Dr. David Eshelman
HEAD, DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNICATION AND MEDIA STUDIES AND PROFESSOR OF COMMUNICATION
EDUCATION HISTORY
- BA-Case Western Reserve University
- MFA-The University of Texas at Austin
- PHD-University of Missouri-Columbia
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
He is a playwright with expertise in new play development, audio theatre, local theatre, contemporary drama, and translation (French to English).
Helaine and the Little War. Musical written with Charley Sandage and Charlie T. Crow. Public readings in Little
Rock, Pine Bluff, and Fayetteville. The reading at the Old State House Museum (Little
Rock) received an Arkansas Humanities Council Grant (2018). The play was part of
the 2016 Arkansas New Play Festival at TheatreSquared.
Arkansas Radio Theatre. Founded in 2007, the Arkansas Radio Theatre is dedicated
to audio performances of new plays and adaptations of classic literature. Website: blogs.atu.edu/radiotheatre
Recently Taught Courses
- JOUR 4092 - INTERNSHIP
- JOUR 4093 - INTERNSHIP
- JOUR 4094 - INTERNSHIP
- TH 2703 - ACTING THEORIES/TECH
- TH 4091 - INTERNSHIP
- TH 4092 - INTERNSHIP
- TH 4093 - INTERNSHIP
- TH 4094 - INTERNSHIP