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PATRICIA MOORE ZIMMER
Professor of Applied Drama and Theatre for the Young
713-L Pray-Harrold
pzimmer@emich.edu
734-487-0031
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Degrees
MFA—Directing, Florida State University, 1979
BFA—Theatre, University of Evansville, 1976
Additional graduate work in theatre at the University of New
Orleans
Professional Associations/Memberships
American Alliance for Theatre & Education
International Drama/Theatre in Education Association
Theatre for Young Audiences- USA
Representative Courses Taught:
CTAR 222 Drama and Play in Human Experience
CTAR 323 Improvising and Role Play
CTAR 501 Foundations of Dramatic Experience
CTAR 529 Touring to Young Audiences
CTAR 627 The Playwright and the Young Audience
CTAR 657 Improvisation
CTAR 658 Theatre for Children
Special topics in Story Theatre, Directing for Young Audiences,
International Theatre for
Young Audiences
Advising
Applied Drama and Theatre for the Young, MA and MFA
Children’s Literature and Drama/Theatre for the Young,
Interdisciplinary Major
Biography
Patricia Moore Zimmer has been directing and writing plays for
young and intergenerational
audiences for more than 30 years. Some of her recent and ongoing
professional interests include
theatre for very young audiences (preschool), professional development
for directors, the nature
of creativity, religion and the arts, and new play development
in Theatre for Young Audiences.
She has served as a reader/adjudicator for two national playwriting
competitions, the Bonderman
Playwriting for Youth National Competition and the American Alliance
for Education’s
Distinguished Play Award. She is a former editor of Stage of
the Art, a major publication of
AATE. She is an active member of the American Alliance for Theatre
and Education as well as
TYA/USA (the U.S. Center for ASSITEJ). She has been invited to
direct and teach in South
Korea, where she was a guest artist/instructor at the Korean
National University of Arts. In
Taiwan, she led workshops for the Taipei International Children’s
Festival. She is a recipient of
EMU’s Josephine Nevins Keal Award and the Provost’s
Artistic Recognition Award. She spent a
recent sabbatical leave working on a playwriting project rooted
in the history of Missouri
sharecroppers in the late 1930’s.
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