Don Doyle Collection

The Don Doyle Collection, 1949-1995, is comprised of resumes, newspaper and periodical articles, correspondence, photographs, award certificates, handwritten notes, professional and conference papers, scrapbook, thesis, publication and performance reviews, workshop and festival brochures, programs, thank you letters, course proposals, lesson plans, play typescripts (some with revisions), musical scores, promptbooks, press releases, stage design renderings, stage floor plans, contact sheets, schedules, posters, reports, agendas and minutes, participant lists, registration and application forms, stories from children, curriculum guide for teachers, syllabi, exams and quizzes, bibliographies, press kits, policy and procedure handouts, student papers and reports, audio and video cassette tapes, and souvenir books. It documents a lengthy and varied career in theatre for youth through his personal and professional papers, which include materials created during his directing, acting and teaching careers. The collection is divided into the following five series, some with subseries: Professional History (Boxes 1-3), Director (Boxes 4-8), Actor (Box 9), Theatre Educator (Boxes 10-18) and Resource Materials (Boxes 19-21). There is no arrangement within the series and subseries.

Series I: Professional History: This series, 1949-1991, contains career, written works and biographical overview materials. It consists of personal and professional papers documenting his acting, teaching, storytelling and publications. Included are: resumes, newspaper and periodical articles; correspondence with family, friends and colleagues (of note is a folder of correspondence with Winifred Ward); headshot, production, family, friends and colleagues photographs; award certificates; handwritten notes; colleagues' professional and conference papers; a scrapbook; thesis; Doyle's college papers; publication and performance reviews; workshop and festival brochures and programs; course proposals; lesson plans; and thank you letters from children.

Series II: Director: This series documents Doyle's directing career through numerous play typescripts and production materials. It is divided into two subseries: Scripts and Production Materials.

Subseries A: Scripts: This subseries contains: play typescripts for shows directed by Doyle, some with revisions; musical scores; promptbooks; and a few play programs chronicling over 30 years of directing.

Subseries B: Production Materials: This subseries, 1960-1994, provides information on play productions directed by Doyle. Included are: black and white production photographs, newspaper articles and reviews, correspondence, play programs, handwritten notes, press releases, a poster, stage floor plan, electrical design drawings, lighting promptbook, contact sheets, and rehearsal schedules and reports.

Series III: Actor: This series, 1950-1995, documents Doyle's career as an actor and storyteller. Included are: play typescripts, newspaper articles and reviews, production photographs, season brochures, play programs and rehearsal schedules. Of note are Goodman Theatre production photographs and a season brochure from plays for young audiences directed and/or written by Charlotte Chorpenning in the early 1950s.

Series IV: Theatre Educator: This series chronicles the instructional and administrative aspects of Doyle's teaching career and is dividing into the following four subseries: Administration, Longitudinal Study, Curriculum, and Student Papers and Projects.

Subseries A: Administration: This subseries, 1977-1991, provides information on Doyle's administrative activities through his involvement with committees and projects. Included are: correspondence between Doyle and committee members, program of events, newspaper articles, ASU College of Fine Arts goals and objectives report, participant lists, agendas and meeting minutes, proposal papers and ASU alumni reunion registration forms. Of note is an ASU Theatre list of productions spanning 50 years.

Subseries B: Longitudinal Study: This subseries, 1985-1988, documents part of a seven-year-longitudinal study that the ASU Theatre for Youth program conducted with students from kindergarten through 6th grade. Doyle was one of three professors involved with this project. Included are mostly thank you letters and stories from children to Doyle, lesson plans and a curriculum guide for teachers.

Subseries C: Curriculum: This subseries, 1985-1988, contains Doyle's creative dramatics, advanced studies in theatre for youth and storytelling teaching materials. Included are: syllabi; exams and quizzes; bibliographies; lesson plans; handwritten notes; reports; arts in education and child drama articles; a thank you gift audio cassette tape; and class reserve materials, such as assigned readings, children's theatre company press kits, play programs, and operational policies and procedures.

Subseries D: Student Papers and Projects: This subseries, 1965-1991, includes: papers; reports; play typescripts; audio and video cassette tapes; correspondence; program application forms; and research materials and notes for internships, independent study, and integrated and research projects by Doyle's students. Of note is the video documentary research project by Hugh Daniel Otero that recorded Doyle's directing methods during rehearsals for ASU Theatres production of Great Expectations.

Series V: Resource Materials: This series contains resource materials for teaching and directing research. It includes: theatre for youth papers, articles and bibliographies; children's theatre festival and company fliers, press kits, programs and season brochures; souvenir books of well known movies, plays and musicals; numerous play typescripts; and one audio reel-to-reel tape submitted for consideration, but not produced by Doyle.