Patrick
Keppel
Liberal Arts
Patrick Keppel is the director of the NEC Writing Center and the Editor of The New England Conservatory Journal for Music-in-Education. He is also a writer of fiction and plays. Stories from his collection of fiction, The Monologist, have appeared in The Literary Review, the Berkeley Fiction Review, Tamaqua, and the entire collection is featured on the web journal Web del Sol. His story "A Vectorial History of Leroy Pippin" was read by Eli Wallach at Symphony Space in New York as part of NPR's Selected Shorts program. His plays have been presented at The Boston Playwrights' Theatre, The Huntington Theatre's Studio 210, the Boston University School for the Arts, and the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. The production of his play The Freeing of Mollie Steimer was funded by a grant from the St. Botolph Foundation. At NEC, Keppel developed a course of actor training called the Drama Workshop, which has led to student productions of Ferdinand Bruckner's Pains of Youth and Neil Bell's Therese Raquin. Keppel received the Sproat Award for Excellence in Teaching at Boston University.
B.A. summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, University of Notre Dame; M.A., Boston University.
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