Home page of Louis E. Catron


In
Memoriam
9-11-01
"Courage is not the absence of fear,
but rather the judgment that something else is more important
than
fear."
~~Ambrose Redmoon.
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Home Page
of
Louis E.
Catron
~
Professor
of Theatre ~
~
Theatrical
Director~
~Script
Consultant~
and
~ Author ~

(For all those who believe I don't
even own a necktie, much less wear one, see? A tie!
This picture was taken for a news story about an award
and they demanded I find and put on a tie. Temporarily.)
~A site for creative
writers, authors
of non-fiction,
playwrights, actors,
directors,
designers, technicians,
and all of us who
are permanent
students of the arts~
"On a day no different than the one now dawning, Shakespeare sat down
and
started Hamlet, Leonardo stepped to an easel and made the first strokes
of the Mona Lisa, and Beethoven took out a sketch book and began the
Ninth
Symphony."
--adapted
from Robert Richardson, Emerson: The Mind on Fire
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Dr. Louis E. Catron
Professor of Theatre
Department of Theatre,
Speech,
and Dance
College of William and
Mary
P. O. Box 8795
Williamsburg,
Virginia
23187-8795
Email:
Xlecatr@wm.eduZ
(remove the "X" and the "Z," which are there to thwart those fiendish
bots that pick up
addresses
for their ugly spam lists)
Link
to William and Mary--William and Mary
Link
to Theatre, Speech, and Dance--
Department
You
are invited to visit the Links below
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~MY
STUFF (books, articles, interviews)~
For
"Broadway Bound"
discussions
of my books,Writing, Producing, and Selling Your Play and Elements
of Playwriting (the
discussion
takes the form of a "dialogue" between two people, recommending how to
write a play), please click these two sources here:
"Broadway
Bound" Dialogue #10
"Broadway
Bound" Dialogue #12 |
For
an interview by Jenna
Glatzer
of "Absolute Write"
regarding
my book,
The
Power of One: The Solo
Play
for Playwrights,
Actors,
and Directors,
please
click here:
"Absolute
Write" interview
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 This is a reprint of an article I
wrote that first was published in Writers
Digest . It now appears in Holly Lisle's Vision. Click:
“Keep
Attribution Simple,” He…
retorted,
uttered, commented, cried,
dared,
voiced, barked, returned,
greeted,
demanded, snapped, observed, and muttered—but…
Seldom
Said.
(The
title will make sense when you see the article.)
This link takes you to Holly's front page where you'll find a number of
fine articles for writers: Link. |
 This
way to madness *s*.
For
a reprint of an article that
first
was published in Writers Digest
that
shows writers how to use actors' techniques to create dimensional
characters,
visit Holly Lisle's Vision
by clicking here
and scroll down
the "Contents" on the
left side of the page:
“A
Touch of Madness:
The
Writer as Actor."
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My professional vitae (the form detailing education,
experience,
awards, publications, and more of
that
sort of thing that colleges and universities ask of faculty).
Link. |
Fiction Note
Please go here to
this site on Amazon.com to read my short fiction story called "The Good
Stuff," a light-hearted magic realism story.
"The
Good Stuff."
Please
go here to read my short story, "Fat Busters, Inc.," a story
about--koff koff--the greatest medical development of all time!
"Fat Busters, Inc."
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~THEATRE
SITES FOR THEATRE PEOPLE~
COPYRIGHT
LAWS
FOR
THEATRE PEOPLE.
For
a discussion of copyright laws for Directors, Artistic Directors,
Departmental
Chairs, Teachers, Playwrights, Sound Designers, Choreographers...please
click here:
Copyright. |
"THEATRE
JOBS FOR THEATRE PEOPLE" --
A listing of a nicely large number (more than 30!) sites
to help
you find a theatre job.
