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JOHN HANNERS
Office phone: 903/886-5346
e-mail: [email protected]
FAX: 903/468-3250
Professor of Theatre, Senior Graduate Faculty Member, Director of the Graduate Theatre
Program; Texas A&M University-Commerce; Commerce, Texas.
Education
BS in Ed with Highest Honor, Eastern Illinois University, 1972
MA Speech (Theatre), Indiana State University, 1974
PhD in Theatre History and Criticism, Michigan State University, 1979
Dissertation: „“The Adventures of an Artist‟: John Banvard (1815-1891) and His
Mississippi Panorama.” Advisor: Georg Schuttler
Experience
Professor and Head (1992-2009), Department of Mass Media, Communication and
Theatre. Texas A&M University-Commerce, Commerce, Texas. 1992-present.
Professor and Chair of Communication Arts and Theatre.
Allegheny College, Meadville, Pennsylvania. 1979-1992.
Assistant Professor (1979), Associate Professor (1983), Professor (1986). Chair of interdisciplinary department with theatre, media studies, rhetoric, and mass communication at
highly selective, liberal arts college of 1,800 students, 160 faculty, and $135.6 million
endowment.
Actor - Michigan Performing Arts Company.
Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan. 1977-1979.
Acted 12 leading role. Taught beginning acting, advanced acting, oral interpretation.
College of Arts and Letters Curriculum Committee, Graduate Student RepresentativeGraduate School.
Theatre Instructor and Assistant Varsity Football Coach.
Griffith (IN) High School; Griffith, Indiana
Graduate Teaching Assistant in Theatre.
Indiana State University, Terre Haute, Indiana. 1972-1974. Actor-In-Residence,
Hulman Repertory Theatre.
U.S. Air Force. Kingsley Field, Oregon. Sergeant. Accounting Specialist. 1965-1970
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Committees
College Tenure and Promotion
University Research
University Strategic Planning
Graduate Council Committee on Graduate
Curriculum, Chair
Texas A&M System Theatre Collaborative
Academic and Production Standards,
Texas Educational Theatre Association
University Distinguished Alumni
Liberal Studies ad hoc Committee
Homecoming
Search Committee—Provost, Dean of Arts
& Sciences, Art Head
Book Selection, Freshman Success Program
Friends of the Commerce Library Board
Texas Educational Theatre Association
Scholars' and Debut Panel chair
A&M Chancellor's Azimuth Strategic Planning
Senate Faculty Academic Practices
Arts & Sciences Dean's Executive Council
Honorary Degrees
University Hearing Committee
Chair, Graduate Scholarship
Distinguished Alumni Committee
Honors Council
Board of Directors, Audie Murphy/American
Cotton Museum
Publications
Book
"It Was Play or Starve": Acting in the Nineteenth-Century American Popular Theatre.
University of Wisconsin Press (Popular Press Imprint), 1993. Nine interrelated essays on
innovative, influential theatrical and para-theatrical entertainers, most of whom worked
the Western rivers during the mid- to late 1800s. Described by critic Michael X. Zelenak
in American Theatre (September 1994, p.71) as "provocative glimpses of who and what
we are, and where we are going.” Second printing Fall 1998.
Books in Progress
“„A Terrible Crime!‟: The Sensational 1936 Texas Murder Trial of Velma
Patterson.”
Essays in Books
“Ruby Allmond” in The Handbook of Texas [Texas State Historical Association, 2009].
“Roosevelt Grier” in African American National Biography, Henry Louis Gates Jr.,
Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Editors (Oxford UP, 2008).
“John Henry Johnson” in African American National Biography, Henry Louis Gates Jr.,
Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Editors (Oxford UP, 2008).
"Nineteenth Century American Theatre" in The Guide to U.S. Popular Culture. Ray
Browne and Pat Browne, General Editors. Garland Press, 2001.
"Showboats" in The Guide to U.S. Popular Culture. Ray Browne and Pat Browne,
General Editors. Garland Press, 2001.
"William Henry Lane, `Master Juba'" in Consumable Goods, David K. Vaughn & Mary
Lou Quinn, Editors. Orono, Maine: National Poetry Foundation, 1988.
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Twenty essays (500-3,000 words) on sport and media figures in Biographical Dictionary
of American Sports. Multi-vol. Series. David L. Porter, Editor. Greenwood Press,
1987-1996.
Volume I: Baseball (1987).
Supplemental Volume 1989-1992 (1993).
