Jody McAuliffe, Professor of the Practice

Jody McAuliffe
Office Location:  Campus Box 90680, Professor of the Practice, Durham, NC 27708
Office Phone:  +1 919 660 3363
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Research Interests: Directing, Literary & Cultural Criticism, Literary Nonfiction, Documentary

Jody McAuliffe (MFA, Yale University) is a director and writer. Her literary nonfiction work, The Mythical Bill, A Neurological Memoir, came out in spring of 2013 from University of Iowa Press Sightline Series. Most recently, she directed the world premiere of Neal Bell's Now You See Me for Manbites Dog Theater and The Birthday Party (Best Direction, Independent) for Little Green Pig Theatrical Concern. She is a co-convener of the working group Performance & Integrated Media, a recipient of a Humanities Writ Large Mellon grant and a Trinity College Distinguished Teaching Award. Other publications include: Gulag Follies in Images of Ethics & Pain (Routledge 2012), My Lovely Suicides (a novel) (2007) Crimes of Art and Terror (with Frank Lentricchia, 2003); Mysterious Actions: New American Drama, Guest Editor, South Atlantic Quarterly (2000); Plays, Movies, and Critics, Editor (1993). Adaptations: The Italian Actress; My Lovely Suicides (Semi-Finalist, Eugene O'Neill Playwrights Center National Playwrights Conference), Manbites Dog Theater Other Voices Series. Literary criticism: Journal of Modern Literature; South Atlantic Quarterly; Reflections on a Director's Process, afterword to The New Trial, by Peter Weiss (2001). Fiction: South Atlantic Quarterly; Literary Imagination; Southwest Review. Former National Endowment for the Arts Directing Fellow at the Mark Taper Forum, she has developed and directed new plays nationally and regionally: Marlane Meyer’s The Mystery of Attraction, Pacific Playwrights Festival, South Coast Repertory, and The Rule of Fate at Manbites Dog Theater; Neal Bell's "Shadow of Himself," New Play Summit, Denver Center Theater. In New York, she directed the English-language premiere of Heiner Muller’s Philoctetes; on the west coast she directed Sleeping Dogs by Neal Bell at Mark Taper Forum and Haut Gout by Allan Havis at South Coast Repertory; on the east coast Otherwise Engaged and The Road to Mecca for Virginia Stage Company, The Front Page for North Carolina Shakespeare Festival; regionally, world premieres at Burning Coal (Lydia Stryk’s Safe House) and Manbites Dog Theater (Neal Bell’s Somewhere in the Pacific). As part of Duke Previews, a professional producing entity, she developed and directed Nilo Cruz’s Hortensia and the Museum of Dreams, Megan Mostyn-Brown’s Going After Alice, and her own adaptation of Don DeLillo’s Mao II, a multimedia premiere starring Fred Neumann of Mabou Mines. She has developed and directed new plays at Sundance Institute, L.A. Theatre Center, Old Globe, and Bay Area Playwrights Festival at the Magic Theater. She directed her translation of Andreyev's He Who Gets Slapped and her translation/adaptation of Gogol's Inspector General--The Special Prosecutor-- at Duke, and developed her translations of Andreyev's The Idea and Chekhov's Seagull with New York Theatre Workshop. As a member of the Directing Workshop for Women at American Film Institute, she wrote, produced and directed a short film, My Man Ray, screened at AFI and festivals on both coasts. Her documentary short about a gulag survivor, Rodina, screened at Duke and her documentary short with Elizabeth Davis, Goin’ A Buffalo, screened at Center For Documentary Studies. She has been a regular reviewer of New York theatre for The Norwegian Shakespeare and Theatre Magazine. A member of Stage Directors and Choreographers Society, she is a graduate of the Yale School of Drama.