To view
the sites, please click here:
Theatre
Job Sites .
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~WRITING
SITES FOR WRITERS~
SITES
FOR FICTION AND NON-FICTION WRITERS. For
an annotated list of links for writers--lots of really good
sites!--please
click here:
Sites
for Writers. |
WEBSITES
FOR PLAYWRIGHTS
For
an annotated list of websites
for
playwrights, please click here:
Sites
for Playwrights
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~GREAT
PEOPLE MAKE GREAT HOME PAGES~
For
a link to novelist-screenwriter
(and
delightful wit) Karen Hall (M*A*S*H, Judging Amy, Dark
Debts),
please
click here:
Karen's
Home Page
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Keith
Ryder has been an actor,
director,
and designer, and one of my
very
best ADs and PSMs. With all
of that,
he also ranks as one of the
all
time Good Guys of the world.
For
a link to his current obsession--cakes--please click BKeith's page
here
(and do
look at the BKeith Cakes link:
BKeith's
Home Page .
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For
a link to novelist-screenwriter John Gilstrap (Nathan's Run, At
All Costs , others) please click here:
John's
Home Page.
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For
Swinging Sounds, hear Ginny Carr, Bob McBride, and others of the Uptown
Vocal Jazz Quartet. They may be performing in a venue near
you!
You can listen to excerpts from their NEW CD "When The Sun Goes Down
(2002)"--marvelous
sounds!
The
site for great sounds.
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New Nashville stars Kate Ashby Chiles
and Lindsay Blair Wilkinson have teamed up to become "Ashby-Blair" and
you'll want to listen to their album, "Beyond the Walls," a mixture of
acoustic pop, folk, and country.
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~GREAT
PEOPLE WRITE GREAT BOOKS!
Okay,
I'm not objective. Mattter of fact, I bubble with pride and it is
damned exciting to see former students enjoy gigantic successes.
But that aside, please take a look at these books. You'll find
excellent
writing and be as impressed as I am! (And DO urge your local
libraries
to get them.)
Dark
Debts, by Karen Hall.
Amazon
link.
The
Mammoth
Cheese, Sheri Holman's
latest. Amazon
link. Neat interview with Sheri at Barnes
and Noble link.
The
Dress
Lodger, by Sheri Holman.
Amazon
link.
A
Stolen
Tongue, by Sheri Holman.
Amazon
link.
The
Mammoth
Cheese, by Sheri Homan.
Amazon
link.
Sondok:
Princess of the Moon and Stars, Korea, A.D. 595 (The Royal Diaries),
by Sheri Holman. Amazon
link.
Scott
Free, by John Gilstrap.
Amazon
link.
At
all
Costs, by John Gilstrap.
Amazon link.
Even
Steven, by John Gilstrap.
Amazon
link.
Nathan's
Run, by John Gilstrap.
Amazon
link. Audible
Books link.
Bombingham,
by Anthony Grooms. Amazon
link.
Trouble
No More: Stories, by Anthony
Grooms. Amazon
link.
Paradise
Family Guides Big Island of Hawaii: The Most Complete Guide to
Family Fun and Adventure!, by Catherine
Bridges Tarleton. Amazon
Link.
Potluck:
Stories that Taste Like Hawaii, by Catherine Bridges Tarleton. Amazon
link.
Mr.
Mauna Kea, by Catherine
Bridges Tarleton. Amazon
link.
Killer
Heels, Sheryl J. Anderson.
Amazon
link. Killer
Heels webpage. Sheryl's website link.
Killer Cocktail: A Mollie
Forrester Novel,
by Sheryl J. Anderson.
Amazon
link. (See link to her website, above.)
The Girl Who Falls Down: A
Biography of Joan McCracken, by Lisa Jo Sagolla. Amazon
link.
Don't Jettison Medicine:
Resuscitate Your Passion for the Career You Loved!, by Patricia L. Raymond. Amazon
link.
Colonoscopy: It'll Crack U
Up, by Patricia
L. Raymond. Amazon
link.
~PERSONAL
STUFF~

The Potpourri Page. Photographs (including Glenn Close),
newspaper
stories, theatre reviews, a farewell speech, and whatever doesn't seem
to fit anywhere else. (Right. That's one way of saying "the grab
bag.") Here.
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