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Charles Lyons
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As an undergraduate at Stanford he focused on Shakespeare with the legendary professor Margery Bailey, the namesake of his endowed chairman He is best known as a theorist and teacher of theater. His interest in performance began in the 1950s as a professional actor in Los Angeles where he routinely performed at the Pasadena Playhouse.
After finishing his masters, Lyons spent four years as a lieutenant in United States Navy, where he served in the Far East and later in Washington, Doctorate.C as a liaison to Jacques Cousteau.
In the early 1960s Lyons took a teaching position at Principia College in Illinois. In 1968 he moved on to the University of California, Berkeley becoming a professor of dramatic art and later the associate dean of letters and sciences.
He returned to Stanford as chair of the theater department in 1973 and installed an undergraduate and doctoral program that established a new approach for the training of theater practitioners and theater scholars. Lyons" scholarly writings included Shakespeare, Chekov, Ibsen, Brecht, Beckett, and Shepard.
His former students currently occupy key positions in theater and performance departments across the United States and in Europe, as well in repertory theaters, professional theater companies, and the film industry.
Throughout his career, Lyons continued to work at the practice of theater, directing productions of John Gay"s The Beggar"s Opera, Samuel Beckett’s Endgame, William Shakespeare"s Two Gentlemen of Verona and Hamlet with Andre Braugher in the title role. Concerned with diversity issues within the arts, Lyons put forward a new Institute for Diversity in the Arts at Stanford, financed by the James Irvine Foundation.
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Guggenheim Fellowship; MacArthur Fellowship Fulbright scholar National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship MacArthur Fellows Program Guggenheim Fellowship
The MacArthur Fellows Program, MacArthur Fellowship, or 'Genius Grant' is a prize awarded annually by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation typically to between 20 and 40 individuals, working in any field, who 'show exceptional merit and promise for continued and enhanced creative work' and are citizens or residents of the United States.The MacArthur Fellows Program, MacArthur Fellowship, or 'Genius Grant' is a prize awarded annually by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation typically to between 20 and 40 individuals, working in any field, who 'show exceptional merit and promise for continued and enhanced creative work' and are citizens or residents of the United States.