Ph.D. in English, University of California, Davis, 1993. Dissertation: "From Gershwin to Sondheim: The Pulitzer Prize-winning Musicals." Analyzes the first six musicals that won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama as both literary works and reflections of American culture.
M.A. in English--creative writing specialty, University of California, Davis.
M.S. in Food Science--enology (wine chemistry) specialty, University of California, Davis.
B.S. in Mathematics, University of California, Davis.
Neil Simon: A Casebook, ed. Gary Konas. New York: Garland Publishing, 1997.
Completing revisions of From Gershwin to Sondheim: The Pulitzer Prize-winning Musicals. Under contract with Southern Illinois University Press.
Accepted: "Working with the Boys: The Women Who Wrote the Broadway Musicals." Will appear in Unsung Contributors: Women Who Created Twentieth Century American Musical Theatre, ed. Bud Coleman and Judith Sebesta.New York: McFarland.
Accepted: "The Broadway Musical"; "George Abbott"; "Larry Gelbart.": Will appear in Facts on File's American Drama Companion, ed. Jackson R. Bryer and Mary C. Hartig
"A Walk on the Wilder Side with Dolly Levi." In Thornton Wilder: New Essays, ed. Martin Blank, Dalma Brunauer, and David Izzo. W. Cornwall, CT: Locust Hill Press, 1999, pp. 455–70.
"Passion: Not Just Another Simple Love Story." In Stephen Sondheim: A Casebook, ed. Joanne Gordon. New York: Garland Publishing, 1997, pp. 205-22.
"Traveling 'Further' with Tom Wolfe's Heroes." Journal of Popular Culture 28.3 (winter 1994): 177-91.
"Frank Loesser's Hidden Class." Biography16 (1993): 264-75.
"A Red-hot Irony in The Miller's Tale." Thalia: Studies in Literary Humor 13 (1993): 50-55.
"Katie Goldman." In Beacham's Guide to Literature for Young Adults: 1980-1992, pp. 3801-6.
"Tennessee Williams and Lanford Wilson at the Missouri Crossroads." Studies in American Drama 5 (1990): 23-41.
"What Genius." In Universe 16, ed. Terry Carr. New York: Doubleday, 1986, pp. 85-103.
Fifteen magazine articles on a variety of general-interest subjects.
Phonograph Record: Gary Konas--On Broadway (solo pipe organ album, 1981).
"From Headlines to Chorus Lines: The Fifty-year Dramatic Journey to Kander and Ebb's Chicago." Delivered at the Twenty-First Annual William Inge Theatre Festival, Independence, KS, April 2002.
"Inge-ing toward Neil Simon." Delivered at the Sixteenth Annual William Inge Theatre Festival, Independence, KS, April 1997.
"A Brotherhood of Backstabbers in How To Succeed in Business Without Really Trying." Delivered at Popular Culture Association Conference, Las Vegas, March 1996.
"A Smoldering pas de quatre in Lanford Wilson's Burn This." Delivered at ALA Conference on American Literature, Baltimore, May 1993.
UW-L Travel Grant to Independence, Kansas
UW-L Travel Grant for research in New York City
David Noel Miller Scholarship, 1993
Humanities Research Award, 1992, 1990
David Noel Miller Scholarship, 1984
Second prize, 1984 Early Universe Award (short story contest)
Honorable Mention, nationwide Writers of the Future Contest
Modern Language Association, American Theatre and Drama Society