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John R. Camera
John Camera is an actor, director, dramaturg and theatre historian. Experience in film and theatre has lead to Rehearsal and Performance: An Actors Workbook that explores changes in performance sty...view moreJohn Camera is an actor, director, dramaturg and theatre historian. Experience in film and theatre has lead to Rehearsal and Performance: An Actors Workbook that explores changes in performance styles in six major eras of Western theatre. His dramaturgy includes Gotthold Ephraim Lessing’s Nathan the Wise, Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya and sixteen of Shakespeare’s plays. A Players Almanac is his first book on theatre history, covering the years from 1833 to 1893; his second, Women of a Certain Age, explores the performances and biographies of famous women actors of the nineteenth century. His has written two plays, Looking for Love in All the Wrong Places, a contemporary version of Arthur Schnitzler’s La Ronde, and Five Friends, a story of loves lost and won in contemporary New York City. Monographs and articles for dramaturgical and literary colloquia and conferences include Feasting with Panthers: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde, The African-Globe Theatre: African-American Realism, Ballet and the Neoclassical Ideal in the Court of Louis XIV, and has delivered lectures on the works of Shakespeare, Henrik Ibsen, Maurice Maeterlinck, Bertolt Brecht and Robert Wilson. John is a member of The Players, the LMDA, MLA and the NCTE.view less