Linnell, Jim

Jim Linnell is a writer, teacher, and arts administrator. He received his graduate training at UC Berkeley (Ph.D. Directing). He is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Theatre & Dance at the University of New Mexico. His dramatic work has been performed in Mexico, Australia, New Zealand, and Israel. In 2000 he established the MFA degree in Dramatic Writing at UNM and the annual Words Afire Festival of new plays. One theme of The Menu is about falling, as in old Adam, as a necessary part of life. We fall into and out of jobs, connections, understandings, happiness, moral clarity and make it...