Curriculum Vitae

Johanna McAuliffe

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Education

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

Awards, Honors, and Distinctions

Provost's Common Fund, July, 2008
Josiah Charles Trent Memorial Foundation Grant, November 2007
Collaboration Development Grant, Duke University Council For The Arts, October, 2007
Faculty Travel Award, Center for Slavic, Eurasian, and East European Studies, October, 2007
Semi-finalist, National Playwrights Conference, Eugene O'Neill Theater Center, 2007
Trinity College Distinguished Teaching Award, 1994-1995
Provost's Common Fund, 0 2000
Certificate of Achievement, N.C. International Film & Video Festival, 1991
International Research & Exchanges Board short-term travel grant, 0 1990
Travel Grant, International Research & Exchanges Board, 1990
U.S./Japan Artist Exchange Fellowship Program (Alternate), National Endowment for the Arts, 1990
Directing Workshop for Women, American Film Institute, 1987-1989
Directing Fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts, 1984-1985
Excellence in Theater Award, Northwestern University, 0 1976
Certificate of Merit, National Merit Scholarship Program, 0 1972
Illinois State Scholar, 0 1972

Production Credits

  Directing Credits:

1. Betrayal, by Harold Pinter, Duke University, 2007
   
2. Shadow of Himself, by Neal Bell, New Play Summit, Denver Center Theater, 2007
   
3. Shadow of Himself, by Neal Bell, World Premiere, Duke University, 2007
   
4. Grand Guignol, A Sinister Scene by Neal Bell, Little Green Pig Theatrical Concern, 2006
   
5. The Special Prosecutor, translated and adapted from Gogol's Inspector General by Jody McAuliffe, Duke University, 2006
   
6. Three Nights in Prague by Allan Havis, Duke University, 2005
   
7. Safe House, Burning Coal Theatre Company, 2004
   by Lydia Stryk, World Premiere
8. 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
9. Like a Christmas Tree, by Etel Adnan, Arts in the Time of War, Duke University, 2003
   
10. Why Things Burn, by Marlane Meyer, Duke University, ASTR Conference, 2003
    
11. 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
12. Hortensia and the Museum of Dreams by Nilo Cruz, Theater Previews at Duke, 2000
    
13. The Mystery of Attraction by Marlene Meyer, Pacific Playwrights Festival, South Coast Repertory, 1999
    
14. Somewhere in the Pacific by Neal Bell, Manbites Dog Theater Company, 1999
    
15. The New Trial by Peter Weiss, Duke University, 1998
    English Language Premiere
16. Orpheus Descending by Tennessee Williams, Duke University, Tennessee Williams New Orleans Literary Festival, 1998
    
17. The Bay of Naples by Erin Wilson, New Works Festival at Duke (American Premiere), 1997
    Directed and dramaturged by Jody McAuliffe
18. Somewhere in the Pacific by Neal Bell, New Play Readings at Manbites Dog Theater, 1996
    
19. A Stampede of Zebras, National Science Foundation, 1996
    Betacam SP Video
20. The Father by August Strindberg, Duke Drama Program, 1996
    Adapted by John Osborne
21. The Knee Desires the Dirt by Julie Herbert, Bay Area Playwrights Festival, Magic Theatre, 1995
    
22. Rachel Carson Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea by Patricia Montley, ATHE New Play Development Workshop, 1995
    
23. Academic Integrity: The Bridge to Professional Ethics, National Science Foundation, 1994
    Betacam SP Video
24. New York Theatre Workshop Retreat, Dartmouth College, 1994
    Director/Curator
25. 25 Fish in Dogpatch by J. Dakota Powell, Mondays-At-Three, New York Theatre Workshop, 1994
    
26. McTeague by Neal Bell, Duke Drama Program, 1994
    
27. The Edge of Night by Frank Lentricchia, Duke Drama Program, 1994
    
28. Why Things Burn by Marlene Meyer, New York Playwrights Lab, Joseph Papp Public Theater, 1993
    
29. New York Theatre Workshop, 1993
    Director/Curator
30. Hotel Florida by Yug Yourgrau, 1993
    Reading
31. 25 Fish in Dogpatch by J. Dakota Powell, Bay Area Playwrights Festival, Magic Theatre, 1993
    
32. The Idea by L. Andreyev, Mondays-At-Three, New York Theatre Workshop, 1993
    Translated and directed by Jody McAuliffe
33. Madness and Other Pleasures, Duke Institute of Arts, 1993
    Inc. Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire, adapted and directed by Jody McAuliffe
34. Man and Superman by G.B. Shaw, DePauw University, 1992
    