John Wesley (Boog) Powell
Anthony Davis, Football
Volume II: Football (1987).
Pat Fischer, Jr. , Football
Robert Lee (Bobby) Bell
Larry L. Jacobson, Football
Junious (Junior) Buchanan
Charles (Charlie) O'Rourke, Football
Roosevelt (Rosey) Grier
Supplemental Volume 1992-1995 (1996).
Lydell M. Mitchell
James Stillwagon, Football
Richard David (Dave) Robinson
Donald B. Whitmire, Football
Raymond Klein (Buddy) Parker
Timothy Brown
John Henry Johnson
Volume III: Outdoor Sports (1988
Paul C. Berlenbach, Boxing
Tony Canzoneri, Boxing
Daniel Galbreath, Horse Racing, Ownership, Media
John Wilmer Galbreath, Horse Racing, Ownership, Media
David (Sonny) Werblin, Media, Ownership
Founding Editor, Texas Theatre Journal
Co-founding Editor of Texas Theatre Journal, the Journal of the Texas Educational
Theatre Association. A new American journal featuring articles on history/criticism,
theatre education, opinions, performance reviews, and book reviews. First issue, January
2005. General Editor of Vols. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7.
Journal Boards
Board of Editors, Film Criticism, 1985-1992.
Associate Editor, Mid-Atlantic Almanack, 1995-1998.
Articles in Refereed Journals
“We Just Come in to See the Show‟: The Sensational 1936 Hunt County Murder Trial of
Velma Patterson (1902-1993).” East Texas Historical Journal XLIX (No. 2, Fall
2011): 69-81.
“‟The Mighty Atom‟: The Life and Career of Hymie Lichenstein (1904-1999). Western
States Jewish History Journal. XLII (Fall 2009): 3-15.
“From „Goggle-eyed‟ to Bogey: The Evolution of Humphrey Bogart‟s (1899-1957) Stage
and Film Personae.” Theatre Southwest (Journal of the Southwest Theatre
Association) 20 (1998): 25-38.
"The Man Who Jumped off the Brooklyn Bridge: Steve Brodie (1858-1901) and the
Public/Private Persona." Mid-Atlantic Almanack 4 (Summer 1996): [88]-95.
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"Glenn H. Wakefield (1879-1939?), alias `Ham Bannister': Five Poems from the Circus
Grifter Poet." Journal of American Studies (Cambridge University Press) XXXII
(1993): 243-48.
"`That Little Painted World': The 1857-58 Stock Companies in Terre Haute, Indiana."
Theatre History Studies 12 (1992): 197-211.
"The Great Wizard of the North: John Banvard's Floating Theatres." Traces: Indiana
and Midwestern History (Indiana Historical Society) 2:2 (Spring 1990): [26]-35.
"Branch Rickey, College Football Coach." The Western Pennsylvania Historical
Magazine. Journal of the Western Pennsylvania Historical Society 70:3 (July 1987):
291-99.
"A Tale of Two Artists: Anna Mary Howitt's Portrait of John Banvard." Minnesota
History. Journal of the Minnesota Historical Society. 50:5 (Spring 1987): 204-08.
`"Vicissitude and Woe': The Theatrical Misadventures of John Banvard." Theatre
Survey. Journal of the American Society for Theatre Research 23:2 (November
1982):177-87.
"John Banvard's Mississippi Panorama (with color portfolio)." American History
Illustrated 17: (November 1982): 30-39.
"`It Was Play or Starve': John Banvard's Account of Early Showboats." Theatre
Research International (Oxford University Press). 8:1 (Winter 1982): [53]-64.
"The `Macdonaldization' of America: An Interview with George A. Romero." Harry
Kloman, Co-author. Film Criticism. 6:1 (Fall 1982): 69-81.
"Edwin Booth in Terre Haute, Indiana, April 1873." Indiana History Bulletin. Indiana
Historical Society. 59:4 (April 1982): 71-80.
"Correspondence on Corrinia, A Tale of Sicily." Note. The Papers of the Bibliographical
Society of America 75:1 (1981): 105-06.
"'The Great Three-Mile Painting': John Banvard's Mississippi Panorama." Journal of
American Culture 4:1 (Spring 1981): 28-42.
“Intermission” sidebars in Texas Theatre Journal
“Dan Blocker: DeKalb‟s All-American Actor” (Vol 4, no 1) 2008.
“Ramsey Yelvington, Texas Playwright” (Vol 4, no 1) 2008.
