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Victoria Lewis

Victoria Lewis, Associate Professor of Theatre Arts

Contact: Victoria_Lewis@redlands.edu
(909) 748- 8726 (Phone)
(909) 335-4092 (Fax)
Holt, Room 104

B.A., Dunbarton College, Washington, D.C.
M.A., Columbia University, Teachers College, New York
Ph.D., University of California at Los Angeles

In 2000, after receiving her Ph.D. from UCLA,  Victoria joined the faculty of the Theatre Arts department at the University of Redlands.  Prior to entering academia Victoria worked as an actress and writer in the not-for-profit regional American theatre, as an ensemble member of the pioneering company Lilith: A Women's Theatre and performed on television and stage.  She founded the Other Voices Project at Los Angeles' Mark Taper Forum, the first professional theatre laboratory for theatre artists with disabilities.  Her scholarship is concerned with people's and popular theatre, women's theatre, theatre for social change, actor training and disability studies.  She directs one mainstage production an academic year generally topical comedies, documentary plays, or adaptations of classic dramas.

 

Women's and People's Political Theatre
Popular Theatre and Performance
Disability Studies

Introduction to Theatre
Acting Fundamentals
Dramaturgy
Changing Stages: Theatre History

Professor Lewis recently published Beyond Victims and Villains: Contemporary Plays by Disabled Playwrights with Theatre Communications Group, Inc.. She contributes to American Theatre magazine and is included in several anthologies including the award-winning  Bodies in Commotion, ed. Philip Auslander and Carrie Sandahl. She is currently working on an article on access to theatre training in higher education for a forthcoming collection, The Politics Of American Actor Training and a shadow puppet adaptation of Lord Byron's The Deformed Transformed.  Victoria has received the  Director's Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Arts, from the California Arts Council, the University of Redlands Outstanding Faculty Award for Research and Creative Activity and Cornerstone Theater's Bridge Award.

2007 Who's Who of American Women

2005 Director's Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Arts, California Arts Council

2004 Arts and Culture Award, Corporation for Disability and Technology

2002-2003 University of Redlands Outstanding Faculty Award for Research and Creative Activity

2002 Catherine Lyle Murray Humanitarian Award, American Academy for Cerebral Palsy and Developmental Medicine

2001 Cornerstone Theatre Bridge Award