Professor by day. Playwright by night.

Published on March 27, 2017

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By day, Keith Burridge, a professor in the UNC School of Medicine, studies cell signaling and how proteins regulate cell behavior. By night, he is a playwright.

“Playwriting for me is a kind of escape,” said Burridge. “It’s something I look forward to. Sometimes I am working in the lab and these random thoughts about a play will come to me, and I want to rush off and write them down.”

Burridge’s play “The First Woman President,” a one-woman show about former First Lady Edith Wilson, had a four-performance run as part of the International Midtown Theatre Festival in New York City in 2016.

Keith Burridge is the Kenan Distinguished Professor of Cell Biology and Physiology at the UNC School of Medicine and a member of the UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center.

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