Teaching (Fall 2024):

Education:

M.F.A.Yale University1980
B.S.Northwestern University1976
Pushkin InstituteMoscow, U.S.S.R.
Specialties:

Directing
Literary & Cultural Criticism
Film
Acting
Curriculum Vitae
Selected Production Credits

    Directing Credits

  1. Anatomy of a Hug, by Kat Ramsburg, Director, Guest Artist, PlayLab Panelist, Theatre Workshop Instructor, Great Plains Theatre Conference, 2015
  2. DROWN, by David Hilder, MainStage, Director, Guest Artist, PlayLab Panelist, Theatre Workshop Instructor, Great Plains Theatre Conference, 2014
  3. Guest Director, National Theater Institute, 2015
  4. The Perfect Detonator, adapted from Joseph Conrad's The Secret Agent and directed by Jody McAuliffe, Duke University, 2014
  5. Gulag Follies, Duke University, 2009
    with Johanna McAuliffe
  6. The Special Prosecutor, Duke University, 2006
    with Johanna McAuliffe

    Dramaturgy Credits

  1. Let Us Now Praise Susan Sontag, by Sibyl Kempson; dramaturg, Abrons Art Center, 2015
  2. Let Us Now Praise Susan Sontag, by Sibyl Kempson; dramaturg, New Dramatists, 2015
  3. Ten Below, Sundance Institute, 1989
    with Johanna McAuliffe

    Film Credits

  1. My Man Ray, American Film Institute, 1988
    with Johanna McAuliffe
  2. RODINA, director/editor, Scenes of Secrecy Interdisciplinary Inquiries on Suspicion, Intelligence and Security, Duke University, 2008
    with Johanna McAuliffe
  3. GOIN' A BUFFALO, director/editor, Center for Documentary Studies, 2008
  4. A Stampede of Zebras, director, National Science Foundation, 1996
  5. Academic Integrity: The Bridge to Professional Ethics, director, National Science Foundation, 1994

    New York Theater

  1. Let Us Now Praise Susan Sontag, by Sibyl Kempson, Abrons Art Center, 2015
    with Jody McAuliffe; Sibyl Kempson
  2. Let Us Now Praise Susan Sontag, by Sibyl Kempson; dramaturg, New Dramatists, 2015
  3. Philoctetes by Heiner Muller, English Language Premiere, director, The Private Theatre at The Open Space, Off-Off Broadway, New York, 1981
  4. New York Theatre Workshop, Director/Curator, , 1993
  5. The Idea by L. Andreyev, Mondays-At-Three, Translated and directed by Jody McAuliffe, New York Theatre Workshop, 1993

    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

    Regional Theatre

  1. Anatomy of a Hug, by Kat Ramsburg, Director, Guest Artist, PlayLab Panelist, Theatre Workshop Instructor, Great Plains Theatre Conference, 2015
  2. DROWN, by David Hilder, MainStage, Director, Guest Artist, PlayLab Panelist, Theatre Workshop Instructor, 2014, Great Plains Theatre Conference, 2014
  3. Now You See Me by Neal Bell, World Premiere, director, Manbites Dog Theater, 2011
  4. The Birthday Party, by Harold Pinter, director, Common Ground Theatre, 2011
  5. GOING AFTER ALICE, by Megan Mostyn-Brown (LAByrinth ), w/Didi O’Connell, director, Theater Previews at Duke, 2008
  6. Shadow of Himself, by Neal Bell, director, New Play Summit, Denver Center Theater, 2007
  7. Safe House, by Lydia Stryk, World Premiere, director, Burning Coal Theatre Company, 2004
  8. 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
  9. Hortensia and the Museum of Dreams by Nilo Cruz, director, Theater Previews at Duke, 2000
  10. Somewhere in the Pacific by Neal Bell, director, Manbites Dog Theater Company, 1999
  11. The Mystery of Attraction by Marlene Meyer, director, Pacific Playwrights Festival, South Coast Repertory, 1999
  12. The Knee Desires the Dirt, by Julie Hebert, director, Bay Area Playwrights Festival, Magic Theatre, 1995
  13. The Front Page, by Hecht & MacArthur, director, NC Shakespeare Festival, 1992
  14. Otherwise Engaged by Simon Gray, director, Virginia Stage Company, 1991
  15. The Road to Mecca by Athol Fugard, director, Virginia Stage Company, 1989
  16. Heartbreaker by Donald Margulies, director, Sundance Institute Playwrights Lab, 1989
  17. Haut Gout by Allan Havis, West Coast Premiere, director, South Coast Repertory, 1987
  18. Souvenir by Jayne Anne Phillips, director, Mark Taper Forum Cabaret, 1986
  19. Sleeping Dogs by Neal Bell, New Theatre For Now, director, Mark Taper Forum, 1985
  20. Handy Dandy by William Gibson, Taper, With Gena Rowlands, Richard Dreyfuss, director, Taper, Too, 1984
  21. Eleanor Roosevelt: First Lady of the World, director, Taper Literary Cabaret, director, 1984
  22. Emigres by Slawomir Mrozek, West Coast Premiere, Theatre/Theater, Los Angeles, Director and Designer, 1983

