TAVEL, Ronald

TAVEL, Ronald. American, b. 1943. Genres: Novels, Plays/Screenplays, Poetry. Career: Reader and Lecturer, New York State Council on the Arts, 1969-. Founder Member, New York Theatre Strategy. Adviser and Contributor, Subplot Theatre. Member, Playwright's Unit, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, 1989-. Screenwriter, Andy Warhol Films Inc, NYC, 1964-66; Founder, 1965, Resident Playwright, 1965-67, Playhouse of the Ridiculous, NYC; Literary Adviser, Scripts mag., NYC, 1971-72; Resident Playwright, Theatre of the Lost Continent, NYC, 1971-73; Playwright, Actors Studio, NYC, 1972; Resident Playwright, Yale University Divinity School, New Haven, CT, 1975, 1977; Resident Playwright, Williamstown Theatre Summer Festival, MA, 1977; Resident Playwright, New Playwrights' Theatre of Washington, DC, 1978-79; Resident Playwright, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 1980-81; Lecturer, Mahidol University, Thailand, 1981-82; Resident Foreign Playwright, Three-Dot Company of Bangkok, Thailand, 1999-. Teacher of Play and Screenwriting, 12th Annual Summer Writer's Conf., Hofstra University, NY, 1984; Distinguished Visiting Assoc Professor in Creative Writing, University of Colorado, Boulder, 1986-87, and Resident Playwright, The Actors Ensemble, Boulder, 1987; Freelance lectr., University of New Orleans, 1991; Senior Fulbright Scholar, Taiwan, 1993-95; Art Center College of Design, lecturer, 1996. Publications: Street of Stairs (novel), 1968; Bigfoot and Other Plays, 1973; Elephantitis, 1973. Address: Sribumpen Apartments, Room 900, 32/1-3 Soi Sribumpen, Rama 4 Road, Yannawa, Bangkok 10120, Thailand.