Event tag: Gloria McMillan

Gloria McMillan: 

PLANET ZOOM PLAYERS Currently she is starting the Planet Zoom Players, a Zoom-based international play reading cohort whose readings with some special effects will be produced on YouTube.

2018/2021 “Rock the Nuclear Clock” was Planet Zoom Players first play, a one-act satire about humanity’s solution to nuclear war being a game show broadcast from a lunar satellite studio. The nations of earth will destroy their nuclear arsenals if somebody can answer the questions and “Rock the Nuclear Clock.” This “clock” is a reference to the Atomic Scientists’ “Doomsday Clock.” Performed in Tucson, AZ, by the Nuclear Resisters group.

NOVEL 2011 This published novel (The Blue Maroon Murder, Anaphora Press) set at a fictional University of Chicago sports a scientific and largely undetectable murder method. Features Dinah Cassidy as detective.

EDITED COLLECTIONS The Routledge Companion to Literature and Class, published in Sept. 2021.

Multi-disciplinary essay collection Orbiting Ray Bradbury’s Mars: Biographical, Anthropological, Literary, Scientific and Other Perspectives (Critical Explorations in Science Fiction and Fantasy, 41) Paperback – Illustrated, September 27, 2013 by Gloria McMillan (Editor), Donald E. Palumbo (Editor), C.W. Sullivan III (Editor)

She has presented on the writing and community work of Nobel Peace Prize winner Jane Addams at Univ. of Delhi, India (Mar. 8, 2022) World of Women Conference and at The Jane Addams chapter of the American Association of University Women (Mar. 30, 2022.)

In September 2022, Gloria was on writing and presented two panels in the live theatre track panels at the 2022 World Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror convention, ChiCon 8, in Chicago.

Gloria has appeared as a panelist at the MLA, CCCCs (Rhetoric and Composition Confs.)

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