PRODUCTION RESEARCH & PUBLICATION
PRODUCTION RESEARCH
CONTEXT: Each play I work on is unique in its research demands. This is not only because each play is unique in language, action, style, and historical and cultural context, but also because each production of a play is unique in directorial concept, design, casting and its purpose in serving the mission of the producing organization. I engage in research that spans a wide range of creative and practical considerations. The following examples illustrate the diversity of that research.
- Interpreting the Text
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- The Language: Romeo and Juliet, “Fighting by the Book of Arithmetic”
- Embedded Stage Directions: Much Ado About Nothing, “We Must Follow the Leaders”
- Collaborating with Directors
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- Solving Problems: Macbeth “He has killed me, mother…”
- Collaborating with Designers
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- Scenic Design: Big Love “Architectural Installation”
- Coaching Actors
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- Style: A Flea in Her Ear “Playing Farce”
- Engaging the Audience
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- The Rimers of Eldritch: “A Mirror to Nature: Reflecting Current Events”
PUBLICATIONS
- Performing Arts Resources/Theatre Library Association (Vol. 30) 2014:
- Transcript of presentation delivered for the 2011 TLA Symposium at Lincoln Center/New York Public Library for the Performing Arts: “The Mirror Image: Shakespeare in Authentic Style”
- American Shakespeare Center Study Guides 2005-2010:
- Led a team of artists, scholars and graduate students in the creation of study guides for ASC plays designed to meet Virginia Standards of Learning and intended for secondary educators and students.
Sample Guides:- Julius Caesar (2006-2007 Season)
- The Merchant of Venice (2007-2008 Season)
- Taming of the Shrew (2007-2008 Season)
- Hamlet (2008-2009 Season)
- Romeo and Juliet (2009-2010 Season)
- Twelfth Night (2010)
- Southern Poverty Law Center/Teaching Tolerance (www.splcenter.org.teachingtolerance) 2001:
- Online article journaling creative process behind the SPLC funded project Will and Reason (Alabama Shakespeare Festival / MFA Touring Production, 2000).
- Will and Reason SPLC Teaching Tolerance (online article: project summary)
- Theatre Symposium: Theatre and Violence (Vol. 7) 1999:
- Article: “Figuring the Fight: Recovering Shakespeare’s Theatrical Swordplay”
- Alabama Shakespeare Festival Magazine (Winter Edition) 1999:
- Article: “Who’s Got Time to Sleep?” (a journal of MFA actor training at ASF).
- Fight Master Journal (Spring/Summer, Vol. XXII, 1) 1999:
- Section contributor: “Fight Directors’ Forum”
- Southern Theatre Magazine (Vol. 38, No. 3) 1997:
- Article: “John Corker: Balancing Art and Business in the Musical Rent”
- The Women’s Book Project: Collected Essays by Judith Leemann (U.Va.) 1994:
- Essay contributor: “Placing Our Voices”
- Theatrical Directors: An International Dictionary (Frick & Vallillo. Greenwood Publishing) 1991:
- Entry contributor:
- Theatrical Directors
- “Tadashi Suzuki”
- “Jerome Robbins”
- “Michael Bennett”
- “Martha Clark”
- Theatrical Directors
- The Fight Master Journal (Winter, Vol. XIII, 1) 1990:
- Article: “Apache: The Original Dangerous Game”