Bob May

office: Thompson Hall, 304
phone: (501) 450-3386
fax: (501) 450-3343
email: bmay@uca.edu
teaching specialties: Playwriting and Screenwriting

AA - Broward Community College at Ft. Lauderdale, FL
BA - St. Cloud (MN) State College
MFA - University of Nevada at Las Vegas

Bob May began his theatre career as an actor in 1967 doing a small role
in Kiss Me Kate at Ft. Lauderdale (FL) High School. Acting took a back
seat to directing while he earned a BA in theatre from St. Cloud (MN)
State University in 1972. Since that time he has directed over 400
productions at various educational, community, and professional
theatres across the country; winning numerous awards for his directing.
As he directed he was also writing plays and to date over fifty of his plays have been produced.  Bob began teaching in higher education in 1983 at Brainerd Community College (MN) where his plays Paul Bunyan, Lumberjack Extraordinaire, The Three Little Pigs, Beanie and the Bamboozling Book Machine (published by Samuel French) and The Andrew is Dead Story (an AIDS play, published by I. E. Clark)) were produced.  In 1994 Bob earned an MFA in playwriting from the  University of Nevada, Las Vegas. During his tenure at UNLV the university theatre produced eight of his plays, including Faces, For the Love of a Woman, Concerned Citizen (published by Dramatic Publishing), and The Clown, The Penguin, and The Princess.  His plays Broadway Memories and 9th Inning Wedding are published in the textbook, The Golden Stage by Ann McDonough, Ph.D.  Bob currently teaches Playwritng at the University of Central Arkansas. Since moving to Arkansas he has written two sequels to his popular play Beanie and the Bamboozling Book Machine. They are Beanie and the Bamboozling Horror Machine and Beanie and the Bamboozling Adventure Machine (both published by Samuel French). He serves as Artistic Director and has written all the plays that his Children’s Theatre to Go theatre company has produced since its inception in 2002. They include Crystal and the Christmas Snowman, A Different Kind of Nutcracker, and Elson - the First Christmas Elf (all published in the collection: Snowmen, Elves, and Nutcrackers by Baker Plays), Cinderella and the Fairy Godfather, Alice in Wonderland, Giget’s Gadget to Bamboozle Beanie, Hocus Pocus Horticulture, and Snow White and the Magic Mirror (all published by Playscripts Inc.).  He and his wife, Cathy, have five children and four grandchildren.  Bob is a member of The Dramatists Guild of America.