wiggins – Slavic Languages and Literatures, 2011 Todd Landon Barnes – Rhetoric, 2010 Charlotte McIvor – Performance Studies (Co-Chair), 2008 Monica Stufft – Performance Studies, 2008 Jane Evelyn McGonigal – Performance Studies, 2006 Maria Renu Capelli – Performance Studies, 2005 Graduate Qualifying Exam Committees at UC Berkeley Rebecca Lomnicky - Ethnomusicology, 2019 Andrew Snyder – Music, 2015 Michael Nicholas – Music, 2013 Claire Marie Stancek – English, 2013 Joshua Williams – Performance Studies, 2013 Michelle Renee Baron – Performance Studies, 2008 Charlotte McIvor – Performance Studies, 2008 Kathleen Cameron Wiggins – Slavic Languages and Literatures, 2011

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Michael Shane Boyle – Performance Studies, Chair, 2009 Monica Stufft – Performance Studies, Chair, 2008 Jessica Holt – Performance Studies, 2006 Jennifer Johung – Performance Studies, Chair, 2006 Jae Haeng Choi – Graduate Theological Union, 2006 Joanne Taylor – Performance Studies, 2005 Sarah Lynn Townsend – English, 2005 Beth Hoffman – Performance Studies, Chair, 2005 Jane McGonigal – Performance Studies, Chair, 2004 Maria Ghira Renu Cappelli – Performance Studies, 2002 Kathleen Gough – Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies, 2002 Graduate Masters Degree Committees at UC Berkeley Stephen William Wasilewski – Architecture, 2008 F. Lane Harwell – Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies, Chair, 2006 John R. Perigoe – Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies, 2003 Adriano Shaplin – Theatre, Dance and Performance Studies, 2003 Graduate Student Mentorship, Stage Productions (Faculty Advisor & Teacher of Record) Joshua Williams, Director, Rhinoceros. Durham Studio Theater, 2014.

Paige Johnson, Director, The Maids. Zellerbach Room 7, 2012.

Scott Wallin, Director, Attempts on Her Life. Zellerbach Playhouse, 2011.

Catherine Duffly, Director, Slaughter City. Zellerbach Playhouse, 2010.

Mark Boucai, Charlotte McIvor, Godfrey Plata, Scott Wallin, Directors, Silences and Salutations: Seven One Acts Plays. Durham Studio Theater, 2009.

Shane Boyle and Brandon Woolf, co-directors, The Plebians Rehearse the Uprising.

Zellerbach Room 7, 2008.

Charlotte McIvor and Kelly Rafferty, Co-Directors, Wintertime by Charles Mee. Durham Studio Theater, 2007.

Kristina Hagström-Ståhl, Director, Never Swim Alone by Donald MacIvor. Zellerbach Room 7, 2005 Mentorship, TDPS Honors Theses, Stage Productions and Workshops (Faculty Advisor & Teacher of Record) John Hildenbrand, Restroom for Customers Only written and performed by John Hildenbrand. Honors Thesis, 2017.

Elijah Guo, Time and Materials adapted by Elijah Guo from the Poems of Robert Haas.

Zellerbach Room 7, 2011.

Elizabeth Foster-Shaner, Honors Thesis, 2004.

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