The Comic Offense from Vaudeville to Contemporary Comedy

Rick DesRochers is Associate Professor and Director of Theatre and Multi-Media Performance at Lehman College City University of New York USA and an Associate Artist at the PlayPenn New Play Development Conference. He has served as the Literary Director of New Play and Musical Development for the Joseph Papp Public Theater/New York Shakespeare Festival and The Goodman Theatre of Chicago as well as the Artistic Director of the New Theatre in Boston. He holds an M. F. A. in stage direction and dramaturgy from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst USA and a Ph. D. in Theatre from the City University of New York Graduate Center. He is also the author of The New Humor in the Progressive Era: Americanization and the Vaudeville Comedian. . Language: English