Brief Biographical Descriptions of
CHAPTER AUTHORS

Staci Block, MSW, LCSW, is Director of the Reflections program and also of Creative Interventions in Hackensack, NJ. She is an Adjunct Professor at William Paterson University and an instructor for the Arts in Prevention Certificate Program through Rutgers University School of Social Work Continuing Education and Professional Development Program. Her expertise involves using action methods in team building, developing peer leaders, addressing adolescent substance abuse and creating interactive training for staff development.

Mecca Burns, M.A., RDT, is a Registered Drama Therapist and Board-Certified Trainer in Charlottesville, Virginia. After years of working in inpatient settings, she began to apply theatre to social issues. She currently co-directs PRESENCE Center for Applied Theatre Arts, has a private drama therapy practice serving children with developmental issues, and is project director for the Charlottesville Living History Initiative.

Mario Cossa, MA, RDT/MT, TEP is a psychodramatist and drama therapist and the founder of the ACTINGOUT teen program in New Hampshire. He's the main author of ACTINGOUT: The Workbook, as well as contributing chapters to several recent books on psychodrama. Mariohas worked professionally in theatre and as a theatre educator with children and adolescents, and has been an adjunct faculty member at Antioch/New England Graduate School. www.dramario.com

Bernie DeKoven, M.A., is an educator, drama therapist, and the author of The Well-Played Game, Junkyard Sports, and many articles about the connections betweens games and fun. He promotes the use of more constructive recreation, lectures and travels widely. He has taught his "Deep Fun" approach at the Esalen Institute in Big Sur, California. http://deepfun.comhttp://majorfun.comhttp://junkyardsports.com

Kim Flintoff teaches Contemporary Performance at Edith Cowan University and is preparing for a PhD. at Queensland University of Technology, writing a thesis titled "Drama Teacher as Game Master: developing digital games-based process drama as performance." He is also the co-chair of the International Drama in Education Special Interest Group. (His paper, co-written with Toni Sant, on drama on the internet is posted on this website, not in the book.)

Hannah Fox, MA, is Assistant Professor of Dance and Theatre, Manhattanville College, and the artistic director of Big Apple Playback Theatre. She is a lead trainer with the International School of Playback Theatre. Hannah also devises original theatre with teenagers, most recently at the 92nd Street Y (an Eve Ensler project.) She is the daughter of the founders of Playback Theatre.

Joel Gluck, MEd., RDT, is a drama therapist and creator of Insight Improvisation. As Senior Affiliate with The Ariel Group, he has offered theatre-based leadership training through Harvard Executive Education and major organizations internationally since 1994. Joel uses his background in theatre, meditation, and education in Insight Improvisation workshops, international volunteer work, drama therapy training programs, and private practice.

Catherine Hughes wrote Museum Theatre: Communicating with Visitors through Drama (1998). For many years, she coordinated the Theatre Program at the Museum of Science, Boston, and was the founding executive director of the International Museum Theatre Alliance. She is finishing a Ph.D. in education at Ohio State University's School of Teaching and Learning. Her research focuses on how performance affects memory and learning.

Daniel A. Kelin, II, MFA, is Director of Drama Education for Honolulu Theatre for Youth and Director of Theatre Training for an American Samoa company. He authored To Feel as our Ancestors Did, a book on oral history with young people. In 2006 he received a fellowship from the International Children's Theatre Association supporting work in India. He is working on a book on Drama with English Language Learners.

Ronald Miller, Ph.D is an Associate Professor of Theatre Arts at McDaniel College, where he directs the focus area in interactive theatre within the Theatre Arts major. He teaches courses in interactive and therapeutic theatre, in acting, and in performance theory. He is the director of McDaniel Playback, an undergraduate playback theatre company. He also leads workshops in sociometry for staff development, and in using drama to work with interpersonal conflict. rmiller@mcdaniel.edu

Ted Rubenstein, MFA, MA, RDT, Psy. D. Candidate Vice President Expressive Arts Therapy Music Institute of Chicago Clinical Director Institute for Therapy through the Arts in Chicago; writing about applications of role playing in business.

Sheila Rubin, MA, LMFT, RDT/BCT is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in private practice in San Francisco. She is an adjunct professor and graduate of the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS) Drama Therapy Program, and offers Life Stories Self-Revelatory Performance workshops and alternative track drama therapy training in her Berkeley studio. She directed The Heart-to-Heart Intergenerational theater troupe.

Thomas M. Stallone, Psy.D., is a psychologist and director of the Attention Disorders Clinic of Vancouver, Washington. He has authored several clinical articles and has an avocational interest in psychodrama, adult and children's theatre, Celtic and medieval cultures. He has taught children's theatre, performed in Off-Broadway plays and has played numerous roles as part of his involvement with medieval re-creation groups.

John Sullivan, M.A. is a drama therapist on the faculty of the University of Texas Medical Branch, affiliated with the Sealy Center for Environmental Health & Medicine, the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, and the Department of Preventive Medicine & Community Health. This role involves many outreach programs in environmental toxicology, risk communication, medical ethics, ecology, and other socially relevant issues. He has an extensive background in this work.

Armand Volkas, MFA, MA, MFT, RDT/BCT, Associate Professor in the Drama Therapy Program of California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco, Clinical Director of The Living Arts Counseling Center and Director of The Living Arts Playback Theatre Ensemble in Oakland California, conducts a private practice in psychotherapy, and travels widely fostering workshops that address inter-cultural and international tensions through his Healing the Wounds of History program.

Rosilyn Wilder, Ed.D., RDT/BCT, died in early 2006. She was the author of several books on using drama with elders, creative drama, and intergenerational theatre. Holding a doctorate Gerontology and Creative Arts, she had over 25 years experience as professional actress/director, and applied drama in many other settings, in addition to being on the Board of Directors of the National Association of Drama Therapy.

David L. Young, Ph.D., is the Organizing Chair of the 2007 conference of the American Alliance for Theatre and Education (AATE) and the editor of their Stage of the Art (SOTA) journal. He has published numerous articles on drama education theory and is a playwright and theatre director. He teaches drama at the Blacklock Fine Arts Elementary School in Langley, a suburb of Vancouver, BC (Canada)