JIM CHRISTY is touched to be returning to Villanova Theatre for the first time since his retirement from the Theatre Department eight years ago. He was a professor here for thirty-nine years and the bulk of his creative work took place on Vasey Stage from the premiere of David Rabe’s Bones in 1969 (which went on to win a Tony Award) to the the summer theatre he ran during his thirteen year tenure as chair, from specially loved productions such as Woyzeck and an undergrad production of Taming of the Shrew with a senior named Peter Donohue, to the multiple Barrymore award winning collaboration with Harriet Power on both parts of Tony Kushner’s Angels in America. He has directed professionally in Philadelphia and at Shakespeare festivals around the country. In 2005, he was honored with Philadelphia’s Barrymore award for Lifetime Achievement, a real highlight of his longtime career as a director and educator in Philadelphia.