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Research Interests: Literary & Cultural Criticism, Directing

Jody McAuliffe (MFA, Yale University) Publications: My Lovely Suicides (2008) Crimes of Art and Terror (with Frank Lentricchia, 2003); Mysterious Actions: New American Drama, Guest Editor, South Atlantic Quarterly; "Reflections on a Director’s Process," Peter Weiss’s The New Trial (2001); Plays, Movies, and Critics (1993). Her adaptation of My Lovely Suicides (Semi-Finalist, Eugene O'Neill Playwrights Center National Playwrights Conference), Manbites Dog Theater Other Voices Series (2007). Fiction: "Grave Love" (South Atlantic Quarterly); "The Imaginary Letters of Heinrich von Kleist to the Poet Holderlin" (Literary Imagination); "Standing on End" (Southwest Review). Former National Endowment for the Arts Directing Fellow at the Mark Taper Forum and member of the Directing Workshop for Women at American Film Institute, she has developed and directed new plays nationally and regionally: including Marlane Meyer’s The Mystery of Attraction, Pacific Playwrights Festival, South Coast Repertory; Neal Bell's "Shadow of Himself," New Play Summit, Denver Center Theater; "The Special Prosecutor," her translation/adaptation of Gogol's "Inspector General"; and her adaptation of Don DeLillo's Mao II. She is a recipient of Duke’s Trinity College Distinguished Teaching Award.

Education:

MFA	Yale School of Drama
Russian School	Middlebury College
BS with Highest Distinction	Northwestern University
Pushkin Institute	Moscow, U.S.S.R.
Tina Landau	Viewpoints
Heide Tegeder	Pina Bausch
Augusto Boal	Theater of the Oppressed
Thomas Leabhart	Corporeal Mime
Gennadi Bogdanov	Biomechanics
Documentary Video Institute	Center for Documentary Studies

Specialties:

Directing
Literary & Cultural Criticism

Curriculum Vitae

Selected Production Credits

    Directing Credits

1. Shadow of Himself, by Neal Bell, New Play Summit, Denver Center Theater, 2007
   
2. Grand Guignol, A Sinister Scene by Neal Bell, Little Green Pig Theatrical Concern, 2006
   
3. Safe House, Burning Coal Theatre Company, 2004
   by Lydia Stryk, World Premiere
4. The Pen in the Gashes, stage adaptation by Jody McAuliffe of Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, Street Signs for Literature and Performance, 2004
   staged reading
5. MAO II by Don DeLillo, Theater Previews at Duke, 2002
   adapted, co-directed, and produced by Jody McAuliffe with Theater Previews at Duke and the Department of Theater Studies
6. Hortensia and the Museum of Dreams by Nilo Cruz, Theater Previews at Duke, 2000
   
7. The Mystery of Attraction by Marlene Meyer, Pacific Playwrights Festival, South Coast Repertory, 1999
   
8. Somewhere in the Pacific by Neal Bell, Manbites Dog Theater Company, 1999
   
9. The Knee Desires the Dirt by Julie Herbert, Bay Area Playwrights Festival, Magic Theatre, 1995
   
10. The Front Page, by Hecht & MacArthur, NC Shakespeare Festival, 1992
    
11. Accelerando by Lisa Loomer, Odyssey Theatre Ensemble, Los Angeles, 1991
    World Premiere
12. Otherwise Engaged by Simon Gray, Virginia Stage Company, 1991
    
13. The Road to Mecca by Athol Fugard, Virginia Stage Company, 1989
    
14. Heartbreaker by Donald Margulies, Sundance Institute Playwrights Lab, 1989
    
15. Piano by Anna Deavere Smith, LabWorks, Los Angeles Theatre Center, 1988
    
16. Haut Gout by Allan Havis, South Coast Repertory, 1987
    West Coast Premiere
17. Dakota's Belly, Wyoming by Erin Wilson, New Works Project, Los Angeles Theatre Center, 1987
    
18. Sleeping Dogs by Neal Bell, New Theatre For Now, Mark Taper Forum, 1985
    
19. The White Devil by John Webster, Taper Lab, 1985
    Adapted and directed by Jody McAuliffe
20. Eleanor Roosevelt: First Lady of the World, Taper Literary Cabaret, 1984
    
21. Emigres by Slawomir Mrozek, Theatre/Theater, 1983
    Director and Designer, West Coast Premiere
22. Philoctetes by Heiner Muller, The Open Space, New York, 1981
    English Language Premiere
23. Drums in the Night by Bertolt Brecht, Yale School of Drama, 1980
    
24. Interludes by Allan Havis, Ensemble Company for the Performing Arts, New Haven, 1978
    World Premiere

    Dramaturgy Credits

1. Ten Below by Shem Bitterman, Sundance Institute, 1989
   

    Film Credits

1. My Man Ray, American Film Institute, 1988
   Directing Workshop for Women, produced, adapted & directed by Jody McAuliffe

Recent Publications   (More Publications)

1. J. McAuliffe, He Sings the Body Tinterotic, in Frank Lentricchia: Essays on his Fiction, edited by Thomas De Pietro (2009), Guernica Editions .
2. Jody McAuliffe. My Lovely Suicides.  Ravenna Press, (2008).
3. J. McAuliffe, The Homecoming, Norsk Shakespeare Og Teater-Tidsskrift (2008) .
4. J. McAuliffe, Beckett Shorts, Norsk Shakespeare Og Teater-Tidsskrift (2008) .
5. J. McAuliffe, Drunk Enough To Say I Love You, Norsk Shakespeare Og Teater-Tidsskrift (2008) .

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