Ellen Hemphill, Assistant Professor of the Practice
| Office Location: | 204 Branson Building |
| Office Phone: | 919 660 3384 |
| Email Address: |   |
| Web Page: | www.archipelagotheatre.org |
- Research Interests:
Ellen Hemphill (M.Ed., Psychology, Wake Forest University) is Artistic Director of the 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. She also directed "The Trojan Women" for the Duke Theater Studies Department Ellen is a site evaluator for the National Endowment for the Arts, has received the NC State Arts Council Fellowship for choreography in theater, and was awarded a writer’s fellowship from the Wildacres Retreat. She is currently working on a new piece, Axial Moments.
- Education:
MED Wake Forest University 1977 BA Tufts University 1974
- Specialties:
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Directing
Acting
Playwriting
- Recent Publications
- 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) [author's comments].