RICHARD G SCHARINE portrait
  • Professor Emeritus, Theatre
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Creative Research

  • Juan Radrigan's BECKETT AND GODOT, play reading in the Union Theatre (role of Godot) Performance, completed 12/14/2013.
  • Melanie Marnich's play, THESE SHINING LIVES, produced and directed as a staged reading for Theatre 1760 Performance, completed 12/03/2013.
  • "Speeches that changed the World," Babcock Performing Readers (roles of Adolf Hitler and Elie Wiesel) Performance, completed 11/14/2013.
  • David Mamet's play, RACE, produced and directed for People Productions at the Leonardo Museum, October 12-23 Performance, completed 10/12/2013.
  • ACTING Giles Corey, Arthur Miller's THE CRUCIBLE, Grand Theatre (March 2012) Aegeon, Shakespeare's COMEDY OF ERRORS, Salt Lake Shakespeare (July 2012) Ensemble, Wasatch Theatre Company's Page to Stage Festival (November 2012) Mr. Potter, Shirley Shield's MERRY CHRISTMAS, GEORGE BAILEY, Babcock Performing Readers (December 2012) Baptiste, Feydeau's A FLEA IN HER EAR, University of Utah (February 2013) Uncle Ben, Arthur Miller's DEATH OF A SALESMAN, Grand Theatre (March 2013) DIRECTING "Heritage--A Look at America's Darker Side," Martin Luther King, Jr. Commemoration (January 2013) Vivienne Franzmann's THE WITNESS, Edward Lewis Black Theatre Festival (February 2013) Performance, completed 03/23/2013.
  • TELEVISION: Voiceover, MARTHA HUGHES CANNON, KUED (July 2012) TRAINING VIDEO: Jones, "Educating Patients on Resuscitation" (January 2013 Media Arts, completed 01/23/2013.
  • ADVANCE DIRECTIVES, medical school training film, directed by Gretchen Case (role of male patient) Media Arts, completed 01/23/2013.
  • "Clothesline," SINE CERA, Vol. 7, No. 2 (June) "The Last Job," Wasatch Iron Pen Adult Fiction Winner (June) "That's the Way That Goes," Babcock Performing Readers Holiday Short Story Winner (December) Literary Arts, completed 12/31/2009.
  • "Broadway and the Rise of the American Playwright," BROADWAY: AN ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THEATER AND AMERICAN CULTURE (Greenwood Press, Santa Barbara, CA) Other, completed 12/31/2009.
  • Peter Sorin, Chekhov's THE SEAGULL, University of Utah (February-March) Duncan, Shakespeare's MACBETH, Salt Lake Shakespeare (July-August) Ensemble, Blank and Jensen's THE EXONERATED, People Productions (November) Roger, Jarvik's THE COMING ICE AGE, Pygmalion Theatre (December) Performance, completed 12/31/2009.
  • "Reception Strategies--Spanish Golden Age Theatre," Association of Theatres in Higher Education Conference Media Arts, completed 08/10/2009.

Presentations

  • Producer and Director, Staged Reading of August Wilson's "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom" (People Productions, at the Salt Lake City Downtown Library). Presentation, Presented, 11/14/2016.
  • Producer and Director, Vivienne Franzmann's "The Witness" (People Productions, at the Sugar Space Arts Warehouse), August 4-14. Presentation, Presented, 08/04/2016.
  • Producer and Director, George Brant's "Grounded" (People Productions), at the Sugar Space Arts Warehouse, April 14-24. Presentation, Presented, 04/14/2016.
  • Producer and Director, Staged Reading of Jessica Blank and Erik Jensen's "The Exonerated," Fundraiser for the Rocky Mountain Innocence Center. Presentation, Presented, 04/10/2016.
  • Producer and Master of Ceremonies, Edward Lewis Theatre Festival (Downtown City Library). Participants: Salt Lake Acting Company, Wasatch Theatre Company, People Productions. Presentation, Presented, 02/13/2016.
  • Voiceover (Evangelical Radio Preacher, "Trueheart's Pass" (Film by Sam Dunn). Presentation, Presented, 01/19/2016.
  • Guest Commentator, "Radio West--DEAD MAN WALKING, KUER (July 2012) Public Reading, "Clothesline," People's Market Book Day (August 2012). Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 08/05/2012.

Copyrights

  • "The Past We Step Into". Richard Scharine, 07/10/2021. "The Past We Step Into" (Twelve Short Stories), published by Atmosphere Press (Austin, Texas).

Geographical Regions of Interest

  • United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
    Participation in the Theatre Department's London Study Abroad Group.