Bruce Levittis a Professor in the Department of Theatre, Film, and Dance at Cornell University. Previous to assuming the Chair of the Department at Cornell, Levitt headed the MFA programs in Acting and Directing at the Universities of Iowa and Columbia University. He is a former chair of the New York State Council on the Arts Theatre Panel. Levitt is a facilitator for the Phoenix Players Theatre Group, an organization founded by incarcerated men at Auburn Maximum Security Prison. He has been with the group ten years His two most recent articles about the Phoenix Players, co-authored with Nick Fesette, assistant professor at Oxford College, can be found at the following links: Pedagogies of Self-Humanization: Collaborating to Engage Trauma in the Phoenix Players Theatre Groupand Rehearsing Transformation in an American Prison.
