Office Location:	03F Page Auditorium
Office Phone:	(919) 660-3343, (919) 660-3384
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Web Page:	http://www.archipelagotheatre.org

Research Interests: Writing, producing theater,

Current projects: SILENCE-Harold Pinter-Director, Workshop Production Fall 2008 UNC Grad School, Exit the King-Department Production with Basil Twist, visiting artist, OUT OF THE BLUE original piece for Archipelago Theatre, STEALING HOME April 2011 Archipelago Theatre

Ellen Hemphill is an Associate. Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Theater Studies Department. She is also Artistic Director of the professional theater company Archipelago in Chapel Hill and has taught at Duke since 1992. She is also on the Faculty of the American Dance Festival where she teaches Voice and Gesture. Ellen performed in She Didn’t Like the Moon Without Clouds, and wrote and performed in Cassandra’s Lullaby, Binky Kite and the Oxymorons, and Another Time . . .Another Place . . . Someone Else, Those Women, and A New Fine Shame. Ellen directed The Crucible for Duke Players in February 2000. For Archipelago she directed, among others, Escurial, The Abdication, Landscape, Silence and Night, Ten in One, Eulogy for a Warrior, Blue Roses, Amor Fortuna, Snow, A New Fine Shame, Mary Wept,and Women in the Attic and Out of the Blue. She also directed "The Trojan Women" for the Duke Theater Studies Department and directed "Exit the King" in the Spring of 2009 and "A Doll's House" in 2011. Ellen has received the NC State Arts Council Fellowship for choreography in theater, and was awarded a writer’s fellowship from the Wildacres Retreat. She recently wrote, directed and produced a new piece, OUT OF THE BLUE for which she received the Duke Collaborative Arts Award. Ellen was a Franklin Scholar with the Franklin Institute for 2010-2011 and created a solo/vocal and film performance, "Stealing Home: The Architecture of Intimacy" in 2011 at Manbites Dog Theater in Durham, NC. She is currently working on a orignal production for theater, film and music called "The Narrowing".

• THEATRST 149S.03, VOICE AND SONG FOR THEATER Synopsis

  Bryan Center 127, MW 10:05 AM-11:20 AM

• THEATRST 150S.01, VOICE/BODY GESTURE THEATER Synopsis

  Bryan Center 127, MW 01:15 PM-02:30 PM

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Education:

MED	Wake Forest University	1977
BA	Tufts University	1974

Specialties:

Directing
Acting
Playwriting

Duties:

Director Of Undergraduate Studies, Duke Theater Studies Dept. Director Archipelago Theater

Curriculum Vitae

  Acting Credits:

1. Acting Credits, Manbites Dog Theater, Durham, NC, American Dance Festival, New York, April 2011-July 2011
   I performed a solo performance (one woman show) of songs at Manbites Dog Theater in Durham in April 2011, performed as a guest singer in a club appearance in NYC with Allison Leyton-Brown in February 2011, and sang in Reynolds Auditiorium at Duke University during the American Dance Festival in June 2011.

1. Directing Credits, Duke University-Sheafer Theater, November 10-20, 2011
   I directed "A Doll's House" for the Duke University Theater Department in November 2011. http://www.indyweek.com/indyweek/a-dolls-house/Content?oid=2706431 http://dukechronicle.com/article/theater-studies-animates-doll-s-house
2. Out of the Blue, Duke University/UNC, February, 2010
   
3. Directing Credits, Duke University/UNC, 2008 - present
   I directed "The Trojan Women" for the Duke Theater Studies Dept in 2003 I wrote and directed "The Woman in the Attic" for Archipelago Theater (presented at Duke) in 2004 I directed Joe Haj (director UNC Playmakers) in "When the Bulbul Stopped Singing" for the UNC Playmakers in 2007 Kenan Theater I directed a workshop production of "Silence" for the UNC Theater Grad School. 2008 I directed EXIT THE KING for the Duke Theater Studies Dept. in April 2008 and brought in guest artist, Basil Twist I wrote and directed OUT OF THE BLUE with Archipelago Theater in Feb. 2010. I brought in guest artists: Mark Dendy, choreography, Allison Leyton-Brown, composer, Jan Chambers,Set/Costume Designer, Jesse Belsky, Lighting Design (Duke alum),

Recent Publications

1. E. Hemphill. Out of the Blue. (February, 2010). (This play was produced at Duke University in Feb. 2010. It is not published but was a collaborative art work) [org]
2.  Those Women, Eulogy for a Warrior, Another Time, Another Place, Amor Fortuna, Cassandra's Lullaby, A New Fine Shame, Mary Wept, Woman in the Attic, Binky Kite and the Oxymorons. (2003).

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