The Jerome Lawrence & Robert E. Lee Theatre Research Institute
TRI STAFF PAGE
| Name | Phone | Address | |
| Couch, Nena (Head Curator) | (614)-292-6614 | couch.1@osu.edu | 1432 Lincoln Tower |
| Galron, Anca | (614)-247-6872 | galron.2@osu.edu | 1432 Lincoln Tower |
| Kattelman, Beth (Associate Curator) | (614)-292-6614 | kattelman.1@osu.edu | 1432 Lincoln Tower |
| Kopp, Kathleen (Assistant Curator) | (614)-247-6872 | kopp.1@osu.edu | 1432 Lincoln Tower |
| Martin, Orville | (614)-292-6614 | martin.369@osu.edu | 1432 Lincoln Tower |
| Wells, Joan | (614)-247-7470 | wells.9@osu.edu | 1432 Lincoln Tower |
| Woods, Alan (Director) | (614)-292-6614 | woods.1@osu.edu | 1432 Lincoln Tower |
Alan Woods has been Director of the Lawrence and Lee Theatre Research Institute since 1979. He studied at Columbia University and the University of Southern California, and hosts annual retreats for playwrights and regularly coordinates staged readings of new works. He regularly works as a dramaturg in professional theatres. He edited the collected plays of Lawrence and Lee, published a history of the Ohio Theatre in Columbus (a 1920s movie palace converted into a performing arts center), and his articles on a wide variety of historical topics have appeared in every major scholarly journal. He teaches courses in theatre and popular culture in the Department of Theatre, where he has advised many graduate student theses over the years.Contact: Woods.1@osu.edu
Curator and Professor: Nena Couch
Nena Couch administers the Institute collections. She serves on the OSU Libraries faculty and has a joint appointment in the Department of Theatre. Her publications include The Humanities and the Library (co-edited and Performing Arts chapter co-authored with Nancy Allen); "Dance Collections" in Managing Performing Arts Collections in Academic and Public Libraries; Sidney Kingsley: Five Prize-Winning Plays (editor and author of introduction); articles on Twyla Tharp and "The Catherine Wheel" in The International Dictionary of Modern Dance; and others. With Karen Eliot (OSU Department of Dance faculty), Ms. Couch adapted Alexander Pope's 1714 poem The Rape of the Lock as a Baroque-style ballet, reconstructing dance notations from the period as well as choreographing in the style. As a performer she has appeared in the United States and Canada, and is a founding member of the Baroque dance troupe Les Menus Plaisirs. Ms. Couch is the 2000 recipient of the Howard D. Rothschild Fellowship for Research in Dance, awarded by the Harvard Theatre Collection. She has served on the Theatre Library Association board, and is the OSU representative to the Dance Heritage Coalition.
Contact: Couch.1@osu.edu
Associate Curator: Dr. Beth Kattelman
Dr. Beth Kattelman holds a PhD in Theatre from The Ohio State University and a Masters in Library and Information Science from Kent State. She is an Assistant Professor at OSU. Her areas of Expertise are: Popular Culture -- magic, sideshow, horror films; Directing; Feminist Theory.
Dr. Kattelman co-founded Madcap Productions a Cincinnati based puppet-theatre company. She also co-founded and served as Artistic Director of the New Venture Theatre a Columbus company. She has directed several award- winning productions in Cincinnati and Columbus including The Rocky Horror Show (the inaugural production for Stage Five Repertory Company), The Story of My Life: Part One, the End (written by OSU visiting artist Dr. Allan Munro), Agnes of God, and Unidentified Human Remains and the True Nature of Love.
Dr. Kattelman has performed with various theatre companies throughout the Midwest including the ArtReach Touring Theatre, The Cincinnati Children's Theatre, The Reality Theatre, Act Out Productions and Actor's Theatre. She has also worked with Megan Terry at the Omaha Magic Theatre.
Dr. Kattelman currently is a member of the Advisory Board for the Columbus Gay and Lesbian Theatre Festival and is a contributor to the Gale Group's Drama for Students series. She has also written entries for numerous theatre encyclopedias and reference sources.
Contact: kattelman.1@osu.edu
Orville W. Martin, a long-time resident of Columbus, graduated with a B.A. in Comparative Religious Studies from The Ohio State University in 1989. He then went on to receive his M.L.S. from Kent State University in 1996. Orville has a long history with OSU and with the OSU Libraries. He has worked in Main Circulation, Main Periodicals and Microforms, Collection Maintenance, and Interlibrary Loan, jobs which help to give him a unique overview of how a library works.Contact: Martin.369@osu.edu
"Theatre is the universal means of expression. It embraces all of the arts through which human minds seek to reach one another."
Jerome Lawrence, Robert E. Lee - November, 1986