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TISH SKINNER DACE

So pleased to find this website, and thank you Joanne for making this possible and getting us back together again! Also thank you for all your research trying to find us.

I've enjoyed a happy life as a university professor and administrator and as a writer, including 33 years as a New York theatre critic. Have seen my share of turkeys, but loads of wonderful theatre as well. Published my most recent book in 2012.

At the end of 2002, I sold my home in MA and moved to Bonaire, a Dutch island off the coast of Venezuela. I scuba dive as much as I can, but have to steal the time from writing. Love the people (from all over the world) the stable climate, the sunshine and sea and reef, and the peace. People from all countries, religions, and races get along here. Keep wondering why the rest of the world can't manage that.

Any of you love cats? If so, maybe you would like to cat sit for me. Let me know.

A bit of news about a few people who were at Glenbrook but not in our class. Susan Leich McClaren lives near here, in Venezuela. We have only managed to get together once, but vow we will again. I saw Frank Galati when he was in New York for his production of The Grapes of Wrath, for which he won Tonys I believe both for writing it and for directing it. He got the knack for adapting literature as theatre from Ralph Lane, whom I saw in the early 90s. Frank told me how to find Ralph. Really wanted to tell him what an influence he had on the late 20th Century theatre. He taught and directed the folks who founded Chicago's Steppenwolf, and actors such as John Malkovich and Judith Ivey have acknowledged their debt to him. Both Frank and I were interviewed about Ralph for some of the obits.

Finally, if you have not read Jim Ramsay's account of how he and Anita found each other again, be sure to do so. It brought tears to my eyes. So happy for you both!!!

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