Robert Gonzalez

Curriculum Vitae

EDUCATION
Ph.D. in Communication, University of South Florida (2007, expected)
	Dissertation: Co-Creation Tales: Collaborative Creativity in Filmmaking
	(Directed by Elizabeth Bell)
Master of Fine Arts in Acting, University of Wisconsin-Madison (1980).
	Areas of Concentration: Asian Theatre Styles, Oral Narrative Performance,
	Mask Work and Movement for the Stage.
	Advising Professor:  A.C. Scott.
Bachelor of Fine Arts in Acting from Boston University (1977).

POSITIONS HELD
2000-present Adjunct, School of Theatre and Dance, University of South Florida.
2004 Adjunct, Department of Communication, University of South Florida.
2001-2002 Adjunct, Department of Theatre, Hillsborough Community College.
1996/1997  Adjunct, Department of Theatre, University of South Florida.
1995  Guest Lecturer, Department of Theatre, University of South Florida.
1994-1995 Instructor, University of South Florida Continuing Education. 
1982 Instructor, Children's Theatre of Madison.
1982 Guest Lecturer, School of Music at UW-Madison.
1977-1980  Graduate Teaching Assistant, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Collaborative Creativity
Experimental Theatre
Ensemble Playmaking
Organizational Communication	

COURSES TAUGHT:

UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA

SCHOOL OF THEATRE AND DANCE 
	Introduction to Theatre
	Languages of the Stage
	Voice, Body, Improvisation
	Script Analysis
	Shakespeare for the Theatre
	Theatre Origins
	Greek Drama
	History of Theatre

COMMUNICATION DEPARTMENT
	Interpersonal Communication

CONTINUING EDUCATION
	Speech for the Stage
Chamber Theatre
Solo Theatre Performance

HILLSBOROUGH COMMUNITY COLLEGE
	Acting I
	Acting II
	Performance Workshop

UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON
	Fundamentals of Acting

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Second City Workshop in Improvisation	Spring 2002

Center for Teaching Enhancement Workshops Spring 2000 - Summer 2001
	Using Active Learning Strategies in University Classes (July 23-August 3, 2001)
	Reflecting Your Course in a Learning-Centered Syllabus
	Developing Students' Critical Thinking Skills
	Creating a Teaching Portfolio

Ginger Friedman's Auditioning Skills Course 	Fall 1980

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

Spring 2004 - Production Assistant with Spiderwoman Theatre visit to USF campus.
Fall 2000 - Voice and acting coach for An Experiment With An Air Pump. 
		Nancy Cole, director. University of South Florida.
April 1998 - present. Photographer for USF Dance and Theatre productions.

DIRECTING
Lysistrate, University of South Florida Spring 2005
Gimpel the Fool, University of South Florida Summer 2002
Improv Review at The Cube, University of South Florida Spring 2002
What Are We Doing?, Hillsborough Community College Spring 2002
The Life and Death of Marilyn Monroe, University of South Florida Spring 2001.
Shake-Scenes, University of South Florida 2000.
A Shakespeare Gallimaufry,  for Inauguration of President Castor.
	(Conceived,  Compiled and Directed ) University of South Florida 1994.
The Man with  the Flower in His Mouth,  University of Wisconsin-Madison 1979.
The Harmfulness of Tobacco, University of Wisconsin-Madison 1979.
Home Free!   Boston University 1977.

