Jeanmarie Higgins

theatre history + theory

new play development

new works dramaturgy

 

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      Education

      PhD Theatre History, Theory & Criticism, University of Washington, Seattle, WA

      Dissertation: Producing Absence: Theatrical Representations of Domestic Space

      Committee: Herbert Blau; Sarah Bryant-Bertail; Nancy Hartsock; Barry B. Witham

       

      MFA Playwriting, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA

       

      BA Theatre Arts, Drew University, Madison, NJ

      Academic Appointments

      Associate Professor, School of Theatre

      The Pennsylvania State University

      2017 – present

       

      Assistant Professor of Dramaturgy, Theatre Department

      University of North Carolina at Charlotte

      2011 – 2017

       

      Theatre & Performance Production Faculty

      Cornish College of the Arts

      2007 – 2011

      Courses Taught

      Studio Courses

      Playwriting / Interdisciplinary Art - New Performance Workshop / Theatre Collaboration

       

      Theatre Studies Courses

      Dramaturgy / Critical Performance Theory / Play Analysis / Research Methods / Introduction to Theatre / Ancient - 17th Century Theatre History / 17th – 20th Century Theatre History / Contemporary Theatre History / Women in Performance / Post-colonial Theory & Performance

      New Works Dramaturgy

      In process:

       

      (Steel Valley Rhythms) Penn State University 2017-2019

      Choreographer, Michele Dunleavy

       

      (Second Story Project) Children's Theatre of Charlotte & Actors Theatre of Charlotte 2016 - 2019

      Playwright: Steven Dietz. Co-Investigator: Dr. Beth Murray

       

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      WIN. PLACE. SHOW. AGA Collaborative Davidson College 2016

      Choreographers: Gretchen Alterowitz, Alison Bory, Amanda Hamp

       

      PLACED AGA Collaborative UNC Charlotte 2015

      Choreographers: Gretchen Alterowitz, Alison Bory, Amanda Hamp

       

      GEOMANCY Elisabeth Lewis Corley and Elizabeth Gray, poets. The Process Series UNC Chapel Hill 2015

      Directed by Joseph Megel. Choreography by AGA Collaborative. An interdisciplinary performance with poetry, dance, and visual design.

       

      IMPERIAL GESTURE Martha Graham Dance Company 2013

      Choreographer, Kim Jones after Martha Graham (1935); Performed by Blakeley White-McGuire; Original Music by Pat Daughtery after Lehmann Engel (1935); Costume Design, Karen Young; Lighting Design, Judith Daitsman

       

      NEW WORKS FESTIVAL UNC Charlotte Department of Theatre & Children’s Theatre of Charlotte 2013

      Director Adam Burke

       

      AND HOW TO BE IN TWO PLACES AT ONCE AGA Collaborative 2013

      Gretchen Alterowitz, Alison Bory, Amanda Hamp. The Dance Complex, Boston (2015); Colby College (2014) UNC Charlotte, (2013)

       

      MAMA GOOSE, UNC Charlotte and the Charlotte Mecklenburg County Libraries 2013

      A new bilingual Spanish/English musical play for children by Beth Murray and Irania Patterson

      Book Project

      The Domestic Uncanny in Contemporary Performance: Producing Absence

      Publications

      Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

      • "AGA Collaborative: Walking in the Academy." SDC Journal 5:4 (Summer 2017): 34-38.
      • "Rehearsal Skirts: Undergraduate Research and 'Hamletmachine'’s Chorus of Dead Ophelias," PARtake: The Journal of Performance as Research: Vol. 1: Iss. 1, Article 5. 2016. 
      • "Iconicity and the Archive: Imperial Gesture 1935/2013." Review: Journal of Dramaturgy 24:1 (2015): 8-18.
      • With Anita Tripathi Easterling. “The Front Porch: A Case Study In Designing Domestic Stage Space Using Semiotic Analysis.” Theatre Topics 23.1 (2013): 35-44.
      • “The End of Room-Space: Domesticity and the Absent Audience In Wallace Shawn’s The Fever.” Journal Of Dramatic Theory and Criticism 1.2 (2012): 57-73.
      • “The Revitalization of Space: Freestyle Parkour and Its Audiences.” Theatre Symposium 17 (2009): 113-123.

      Performance Reviews

      • "The Glas Nocturne by Akropolis Performance Lab, Seattle, WA." Theatre Journal 68:1 (2016): 114-116. 
      • “Poetic Portraits of a Revolution by the Sacrificial Poets, Chapel Hill, NC.” Theatre Journal 65.1 (2013): 117-119.

      Book Reviews

      • “Contemporary Mise En Scène: Staging Theatre Today by Patrice Pavis.” Theatre Journal. 66.4 (2014): 648-649. Solicited.
      • “Walking on Fire: the Shaping Force of Emotion in Writing Drama by Jim Linnell." Theatre History Studies. 33.1 (2014): 278-280.
      • Leaving Art: Writings on Performance, Politics, and Publics, 1974–2007 by Suzanne Lacy. New England Theatre Journal 23 (2012): 149-151.
      • "Correspondence Course: An Epistolary History Of Carolee Schneemann and Her Circle. Ed, Kristine Stiles." Theatre Research International 37.3 (2012): 291-292. 
      • "Albee in Performance by Rakesh Solomon." Theatre Survey 53.2 (2012): 359-361.

