Glenda Dickerson

Director Academic Program in World Performance Studies and Professor of Theatre
glendad@umich.edu
734-647-2298

Education:
B.F.A., Howard Univ.
M.A., Adelphi Univ.

Professor Dickerson is a director, writer, folklorist, educator, and actor in important venues, including the Biltmore Theatre (Broadway), Circle in the Square (New York City), Lorraine Hansberry Theatre (San Francisco), Ford's Theatre and the Kennedy Center (Washington, D.C.).  In 1971, she received an Emmy nomination and in 1972 a Peabody Award.

She conceived and directed Eel Catching in Setauket: A Living Portrait of a Community, an oral history creative performance project that documents the lives of the African-American Christian Avenue community in Setauket, Long Island.  In 1992, she was program director for a similar project titled Wellwater: Wishes & Words for Newark, New Jersey.  Ms. Dickerson is co-author of Remembering Aunt Jemima: A Menstral Show, published in Colored Contraditions : An Anthology of Contemporary African-American Plays, and Festivities & Jubilations on the Graves of the Dead: Sanctifying Sullied Space, published in Performance & Cultural Politics. Her article Wearing Red: When a Rowdy Band of Charismatics Learned to Say No! appears in Upstaging Big Daddy.

Professor Dickerson has served as a consultant/evaluator at the Mark Taper Forum (Los Angeles) and Arena Stage (Washington, D.C.).  She has also been a panelist, presenter and keynote speaker at meetings of the Association for Theatre in Higher Education.  She has received grants from the New Jersey Council for the Arts, the New York Council for the Humanities, and the National Endowment for the Arts.  Before joining the U-M faculty, Ms. Dickerson taught at Spelman College and at the Rutgers University Campus at Newark. She currently serves as Director of Academic Programs for the Center for World Performance Studies and Head of the Black Theatre Minor.

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