35. The Front Page, by Hecht & MacArthur, NC Shakespeare Festival, 1992
    
36. The Suppliants by Aeschylus, tr. by P. Burian, Winterfest of Contemporary Arts VIII, Duke Institute of Arts, 1992
    
37. Roe's Bouquet, Camouflage, Readings of New Plays by Duke Students, 1992
    
38. He Who Gets Slapped by Leonid Andreyev, Duke Drama Program, 1991
    Translated and directed by Jody McAuliffe
39. Sounds Dangerous by Michelle Silberman, Duke Women's Center, 1991
    
40. Accelerando by Lisa Loomer, Odyssey Theatre Ensemble, Los Angeles, 1991
    World Premiere
41. Imagining Brad by Peter Hedges, Kin Productions, 1991
    
42. Otherwise Engaged by Simon Gray, Virginia Stage Company, 1991
    
43. Face of Stone, NC Medicine & Society Reader's Repertory Theater, 1991
    
44. Mud by Maria Irene Fornes, Duke Drama Program, 1990
    
45. An Earful of Lickings by Joseph L. Guindi, Duke Drama Program, 1990
    World Premiere
46. Stories by Donald Barthelme, Duke Readers Theatre, 1990
    Adapted and directed by Jody McAuliffe
47. Entertaining Mr. Helms by Christopher Durang, Seventh Street, 1990
    
48. The Road to Mecca by Athol Fugard, Virginia Stage Company, 1989
    
49. Heartbreaker by Donald Margulies, Sundance Institute Playwrights Lab, 1989
    
50. I've Got You Under My Skin by Melissa Lentricchia, Duke Drama Program, 1989
    World Premiere
51. The Storm by A. Ostrovsky, University of Southern California, 1989
    
52. The Miser by Moliere, Duke Drama Program, 1989
    
53. Libra by Don DeLillo, Duke Readers Theatre, 1989
    
54. Mink Sonata by Allan Havis, Play Discovery Program, Old Globe Theatre, 1988
    
55. Piano by Anna Deavere Smith, LabWorks, Los Angeles Theatre Center, 1988
    
56. Full Moon by Reynolds Price, Duke Drama Program, 1988
    World Premiere
57. Suicide in B Flat by Sam Shepard, University of Southern California, 1988
    
58. Haut Gout by Allan Havis, South Coast Repertory, 1987
    West Coast Premiere
59. Dakota's Belly, Wyoming by Erin Wilson, New Works Project, Los Angeles Theatre Center, 1987
    
60. Riders to the Sea by R. Vaughan Williams, Intermedia Festival, Long Beach, 1987
    
61. Cocks Must Crow (excerpts) by Michael Ching, Opera Buffs, National Opera Association, 1987
    
62. Rita by Donizetti and Hin und Zuruck by Hindemith, California State University, Long Beach, 1987
    
63. Cinders by Janusz Glowacki, University of Southern California, 1987
    
64. The Soiled Eyes of a Ghost by Erin Wilson, New Writers, New York, 1987
    
65. Souvenir by Jayne Anne Phillips, Mark Taper Forum Cabaret, 1986
    
66. Tango by Slawomir Mrozek, University of Southern California, 1986
    
67. The Beggar's Opera Benjamin Britten version, Cal State Long Beach, 1986
    
68. Virgil's Dream by Michael Colgrass, Intermedia Festival, 1986
    
69. Sleeping Dogs by Neal Bell, New Theatre For Now, Mark Taper Forum, 1985
    
70. The White Devil by John Webster, Taper Lab, 1985
    Adapted and directed by Jody McAuliffe
71. The Other Side of the Curtain by B.H. Barry & Carmen de Lavallade, Mark Taper, 1985
    Produced and directed by Jody McAuliffe
72. Handy Dandy by William Gibson, Taper, Too, 1984
    With Gena Rowlands, Richard Dreyfuss
73. Eleanor Roosevelt: First Lady of the World, Taper Literary Cabaret, 1984
    
74. Emigres by Slawomir Mrozek, Theatre/Theater, 1983
    Director and Designer, West Coast Premiere
75. The Little Foxes by Lillian Hellman, State University of New York, Purchase, 1983
    
76. Hage-The Sexual History by Robert Auletta, Vassar College, 1983
    
77. Philoctetes by Heiner Muller, The Open Space, New York, 1981
    English Language Premiere
78. Orestes by Robert Lowell, National High School Institute, Northwestern University, 1980
    
79. Drums in the Night by Bertolt Brecht, Yale School of Drama, 1980
    
80. The Misanthrope by Moliere, Ensemble Company for the Performing Arts, New Haven, 1978
    
81. Interludes by Allan Havis, Ensemble Company for the Performing Arts, New Haven, 1978
    World Premiere

  Dramaturgy Credits:

1. Camouflage, Duke Drama Program, 1992
   
2. Roe's Bouquet, Duke Drama Program, 1992
   
3. Ten Below by Shem Bitterman, Sundance Institute, 1989
   

  Producing Credits:

1. Mao II by Don DeLillo, adapted, co-directed and produced by Jody McAuliffe with Theater Previews at Duke and the Department of Theater Studies, Theater Previews at Duke, 2002
   
