Charles Donelan has been writing about theater, music, dance, education, and the visual arts in Santa Barbara since 2002. He has served as the executive arts editor at the Santa Barbara Independent since 2004. From 2017-20, he created weekly segments on arts and entertainment events in Santa Barbara for KCRW radio. In 2021 he was a finalist for the Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers grant. As an educator, Donelan taught at Laguna Blanca School from 2004-21 and the UCSB Writing Program from 2001-04. He holds degrees from Yale (B.A.) and Columbia (Ph.D., english and comparative literature). He published the book “Romanticism and Male Fantasy in Lord Byron’s Don Juan: A Marketable Vice” (Macmillan/St. Martins) in 2000. Presently he is the Senior Writer/ Publicist for Arts & Lectures at the University of California, Santa Barbara.