Curriculum Vitae

John M. Clum

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Box 90680 Durham, NC 27708-0680

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Education

PhD

Princeton University

1967

Awards, Honors, and Distinctions

Trinity College Distinguished Teaching Award, Duke University, 1999
Outstanding Professor Award, Duke Student Government, 1969

Production Credits

  Directing Credits:

1. Posing Naked by Martin Duberman, Manbites Dog Theater, Durham, NC, March 26-28, 1998
   
2. 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
3. Why We Never Danced the Charleston by John Ellis, Manbites Dog Theater Company, Durham, NC, May 19-20, 1994
   
4. Crisis at Trinity, December 19, 1992
   Staged reading
5. Party Time by Harold Pinter (Premiere Staged Reading), Ohio State University, 1991
   
6. L'Elisir d'Amore, Triangle Opera Theater, June 1989
   Full-scale professional production
7. Don Giovanni, Triangle Opera Theater, 1989
   Full-scale professional production
8. The Magic Flute, Triangle Opera Theater, 1988
   Full-scale professional production
9. The Barber of Seville, Triangle Opera Theater, 1987
   Full-scale professional production
10. Madame Butterfly, Triangle Opera Theater, 1987
    Full-scale professional production
11. The Informer and The Seduction of a Lady, February 1987
    Workshop production of new operas
12. Cosi fan Tute, Triangle Opera Theater, 1986
    Full-scale professional production
13. I Pagliacci, Triangle Opera Theater, 1986
    Full-scale professional production
14. The Crucible (Opera by Robert Ward), January 1986
    Full-scale professional production conducted by composer
15. The Medium, 1986
    Full-scale professional production conducted by Lorenzi Muti and starring Muriel Costa-Greenspan
16. Carmen, Triangle Opera Theater, June 1985
    Conducted by Robert Ward with Hilda Harris (Metropolitan Opera), Mark Jackson, and Bradley Robinson
17. Raleigh's Dream,  
    World Premiere of new opera by Iain Hamilton
18. A Thousand Clowns by Herb Gardner,  
    
19. Claudia Legare (Opera by Robert Ward),  
    
20. Entertaining Mr. Sloane,  
    
21. Galileo,  
    
22. Marry Me a Little,  
    
23. Misalliance by G.B. Shaw,  
    
24. Night and Day,  
    
25. Oh Coward!,  
    
26. Scapino by F. Dunlop and J. Dale,  
    
27. Talley's Folley,  
    
28. The Lion in Winter by James Goldman,  
    
29. Travesties by Tom Stoppard,  
    
30. Ulysses in Traction by Albert Innaurato,  
    

  Producing Credits:

1. Dancing in the Mirror, Duke New Plays Festival, April 1999
   Also at AIDS Quilt Series, produced by Campo Santo Theater, San Francisco
2. Randy's House, Unicorn Theater, Carmel, CA, November - December, 2002
   
3. Randy's House, Arkansas Tech University, March, 2000
   
4. Randy's House, Theatre on the Sqaure (Mainstage), Indianapolis, April 2-28, 1999
   
5. Randy's House, St. Michael's College, Vermont, March 1999
   
6. 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
7. Escaping Kansas, Duke University and the First Unitarian Church in Baltimore, November 21-23, 1996
   
8. Skipper's Ghost, University of Bristol Department of Drama, Film, and Video, May 1996
   
9. Randy's House (Staged Reading), First Unitarian Church of Baltimore, November 1995
   
10. Randy's House, Manbites Dog Theater, Durham, NC, May 1995
    
11. Randy's House, Theater Conspiracy at the D.C. Arts Center, Washington, D.C., April 1995
    
12. Excaping Kansas (Original Version), Duke World Premieres Festival, April 1992
    
13. While the Monks Marched, Duke World Premieres Festival, 1992
    
14. Mr. Scudder Finds His Muse, Duke Premiere, February 1991
    Entered in a number of playwriting contests
15. 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
16. Partings, Duke World Premieres Festival, April 1989
    To be produced by Gay and Lesbian Theater Company of New York, Spring 1998
17. Zinka's Boys, Duke World Premieres Festival, April 1988
    

