Dorothy Marcic is an American educator, playwright, and author.^[1][2]

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Marcic was born in Wisconsin and grew up on a dairy farm in Pewaukee, graduating from Waukesha High School.^[3] Marcic holds a Bachelor's degree in radio, television, and film from University of Wisconsin-Madison,^[4] along with graduate degrees in Educational Media and in Public Health from the University of Pittsburgh. She also holds a Doctorate in Organizational Behavior from University of Massachusetts Amherst and a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from SUNY, Stony Brook. She is an active member of the Baha’I Faith.^[5]

Dr. Marcic is a professor at Columbia University and a former professor at Vanderbilt University’s Owen Graduate School of Management.^[6]

Marcic was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Economics, Prague^[7] and served as an advisor to the United States Ambassador of the Czech Republic. She was also a delegate to the UN Commission on the Status of Women the United Nations and an Economic and Social Develop Summit in Copenhagen.^[8] As a graduate student, Marcic was a production assistant on Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood.^[9]

Marcic is the author of 18 books including Managing with the Wisdom of Love, Understanding Management, Love Lift Me Higher, and RESPECT: Women and Popular Music,^[10] along with other research studies and scholarly articles.^[11] Marcic has also written a true crime book about her uncle's murder, With One Shot: Family Murder and a Search for Justice.^[12]

She is the playwright of several plays including Intentions,^[13] based on a true story of an Iranian immigrant. Marcic also researched the depiction of women in popular music to write the musicals,^[14] RESPECT,^[15][16] which has played 3400 performances in 72 cities,^[17] This One's for the Girls^[18][19] and SISTAS, which played Off-Broadway in New York City for over six years.^{[20][21][22][23]}

Marcic is the writer and story creator of three short films, Great Expectations,^[24] Spillings, and Last Resort. She has appeared on CMT, C-SPAN,^[25] and Bravo Network.