2. Our Father, Off-Off Broadway, The Private Theatre (Founding Member), 1981
   

  Other Production Credits:

1. The Seagull by Anton Chekhov, Vassar College, 1994; New York Theatre Workshop Retreat at Dartmouth (Development), 1994; New Works Festival - Duke Drama Program, 1995, 1994-1995
   Translation, Co-Adaptation with Chris Grabowski, Director
2. Adriadne on Naxos, Long Beach Opera, 1987
   Casting Director

  Television Credits:

1. Tom Cottle, Up Close, Metromedia Producers, 1981-1982
   Associate Producer
2. Eleanor/In Her Own Words, KCET/Taper Media, 1985
   Artistic Advisor
3. Walt Disney Television, Reader, 1990
   
4. Dr. Ruth, MGM Television, 1981
   Production Assistant

  Film Credits:

1. GOIN' A BUFFALO, director/editor, Center for Documentary Studies, 2008
   
2. My Man Ray, North Carolina Museum of Art, 1991
   
3. My Man Ray, Carolina Film & Video Festival, 1991
   
4. My Man Ray, Exhibition, Vancouver Women in Focus Society, 1990
   
5. My Man Ray, Video Refuse Festival, San Francisco, 1990
   
6. My Man Ray, American Film Institute, Exhibition, 1989
   
7. My Man Ray, American Film Institute, 1988
   Directing Workshop for Women, produced, adapted & directed by Jody McAuliffe

  Regional Theatre:

1. My Lovely Suicides, by Jody McAuliffe, Little Green Pig Theatrical Concern at Manbites Dog Theater, November 1, 2007 - November 17, 2007
   

  Other Activities:

1. National Endowment for the Arts, Reader, 1990-1993
   

Publications (listed separately)

Lectures, Papers, and Panels

  Invited Lectures:

1. Crimes of Art and Terror, Dipartimento di Lingue, Universita Di Bologna, Italy, November, 2007
2. Crimes of Art and Terror, Temple University, 2004
3. Crimes of Art and Terror, Dartmouth College, 2004
4. Why Things Burn, TS 91 Introduction to Theater Studies, 2003
5. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave, History 175S The Southern Plantation, Duke U., 2003
6. Student for a Day Lecture Series, Duke University Parents' Weekend, 1996

  Papers Presented:

1. Gulag Follies, Scenes of Secrecy: An Interdisciplinary Workshop on Suspicion and Intelligence, Duke University, October 17-18, 2008
2. "Crimes and Punishment" and "Grave Love", University of Illinois Chicago, 2000

  Panels:

1. Who Is Kleist?, Manbites Dog Theater, November, 2007
2. Adaptation, Association of Literary Scholars and Critics, 2004
3. Mao II, Panel Discussion and Lunch at the Franklin Center, 2002
4. Mao II, Music Department Colloquium Johanna McAuliffe and Scott Lindroth, 2002
5. Drama in Translation: Page to Page/Page to Stage, American Literary Translators Association, 2001

Professional Service

Chair, Search Committee, 2007 - 2008

Chair (2008), Curriculum Committee, 2006 - 2009

SES New Major Committee, 2006 - present

Theater Studies PhD Advisor, ongoing

Major Advisor, ongoing

TS Executive Committee, ongoing

Director of Undergraduate Studies, July 1, 2005

tenure appointment Erin Wilson UCSB, May 2008

Jeff Storer Review Committee, 2007

PhD committee, Michael Kennedy, Music, May 2007

Duke University Preparing Future Faculty Program, 2003

tenure review Maria Horne, S.U.N.Y. Buffalo, December 2006

outside evaluator of American Political Plays, University of Illinois Press, December 2006

Dramaturgy Certificate committee, 2004

Acting Co-Chair, Fall, 2004

Service, December 2004

Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers, June 2004

Association of Literary Scholars and Critics, June 2004

American Society for Theatrical Research, June 2004

Modern Language Association, June 2004

Theater Studies, Acting Director of Drama, 1999, 2004

Chair, Voss Review Committee, 1998-1999

Drama Faculty Council, 1998-1999

Erin Wilson Review Committee, 1997

Chair, Drama Curriculum Committee, 1993-1997

Blackadder Review Committee, 1996

Director, Stampede of Zebras, 1995-1996

Faculty Associate, Duke University, 1995-1999

Director, ACADEMIC INTEGRITY, 1994-1995

Member, Arts & Sciences Council Executive Committee, 1994-1995

German Department External Review, 1994

Arts & Sciences Council Membership, 1993-1994

Drama Executive Committee, 1993-1994

Benenson Committee, 1993, 1994, 1996, 1997, 1998

Dorrance Review Committee, Dance Program, 1993

The Creative & Performing Arts at Duke, NC Open House, 1992

Judge, Playwrights Festival, 1988, 1989

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