Name Carl Menninger Role Psychiatrist | Died July 18, 1990 Siblings William C. Menninger | |
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Parents Charles Frederick Menninger Spouse Jeanetta Lyle (m. 1941–1990), Grace Gaines (m. 1916–1941) Books Whatever Became of Sin?, Man against himself, Love against hate, Theory of psychoanalytic technique, The Psychodynamics of Abnor | ||
Carl Menninger is an American actor, director and playwright. He is currently a professor of Theatre at American University in Washington, DC. He holds a master's degree from Emerson College and a bachelor's from Northwestern University.
Menninger co-authored Minding the Edge: Strategies for a Successful, Fulfilling Career as an Actor with Lori Hammel. The Ganymede Fall Arts Festival recently presented a reading of his play Dysfunction Spelled Backward . . . is family. He directed a staged reading of the Adam Gwon and Julia Jordan musical, Bernice Bobs Her Hair at American University.
As a teacher, Menninger taught at the Berklee College of Music as well as professional training programs in Washington and Chicago. While in Boston and Chicago he directed and/or choreographed over 150 productions. While at American University, Menninger directed productions of Into the Woods, Nine, Romeo and Juliet, Hay Fever, Do I Hear a Waltz?, The Hot L Baltimore, Shared Space, Orpheus Descending and Happy.Go.Lucky.
Additional playwriting credits include: Objects in the Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear, For Real, And So She Moved In, Private Life: Your Fifteen Minutes, and the book for the musical, A Pocket Full of Grace.