Rich Dionne holds an MFA in Theatre from Purdue University. He is a clinical associate professor in the Patti and Rusty Rueff School of Design, Art, and Performance at Purdue in the Department of Theatre, where he researches control systems for live entertainment and instructional design and pedagogy. At Purdue, he teaches and mentors students in technical direction and in the theatre engineering concentration of the Multidisciplinary Engineering program. He has published articles in TD&T and Stage Directions Magazine, in The Design of Learning Experience: The Future of Educational Technology (Springer, 2015), Hokanson, et al, eds., New Directions in Teaching Theatre Arts (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018), Fliotsos, Medford, eds., and has recently released Project Planning for the Stage: Tools and Techniques for Managing Extraordinary Performances (Southern Illinois University Press, 2018). Lewis Vaughn is the author of numerous textbooks in philosophy, critical thinking, and ethics, including The Power of Critical Thinking, sixth edition (2019); Concise Guide to Critical Thinking (2017); Philosophy Here and Now, third edition (2019); Living Philosophy: A Historical Introduction to Philosophical Ideas, second edition (2018); Doing Ethics: Moral Reasoning, Theory, and Contemporary Issues, fifth edition (2019); Beginning Ethics: An Introduction to Moral Philosophy (2015); Bioethics: Principles, Issues, and Cases, third edition (2017); and Writing Philosophy, Second Edition (2018).
