Dorothy Marcic

Dr. Dorothy Marcic is a playwright whose productions have played in 82 cities, including eight years of her Off-Broadway musical Sistas, which has also aired on BET-TV. She is an adjunct professor at Columbia University and a former professor at Vanderbilt University in Nashville. She was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Economics-Prague, has three master’s degrees (including creative writing) and a doctorate, and is the author of 18 books, including the best-selling Understanding Management and RESPECT: Women and Popular Music.  In 2003, Dorothy left full-time academia for playwriting. She turned her RESPECT book into a musical (also called This One’s for the Girls), tracing women’s development through Top-40 music with content-analysis research of how women are depicted in popular music lyrics. Her newer musical is Love is a Many Splintered Thing, which has played several productions around the country. Dorothy has also been working on several plays, including Intentions, based on a true story of an Iranian immigrant. She is the writer/story creator of two award-winning short films, Great Expectations and Spillings. Dorothy is originally from Wisconsin and has also lived in Minneapolis, Phoenix, and Pittsburgh, and got her doctorate in Massachusetts. Dorothy started her career in the arts as a production assistant on the TV program Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood while in graduate school. She has appeared on C-SPAN, CMT, and Bravo Network and is on IMDB.