Allan Havis is a playwright whose works contain pronounced political themes and often probes colliding cultures. In addition to his plays, Havis wrote a novel for children. He edited an anthology for University of Illinois Press, American Political Plays. Nineteen Havis plays are published in editions by Broadway Play Publishing Inc., Theatre Communications Group, Penguin/Mentor, Smith & Kraus, Applause Books, and University of Illinois. His book Cult Films: Taboo and Transgression (University Press of America, 2008) covers 90 years of cinema. Southern Illinois University Press published his next edited anthology in 2010, American Political Plays after 9/11. His second opera with Anthony Davis on a modern Lear archetype, Lear on the 2nd Floor, had a showcase presentation at Princeton's Lewis Center for the Arts in March 2012 and was produced in March 2013 at Conrad Prebys Music Center, UC San Diego. Lilith was given a showcase presentation at the Qualcomm Institute, UC San Diego November 2015 and can be seen on UCSD TV online. Havis has an M.F.A. from Yale Drama School and is on the UC San Diego theatre faculty. He has headed for many years the M.F.A. playwriting program at University of California, San Diego, and served as Provost of Thurgood Marshall College, UC San Diego from 2006 until 2016.
Allan Havis
Studios
Schelling
Allan Havis worked in the Schelling studio.
Marian MacDowell funded construction of this studio the year that the organization was established and the first artists arrived for residency. It was called Bark Studio until 1933, when it was renamed in honor of Ernest Schelling, a composer, pianist, and orchestral leader who served as president of what was then called the Edward MacDowell…