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English Department
Stony Brook University
Humanities Bldg.
Stony Brook, NY
11794-5350
Phone: 631.632.7400

Jonathan Levy

Distinguished Teaching Professor. Ph.D. Columbia University 1966; playwriting; translation and adaptation for the stage; theatre for children.

Selected Publications

  • Practical Education for the Unimaginable. Charlottesville: New Plays, Inc., 2001.
  • "Letters to a Young Teacher," College Teaching. Fall, 2001.
  • "Reflections on Teaching Playwriting in the Schools," Teaching Theatre. Winter, 2001.
  • Rondo Capricioso; or Emily's Surprise Reading. Theatre Artists of Westport, June, 2000.
  • Old Blues. In Best American Short Plays, 1996.
  • The Gymnasium of the Imagination. Greenwood Press, 1992.
  • Theatre of the Imagination. New Plays for Children, 1987.
  • Charlie the Chicken. In Best American Short Plays, 1984.
  • The Marvellous Adventures of Tyl. In Contemporary Children's Theatre. Ed. B.J.Lifton.
  • Louise, The Rhinoceros Who Was Born to Dance. Music by Scott Wheeler. Minnesota Symphony.
  • Boswell's Journal. Music by Bruno Maderna. Alice Tully Hall/Ricordi, Milan.
  • "Theatre and Moral Education." Journal of Aesthetic Education, 1996.
  • "A Preliminary Check-List of Early Children's Plays in English, 1780-1855." Performing Arts Resources, 1986.
  • Translator. Turandot. By Carlo Gozzi. In The Genius of the Italian Theatre. Ed. Eric Bentley.
  • Translator. Wild Rose. By Offenbach. In Pomme d'Api. Brooklyn Academy of Music.
  • Subject Guide in Theatre Arts for the International Baccalaureate (with Peter Wilkins, Peter Orange, et. al.).
 

Jonathan Levy (A.B. Harvard College, M.A. and Ph.D. Columbia University) is Distinguished Teaching Professor at the State University of New York at Stony Brook; Distinguished Bibliographer at Arizona State University; past member of the Advisory Committee for the Office for the Arts at Harvard and consultant to the Humane Creativity project at Harvard’s Project Zero. He is the author of many plays for adults and children, with and without music, as well as several works of scholarship and criticism. He chaired the development of the Theatre Arts curriculum for the International Baccalaureate and is now the member for North American of the International Baccalaureate’s Academic Advisory Committee. His book Practical Education for the Unimaginable appeared in 2001. His poem for children, Louise, The Rhinoceros who was Born to Dance, was published in the spring of 2003. He is the recipient of a number of awards, including the Chorpenning Cup for playwriting for children the Judith Kase Cooper Award for lifetime research in Educational Theatre and the Distinguished National Mentor Medallion of the Children’s Theatre Foundation of America. In 1996, he was named the outstanding teacher of theatre in American higher education.