Dr. Becky K. Becker is Chair of the Department of Performing Arts at Clemson University and professor of theatre. She is Chair of the National Playwriting Program for Region IV of the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival. A director, dramaturg, and playwright, Becky has directed a wide range of established and new works, such as Compañeras, The Old Ship of Zion, and Eddie’s Stone Song: Odyssey of the First Pasaquoyan. She has conceived, written, and directed several documentary plays, including Westville: Collected Lives and Bibb City: Collected Lives From a Mill Town. Becky serves on the Publications Committee for the Southeastern Theatre Conference (SETC), and is a past editor for Theatre Symposium: A Journal of the Southeastern Theatre Conference, Volumes 24 and 25.