Roger Held

Biography

"First, the Arts serve an important function, Dr. Held says. They meet our psychological needs as human critters and teach us survival skills for navigating through a life in our culture. As such, they are extremely important to our quality of life and to our personal development. Consequently, schools and universities, both the repositories of our cultural history and the mechanisms for cultural evolution, are called upon to provide strong and inclusive arts programs. He attended the University of Toledo as an undergraduate where he studied theatre, worked for the Toledo Museum of Art, and wrote his senior thesis in the Philosophy Department. He completed a master’s degree in Theatre at the University of Michigan, and he worked as the lighting designer for U of M television and the opera program. After returning from tours in Europe and the Far East with Uncle Sam, he entered the doctoral program at Bowling Green State University. He received both an instructional and a research grant form the Graduate School and one of two Research Fellowships in Theatre. UMI Research Press published his dissertation on Fredrick Kiesler’s Theory and Art. "

Research Interest

Directing, History and Literature, Leadership and Management, Play Writing