Joseph Lawrence DeVine

Background

DeVine, Joseph Lawrence was born on September 21, 1935 in New York City. Son of John Justin and Hazel (Tippit) DeV.

Education

Student, Georgetown University, 1953-1954; student, University Michigan, 1954; Bachelor of Science in Journalism, Northwestern University, 1957.

Career

Drama critic, Miami (Florida) Herald, 1962-1967; entertainment editor, drama and film critic, Los Angeles Herald-Examiner, 1967-1968; entertainment editor, drama critic, Detroit Free Press, since 1968; associate director, Critics Institute, Eugene O'Neill Memorial Theater Center, Waterford, Connecticut, since 1973. Member of faculty drama critics U. Detroit, 1974. National Endowment for Humanities professional fellow University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1975-1976.

Fellow National Endowment for Humanities seminar for critics of arts, Washington, 1977. William Randolph Hearst visiting fellow University Texas, Austin, 1995. Member of national new playwrights jury American College Theatre Festival, critic-in-residence festivals, 1978-1994.

Member Pulitzer prize nominating jury in drama, 1981-1982, 91-92, 93-94. Panelist Forums on Theater of the Absurd, London, 1986, Stanislavsky Anniversary, Moscow, 1988.

Achievements

• Joseph Lawrence DeVine has been listed as a noteworthy Drama critic by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Served with Army of the United States, 1958-1962. Member American Theater Critics Association (chairman of the executive committee 1979-1981), International Association Theater Critics (United States delegate biennial congresses Tel Aviv 1981, Mexico City 1983, E. Berlin 1987, Warsaw 1992, Gdansk, Poland 1998), New York Drama Critics Circuit, Beta Theta Pi, Sigma Delta Chi.

Connections

Married Genevieve Christian, August 29, 1959 (divorced 1968). Children: John Justin II, Ellen Morse. Married Lucy Memory Williamson, July 26, 1968 (deceased October 1985).

Married Lois Waterman, July 23, 1988.

Father:

John Justin DeV.

Mother:

Hazel (Tippit) DeV.

Spouse:

Lois Waterman

Spouse:

Genevieve Christian

Spouse:

Lucy Memory Williamson

child:

Ellen Morse DeVine

child:

John Justin II DeVine