“Popeye, the Sailorman, is a Texan” (Vol 4, no 1) 2008.
“Play It Again, Sam: Tyler‟s Arthur “Dooley” Wilson” (Vol 3, no 1) 2007.
“The Divine Sarah in Dallas” (Vol 3, no 1) 2007.
“John Boles, Texas‟s Forgotten Actor” (Vol 2, no 1) 2006.
“Texas Opera Houses” (Vol. 1, no 1) 2005.
Book Reviews
Theatre, Culture and Temperance Reform in Nineteenth-Century America, by John W.
Frick. American Historical Review. American Historical Review. 109:3 (October
2004): 1237-38.
Wearing the Breeches, by Elizabeth Reitz Mullinex. American Historical Review 107:1
(February 2003): 191-92.
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The Edwardian Theatre: Essays on Performance and the Stage. Edited by Michael R.
Booth and Joel H. Kaplan. Theatre Journal (Spring 1997): 251-52.
The Merchant of Venice, by James C. Bulman. Allegheny Magazine 26 (No. 1 Fall
1991): 4-6.
The Field of Drama: How the Signs of Drama Create Meaning on Stage and Screen, by
Martin Esslin. Film Criticism 12:1 (Fall 1987): 40-43.
Hollywood from Vietnam to Reagan, by Robin Wood. Film Criticism 10:2 (Winter 198586): 53-56.
Reverse Angle: A Decade of American Films, by John Simon. Film Criticism 7:3 (Spring
1983): 51-53.
Selected Scholarly and Popular Papers
“Into the West: The Life and Times of Greenville‟s Kate Austin (1867?-1897).” Lunch
Time Special Audie Murphy/American Cotton Museum, Greenville, TX, September
2011.
“Three Cautionary Tales of American Indians and Anglo-American Relations in Hunt
County, Texas. National Society Daughter of the American Revolution, Brig.
General Edward Bulkley Chapter. Greenville, TX, September 2011.
“‟Shgoratchx!‟: The Life and Career of Hymie Lichenstein.” OZ 2009: The
Yellow Brick Road in the 21st Century Conference, Henderson State (AR) University
(June 2009).
“‟Capital in His Part‟: John Boles (1895-1969), Hollywood‟s Forgotten Matinee Idol.”
Far West Popular Culture Association Meeting. Las Vegas, Nevada (March 2009).
“We Just Come in to See the Show‟: The Sensational 1936 Hunt County Murder Trial of
Velma Patterson (1902-1993).” Hopkins Co (TX) Genealogical Society, April 2008.
“Mothers Who Kill: The Hunt County Murder Trial of Velma Patterson.” East Texas
Historical Association Spring Meeting. Tyler, TX. February 2008.
“A Star Among Stars: The Saga of Actor John Boles.” Audie Murphy/American Cotton
Museum. Greenville, TX, [December 2007].
“Jack Hale, Greenville, and Nineteenth-Century Turkey Drives.” Greenville Kiwanis
Club, May 2007.
"They Were Throwing Rocks at Me from Every Side: Andrew Jackson Hale's Wild 1882
West Texas Cattle Drive.” Audie Murphy/American Cotton Museum. Greenville, TX,
January 2007.
“Playing Tennis With Beckett: The Texas A&M University System Advanced
Collaborative Theatre.” Mid American Theatre Conference Annual Meeting,
Minneapolis, MN, March 2007.
“‟I‟ll Set You Both Afoot Out Here‟: Greenville‟s Tom King and His 1882 Cattle Drive
to West Texas.” April 2006.The 10th Annual Cotton and Rural History Conference.
Greenville, TX.
“‟Those Cattle Was Gone With The Wind‟: Rawhide, Gunsmoke and the Mediated
West.” American Culture Association, Albuquerque, New Mexico, February 2006.
“Two 1880s Texas Cattle Drives: Myth and Reality.” Far West Popular Culture
Association, Las Vegas, Nevada, February 2005.
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“Transforming William Owens‟ Literary Heritage Into a Dramatic Production.” William
A. Owens Centenary, November 2005. Texas A&M University-Commerce/Paris
Junior College.
“Look to the River: Staging William A. Owens.” East Texas Historical Association Fall
Meeting. September 2005.
“How to Prepare a Manuscript for Publication.” Texas Educational Theatre Association,
Dallas/Fort Worth Airport, January 2005.
“Tom King (1848-1897): Texas‟s Forgotten Cattleman.” West Texas Historical
Association, Abilene, Texas, April 2004.
