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Curriculum Vitae
John M. ClumClick here for a printer-ready version, or
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- Education
Ph.D. | Princeton University | 1967 |
M.A. | Princeton University | 1966 |
B.A. | Princeton University | 1963 |
- Awards, Honors, and Distinctions
Trinity College Distinguished Teaching Award, Duke University, 1999
Outstanding Professor Award, Duke Student Government, 1969
Production Credits
Directing Credits:
- Posing Naked by Martin Duberman, Manbites Dog Theater, Durham, NC, March 26-28, 1998
- The Condemned by Peter Vitale, Manbites Dog Theater, January 1997
Workshop presentation of new musical work-in-progress co-
produced by Duke Institute of the Arts, Duke Drama Program,
and Manbites Dog Theater Company
- Why We Never Danced the Charleston by John Ellis, Manbites Dog Theater Company, Durham, NC, May 19-20, 1994
- Crisis at Trinity, December 19, 1992
Staged reading
- Party Time by Harold Pinter (Premiere Staged Reading), Ohio State University, 1991
- L'Elisir d'Amore, Triangle Opera Theater, June 1989
Full-scale professional production
- Don Giovanni, Triangle Opera Theater, 1989
Full-scale professional production
- The Magic Flute, Triangle Opera Theater, 1988
Full-scale professional production
- The Barber of Seville, Triangle Opera Theater, 1987
Full-scale professional production
- Madame Butterfly, Triangle Opera Theater, 1987
Full-scale professional production
- The Informer and The Seduction of a Lady, February 1987
Workshop production of new operas
- Cosi fan Tute, Triangle Opera Theater, 1986
Full-scale professional production
- I Pagliacci, Triangle Opera Theater, 1986
Full-scale professional production
- The Crucible (Opera by Robert Ward), January 1986
Full-scale professional production conducted by composer
- The Medium, 1986
Full-scale professional production conducted by Lorenzi
Muti and starring Muriel Costa-Greenspan
- Carmen, Triangle Opera Theater, June 1985
Conducted by Robert Ward with Hilda Harris (Metropolitan
Opera), Mark Jackson, and Bradley Robinson
- Raleigh's Dream,
World Premiere of new opera by Iain Hamilton
- A Thousand Clowns by Herb Gardner,
- Claudia Legare (Opera by Robert Ward),
- Entertaining Mr. Sloane,
- Galileo,
- Marry Me a Little,
- Misalliance by G.B. Shaw,
- Night and Day,
- Oh Coward!,
- Scapino by F. Dunlop and J. Dale,
- Talley's Folley,
- The Lion in Winter by James Goldman,
- Travesties by Tom Stoppard,
- Ulysses in Traction by Albert Innaurato,
Producing Credits:
- Producing Credits2008/10/06-2008/10/06
Plays by John Clum produced and/or published
- Dancing in the Mirror, Duke New Plays Festival, April 1999
Also at AIDS Quilt Series, produced by Campo Santo
Theater, San Francisco
- Randy's House, Unicorn Theater, Carmel, CA, November - December, 2002
- Randy's House, Arkansas Tech University, March, 2000
- Randy's House, Theatre on the Sqaure (Mainstage), Indianapolis, April 2-28, 1999
- Randy's House, St. Michael's College, Vermont, March 1999
- Across a Crowded Room, AIDS Quilt Series produced by Campo Santo Theatre, San Francisco, July & December 1998
Performed at Yerba Buena Center, San Francisco in July 1998
and on World AIDS Day, December 1998
- Escaping Kansas, Duke University and the First Unitarian Church in Baltimore, November 21-23, 1996
- Skipper's Ghost, University of Bristol Department of Drama, Film, and Video, May 1996
- Randy's House (Staged Reading), First Unitarian Church of Baltimore, November 1995
- Randy's House, Manbites Dog Theater, Durham, NC, May 1995
- Randy's House, Theater Conspiracy at the D.C. Arts Center, Washington, D.C., April 1995
- Excaping Kansas (Original Version), Duke World Premieres Festival, April 1992
- While the Monks Marched, Duke World Premieres Festival, 1992
- Mr. Scudder Finds His Muse, Duke Premiere, February 1991
Entered in a number of playwriting contests
- Soon Without the Moon, Duke Premiere, March 1990
Script under consideration by a number of regional
theaters, and has been submitted to a number of
playwrighting contests
- Partings, Duke World Premieres Festival, April 1989
To be produced by Gay and Lesbian Theater Company of New
York, Spring 1998
- Zinka's Boys, Duke World Premieres Festival, April 1988
Other Production Credits:
- Other Production Credits2008/10/06-2008/10/06
PERICLES by William Shakespeare. Department of Theater Studies. November, 2007.
- Other Production Credits2008/10/06-2008/10/06
SWEENEY TODD by Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler. Department of Theater studies. October-November, 2008.
