Carlisle Publications

Many customers like to know about the company and people behind the products they buy. Here we will tell you a little about ourselves and our company. Gary Carkin is an actor, theater director, and Professor of TESOL. He has worked with language, culture, and drama for over forty years, having majored in Speech and Drama at the University of New Ha... mpshire, acting and directing at Carnegie Mellon University, and at the prestigious Bristol Old Vic Theatre School in Bristol, England. Subsequent to training with the BOVTS, he taught acting and directed theater at East End London's, Hoxton Hall. In 1966, he joined International Voluntary Services and taught English and drama to Vietnamese high school students in Quang Tri, Danang, and Hoi An, Vietnam. Upon completion of his service, he toured for two years with Harvey Grossman's mime-based theater, the Players' Theater of New England, performing featured roles in The Devil and Daniel Webster, A Christmas Carol, and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. From 1970-1974, he worked again in Southeast Asia as a visiting professor at Thammasat University in Bangkok, Thailand where he taught acting and directing and produced major American plays in Thai translation including Thai premieres of Death of a Salesman, Streetcar Named Desire and Ah, Wilderness. Returning to the United States, he performed with major regional theaters across the country including the Garrett County Playhouse in Maryland, the Classic's Theater Company in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and Michigan State's Performing Arts Company. He holds an M.A. in Speech Communication from the University of New Mexico and a Ph.D. in Asian and Western Theater from Michigan State University. He has written and published on the Thai popular theater form, Likay, which he researched through an award from the Fulbright Doctoral Dissertation Abroad Program. Dr. Carkin's recent work focuses on the relationship between the teaching of drama, language, and culture. His culture studies book, How to Succeed in the USA, was recently ...Read More