MICHAEL DONNELL CONNOR

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Cornelius, North Carolina 28031-7771

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Education

Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana

Masters of Arts in Theatre and Drama with a Thesis, February, 1975.

Educational Opportunity Fellowship, President of the Ngoma Ensemble (acting troupe), Outstanding Achievement Award for participating in the Indiana Soul Revue (touring show), actor and technician for the Indiana Repertory Theatre Company

Shaw University, Raleigh, North Carolina

Bachelor of Arts in Theatre and English, April, 1973

Company Manager of the Shaw Players and Company (acting troupe), Second Vice-President of the national Association of Dramatic and Speech Arts (highest student office), Who’s Who Among College and University Students, Educational Opportunity Grant, Catherine Hughes Waddell Scholarship, John Winters Academic Excellence Award, Best Actor Award.

Teaching Experience

Livingstone College, Salisbury, North Carolina

Theatre Arts and Speech Instructor Fall 2005 to present

Taught the following courses: Playwriting, Directing, Voice for the Actor, Stage Management, Technical Theatre, Stagecraft, Stage Movement, Improvisation, History of the Theatre, Black Drama, Introduction to Theatre, Production and Performance as well as Public Speaking

Central Piedmont Community College, Charlotte, North Carolina

Theatre Arts Instructor Fall 2000 to Spring2005

Taught Theatre Appreciation to the college’s very diverse population

Garinger High School, Charlotte, North Carolina

Theatre and English Teacher Fall 1998 to Spring1999

Taught Theatre to sophomores and juniors

Taught English and Debate to freshmen, sophomores and juniors

Extended Professional Training

Acting, Screen Actor’s Guild/American Film Institute Conservatory, Los Angeles, California

Playwriting, Negro Ensemble Company, New York, New York

Gene Frankel’s Theatrical Workshop, New York, New York

Radio, Television and Motion Picture Institute, UNC-Chapel Hill, Chapel-Hill, NC

Screen Actor’s Guild Commercial Workshop, Los Angeles, California

American Federation of Television and Radio Artist’s Actors Work Program

Affiliations

SAG-AFTRA One Union (professional actors union for television and film)

AEA (stage actors union)

P60 Community Core Committee (Wake Forest University Maya Angelou Center for Health Equity)

Chair of the Health and Welfare Committee at Livingstone College

Special Events Committee at Livingstone College

Connor Recreational Center, Inc., Treasurer

Black Theatre Network

Warehouse Performing Arts Center, Board of Directors

Accomplishments

Have written several plays at Livingstone College

• Show Me (about teenage pregnancy) Fall 2009

• Reflections from the Past (about African American History) Spring 2009

• Seven to Seven (about Homeless people in America) Fall 2010

• The Wobble of Life (about domestic violence) Fall 2011

• Project D (about diabetes) Fall 2012

• Dangerous Love Fall 2014

• Where do we go from here? Fall 2016

Project D was selected and read at The National Black Theatre Festival Summer 2013

Directed a martial arts film The Deadly Cure Summer 1992

Taught English through Drama at L. A. Trade Technical College Fall 1988 and Spring

1992 to 1993

Conducted a Drama Seminar in Hiroshima, Japan April, 1989 to April, 1991

Personal Assistant to the legendary Bette Davis 1979 to 1984

Directed Sweat, by Lynn Nottage June/July, 2021

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