- Mane Attraction by Christopher Scott, Duke New Plays Festival, April 1999
- Duet by Melissa Lentricchia, Duke World Premiere Festival, April 1998
- Patterns of Transmission in the Five Towns by Mark Sable, April 1997
- Still Life, April 1994
Staged reading
- Cymbeline by Shakespeare, Duke Drama Program, April 1992
- Soon Without the Moon by John Clum, Duke Drama Program, March 1990
- Power Going Down, by Christopher Busiel, Duke World Premieres Festival, April 1989
- A Long and Happy Life by Reynolds Price,
- A Thurber Carnival,
- Bent by Martin Sherman,
- Butley by Simon Gray,
- Child's Play by Richard Marasco,
- Design for Living by Noel Coward,
- Dirty Linen and New Found Land by Tom Stoppard,
- Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen,
Premiere of my new adaptation
- Imperfect Triangles by John Bernstein,
- Merton of the Movies by G. S. Kaufmann,
- Murder in the Cathedral by T.S. Eliot,
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey,
- Our Town by Thorton Wilder,
- Romeo and Juliet by Shakespeare,
- Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard,
- Sanctuary,
also co-authored
- Sticks and Bones by David Rabe,
- Tartuffe by Moliere,
- The Crucible by Arthur Miller,
- The Elephant Man,
- The Last Meeting of the Knights of the White Magnolia,
- The Mousetrap by Agatha Christie,
- The Owl and the Pussycat by Bill Manoff,
- Twelfth Night by Shakespeare,
- Under Milk Wood by Dylan Thomas,
- What the Butler Saw by Joe Orton,
Other Activities:
- Other2012/07/13-2012/07/13
Series Editor, Cambria Press Series in Contemporary Theater and Drama
- Other2012/07/13-2012/07/13
Board President, RHYMES WITH OPERA, New York City
- Editorial Board, Theatre Arts Journal: Studies in Scenography and Performance, 2009 - present
- Pulitzer Prize Drama Jury, New York City, 2008 - 2009
One of five members of the jury that selcects the Pulitzer Prize for Drama
- Publications (listed separately)
Lectures, Papers, and Panels
Invited Lectures: - Batting for the Other Team: Athletics and Homophobia, Center for Holocaust Studies, March, 2007
- Vocal Types, Character, and Gender Politics in The Most Happy Fella, American Society for Theater Research, November 16, 2002
Papers Presented: - Annie Oakleys: Acting and Acting Feminine in Musicals, Music in Gotham, CUNY Graduate Center, March, 2008
- Bigger Than Elvis: Mary Martin on Television in the 1950s, Conference on Musical Theater, UCLA, October 13, 2007
- Can There Be One Course in the Musical?, Amercian Society for Theater Research, November, 2005
- Anything Goes: Or, Is There a Text In This Musical?, American Society for Theater Research Conference, November 15, 2003
- Doing the Full Monty - Or Not: Nudity in Contemporary Gay Drama, American Society for Theater Research Conference, November 15, 2001
- 'Somewhere': Geography and Transcendence in Contemporary American Drama, American Society for Theater Research, Minneapolis, November 13, 1999
- 42nd Street, A Disco, and a Raincoat Factory: Contexts for Postmodern American Theater, Federation for International Research on Theater International Conference on Scenography, Prague, June 19, 1999
- Queer Bird: Tennessee Williams as Gay Writer, Hippodrome State Theater, Gainesville, Florida, March 22, 1998
- Tennessee's Men, Tennessee Williams New Orleans Literary Festival, March 14, 1998
- Is There an Indigenous Gay Culture?, Miami Light Association, Colony Theater, Miami Beach, January 17, 1998
- 'Poems a Dead Boy Wrote': Allan Gray, Hart Crane, and the Queer Muse in A Streetcar Named Desire, American Literature Association, May 1997
- Tennessee Williams's Life and Work, Tennessee Williams New Orleans Literary Festival, March 25, 1997
- The Queer Tennessee Williams, Tennessee Williams New Orleans Literary Festival, March 24, 1997
- Teaching Angels in America, American Literature Association 1994 Conference, San Diego, California, June 5, 1994
- Aunt Albertine's Dead Snake and the Queer Alma: From Summer and Smoke to Eccentricities of a Nightingale, University of North Carolina at Greensboro English Department, April 29, 1994
- Conferences Organized
- Chair, Local Arrangements, American Society for Theater Research, 1 December 2003
Courses Taught
- Literature: World Drama to 1800; British Drama to 1800; Drama, 1580-1700; 19th and 20th Century European Drama; 20th Century American Drama; 20th Century British Drama; 19th Century American Fiction; 20th Century American Fiction; British Literature to 1800; Shakespeare for the Stage; Gender and Drama: Ibsen to the Present; Women in Modern Drama; The Family in American Drama; The Art of the Film; The Image of the Hero in the American Film; Drama Criticism; Film Criticism; American Film; American Musical Theater; Musical Theater Workshop; Twentieth Century Opera; Sexualities in Contemporary Drama and Film; Sexualities in Literature; Masculinity and Homosexuality in American Drama.
- Theater: Acting; Directing; Introduction to the Theater; Advanced Acting; Advanced Scene Study; Playwriting; Screenwriting; Musical Theater Workshop
- Professional Service
- Member, Editorial Board,  
- Director of Undergraduate Studies, Duke Drama Program,
- Director, Duke in London Drama Program, July 01, 1987 - present
- Chair, Search Committee for Literature Professor, October 2008
- Chair, Department of Theater Studies, July 1, 2003 - June 30, 2008
- Provosts Committee on Diversity, September 01, 2005 - May 30, 2008
- Council for the Arts, August 30, 2004 - May 30, 2008
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