Dani Bedau

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Primary Email: [email protected]

Phone/Fax

Primary Phone: 619-594-1590

Building/Location

Dramatic Arts - 210

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Bio

Dani Bedau is a director, playwright, and educator. She is an Associate Professor in the School of Theatre, Television, and Film at SDSU where she specializes in Shakespeare and Theatre in the Classroom. Dani has worked professionally with such companies as Mark Taper Forum, Shakespeare Center of Los Angeles, Cornerstone Theatre Company, and Indiana Repertory Theatre. She created the Coming Up Taller Award-winning Will Power to Youth program in Los Angeles and has engaged work that uses theatre to forge alliances with the Arab-speaking world. Dani served as founding chair of Arts Alive SDSU, creating programming and infrastructure for students, faculty, and staff to engage in transformational arts interactions as part of an arts-rich, robust educational community on campus. Dani launched the Interdisciplinary Collaborative Teaching Program at SDSU bringing arts and non-arts faculty together to team teach. Her peer-reviewed journal publications include: Ubiquity, Theatre Topics Journal, Reclaiming Children and Youth, and Ecumenica. She is currently developing a new one-person musical called Normaler Than Everyone that premiered at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.