British dramaturg to chair playwriting
Jeanie O’Hare, the company dramaturg at the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) since 2005, has been appointed chair of Yale’s Department of Playwriting. At the RSC, O’Hare has been responsible for dozens of commissions that have brought the works of living playwrights back to high visibility within the company’s repertoire; brought playwrights into the RSC for extended residencies; forged an alliance with LAByrinth Theater Company in New York City; and conducted play development workshops at the University of Michigan, among many other projects. O’Hare’s three-year term begins July 1.
Former acting teacher remembered
Earle R. Gister, who served as associate dean, chair of the acting department, and the first Lloyd Richards Professor (Adjunct) of Acting during his tenure at the School of Drama from 1979 to 1999, died at his home in New Haven in January. Widely hailed as one of America’s foremost acting teachers, Gister will be mourned by generations of his students and colleagues here at Yale and elsewhere, after a career spanning more than 40 years teaching actors who went on to extraordinary success in theater, television, and film. He played key roles in actor training programs at North Carolina School of the Arts, the Juilliard School, Carnegie Mellon University, City College of New York, the British American Drama Academy, and the Actors Center. Earle was also a cofounder of the League of Professional Theatre Training Programs, an advisor to the National Endowment for the Arts, and cochair of the training panel of Theatre Communications Group. His teachings have been largely captured in the book, Acting: The Gister Method, written in collaboration with Joe Alberti and being released this year by Pearson Academic.
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