High School Adjunct Lecturer

Carla Stockton Writer, Teacher, Editor

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Phone: 646-***-**** E-Mail: *****.********@*****.*** Carlastockton.me Columbia University – Graduate School of the Arts, Creative Nonfiction Guest Speaker; Podcast with Mountain Ash, Briggs on Books, Raising Theater Lehman College – College Now Program Present

Adjunct Lecturer in English Composition I & II and Literary Genres Scarsdale Elementary Schools

Seminar/workshop teacher/writing coach for annual Writers’ Day Annually Creative Writing Workshops Monthly

Hagaman Public Library, East Haven, CT

New Haven Academy of Performing Arts 2015-2024

Taught playwriting and Acting Workshops, directed three Community Theater Productions Columbia University Summer High School Program 2014-2017 Seminar teacher, workshop teacher/mentor to new teachers, electives teacher (Acting for Writers) New York College of Technology 2016-2017

Adjunct Lecturer in English Composition I

New York City at Large – Speaking, Freelance writing and editing 2005-Present Speaking engagements included a panel discussion with Bob Costas, about the Munich Olympics, at the Columbia University Law School, November, 2016, and moderation of a talk on survival and its aftermath at the British West Indies Collegiate School, Providenciales, Turks & Caicos, March 2017. Most recent publication is a feature in Guernica Magazine, a roundtable discussion with five of the most prominent playwrights and directors in American theater. Recent essays also published in The Algemeiner Journal, The Toast, The Guardian, Bookslut, The Mutton Club, and other online publications. King Gordogan, translated from Croatian, produced as a radio play at Penn State and as a mainstage production at the University of Portsmouth, UK, in 2018-9. Wrote a book for tourists on how to get the most out of touring atop a double-decker bus and an article for Moment Magazine about the brother of a famous Israeli spy (“Am I My Brother’s Keeper,” 2007). Munich Memoir, a full-length book about Israeli Olympic fencer Dan Alon’s survival of the 1972 Munich Games. Worked as editor, wrote final chapters, and served as liaison between Simon & Schuster and the estate of C. David Heymann, represented by his widow Beatrice Schwartz, to complete Joe and Marilyn: Legends in Love, left unfinished at his death. Maintain a blog site carlastockton.me. Columbia University 2015 - 2016

“Get Real,” a bi-monthly column in Catch & Release, the Columbia Journal online – feature stories about people, places and events in New York City. Most recently, a story about the sound supervisor for the Broadway production of Hamilton; other entries have included profiles of Pam McKinnon, Playwright Robert Schenkkan, the Leslie Lohman LGBT Art Museum, various musicians. I am responsible for my own online editing and updating.

University intro Instructor: Acting for Writers, Humor Writing – taught writing courses to Columbia University students from the School of the Arts, Columbia College, Teachers College and others. 2

Columbia Artists/Teacher Coordinator 2014-15 2

Facilitated Columbia Artists/Teachers program in ten schools and institutions city-wide. Liaised between off campus teaching sites and the program; responsible for troubleshooting/oversight of programs; mentored CA/T faculty and cooperating teachers, evaluated program efficacy. Columbia University – Columbia: A Journal of Literature and Art, Nonfiction Editor 2014-15 Solicited submissions from internationally known authors for the issue, recruited the nonfiction judge for the writing contest, read and assessed unsolicited submissions from Rachel Louise Snyder and Thelma Adams, chose top three contest submissions to be sent to the judge, consulted on design and distribution of the journal, mentored genre editorial board; copyedited Journal. Columbia University Undergraduate Writing Department 2013-2016 Administrative Assistant to Dorla McIntosh, Department Coordinator – office duties associated with maintaining the program, responding to problems with scheduling and classroom assignments, answering questions posed by prospective students, etc.

