Wesley Van Tassel lived and studied in Minnesota, North Carolina, Denver, and New York City before beginning a fifteen-year stint as a director in the professional theater. During this period, he served as artistic director of the Westport Playhouse, the Mule Barn Theatre, and the touring Continental Theatre Company. With a Ph.D. in dramatic literature, he then became a professor and has taught at four colleges and universities.

Wes has coached "acting Shakespeare" to several hundred professional and student actors, staged twenty-four AEA productions, produced fifty-five others, and directed more than one hundred summer or university productions

Wes and his wife, actress Dude Hatten, live with their two dogs near Seattle. His son, Craig, lives in New York City, where he designs and engineers sound for Broadway shows. His son, Eric, who lives in Wyoming, is an artist whose primary emphasis is sculpture

Wesley Van Tassel is available for stage and film voice and language coaching, one-semester or one-year visiting appointments in colleges of universities, or short-term workshop assignments in secondary schools or community theaters. He may be reached by e-mail at the publisher PUB@allworth.com, who will forward the message.