Research Interests for Ellen Hemphill

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".

Keywords:

Original Theater works

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

Areas of Interest:

Archetypal studies as related to Theatre

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) [author's comments]