William Doan

William Doan is an emeritus professor in the College of Arts and Architecture and former Director of the Arts and Design Research Incubator at The Pennsylvania State University where he also served as artist-in-residence for the College of Nursing and as the Penn State Laureate for 2019-2020. He is a past president of the Association for Theatre in Higher Education and a Fellow in the College of Fellows of The American Theatre. In addition to articles in scholarly journals, Doan has co-authored three books and several plays. He has created solo performance projects at a variety of venues across the U.S., and abroad, including Drifting, a solo performance about traumatic brain injury, sibling loss, and memory. His current work includes a performance piece, Frozen in The Toilet Paper Aisle of Life, part of a larger project titled The Anxiety Project. Work from this project includes multiple short graphic narratives published in the Annals of Internal Medicine/Graphic Medicine, Cleaver Magazine, Intima: The Journal of Narrative Medicine, and The AutoEthnographer, as well as several award winning animated short films.