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Keith Fowler (Keith Franklin Fowler; born February 23, 1939 in San Francisco) is an American actor, director, producer, and educator. He is a professor of drama and head of directing emeritus in the Drama Department of the Claire Trevor School of the Arts of the University of California, Irvine (UCI), and he is the former artistic director of two LORT/Equity theaters.〔Virginia Museum Theater, 1955-1980, "Twenty-Five Years of Service to the Commonwealth," 1980, 21〕〔Panhelas, William, "Fowler Resigns...," ''The Commonwealth Times,'' March 29-April 4, 1977〕〔Proctor, Roy, "Empire Leased for Theatrical Group," ''Richmond News Leader'', Aug 24, 1978〕 ==Early career== Fowler began acting professionally with the Oregon Shakespeare Festival (1958 and 1960), playing Antony in ''Julius Caesar'' and Lorenzo in ''Merchant'' (with OSF founder Angus Bowmer as Shylock), before leaving to study as a Fulbright scholar at the Shakespeare Institute in Stratford-upon-Avon, UK. In England, he directed the Midlands premiere of Brecht's ''Mother Courage''. The production at the Stratford Hippodrome in spring 1961 led the town's veteran drama critic〔"Amateur Players break new ground with 'Mother Courage'," ''Stratford-upon-Avon Herald'', April 21, 1961〕 to compliment the local troupe for daring a type of theater that Sir Peter Hall hesitated to bring to Stratford's just-founded Royal Shakespeare Company.〔Gardiner, Edmund, "Pepys Behind the Scenes," ''Stratford-upon-Avon Herald'', April 28, 1961〕 In the Summer of 1962, Mr Fowler was a guest director for the Belfry Players Theater in Williams Bay Wisconsin where he directed such plays as ''Love is Contagious, Me Candido, Five Finger Exercise, Breath of Spring'', and ''A Majority of One''. Fowler attended the Yale School of Drama, studying under Nikos Psacharopoulos, director of the Williamstown Theater Festival, who chose Fowler to serve as his assistant, first as resident director of a theater in Holyoke, Massachusetts, where Fowler staged productions of ''J. B.'', by Archibald MacLeish, and ''Romeo and Juliet''〔Program of the Casino-in-the-Park Playhouse, summer 1963〕 and later as assistant director at Williamstown. In between he directed a season of summer stock at the Belfry Theater in Wisconsin and staged a production of ''Hamlet'' for the San Francisco Shakespeare Festival. After Yale, Fowler joined the faculty of Williams College, and in the late 1960s he directed a highly stylized ''Macbeth'' for the El Paso Festival Theater, then acted and directed for the Asolo Theater in Sarasota, Florida. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Keith Fowler」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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