About the Author
Published by Bell Tower
Edited by Toinette Lippe
Publication date: May 3, 2005
About the Author
Patricia
Ryan Madson, Sr. Lecturer Emerita, Stanford University, has been
teaching for four decades. On the Stanford drama
faculty since 1977, she founded the Stanford Improvisors in 1991. As
head of the undergraduate acting program, she won the university’s
highest teaching prize, the Lloyd W. Dinkelspiel Award for outstanding
contribution to undergraduate education. She also teaches at the Esalen
Institute and for Stanford’s Continuing Studies. Patricia lives with
her husband, Ronald Madson, and their Himalayan cat, Tara, in El
Granada, California, where they direct the California
Center for Constructive Living.
In 1996 she founded the Creativity Initiative at Stanford, an interdisciplinary alliance of faculty who share the belief that creativity can be taught. Patricia has taught Design Improv for the School of Engineering, and was a guest lecturer for the Stanford Technology Ventures Program and for the Mayfield Fellows Program.
She teaches
regularly for the Esalen Institute, and has given workshops for the
Banff Centre for Leadership Studies, the California Institute for
Integral Studies, the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology, the
National Association of Drama Therapists, the Western Psychological
Association, Duke University East Asian Studies Center and the
Meaningful Life Therapy Association in Japan. Patricia combines her
teaching of improvisation with work as a counselor using an Eastern
approach to problem solving known as Constructive Living TM.
For ten years she was the American Coordinator of the Oomoto
School of Traditional Japanese Arts in Kameoka, Japan. Patricia was one
of the founding Board members of Bay Area TheatreSportsTM,
and has been a long time student of Keith Johnstone. She
currently serves on the Outside Financial Advisory Board of the San
Francisco Zen Center.
Patricia Ryan Madson is represented by:
The Sarah Jane Freymann Literary Agency
For
literary inquiries contact:
Sarah Jane Freymann
59 West 71st Street, #9B
New York, NY 10023
Tel: 212.362.9277
e-mail: Sarah@SarahJaneFreymann.com