Directing for the Stage

Dr. Terry Converse is a Professor of Theatre in the Washington State University School of Music and Theatre Arts, where he teaches all levels of Directing and Script Analysis. He holds an MFA in Directing from the University of Minnesota and PhD in Theatre Arts from the University of California at Los Angeles. Prior to coming to Washington, he taught at Centre College in KY, the University of North Dakota in Grand Forks and Livingston University in Alabama. Additionally Dr. Converse has directed works for the Long Beach Grand Opera, the Guthrie Other Place Theatre, The Arkansas Arts Center, Cherry County Players, Peninsula Players and Theatre by the Sea. He has presented papers and all day workshops at the National Convention of the Association for Theatre in Higher Education and at the Northwest Drama Conference. He has directed twenty-eight plays with university students and thirteen plays/musicals/operas in professional settings. Dr. Converse lives in Pullman with his wife, two children, a large dog and a cat. When not teaching or directing, he loves to escape to the water to wind surf.