Judith Royer, C.S.J. Professor. B.A., St. Joseph Teacher's College;
M.A., California State University, Fullerton; Ph.D., University of
California, Santa Barbara. Professor Royer teaches acting, directing,
dramatic literature, and playwriting, and is director of the Playwrights
Center Stage new plays series. She has directed over 35 revivals and 40
original scripts in the U. S. and the U. K. and has worked as producer,
director and dramaturg with new play development programs sponsored by
the National Endowment for the Arts, Playwrights Theatre, the Mark Taper
Forum and Theatre Gallery in Los Angeles, the latter of which she was
founder and former artistic director. She was producing director for the
Southern New Plays Festival, Southern Repertory Theatre, New Orleans,
and has directed new works and/or American premieres at the Edinburgh
Fringe Festival, the Piccolo Spoteto Festival, New Dramatists, Alice's
Fourth Floor, and the Cherry Lane Theatre in New York, as well as the
Victory Theatre, Gascon Center Theatre and Interact Theatre Company in
Los Angeles. Professor Royer was an immediate-past member of the
National Playwriting Committee for the Kennedy Center American College
Theatre Festival and was awarded the Kennedy Center Gold Medallion for
her work in fostering new plays and playwrights around the courtry.
Royer is a founding member of the Association for Theatre in Higher
Education; former Chair of that organization's Acting Program; immediate
Past-Chair of the Playwrights Program; current New Play Production
Coordinator for the Playwrights Program; and co-director of ATHE's
annual New Play Development Workshop and recipient of the 2002
Playwrights Program Distinguished Service Award. She is a past member of
the National Playwriting Committee for the Kennedy Center American
College Theatre Festival National Board. She is also a member of The
Players in New York City. She received the ATHE 2008 Outstanding Teacher
of Theatre in Higher Education Award July, 2008. At LMU she has
directed many productions including Dancing at Lughnasa, Cabaret, A View
from the Bridge, and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.
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