Dr. Carol C Davis

About

She is Associate Professor of Theatre at Franklin and Marshall College in Pennsylvania, teaching World Theatre, Asian Theatre, Shakespeare, Directing, Acting, and Theatre for Social Change, and directing students in theatre productions. Carol holds a PhD in Dramatic Arts from University of California, Berkeley. She has acted and directed at major California theatres, and in film and TV in California, Korea, and Malaysia. She is the founding artistic director of the Nepal Health Project, an educational and charitable theatre troupe that performed for over half a million villagers in rural Nepal, teaches workshops on emergency first aid throughout the country, creative dramatics in the orphanages of Kathmandu, and sponsors girls’ education. For her work in Nepal, Carol received the Half the Sky prize from The New York Times and author/journalist Nicholas Kristof. Carol was a Fulbright Senior Research Fellow and served on the Fulbright South and Central Asia Peer Review Committee. Her articles have appeared in Asian Theatre JournalTheatre SymposiumMime JournalEducation About Asia, Journal of South Asia Women StudiesThe Encyclopedia of Asian TheatreWorld Encyclopedia of Puppetry ArtsNot For Sale: Feminists Resisting Prostitution and Pornography,Mapping South Asia Through Theatre, and Routledge Handbook of Asian Theatre.