Background information; Growing up Jewish; Early interest in theater; College experience at Union College and then at Cornell; Professional directing; Work ethic, Job available at UW; Theater department changes; Vietnam War protests; Receiving tenure; Bread and butter course; Associate Vice Chancellor position; Unionizing the faculty; Building Vilas Hall; Fulbright to Israel; Chair of the department of theater; Holocaust theater; Center for Jewish studies; Changes in students expectations; Fulbright to Israel, Vienna, Chile, and Netherlands; American drama course; Living with Jewish communities in Cuba, Argentina and Turkey; Evaluations of the deans, Donna Shalala, John Wiley, and David Ward; Relationship between state legislature and Bascom Hall.