    Television Credits

  1. Tom Cottle, Up Close, Metromedia Producers, 1981-1982
    with Johanna McAuliffe
  2. Dr. Ruth, MGM Television, 1981
    Production Assistant

    Other Production Credits

  1. The Italian Actress, Little Green Pig, Other Voices, Manbites Dog Theater, 2009
    with Johanna McAuliffe
  2. My Lovely Suicides, Little Green Pig, Other Voices, Manbites Dog Theater, 2007
    with Johanna McAuliffe
  3. The Seagull, Vassar College, 1994; New York Theatre Workshop Retreat at Dartmouth (Development), 1994; New Works Festival - Duke Drama Program, 1995, 1994-1995
    with Johanna McAuliffe
Representative Publications   (More Publications)

  1. McAuliffe, J. The Mythical Bill, A Neurological Memoir.  Sightline Series University of Iowa Press, (2013).
  2. McAuliffe, J. My Lovely Suicides (a novel).  Ravenna Press, (2008).
  3. Lentricchia, F; McAuliffe, J. Crimes of Art and Terror.  University of Chicago Press, (November, 2003): 200 pages.  [abs]
  4.  Plays, Movies, and Critics.  edited by McAuliffe, J Duke Press, (1993).
  5. Jody McAuliffe and Frank Lentricchia, translated into Turkish by Ayrinti Yayinlari. Crimes of Art and Terror. (2005).
  6. Various, . "Mysterious actions: New American drama."  Guest Editor South Atlantic Quarterly 99:2/3 (2000): 273-275. [doi]
  7. McAuliffe, J. "Standing on End."  short story Southwest Review  (Spring, 1989).
  8. McAuliffe, J. "The Imaginary Letters of Heinrich von Kleist to the Poet Holderlin."  fiction Literary Imagination  (Winter, 2001).
  9. McAuliffe, J. "Mythical Bill: An Inordinately Bright, Dreary Life." Topograph: New writing from the Carolinas and the landscape beyond  (2010).
  10. McAuliffe, J. "Gulag Follies." Ethics & Images of Pain  (2012).
  11. McAuliffe, J. "Enda Walsh - med unik scenisk fantasi." Norwegian Shakespeare and Theatre Magazine  (2011).
  12. McAuliffe, J. "Lucia Joyce as Cordelia and the Fool." Journal of Modern Literature  (2005).
  13. McAuliffe, J. "Boos etterkommere (Descendants of Boo)." Vagant Magazine, Norway  (September, 2006).
  14. with Frank Lentricchia. "Groundzeroland." South Atlantic QuarterlyDissent from the Homeland: Essays after 9/11  (2003).
  15. William Noland. "The Image World of Mao II."  contains my notes on William Noland's images South Atlantic Quarterly  (2003).
  16. McAuliffe, J. "Reflections on a Director’s Process."  translated by Evers, K; Rollerston, J The New Trial  (2001).

 


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