Pope.L, William
- 207-786-8207
- wpopel@bates.edu
- Theater
- Senior Lecturer
- Coram Library, Room 228
My work is not glamorous yet it is ambitious in its feeling. It seeks a visceral, bodily, material “explanation” for human desire writ large in human action.
Like the African shaman who chews his pepper seeds and spits seven times into the air, I believe art re-ritualizes the everyday to reveal something fresh about our lives. This revelation is a vitality and it is a power to change the world.
1983-85 Mabou Mines Re.Cher.Chez. Theater Instensive, New York
1981 M.F.A., Mason Gross School, Rutgers University
1977-78 Independent Study Program, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
1978 B.A., Montclair State College
1973-75 Pratt Institute
1990 — Present Senior Lecturer in Theater, Bates College