The Green Room, a tiny alcove off of one of Brown University’s student theatres, is said to house one of those old-fashioned benign ghosts: Richard Dynegy. In 1976, Professor Dynegy, a professor of Theatre Studies at Brown University from 1954 – 1976 and Chair of the department for the last three of those years, hung himself onstage immediately following the final show of a week-long run of an undergraduate performance of King Lear that he had directed. He safety-pinned a suicide note to the lapel of his suit which read, in its entirety, “Dear Students: Do not read too much into this. (King Lear! Egads!) --D”
Immediately thereafter, the adjacent Green Room began to smell lightly of cigarettes, many began to report unexpected warm and cool drafts throughout the room, and those in the building late at night sometimes reported creaking floorboards and footsteps in the room when no one was there. Students of course blame the ghost of Professor Dynegy.
In 1988, the pictured caricature of the Professor appeared in the Green Room. No one has yet taken credit for it, but a student’s prank cannot be ruled out.
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