“Pitfalls in Staging Original Scripts.” Panel, Texas Educational Theatre Association,
Houston, Texas; January 2004.
"New Sources in Local Theatre History." Texas Educational Theatre Association Convention,
Dallas, January 2003.
"From the Range to Backstage: The Greenville Opera House, 1893-1897." Museum of
Theatre History, Mt. Pleasant, Iowa; April 2002.
“Deep Water”: The Life and Unusual Death of Thomas H. King (1850-1897), Cattle Baron
and Theatrical Entrepreneur.” Southwest/Texas Popular Culture Association,
Albuquerque, New Mexico, February 2000.
“From „Goggle-eyed‟ to Bogey: The Evolution of Humphrey Bogart‟s (1899-1957) Stage and
Film Personae.” First Prize, Scholarly Paper Project. Texas Educational Theatre Association,
Waco, Texas, 1997.
"Tenure and Promotion Issues for Theatre and Dance Faculty." Association for Theatre in
Higher Education Annual Convention, San Francisco, California, 1995.
"Steve Brodie: The Man Who Jumped Off the Brooklyn Bridge." One of three papers chosen
for the Scholars Showcase Panel. Southwest Theatre Association Annual Conference,
New Orleans, Louisiana, 1994.
"`A Whole Lot of Connivin' Goin' On': Crime and Criminals in the Nineteenth and Early
Twentieth Century American Circus." One of three papers selected as the best in
American theatre history for 1992 at Association for Theatre in Higher Education,
Atlanta, Georgia, 1992.
"`Larceny in His Soul': The American Confidence Man 1878-1935." North East Popular
Culture Association Annual Meeting, Killington, Vermont, 1989.
"William Henry Lane (1825?-1848?), `Master Juba.'" North East Popular Culture
Association Annual Meeting, Portland, Maine, 1988.
"Branch Rickey, Football Coach." Popular Culture Association Annual Meeting,
Toronto, Canada, 1984.
"Some Early Findings of the Allegheny Circus Oral History Project." National
Association for Humanities Education Annual Meeting, Columbus Ohio, 1982.
"Crime and the Early American Circus." Midwest Popular Culture Association Annual
Meeting, Kalamazoo, Michigan, 1981.
"John Banvard's Mississippi Panorama." Popular Culture Association Annual Meeting, Detroit,
Michigan, 1980.
"A Stop on the `Proximical' Tour: Edwin Booth's 1873 Hamlet.” First Place History/
Criticism Paper, American Theatre Association., Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1980.
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"Revolt in Milwaukee: The 1891-1892 `Meininger' Tour." First Prize. American College
Theatre Festival, Bowling Green, Ohio. 1979.
"Infant Phenomena: The Careers of Kate and Ellen Bateman." Midwest Popular Culture
Association Meeting, East Lansing, Michigan. 1979.
Professional Memberships
Council of Editors for Learned Journals; Texas Institute of Non-Profit Theatres;
Southwest Popular Culture Association; Southwest Theatre and Film Association; Texas
Educational Theatre Association.
THESES AND DISSERTATIONS
Master‟s theses directed (41)
Dissertation committees (3)
Graduate School Representative on dissertations (24
THEATRE
Plays Written
American Mosaic: Five Classic Stories (2009)
Shakespeare’s Ontological Magick Circus (2009)
Look to the River (2006)
Produced
A&M Commerce
A&M -Commerce
William A. Owens Centenary,
Paris Junior College
Doc Holiday in the rondo object d’art (2003-4)
Texas Non-Profit Theatres, Inc.,
Corpus Christi, TX; Piney Woods
Players, Livingston, TX
A Good Man is Hard to Find, (adapted, O'Connor) (2002) A&M -Commerce
The Rocking Horse Winner, (adapted, Lawrence) (2002) A&M -Commerce
Midnight in Moscow, (1999)
Texas Educational Theatre
Association, Austin, TX
Dark Wood, (1997)
A&M -Commerce
The Upstart Crow, (1996)
A&M -Commerce
Moscow Nights, (1992)
A&M -Commerce
Candelabra, (1990)
Stage Express, Los Angeles, CA
An Evening with Shakespeare, co-author with
Allegheny Playshop Theatre, Regional
James Bulman, (1986)
Tour; International Tour--Puerto
Rico, Chile, Peru, 1999
