Bio

Eric Prince has an international record as a Samuel Beckett scholar and practitioner with many published essays and interviews on Beckett in performance, and, as a director, the staging of many Beckett plays including: Waiting For Godot, Footfalls, Embers, Play, and Come And Go. He has recently established a Center for Studies in Beckett and Contemporary Theatre Practice which serves to promote a wide range of innovative theatre events and visits from internationally renowned guest artists and academics. Eric has directed more than seventy productions in venues as diverse as London, Edinburgh, Scarborough, Plymouth, Augsburg, Utrecht, Amsterdam, Berlin and San Diego as well as children's theatre on the sandy beaches of Yorkshire and multi-cultural theatre on the streets of Leeds. Five of his own plays were selected for the British National Student Drama Festival, two of them Kafka's Last Request and Wildsea Wildsea, receiving the prestigious London Sunday Times Playwriting Award and Best Production Awards. From 1981 to 1999 he worked in close association with Sir Alan Ayckbourn. Two plays, Love Is In The Air and Red Roses were professionally produced by Ayckbourn's acclaimed company, The Stephen Joseph Theatre, North Yorkshire. Since relocation from the UK to Fort Collins in 1999 Eric has directed many CSU productions including: Hamlet, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Caucasian Chalk Circle, Oh What A Lovely War, Every Good Boy Deserves Favor, Waiting For Godot, The Pirates of Penzance, Private Lives, and Little Shop of Horrors. In addition to teaching Acting, Directing, Playwriting, Theatre History and Performing Shakespeare, he currently serves as Chair of Playwriting for the Kennedy Center/American College Theatre Festival - Region VII. Region VII includes Colorado, Wyoming, Montana, Idaho, Oregon, Washington and Alaska.