      Other Publications

      • DuPont, C., Higgins, J., and Mayhorn, J. "Student learning outcomes." Prospect for Success: A campus guide for developing success, inquiry and cultural awareness in first year students (eBook). Charlotte, N.C.: J. Murrey Atkins Library, 2017.
      • "The Youngest Person in the Room: Dramaturgy in Undergraduate Theatre Programs." HowlRound 15 May 2016.
      • Performance Prospectus “Art and Work in Pat Graney’s Faith Triptych,” Extended program essay for the NW Dance Series, On the Boards, (presenting organization) Seattle, WA, October 2010
      • Play. To Moscow!. New York: Playscripts, Inc., 2004
      • Play. Science Fair. New York: Playscripts, Inc., 2004

      Funding and Awards

      • The Mellon School, “Locations of Theater” Conveners: Martin Puchner, Andrew Sofer, and Derek Miller. Harvard University. Summer 2014.
      • Faculty Research Grant, University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Toward research related to book in progress, Dwelling in Public: Domestic Space in Contemporary Theatre, Dance, and Performance Art. 2014-2015.
      • American Society for Theatre Research (ASTR) Collaborative Research Award. Jeanmarie Higgins and Lisa Jackson-Schebetta (University of Pittsburgh). toward Embodied Research / Researching Embodiment in collaboration with the Department of Theatre Studies at the University of Pittsburgh. 2013.
      • UNC Charlotte Faculty Research Grant. Dance Dramaturgy. toward research in dance dramaturgy as a collaborative, artistic practice. 2012-2014
      • UNC Charlotte Diversity Grant. with Robin Witt. Sacrificial Poets, to support Chapel Hill performance poets Kane Smego and Will McInerney’s spoken word poetry master class for Theatre Collaboration students. 2013
      • UNC Charlotte Diversity Grant. with Beth Murray. Dramaturgy Outreach, to support master classes in African-American performance history, delivered to Arts & Society: Theatre students, in support of the theatre department production of George C. Wolfe’s The Colored Museum. 2012

      Interviews, Talks, Master Classes

      • "Domestic Stage Space in Hamletmachine." The University of Wisconsin, Madison. 2017.
      • "AGA Collaborative: Walking in the Academy" for UNC Charlotte, 2017.
      • Master Class (via Skype). “Dance Reconstruction Dramaturgy” for Dr. Ariel Nereson's Advanced Dramaturgy Seminar. SUNY-College at Buffalo Department of Theatre and Dance. 2015.
      • Barbara Morgan's Photographs of Martha Graham." Lecture dance with Kim Jones for "ArtFusion: Modernism" public lecture at the Mint Museum, Charlotte, NC.  2014.
      • “Dance Reconstruction: a Dramaturgy of the Body.” Lecture dance with Kim Jones. Public Praxis: Performing, Race, History. University of Pittsburgh Humanities Institute. 2014.
      • Master Class (via Skype). “Dance Reconstruction Dramaturgy” for Dr. Lisa Jackson-Schebetta’s graduate seminar, “Race and Embodiment in 20th Century Performance in the Americas.” University of Pittsburgh Department of Theatre Studies. 2013.
      • Gia Kourlas, “Recreating the Reign: the Better to Fall.” New York Times 15 Feb 13.
      • Invited Talk. Preshow Panel: “Reconstructing Martha Graham’s Imperial Gesture.” January 18, 2013. Martha Graham Dance Company, Knight Theatre, Charlotte, NC.
      • Radio interview. “Martha Graham Dance Company Comes to Charlotte.” January 14, 2013. Charlotte Talks, Interview with Mike Collins, NPR station WFAE 90.7, Charlotte, NC.
      • Master Class. “Dramaturgies of (Post)Modernisms: from Literature to Performance,” University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Department of Communication Studies. 2012.

      University Dramaturgy

      UNC CHARLOTTE

      Hamletmachine by Heiner Muller, director Robin Witt

      Project/Hope (devised performance), director Robin Witt

       

      CORNISH COLLEGE OF THE ARTS

      New Works Festival 2011, director Rhonda Soikowski

      New Work Festival 2010, director Richard E. T. White

      New Works Festival 2009, director Bret Fetzer

      The Good Person of Sichuan, director Megan Sandberg-Zakian

       

      UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON

      The Bacchae by Euripides, director Andrew Tsao

       

      Symposia and Audience Talkbacks (selected)

      • 2016 “Volkskörper: the Body of the People” for Hamletmachine. Director Robin Witt. Guest scholar: Visiting Assistant Professor of German Studies, Dr. Caroline Weist, Davidson College.
      • 2014 “Writing Lives” for 4.48 Psychosis, Director Robin Witt. An audience discussion with special guest, Ryan Claycomb, author of Lives in Play: Autobiography and Biography on the Feminist Stage.
      • 2013 “Es Nuestro/It’s Ours: Engaging Diverse Child Audiences” with authors: Alma Flor Ada; Isabel Campoy; Assistant Professor of Theatre Education, Beth Murray; Irania Patterson; Professor Andrew Hartley; Associate Professor of English, Paula Connelly.
      • 2012 “Where is Russia in Anton Chekhov’s Seagull?” for Seagull, director, Robin Witt. Special guest: Associate Professor of History, Dr. Dave Pretty, History Department, Winthrop University.
      • 2012 “Surviving Trauma,” for Paula Vogel’s How I Learned to Drive. Director Lon Bumgarner, with UNC Charlotte Creative Writing faculty: Christopher Davis, poet; Aimee Parkison, fiction writer.
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