THEATRICAL PERFORMANCE:
PERFORMANCE					ROLE(S)  		LOCATION 	YEAR
How I Learned To Drive			Uncle Peck		Tampa, FL	2006
The Bad Beginning				Lemony Snicket	Tampa, FL	2004
Gimpel the Fool				Rabbi, Evil One	Tampa, FL	2002
The Last Demon				Rabbi			Tampa, FL	2002
Trial of Sacco & Vanzetti  		McNaught, Andrower, Gatti 	Orlando, FL 	1996
Cuban Bread	  				Alfonso Rivera 	Tampa, FL	1996
Perhaps the Marshland			Franz	 		Tampa, FL	1994
The Trial of God				Yankele  		Tampa, FL	1987
The Physicists				Mobius 		Lakeland, FL	1986
Sticks and Bones				Father Donald  	Madison, WI	1982
Cabaret					Herr Schultz 		Madison, WI	1981
Happy End					Dr. Nakamura 		Madison, WI	1980
Philadelphia, Here I Come!			Private/Public Gar 	Madison, WI	1980
Much Ado About Nothing  			Don Pedro		Madison, WI	1980
Heartbreak House				Hector Hushabye  	Madison, WI	1979
God of Vengeance				Reb Elye  		Madison, WI	1979
The Man w/ the Flower in His Mouth  	The Man 		Madison, WI	1979
The Harmfulness of Tobacco  		Nyukin			Madison, WI	1979
The Merry Wives of Windsor  		Dr. Caius	 	Madison, WI	1978
Throne of Straw				Yankele	 	Madison, WI	1978
Barnaby Sweet					Plug			Madison, WI	1978
Endgame					Clov	  		Boston, MA	1977
Born Yesterday				Paul  Verrall	  	Boston, MA	1976
The Good Woman of Setzuan    		Wong			Boston, MA	1975

RELATED THEATRICAL  EMPLOYMENT

July 1982: Awarded a grant by the City of Madison, Wisconsin to create a series of solo narratives
from the oral traditions of cultures across six continents and perform them outdoors around the city.

Summer 1982: Voice Actor in WHA-TV Madison's English-language adaptation of Nippon television's successful
animated cartoon series, Astroboy.
Portrayed major character of Daddy Walrus as well as a host of villains, eccentrics and commoners.

Fall 1982: Scripted, produced and performed Between Titles, a series of radio folk stories from
around the world for WORT Radio, Madison, Wisconsin.

August 1978, 1979: Performed in seven productions of the Midwest Playwright's Laboratory,
spearheaded by Dale Wasserman in Rhinelander and Madison, Wisconsin.

Spring-Summer 1979: Co-ordinated and performed in the Asian Folk Tales Trial of a Stone,
Two Highwaymen,  and Two of Everything for WHA-TV Green Bay, Wisconsin.


SOLO PERFORMANCE PRODUCTIONS

One's Self I Sing, selected poems of Walt Whitman  (Nov 2001, May 1994).
Adapter, director, and performer.

We Are Such Stuff, selected Shakespearean Speeches and Songs (April  2000,1994).
Adapter, director, and performer.

The Bottle Imp ---Short story by R.L.Stevenson (December 1995).
Director and performer.

Laotze: The Excellence of the Way (April 1995). Chinese philosophical classic.
Translator, director, and performer.

A Christmas Carol (December 1994). Adaptation of Dickens performance text.
Adapter, director, and performer.

An Evening of Poe, short stories and poems by Edgar Allan Poe (October 1994).
Director and performer.

Poetic Genius, an evening of Classic English-Language Poetry (September 1994).
Conceiver, director and performer.

The Passion of Jesus (April 1994, 1990).
Adapter, director, and performer.

The Trumpet Shall Sound (November 1990).
Adapter, director, and performer.

Journeys of the Heart (February 1990).
Adapter, director, and performer.

New Heaven, New Earth (January 1990).
Adapter, director, and performer.

Joyful Noise (November 1989).
Adapter, director, and performer.

The Greek Imagination (January 1992).
Selections from Homer, Ovid & the Greek Anthology.
Adapter, director, and performer.

Chaim from Chelm (October 1982).
Original adaptation of classic Yiddish folk-story cycle of the Wise Men of Chelm.
Writer, director and performer. 

For Better or Worse  (June 1982).
Collection of folktales and literature on the theme of men and women together.
Writer, director, and performer.

Gimpel the Fool (March 1982).
Short story by I.B.Singer
Director and performer.

OTHER EMPLOYMENT
1986-2000: 	 Manager/Co-owner of Ansley's Natural Marketplace, Tampa, FL.
1983-1985:	Instructor in computer operations for Tandy Corporation/Radio Shack.