New York City at Large – NYC Tour Guide 2005-2013

As a freelancer and as the Executive Director of the NYC Mob Tour, designed and implemented tours of New York’s historical and cultural highlights primarily for scholars and educators. East Haven, North Haven, CT, Public Schools – Teacher & Drama Director 1987 - 2005 Taught English and developed the drama program for both schools. Wrote and implemented curriculum for a course called English for the Undefined, a course designed to keep at-risk senior high school students, those who were contemplating dropping out, in the system through graduation. Wrote and implemented curriculum for drama history course. Wrote and implemented curriculum for a course for advanced seniors in World Literature. Taught AP Literature and Sophomore Honors English. Taught young adults returning to school after varying absences in an alternative school. Produced and directed numerous theatrical productions, served as Vice President of the Connecticut Drama Association, attended and hosted various CDA competitions.

East Haven High School – in addition to teaching English and Drama, was Executive Director, Sonnets and Song, a conservatory style drama education program for inner city youth, for which I wrote the grant that garnered $240,000 for the program’s administration. Hired New York actors to teach and mentor the students, alongside whom they acted; hired professional design and technical experts to teach, mentor and work alongside tech theater students; engaged lodging and hired supervision to house students at New Haven University; supervised all staff and directed programming. Directed and produced Sweeney Todd and produced As You Like it and A Chorus Line.

Guilford, Naugatuck, Woodbridge, CT, Public School systems – Drama Director 1996-2005 Produced and directed educational theater productions around the state of Connecticut. New Haven, Hartford, Bridgeport, CT, and Boston, MA– Writer, Producer, Teacher 1999- 2005 As co-Executive Director of Bagel Fish Productions, I produced and wrote the screenplays for three award- winning short films, developed three screenplays for future production, taught acting and screenwriting and coordinated efforts to centralize the Connecticut Film community by initiating the Connecticut Film Association.

As a freelance writer, I was interim drama critic for the New Haven Advocated and wrote critical essays for the Hartford Advocate, the New Haven Register and the Bridgeport Advocate. Associate Producer and frequent contributor to ImagineNews Magazine, a film industry magazine based in Boston. 3

Fellowships, Awards, Distinctions 3

Columbia Artists/Teachers Fellowship, Columbia University Graduate School of the Arts 2014-15 Alternate: Creative Writing Fellowship, Columbia University Graduate School of the Arts 2015-16 Summer Study Fellowship, Shakespeare Intensive, Roehampton University, London, UK 1995 Publications

Too Much of Nothing: Notes on Feminism, Womanhood, and Identity (Mountain Ash Press 2024). King Gordogan, by Radovan Ivsic, Tr. by Carla Stockton

“Hero,” Algemeine Journal 02/2018

“Theater for a Now Audience: a Roundtable,” Guernica Magazine 01/17/2018

“The World of the Widow” in The Guardian 10/05/2015

“Visible Faith: On Grad School and Ageism” in The Toast 7/27/2015 Various book reviews in Book Slut

Munich Memoir: Dan Alon’s Untold Story of Survival 2012 A View from the Bus: A Tourguide Takes Manhattan 2009 G-Spots? – a deconstruction of the Wife of Bath’s Tale, 12-minute film on HD and 35mm film

“Am I My Brother’s Keeper?” Moment Magazine, 2009

Readings at Columbia University Galleries, WKCR Radio, Marketplace from American Public Radio Education

Columbia University in the City of New York BA 1973 Bachelor of Arts in Comparative Literature, with an emphasis on 20th C drama. Honors thesis employed classical works in Italian, Latin and French to explore the influence of the Virgin Mary on the maturation of Stephen Dedalus as he appears in Stephen Hero, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Ulysses. Studied French, German and Serbo-Croat literature as well.

Arizona State University MA 1990

Master’s Degree in English

Wesleyan University

Sixty hours beyond the Master’s in Literature and the Humanities Roehampton University, UK 1995

Summer Shakespeare Symposium – Acting and Writing – in Stratford-Upon-Avon Columbia University School of the Arts MFA 2016

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Master of Fine Arts in Creative Nonfiction and Literary Translation (French, German, Croatian) 4

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