Bio
For fifteen years, Dr. McCammon was a successful high school speech and drama teacher in Maryville, Tennessee where her students won numerous awards in speech and drama competitions in the Southeast and went on to successful college careers in theatre and forensics. In 1988 she was named the Outstanding Speech and Drama Educator by the Tennessee High School Speech and Drama League.
Since coming to the University of Arizona in 1995, she has presented papers and workshops at drama education conferences internationally, served as editor of Youth Theatre Journal , and has been awarded the American Alliance for Theatre and Education (AATE) Research Award three times.
Dr. McCammon is the co-coordinator and advisor for the Teacher Certification Program. She also advises post-baccalaureate certification students. She is a past recipient of the College of Fine Arts Advising and Mentoring Award.
She is co-editor of a secondary drama methods text Learning to Teach Drama: A Case Narrative Approach with Joe Norris and Carole Miller published in 2000. This text is used internationally in drama/theatre teacher education.
Dr. McCammon has served as Director of Publications for the International Drama/Theatre and Education Association (IDEA) and as AATE 1st Vice-President, Research Awards Chair, and Research Network Chair.
In 2006, she published International Mosaic of Drama and Theatre: The IDEA 2004 Dialogues co-edited with Debra McLauchlan.
Currently Dr. McCammon is engaged in a four year multinational exploration on the nature of creativity and its relationship to drama/theatre teaching and learning. Other colleagues Larry O'Farrell (Canda), Brian Heap (Jamaica), and Aud Berggraf Saebo (Norway).
She is the 2009 AATE recipient of the Judith Kase Cooper Honorary Research Award, given to honor distinguished scholars who have contributed significantly to the development of theory and research in the field of Drama/Theatre & Education.