  Other Production Credits:

1. Other Production Credits2007/11/18-2007/11/18
   PERICLES by William Shakespeare. Duke Theater Studies Mainstage production. November-December, 2007
2. Mane Attraction by Christopher Scott, Duke New Plays Festival, April 1999
   
3. Duet by Melissa Lentricchia, Duke World Premiere Festival, April 1998
   
4. Patterns of Transmission in the Five Towns by Mark Sable, April 1997
   
5. Still Life, April 1994
   Staged reading
6. Cymbeline by Shakespeare, Duke Drama Program, April 1992
   
7. Soon Without the Moon by John Clum, Duke Drama Program, March 1990
   
8. Power Going Down, by Christopher Busiel, Duke World Premieres Festival, April 1989
   
9. A Long and Happy Life by Reynolds Price,  
   
10. A Thurber Carnival,  
    
11. Bent by Martin Sherman,  
    
12. Butley by Simon Gray,  
    
13. Child's Play by Richard Marasco,  
    
14. Design for Living by Noel Coward,  
    
15. Dirty Linen and New Found Land by Tom Stoppard,  
    
16. Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen,  
    Premiere of my new adaptation
17. Imperfect Triangles by John Bernstein,  
    
18. Merton of the Movies by G. S. Kaufmann,  
    
19. Murder in the Cathedral by T.S. Eliot,  
    
20. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey,  
    
21. Our Town by Thorton Wilder,  
    
22. Romeo and Juliet by Shakespeare,  
    
23. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard,  
    
24. Sanctuary,  
    also co-authored
25. Sticks and Bones by David Rabe,  
    
26. Tartuffe by Moliere,  
    
27. The Crucible by Arthur Miller,  
    
28. The Elephant Man,  
    
29. The Last Meeting of the Knights of the White Magnolia,  
    
30. The Mousetrap by Agatha Christie,  
    
31. The Owl and the Pussycat by Bill Manoff,  
    
32. Twelfth Night by Shakespeare,  
    
33. Under Milk Wood by Dylan Thomas,  
    
34. What the Butler Saw by Joe Orton,  
    

Publications (listed separately)

Lectures, Papers, and Panels

  Invited Lectures:

1. Batting for the Other Team: Athletics and Homophobia, Center for Holocaust Studies, March, 2007
2. Vocal Types, Character, and Gender Politics in The Most Happy Fella, American Society for Theater Research, November 16, 2002

  Papers Presented:

1. Bigger Than Elvis: Mary Martin on Television in the 1950s, Conference on Musical Theater, UCLA, October 13, 2007
2. Can There Be One Course in the Musical?, Amercian Society for Theater Research, November, 2005
3. Anything Goes: Or, Is There a Text In This Musical?, American Society for Theater Research Conference, November 15, 2003
4. Doing the Full Monty - Or Not: Nudity in Contemporary Gay Drama, American Society for Theater Research Conference, November 15, 2001
5. 'Somewhere': Geography and Transcendence in Contemporary American Drama, American Society for Theater Research, Minneapolis, November 13, 1999
6. 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
7. Queer Bird: Tennessee Williams as Gay Writer, Hippodrome State Theater, Gainesville, Florida, March 22, 1998
8. Tennessee's Men, Tennessee Williams New Orleans Literary Festival, March 14, 1998
9. Is There an Indigenous Gay Culture?, Miami Light Association, Colony Theater, Miami Beach, January 17, 1998
10. 'Poems a Dead Boy Wrote': Allan Gray, Hart Crane, and the Queer Muse in A Streetcar Named Desire, American Literature Association, May 1997
11. Tennessee Williams's Life and Work, Tennessee Williams New Orleans Literary Festival, March 25, 1997
12. The Queer Tennessee Williams, Tennessee Williams New Orleans Literary Festival, March 24, 1997
13. Teaching Angels in America, American Literature Association 1994 Conference, San Diego, California, June 5, 1994
14. 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 Summer Drama Program,  

Chair, Department, 2003-06

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Last modified: 2008/07/29