Welcome to my Georgia Highlands College About Me webpage. My academic research includes theatre and communications topics. My published research includes personal interviews I conducted with the late American playwright, Arthur Miller (The Crucible, Death of a Salesman, All My Sons, and An Enemy of the People, an adaptation of Henrik Ibsen's monumental play); a personal dialogue with playwright Edward Albee (Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, A Zoo Story, and other stage plays); and a personal interview with New York Times Op-Ed editor, Frank Rich. Other published theatre interviews include playwright Lee Blerssing and American play directors Adrian Hall, Elizabeth LeCompte and the late A.J. Antoon, a director for New York's Shakespeare in the Park.
I have written the following stage plays and musicals: The Funeral Club, Yours, DOVE: The Musical, Shades of Gray, and a new production to be produced in Statesboro, Georgia at Averritt Arts Center/Georgia Southern, a stage musical celebrating the life and music of Georgia's celebrated original blues composer/guitarist/song writer, Blind Willie McTell. My fiction and non-fiction books include: From Risk to Reason: Voting to Change the Leadership of America in 2008, The Caspian Conspiracy, The Funeral Club, Beyond the Beach, and Summer at Hope's Croft.
I enjoy intercultural topics in communications and have been lucky to travel to 42 countries. In 1996, I was a Rotary Group Study Exchange member to India, and in 1998 I was awarded a Fulbright Teaching position to Tawain, which I have moved to my retirement days in the future. I have guided study abroad student groups to Jamaica (Black Caribbean Theatre), sailing and theatre in the Bahamas, and England (Shakespeare and Stratford).
Some of my favorite things to do include mountain hiking, river-rafting, mountain biking, photography, cooking, and gardening.
I would enjoy hearing about your plans, hopes and dreams as a student and desire that you take some time to come visit me and share your past and future travel, lerarning and life experiences with me.
~ Richard Stafford, Ph.D.
