Lee Stetson – A Biographical Sketch
Education | ||||
B.A in History | Eastern Nazarene College | Quincy, MA | 1964 | |
M.A., American Studies | University of Hawaii | Honolulu, HI | 1969 | |
Certificate, Arts Admin. | Harvard | |||
Awards | ||||
Fulbright Teaching Grant | Vientiane, Laos | 1967 | ||
Honorary Doctorate | Sierra Nevada College | Incline, NV | 1988 | |
Employment | ||||
English Teacher Peace Corps | Thailand | 1964-66 | ||
English Teacher U.S. Information Service | Laos | 1967 | ||
Founder, manager and artistic director of the Hawaii Performing Arts Company |
Honolulu | 1968-74 | ||
Actor, Oregon Shakespeare Company | 1975 | |||
Artistic Director, Idaho’s Antique Theater Festival | 1976 | |||
Artistic Director, Hawaii Theater Festival | Honolulu | 1977-79 | ||
Acting Instructor, Film Industry Workshop | Studio City, CA | 1977-81 | ||
Freelance Directing, Teaching | Los Angeles | 1982 | ||
Yosemite Theater | 1983-94 | |||
Wrote and Produced the Following Stage Shows | ||||
The Unhappy Christmas at Mrs. Pincher’s Orphanage (children’s show) | 1971 | |||
Return of Joey’s Remains | 1972 | |||
Greedy Gerty and the Cookie Kiss Kid (children’s show) | 1973 | |||
Conversation With A Tramp: An Evening with John Muir | 1983 | |||
Stickeen and Other Fellow Mortals | 1986 | |||
John Wesley Powell; Down the Great Unknown | 1988 | |||
The Spirit of John Muir | 1990 | |||
Sarah Hawkins Contemplates a Fourth Marriage | 1991 | |||
Pickaxes and Petticoats | 1996 | |||
The Tramp and the Roughrider | 2000 | |||
Other | ||||
Performed 40 major stage roles from Neil Simon to Shakespeare. | ||||
Directed a score of major shows, in Hawaii, Oregon, Idaho, California. | ||||
Acted in a dozen Hawaii 5-O‘s, another dozen assorted television series. | ||||
Starred in two specials for PBS in the character of John Muir. | ||||
Lectures on Arts and the Environment, Storytelling, other topics. | ||||
Member | ||||
Screen Actors Guild, American Federation of Television and Radio Artists. | ||||
The National Association for the Preservation and Perpetuation of Storytelling. | ||||
Edited | ||||
The Wild Muir, a collection of 22 of John Muir’s adventures. | 1994
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