JUBA! A Play Based on American Slave Testimony
John Brown Society, Chicago, IL;
(1982)
Ford Chapel, Meadville, PA
The Importance of Being Oscar, (1981)
Allegheny Playshop Theatre
The Beaux-Strategem, freely adapted, (1980)
Allegheny Playshop Theatre
Unproduced: Fort Worth Fables (2000)
Finalist 2002 Judy & A.C. Green
Unproduced: Pins! (2011)
Literary Festival, Salado, TX
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Selected Stage Directing
Shakespeare’s Ontological Magick Circus
The Two Gentlemen of Verona
The Tempest
Romeo and Juliet *
Twelfth Night
The Trojan Women,* Euripides
Woyzeck, Büchner; world première of new translation by Henry J. Schmidt +
Dido and Aeneas, Purcell
The Rimers of Eldritch, Wilson
The Beaux’ Strategem, Farquhar, Hanners
George Washington Slept Here
The Serpent, Van-Itallie +
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Allan
John Loves Mary, Krasna
Waiting for Godot, Beckett
George Washington Slept Here, Kauffman & Hart +
The Legend of Grey Owl, American première of a play by E. J. Schwarz +
Hooters, Tally
Oklahoma, Rogers & Hammerstein +
Dark Wood, Klongpayabal, Hanners
Spoon River Anthology, Masters, Aidman
Hansel and Gretel, Humperdinck +
Good in Black, an original play by Melissa Heath*
The Importance of Being Oscar, Hanners
Antigone*, Anouilh
Midnight in Moscow, Hanners +
The Ripper Show (and how they wrote it), Hatherley and Barlow *
Aladdin and His Magical Lamp, E.J. Schwarz
The Last Nickel Jukebox *, an original play by Darin Hill
Miss Julie*, Strindberg
David and Lisa, Perry
Phantasm, Young
George Washington Slept Here, Hart and Kaufmann +
Tamer of Horses, Mastrosimone *
One Soldier Wounded*, an original play by Jim Tyler Anderson
Cinderella, E. J. Schwarz
A Flea in Her Ear, Feydeau
+ Professional
Digging Up the Boys, Smith *
* Kennedy Center American College Theatre
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Selected Acting Roles
Andrew Ladd III, Love Letters
Richard, Phantasm
Henry V, Henry V
Austin, True West *
Walter Burns, The Front Page
Andrew Wyke, Sleuth *
Romeo, Romeo and Juliet *
John Barrymore, I Hate Hamlet
Mazzini Dunn, Heartbreak House
Two-hander, Greater Tuna *
Launce, The Two Gentlemen of Verona *
Will Masters, Bus Stop *
Sir John, A Woman of No Importance*
Chateau-Renaud, The Corsican Brothers
Enobarbus, Antony and Cleopatra
Willy Faroughly, the Time of Your Life
Jamie Tyrone, Long Day’s Journey Into Night * Uncle Sid, Ah, Wilderness!
Andrew, Love Letters
Starbuck, The Rainmaker
Willie, The Time of Your Life *
George Barnwell, The London Merchant *
Doug Roberts, Mr. Roberts *
Henry Harper, Another Antigone
Jimmy Zoole, P.S., You’re Cat is Dead!
Spike, The Ballad of Ruby Rose*
Various, Christmas at Ground Zero *
Lt. O‟Leary, John Loves Mary
Selected Industrial Film Roles
Emperor, Star Wheels
Lawrence, Lawrence of Motor Wheel
Television/Video Voiceovers
Orientation to the Butler Rehabilitation Center Kappel‟s Jewelers
University of Pittsburgh Capital Campaign
National Ford Commercial
Allegheny College Annual Fund
National Oldsmobile Commercial
Special Olympics, Northeast
* Equity or Equity Waiver
Courses Taught, 1992 to present (29 courses)
Graduate
Dramatic Criticism
Problems in Acting Play Writing
Development of the Modern Theatre
Theories of Acting
Research & Literature Techniques
Problems in Theatre Research
Theatre Collaboration Shakespeare‟s Plays
Development of the American Theatre Interpretation of Text
Undergraduate
Introduction to Theatre Oral Interpretation
Senior Project
Lyric Theatre
Ethics in the Media
Stage Directing
Theatre History I
Audiences, Critics and Theatre
Fund of Public Speaking
Theatre History II
Business & Professional Speaking
Beginning Acting
Projects in Acting
Studies in Human Communication
Readers Theatre
Ethics in the Media
Voyages of Discovery: Artists &
Interpreting the Text
Critics at Work