Dr. Loveless is the artistic director of the theater program at La Sierra University where she teaches script writing, acting, directing and performance classes.  An award-winning director and writer, Marilynn has earned meritorious achievement awards from the Kennedy Center American Colleges Theatre Festival, for her direction of Othello (2005) and The Taming of the Shrew (2006). 

In 2004 Marilynn received a Ph.D.— and a citation of academic excellence for achieving perfect scores from all of the examiners of her dissertation--from the School of Arts at Griffith University in Queensland, Australia, for her renegade study that proves the plausibility of Mrs. Shakespeare’s authorship of the canon usually attributed to her husband William.

ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS & PRESENTATIONS

“The Life and Times of Mrs. Shakespeare,” Shakespeare Authorship Roundtable.  Beverly Hills, California.  November 2006.

"At Once Cowardly and Absurd: Female Literary Critics on the Shakespeare Authorship Question," 10th Annual Shakespeare Authorship Studies Conference.  Portland, Oregon.  April 23, 2006.

“Preference Model for a Second-Best Bed,” Ashland Authorship Conference.  Ashland Oregon.  September/October 2005.

“Revisionary Re-Reading:  A New Critical Direction for the Shakespeare Canon.”  International Journal of Learning Vol. 11, 2004.

“Revisionary Re-Reading:  A New Critical Direction for the Shakespeare Canon.”  The Eleventh International Literacy and Education Research Network Conference on Learning.  Havana,.Cuba (virtual presentation).  June 2004.

“A New Critical Direction for the Shakespeare Canon.”  American Association of Australian Literary Studies, New York, NY.  March 2004.

“Mrs. Shakespeare:  Recovering a Lost Life,” Faculty Brown Bag presentation.  Walla Walla College.  March 2004. 

Response to "Unwritten Epistles: the Search for the Historical Mother Ann Lee," by Terrie Aamodt, professor of English and history, Interdisciplinary Faculty Colloquium, Walla Walla College.  April 2001.

“Deconstructing Willy,” 4th annual Edward DeVere Studies Conference, Concordia University, Portland Oregon.  April 2000.

"Was Shakespeare a Woman?" for the National Women's History Project, San Bernardino Valley College.  March 1999.

Women Writing Women Teaching, University of Nevada, Reno.  October 1998.

Breaking the Boundaries, Interdisciplinary Conference on Language and Literature, Texas A&M University.  September 1998

Co-presenter at the 18th Annual International Conference on Critical Thinking and Educational Reform.  Sonoma State University, California.  August 1998.

ARTISTIC PRODUCTIONS

Director, The Accidental Death of An Anarchist by Dario Fo.  Walla Walla College.  May 2007. 

Producer, Festival of One-Acts, Walla Walla College.  March 2007.

Producer, Theatre Sports:  Whose Noun Is It Anyway?  Walla Walla College.  October 2006.

Co-writer, Love’s Pure Light, a 1-hour Christmas special on the Hallmark channel in December ‘06.  August 2006.

Producer, Festival of the Actors.  Walla Walla College.  June 2006.

Director and producer, The Taming of the Shrew by Mrs. Shakespeare.  Walla Walla College.  May 2006. 

Director and producer, An Afternoon of Children’s Theatre.  Walla Walla College.  March 2006.

Director and producer, Nickel and Dimed by Joan Holden, adapted from the book by Barbara Ehrenreich.  Walla Walla College.  December 2005.

Writer, Hannah Paige, spec screenplay for Kopelson Entertainment.  Current.

Co-writer, All Things Bright, a 1-hour Christmas special for cable television, starring Joe Campanella, Marilyn McCoo and Billy Davis Jr.  September 2005.  Subsequently won a Bronze Telly Award, the DeRose-Hinkhouse Award and “Best in Class” at the RCC in Dallas, Texas.

Director and producer, Othello by Mrs. Shakespeare.  Walla Walla College.  May 2005. 

Producer, Festival of One-Acts, Walla Walla College.  March 2004.

Director and Producer, An Afternoon of Children’s Theatre.  Walla Walla College.  March 2005.

Director, Sylvia, by A.R. Gurney.  Little Theatre of Walla Walla.  September 2004.

Executive Producer, Festival of the Actors I.  Walla Walla College.  May 2004.

Executive Producer, The Pirates of Penzance, by Gilbert and Sullivan.  Walla Walla College.  May 2004.

Producer, An Evening With Mark Twain, by Adam Lombard.  Walla Walla College.  April 2004.

Director & producer, A Morning of Children’s Theatre, Walla Walla College.  March 2004.

Producer, Festival of One-Acts, Walla Walla College.  March 2004.

Director and producer, The Diary of Anne Frank, by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett, newly adapted by Wendy Kesselman.  Walla Walla College.  December 2003.

Director and producer, An Afternoon of Children’s Theatre, Walla Walla College.  March 2003.

Producer, Festival of One-Acts, Walla Walla College.  March 2003.

Director and producer, Eleemosynary by Lee Blessing.  Walla Walla College.  October 2002. 

Executive Producer, Hamlet by William Shakespeare.  Walla Walla College.  December 2002.

Director & producer, Mass Appeal by Bill Davis.  Walla Walla College, April/May 2002.

Director and producer, An Afternoon of Children’s Theatre, Walla Walla College.  March 2002.

Producer, Festival of One-Acts, Walla Walla College.  March 2002.

Director, Arcadia, by Tom Stoppard.  Little Theatre of Walla Walla, November 2001.

Executive Producer, The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, by Long, Singer and Winfield.  Walla Walla College, October 2001.

Writer, Weighing In, a feature-length screenplay (110 pages) short-listed for inclusion in the Sundance feature film program 2001.

Director & script editor, The Great Divorce, stage play by Bradley Nelson, based on the novel by C.S. Lewis.  Walla Walla College, May 2000.

Director, The Crucible, by Arthur Miller.  Walla Walla College, December 2000.

Director, The Importance of Being Earnest, by Oscar Wilde.  Walla Walla College, December 1999.