The Dionysus Group: [Revised and Updated] (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781518726156)

William Shephard is a professional actor, director, playwright, and performance artist with a broad range of professional experience from New York's Off-Off Broadway theatre to regional theatre and films. He has performed at both the Ashland, Oregon, and New York Shakespeare Festivals, and he was a founding member of New York's Performance Group, directed by Richard Schechner. He subsequently received a Fulbright grant to study with Jerzy Grotowski and the Polish Laboratory Theatre in Wroclaw, Poland. In addition to a number of smaller independent films, he has appeared in major motion pictures such as Phantom of the Paradise, Deathrace 2000, and King Kong (1976. He was Artistic Director for the Palouse Performance Project (1996-98) and wrote, produced, directed, and performed in the Project's multimedia performance, The Woman Who Turned To Soap, featured in the 1997 Seattle Fringe Festival. Shephard also wrote, produced, directed, and has performed his one man show about American author Jack London, The True Story of Jack London, in Los Angeles, New York, Anchorage, AK, Orlando, FL, and Carmel, CA to critical acclaim (1975-2004). William Shephard is also an educator with over thirty-five years' experience teaching acting, directing and playwriting at the university level, receiving his PhD. in Theatre from The Florida State University School of Theatre. In 1998-99 he received a Senior Lecturer Fulbright grant to teach and direct in India He has also taught acting workshops in China, Malaysia, Singapore, Belarus, Turkey, and Israel.