Her research focuses on the intersections of rhetoric and performance in modern American political theater. Beth serves on the board of the Eugene O’Neill Society and has also written extensively on O’Neill’s life and works. While Beth was a graduate student at the University of California at Santa Barbara, she developed several performance, playwriting and theater education programs which partnered local senior citizens with undergraduate students. Thrilled to be involved with lifelong learning at North Hill, she kicked-off the Communication Series in the fall with a seminar titled: “American Theater of the 1930s – Politics, Hope, Institutional Change.”