NEVER SO BEAUTIFUL | William Doan

© Never So Beautiful William Doan. Intima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine. Ink and watercolor, finishing touches added in Procreate

“When the bell rings the sound moves through me first—a clean, widening note that pushes the dread out of my ribs. It says, she survived what tried to erase her.”


William Doan is a past president of the Association for Theatre in Higher Education and a Fellow in the College of Fellows of The American Theatre. Doan's current work includes "The Anxiety Project," a large multi-media project titled that includes animated short films and his graphic narratives published in the Annals of Internal Medicine/Graphic Medicine, Cleaver Magazine, Intima and The AutoEthnographer. He is an emeritus professor in the College of Arts and Architecture at Pennsylvania State University, where he served as the Penn State Laureate for 2019-2020. Find more of his work at doandraws.com and @doandraws