| Title: | Professor |
| Dept: | English |
| Office: | RT 1840 |
| Phone: | 216-687-3955, 2162585524 |
| Email: | M.GEITHER@csuohio.edu |
| Address: | 2121 Euclid Ave. RT 1840, Cleveland, OH 44115 |
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| Education: | ||||||||
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MFA, Playwriting, University of Iowa, 1993
B.A., English/Creative Writing, Cleveland State University, 1988 | ||||||||
| Brief Bio: | ||
| Mike Geither is a playwright, solo performer and stand-up comic whose work has been seen in San Francisco, Chicago, Toronto, Ottawa, Halifax, New York and London. He is a four-time Ohio Arts Council fellow and has served as a resident artist at Headlands Center for the Arts in Sausalito. Recent works include The Body is the Best (Lit Youngstown, The River Clyde Pageant, NACL, Chicago Dramatists, 2022), Heirloom (convergence-continuum, 2019), Ismene (U of Ottawa, 2017), The Events of the Warren County Fair as Observed by a Young Astronaut (Independent Production, 2017 - 2019), Objectively/Reasonable (Playwrights Local, 2016/17), Creation Myth (convergence-continuum, 2016), how small, how far away (Zuppa Theatre, Halifax, 2016), Flame Puppy (Playwrights Local, 2015), Tear It Off (convergence-continuum, 2015), and Loki and Lucy (Talespinner, 2014). He is currently a Professor of English at Cleveland State University where he directs the Northeast Ohio MFA (NEOMFA) in creative writing. | ||
| Honors and Awards: | ||
| 2014 Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award in Playwriting
2014 Distinguished Faculty Award 2005 Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award in Playwriting 1996 Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award in Performance Art 1995 Resident Artist, Headlands Center for the Arts 1994 Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award in Performance Art | ||
| Creative and Activities: | ||
| The Body is the Best (full-length solo performance) convergence-continuum Tweener Series, September 2023. Chicago Dramatists, May 2023. Borderlight Festival, July 2022. North American Cultural Laboratory, Highland Lake, NY June 2022. River Clyde Pageant, New Glasgow PEI, June 2022. Lit Youngstown, April 2022 and May 2021.
Love Possum (independent short film, co-writer/co-producer) completed filming summer 2022, undergoing festival submissions. Heirloom (solo performance) convergence-continuum Tweener Series, September 2019. Playwrights Local (radio play) June 2021. Borderlight Festival (film) July 2021. Ismene (adaptation) University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, November 2017. The Events of the Warren County Fair as Observed by a Young Astronaut (fifty-minute toy theatre play). Independent Production, July 2016 ¿ October 2019, performed in private residences and non-traditional theatre settings. Cleveland Institute of Art, October 2018. Maelstrom Collaborative Arts, March 2018. Carnegie Mellon University Drama Department, September 2017. Objectively/Reasonable: A Community Response to the Shooting of Tamir Rice, 11/22/14 (collaborating playwright). Playwrights Local, August/September 2016 & February/March 2017. Creation Myth (full-length devised play) convergence-continuum Tweener Series, June 2016. Flame Puppy (full-length play for voices) Playwrights Local, Cleveland, OH November 2015. Tear It Off (full-length play) convergence-continuum, Cleveland, OH, August 2015. | ||
| Research Interests: | ||
| Playwriting, creative writing, theatre, poetry, solo performance, dramatic literature, plays | ||
| Teaching Areas: | ||
| Playwriting, creative writing, theatre, dramatic literature, | ||
| Professional Affiliations: | ||
| Dramatists Guild | ||
| University Service: | ||
| University:
Director, Northeast Ohio Master of Fine Arts, June 2023 ¿ present. Director, Northeast Ohio Master of Fine Arts, July 2012 ¿ July 2015. Department: NEOMFA Coordinator Search Committee, Chair (July 2023 ¿ September 2023) NEOMFA Playwrights Festival Co-Producer (2011 ¿ present) NEOMFA Campus Coordinator (2021 ¿ present) Chair, Search Committee, NEOMFA Coordinator (2023) Search Committee, Managing Editor, CSU Poetry Center (2022) Search Committee, Anisfield Wolf Fellow (2022) Peer Review Steering Committee, Chair (2018 ¿ 2019, 2021-present) Committee On Instruction (2005 ¿ 2010, 2013 ¿ 2018) Consortial MFA Representative (2005 ¿ 2008, Fall 2015) Creative Writing Policy & Admissions Subcommittee (2003 ¿ 2004) Creative Writing Subcommittee, Chair (2004 ¿ present) Faculty Affairs Committee (2003 ¿ 2005, 2009 ¿ 2010) Graduate Subcommittee (2004 ¿ 2009, 2014 - 2016) Peer Review Steering Committee (2010 ¿ 2013, 2018) Undergraduate Subcommittee (2008 ¿ 2010) Search Committee, Anisfield-Wolf Fellowship in Writing & Publishing, Spring 2018 Search Committee, Creative Writing Lecturer, Spring 2017 Search Committee Chair, Assistant Professor/Director of CSU Poetry Center (2006 ¿ 2007) Search Committee Chair, Assistant Professor/Director of Creative Writing Programming (2007 ¿ 2008) Search Committee Chair, Assistant Professor of Creative Writing/Fiction (2009 ¿ 2010) Search Committee, Interim Director of CSU Poetry Center (2012) Search Committee Chair, Assistant Professor/Director of CSU Poetry Center (2013-2014) Trawick Award Committee (2009 ¿ present) Whiskey Island Magazine Advisor (2005 ¿ 2006) College: Promotion Committee Member, Professor of Practice, Department of Theatre and Dance (2023) Promotion Committee Member, Assistant Professor of Design, Department of Theatre and Dance (2023) Co-Artistic Director, Student Plays Festival (2004 ¿ 2006) Dual Search Committee, Dramatic Arts Program, Theatre Generalist tenure-track, Theatre Generalist term-hire (2004 ¿ 2005) Search Committee Member, Dramatic Arts Program Chair, (2005 ¿ 2006) Search Committee Member, Assistant Professor of Acting, (2007 ¿ 2008) Search Committee Member, Costume Shop Supervisor, staff (2008-09) Search Committee Member, Technical Director, tenure track (2009-10) Search Committee Member, Assistant College Lecturer, Department of Theatre and Dance (2015 ¿ 2016) | ||
| Community Service: | ||
| Community:
Board Member, Playwrights Local, 2015 ¿ 2017. Board Member, Convergence-Continuum, 2016 ¿ present. | ||
| Research Grants: | ||
| 2018 Faculty Scholarship Initiative Grant, CSU
2016 Faculty Scholarship Initiative Grant, CSU 2015 Faculty Scholarship Initiative Grant, CSU | ||