Dr. Stephen A. Schrum, who recently retired from his position as Associate Professor of Theatre Arts at the University of Pittsburgh in Greensburg in the summer of 2022,  is an Associate Member of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society, the professional union. With a PhD in Dramatic Art from the University of California, Berkeley, Stephen is interested in digital filmmaking, virtual performance, and playwrighting/screenwriting. In 1999 he edited Theatre in Cyberspace: Issues of Teaching, Acting, and Directing, providing a snapshot of the use of technology by theatre artists and scholars at the turn of the century. He continued with online performance, directing several productions, including Euripides’ The Bacchae and Aeschylus’ Prometheus Bound, in the 3-D environment of Second Life™. He is also a novelist, filmmaker (the award-winning short, Wash Hands, Save Lives? is available on his YouTube channel stephenschrum), playwright, and podcaster; you can find his podcast Audio Chimera wherever you listen to podcasts.