Theatre Faculty
Diana Trotter

Diana Trotter
Professor
300 W. Hawthorne Road
Spokane, WA 99251
Phone: (509) 777-4431 Fax: (509) 777-4592
Office Location: Cowles Auditorium 101
E-mail: dtrotter@whitworth.edu

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Diana Trotter is an authority on the role of theatre in the Christian community. Other areas of expertise include performance theory, acting, theatre history and gender studies. She is an accomplished director whose professional credits include Portland's Tapestry Theatre and the Spokane Civic Theatre.

Education:
Ph.D., M.A. University of California, Berkeley
A.B. Cornell University

Year Joined Whitworth Faculty:  1994

Areas of Specialization / Expertise:
Performance theory and practice, acting, theatre history, theatre and Christianity, performance and social change, gender in performance

Selected Publications / Presentations / Honors:

Directed A Funny Thinig happened on the Way to the Forum, a musical by Stephen Sondhiem, at the Spokane Civic Theatre (2009). Directed the premiere of Dusk, a play by Bryan Harnetiaux, at Spokane Civic Theatre (2007); creator and director, in collaboration with Whitworth students, of Mirror, Mirror, a play about body image issues that has toured in Washington, Oregon and California; creator and director of The Abundance Project, a performance piece and series of workshops commissioned by The Inland Northwest Presbyterian Church for its annual regional youth retreat; received the Association for American Community Theatre's national award for Best Production and Best Director for Lonely Planet (1999).

Publications include "Freshman Seminar: Teaching Social Justice through Interactive Theatre," an article for on-line Murdoch publication(2006); "Our Fierce Intent: Drama, Community & Healing," in Christianity & Theatre (1997).

Presentations include "Revitalizing the Theatre History Survey Course"  for the Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE) National Conference, New Orleans (2007); "Acting Like Jesus: The Incarnational Nature of Theatre," Core 650 lecture in Santa Barbara, Calif. (2007), San Francisco, Calif. (2006), Portland, Ore. and Seattle, Wash. (2005); "Playing in the Spirit: InterPlay for Pastors," a three-day workshop during a retreat for Presbyterian women pastors, Harmony Hill, Wash. (2005); team-taught a week-long workshop, "Augusto Boal's Forum Theatre for Christian Theatre Artists," at the CITA National Conference, in Oakland, Calif. (2002).



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