Richard Scharine

Professor Emeritus

Richard Scharine is a professor of theatre and an adjunct professor of ethnic studies at the University of Utah, which he joined in 1978 after stints in Iowa, Minnesota, and Kansas, From 1982 to 1991 he served as the Department's Director of Graduate Studies, and has headed the Theatre Studies emphasis since 1995. Scharine was a Senior Fulbright lecturer at the University of Gdansk in Poland in 1992-93, where he returned as a guest lecturer in Spring 1997. In Spring 2001 he inaugurated the Theatre Department's London Study Abroad Program. Scharine's teaching and publication specialties have been Afro-American theatre, American political theatre, and British contemporary theatre, but his great love is teaching undergraduate theatre history. His graduate degrees are from the University of Kansas.

Scharine is the author of The Plays of Edward Bond (Associated University Presses, 1976) and From Class to Caste: Political Themes in American Drama since the 1030's(Greenwood Press, 1991), and has contributed to Theatre Journal, Journal of American Drama and Theatre, New England Theatre Journal and Black American Literature Forum, among others. He has directed 75 plays, including seven that toured to England and/or the European continent, and most recently for the Afro-American-themed People Productions. Scharine has acted in countless plays in ten states and seven countries. He is a 2002 winner of the College of Fine Arts Faculty Achievement Award, and a Distinguished University Professor for 2002-2003

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