Never A Dull Moment: Teaching and the Art of Performance

by Jyl Lynn Felman

Teachers are really performers, classrooms are stages, and students the captivated audience. In beautiful prose, Felman invites us to watch her one woman show on the art of performance in today's classrooms. These essays take on the greatest hits of the academy: identity politics, sexual harrassment, academic censorship, and radical pedagogy. Felman's book is a performance not to be missed.

256 pages, Paperback

First published April 1, 2001

About the author

Imagine a one-woman interactive theatre show. Now imagine a college lecture. Put the two together and you have the teaching of Jyl Lynn Felman.

Jyl Lynn Felman is an internationally acclaimed playwright, author, and performance artist. Currently a professor at Suffolk University, Jyl also teaches writing workshops throughout the United States and Europe that offer a high level of personal attention.

Jyl’s play, “Girl Kicks Girl,” was selected from over 700 world-wide entries for a staged reading at the 9th Women’s International Playwright Conference in Stockholm. Her one-woman show, “If Only I’d Been Born A Kosher Chicken” aired on C-SPANS performance series.

The recipient of numerous awards, Jyl has been interviewed on NPR and by the BBC. She was selected for participation at the prestigious Kennedy Center’s Playwright Intensive and was a “Visiting Writer” at Charles University in the Czech Republic.