I teach playwriting, contemporary drama, and Shakespeare. I am always interested in the ways a playwright structures a story and the problems of producing any script. In fact I teach Shakespeare from a production standpoint. Having directed some Shakespeare for Pitt and the Three Rivers Shakespeare Festival and having seen a good deal of Shakespeare on stage, I look at the plays as vehicles for production and monuments to change as well as to universality. Current research is of the uses of narrative in contemporary playwriting. Publications include Rhythm in Drama, University of Pittsburgh Press, 1980, Playwriting: The First Workshop, Focal Press, 1994, and short fiction in Mademoiselle, Alaska Quarterly Review, North American Review, Cimarron Review, Great Stream, West Branch, American Fiction, Vignette, Other Voices, and others. Department page: Kathleen George