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Research Interests: Directing, Literary & Cultural Criticism

Jody McAuliffe (MFA, Yale University) Publications: My Lovely Suicides (2007) 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.

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Education:

MFA	Yale School of Drama
BS with Highest Distinction	Northwestern University
Pushkin Institute	Moscow, U.S.S.R.

Specialties:

Directing
Literary & Cultural Criticism

Curriculum Vitae

Selected Production Credits

    Directing Credits

1. Gulag Follies, adapted from Varlam Shalamov's Kolyma Tales, Duke University, 2009
   
2. GOING AFTER ALICE, by Megan Mostyn-Brown (LAByrinth ), w/Didi O’Connell, Theater Previews at Duke, 2008
   
3. Shadow of Himself, by Neal Bell, New Play Summit, Denver Center Theater, 2007
   
4. The Special Prosecutor, translated and adapted from Gogol's Inspector General by Jody McAuliffe, Duke University, 2006
   
5. Safe House, Burning Coal Theatre Company, 2004
   by Lydia Stryk, World Premiere
6. 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
7. Hortensia and the Museum of Dreams by Nilo Cruz, Theater Previews at Duke, 2000
   
8. The Mystery of Attraction by Marlene Meyer, Pacific Playwrights Festival, South Coast Repertory, 1999
   
9. Somewhere in the Pacific by Neal Bell, Manbites Dog Theater Company, 1999
   
10. Orpheus Descending by Tennessee Williams, Duke University, Tennessee Williams New Orleans Literary Festival, 1998
    
11. The Knee Desires the Dirt by Julie Herbert, Bay Area Playwrights Festival, Magic Theatre, 1995
    
12. The Front Page, by Hecht & MacArthur, NC Shakespeare Festival, 1992
    
13. Accelerando by Lisa Loomer, Odyssey Theatre Ensemble, Los Angeles, 1991
    World Premiere
14. Otherwise Engaged by Simon Gray, Virginia Stage Company, 1991
    
15. The Road to Mecca by Athol Fugard, Virginia Stage Company, 1989
    
16. Heartbreaker by Donald Margulies, Sundance Institute Playwrights Lab, 1989
    
17. Piano by Anna Deavere Smith, LabWorks, Los Angeles Theatre Center, 1988
    
18. Haut Gout by Allan Havis, South Coast Repertory, 1987
    West Coast Premiere
19. Dakota's Belly, Wyoming by Erin Wilson, New Works Project, Los Angeles Theatre Center, 1987
    
20. Souvenir by Jayne Anne Phillips, Mark Taper Forum Cabaret, 1986
    
21. Sleeping Dogs by Neal Bell, New Theatre For Now, Mark Taper Forum, 1985
    
22. Eleanor Roosevelt: First Lady of the World, Taper Literary Cabaret, 1984
    
23. Emigres by Slawomir Mrozek, Theatre/Theater, 1983
    Director and Designer, West Coast Premiere
24. Philoctetes by Heiner Muller, The Open Space, New York, 1981
    English Language Premiere
25. Drums in the Night by Bertolt Brecht, Yale School of Drama, 1980
    
26. 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. RODINA, director/editor, Scenes of Secrecy Interdisciplinary Inquiries on Suspicion, Intelligence and Security, Duke University, 2008
   
2. GOIN' A BUFFALO, director/editor, Center for Documentary Studies, 2008
   
3. My Man Ray, American Film Institute, 1988
   Directing Workshop for Women, produced, adapted & directed by Jody McAuliffe

    Other Production Credits

1. The Italian Actress, adapted by Jody McAuliffe, Little Green Pig, Other Voices, Manbites Dog Theater, 2009
   
2. My Lovely Suicides, by Jody McAuliffe, Little Green Pig, Other Voices, Manbites Dog Theater, 2007
   

Representative Publications   (More Publications)

1.  My Lovely Suicides.  Ravenna Press, (2007).
2. with F. Lentricchia. Crimes of Art and Terror.  University of Chicago Press, (2003).
3.  Plays, Movies, and Critics.  Duke Press, (1993).
4. with F. Lentricchia, translated into Turkish by Ayrinti Yayinlari. Crimes of Art and Terror. (2005).
5. "Faulkners romanunivers til scenen." Norsk Shakespeare Og Teater-Tidsskrift  (2008).
6. "Boos etterkommere (Descendants of Boo)." Vagant Magazine, Norway  (2006).
7. "Lucia Joyce as Cordelia and the Fool." Journal of Modern Literature  (2005).
8. "The Imaginary Letters of Heinrich von Kleist to the Poet Holderlin."  fiction Literary Imagination  (Winter, 2001).
9. "Reflections on a Director's Process."  afterword to The New Trial, by Peter Weiss, translated by James Rolleston with Kai Evers   (2001).
10. "Mysterious Actions: New American Drama."  Guest Editor South Atlantic Quarterly  (Spring/Summer 2000).
11. "Standing on End."  short story Southwest Review  (1989).

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