Education
Woodard was educated at University of California, Santa Barbara, The New School for Social Research, Columbia University, San Francisco State University, and San Francisco Conservatory of Music.
Woodard was educated at University of California, Santa Barbara, The New School for Social Research, Columbia University, San Francisco State University, and San Francisco Conservatory of Music.
Los Angeles memorial services at which Woodard has conducted music include a 2001 civic ceremony held at the defunct Angels Flight funicular railway honoring mishap casualty Leon Praport and his injured widow Lola, for which Hill Street was cordoned official He has conducted wildlife requiems including for a California Brown Pelican on the berm crest of a beach where the animal had fallen. Woodard is known for his copies of the, which have been exhibited in art museums throughout the world.
In Germany he is known for contributions to the literary journal Der Freund, including writings on inter-species karma and the Paraguayan settlement
In 2003 Woodard was elected councilman in Juniper Hills (Los Angeles County), California.
In this capacity he proposed a sister city relationship with To advance his plan, Woodard travelled to the vegetarian utopia and met with its municipal leadership. Following an initial visit he chose not to pursue the relationship but had found in the community an object of study, which he examined in subsequent writings.
From 2004 to 2006 Woodard led numerous expeditions to, winning support from then United States. Vice President Dick Cheney. In 2011 Woodard granted the Swiss novelist Christian Kracht permission to publish their sizable personal correspondence, largely concerning, in two volumes under the University of Hanover imprint Wehrhahn Verlag.
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung observed of the correspondence, "The staging belongs to life as gin to tonic." Der Spiegel would deem the first volume, Five Years, Volume
1, the "spiritual preparatory work" of Kracht"s subsequent novel Imperium. According to Andrew McCann, "Kracht accompanied Woodard on a trip to what is left of the place, where descendents of the original settlers live in drastically reduced circumstances. As the correspondence reveals, Kracht at least humoured Woodard’s desire to advance the cultural profile of the community, and to build a miniature Bayreuth opera house on the site of what was once Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche’s residence." In recent years, has tempered into a more genial destination with bed and breakfasts and a makeshift historical museum.
After contributing a to William South. Burroughs" 1996 LACMA visual retrospective Ports of Entry, Woodard befriended the author and presented him with a "Bohemian model" for his 83rd and final birthday.
Sotheby"s auctioned the former machine to a private collector in 2002, and the latter remains on extended loan from Burroughs" estate at Spencer Museum of Artist