BRUCE D. PODEWELL ’65

BRUCE D. PODEWELL, 69, a member of the theater faculty at Tulane University for nearly 40 years, died Mar. 29, 2013. He was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon and received a master’s degree from Emerson College. A co-founder and former artistic director of the Shakespeare Festival at Tulane, he had also served as the associate artistic director of the New Orleans Shakespeare Festival at Tulane, and was the longtime director of Tulane Center Stage, the theater department’s former summer-stock company. The author of Shakespeare’s Watch, a handbook on Shakespeare’s plays, he was also an accomplished jazz musician, often playing banjo in the French Quarter. He founded the Patchwork Players, a children’s theater troupe that is now led by his daughter. Among those who survive are his wife, Banu Gibson, his daughter and son, and two sisters.