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Fabrice Conte-Williamson is a director, actor, and theater educator, teaching courses in performance and theater history at the University of Wisconsin–Parkside. He received an MFA from the University of Nice Sophia Antipolis as well as an MFA in directing and an interdisciplinary PhD from the University of Oklahoma Helmerich School of Drama. His primary research focuses on postmodern French dramatic literature and performance theory, the role of literary myth in dramatic literature, and the development of multilingual and cross-cultural theater movements. From 2007 to 2013 he was an assistant professor of theater and chair of the Department of Visual & Performing Arts at St. Gregory’s University. While teaching at OU, he served as chair of the Arts Management and Administration Initiative for the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival (KCACTF) Region VI. His favorite directing credits include A Year with Frog and Toad, Roberto Zucco, and The Laramie Project.