Stages: A Life in the Theatre
Joe Stockdale has had a long and distinguished career in theater. As Dean emeritus of the Theatre & Film division, School of the Arts at SUNY, Purchase, NY, and as professor of theater at Purdue University, and artistic director of the LORT Purdue Professional Theatre, he helped launch the careers of dozens of successful actors,  actresses, and other theater professionals. He's written extensively for such theatrical publications as Dramatists, Equity, TheaterWeek, and Playbill, and is the author of The Man in the Spangled Pants and co-author of The Architecture of Drama. His first novel, Taking Tennessee to Hart, based on his own play, was published by Hyphenates Books in 2011. Joe and his wife Robin live in Kalamazoo MI.