Dorothy Marcic | |
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Nationality | American |
Occupation | Educator, playwright, author |
Website | DrDorothy.com |
Dorothy Marcic is an American educator, playwright, and author. [1] [2]
Marcic was born in Wisconsin and grew up on a dairy farm in Pewaukee, graduating from Waukesha High School. [3] Marcic holds a Bachelor's degree in radio, television, and film from University of Wisconsin-Madison, [4] along with graduate degrees in Educational Media and in Public Health from the University of Pittsburgh. She also holds a Doctorate in Organizational Behavior from University of Massachusetts Amherst and a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from SUNY, Stony Brook. She is an active member of the Baha’I Faith. [5]
Dr. Marcic is a professor at Columbia University and a former professor at Vanderbilt University’s Owen Graduate School of Management. [6]
Marcic was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Economics, Prague [7] and served as an advisor to the United States Ambassador of the Czech Republic. She was also a delegate to the UN Commission on the Status of Women the United Nations and an Economic and Social Develop Summit in Copenhagen. [8] As a graduate student, Marcic was a production assistant on Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood . [9]
Marcic is the author of 18 books including Managing with the Wisdom of Love, Understanding Management, Love Lift Me Higher, and RESPECT: Women and Popular Music, [10] along with other research studies and scholarly articles. [11] Marcic has also written a true crime book about her uncle's murder, With One Shot: Family Murder and a Search for Justice. [12]
She is the playwright of several plays including Intentions, [13] based on a true story of an Iranian immigrant. Marcic also researched the depiction of women in popular music to write the musicals, [14] RESPECT, [15] [16] which has played 3400 performances in 72 cities, [17] This One's for the Girls [18] [19] and SISTAS, which played Off-Broadway in New York City for over six years. [20] [21] [22] [23]
Marcic is the writer and story creator of three short films, Great Expectations, [24] Spillings, and Last Resort. She has appeared on CMT , C-SPAN , [25] and Bravo Network .
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