MICHAEL DONNELL CONNOR

mikacon@msn.com
Education
Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana
Masters of Arts in Theatre and Drama with a Thesis, February, 1975.
Educational Opportunity Fellowship, President of the Ngoma Ensemble (acting troupe),
Outstanding Achievement Award for participating in the Indiana Soul Revue (touring
show), actor and technician for the Indiana Repertory Theatre Company
Shaw University, Raleigh, North Carolina
Bachelor of Arts in Theatre and English, April, 1973
Company Manager of the Shaw Players and Company (acting troupe), Second VicePresident of the national Association of Dramatic and Speech Arts (highest student
office), Whos Who Among College and University Students, Educational Opportunity
Grant, Catherine Hughes Waddell Scholarship, John Winters Academic Excellence
Award, Best Actor Award.
Teaching Experience
Livingstone College, Salisbury, North Carolina
Theatre Arts and Speech Instructor
Fall 2005 to present
Taught the following courses: Playwriting, Directing, Voice for the Actor, Stage
Management, Technical Theatre, Stagecraft, Stage Movement, Improvisation, History of
the Theatre, Black Drama, Introduction to Theatre, Production and Performance as well
as Public Speaking
Central Piedmont Community College, Charlotte, North Carolina
Theatre Arts Instructor
Fall 2000 to Spring2005
Taught Theatre Appreciation to the colleges very diverse population
Garinger High School, Charlotte, North Carolina
Theatre and English Teacher
Fall 1998 to Spring1999
Taught Theatre to sophomores and juniors
Taught English and Debate to freshmen, sophomores and juniors
Extended Professional Training
Acting, Screen Actors Guild/American Film Institute Conservatory, Los Angeles,
California
Playwriting, Negro Ensemble Company, New York, New York
Gene Frankels Theatrical Workshop, New York, New York
Radio, Television and Motion Picture Institute, UNC-Chapel Hill, Chapel-Hill, NC
Screen Actors Guild Commercial Workshop, Los Angeles, California
American Federation of Television and Radio Artists Actors Work Program
Affiliations
SAG-AFTRA One Union (professional actors union for television and film)

AEA (stage actors union)

P60 Community Core Committee (Wake Forest University Maya Angelou Center for
Health Equity)
Chair of the Health and Welfare Committee at Livingstone College
Special Events Committee at Livingstone College
Connor Recreational Center, Inc., Treasurer
Accomplishments
Have written several plays at Livingstone College
Show Me (about teenage pregnancy)
Fall 2009
Reflections from the Past (about African American History) Spring 2009
Seven to Seven (about Homeless people in America)
Fall 2010
The Wobble of Life (about domestic violence)
Fall 2011
Project D (about diabetes)
Fall 2012
Dangerous Love
Fall 2014
Project D was selected and read at The National Black Theatre Festival Summer 2013
Directed a martial arts film The Deadly Cure
Taught English through Drama at L. A. Trade Technical College
Conducted a Drama Seminar in Hiroshima, Japan
Personal Assistant to the legendary Bette Davis

Summer 1992
Fall 1988 and Spring
1992 to 1993
April, 1989 to April, 1991
1979 to 1984