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Ellen Hemphill

Professor of the Practice Emerita of Theater Studies
Theater Studies
Box 90680, Durham, NC 27608-0608
03F Page, Durham, NC 27708
Office hours On leave fall 2020 semester.  

Selected Presentations & Appearances


Workshop on Voice and Gesture in Polignano, Italy - Voice and Sound · July 6, 2016 - July 12, 2016 Other Factor Hill Performance Company, Bari, Italy, Polignano, Italy

A former student from the American Dance Festival, and actor with Archipelago, Alessandra Gaeta from Bari, Italy extended an invitation to work with her company, Factor Hill, on a workshop and presentation in July 2016.

Duke/CSEEES Mellon Seminar · April 5, 2013 Lecture Duke University
Invited Guest Lecturer Duke Organization · October 21, 2012 Lecture Duke University/UNC
Voice and Gesture workshop · September 28, 2012 Lecture SUNY Fredonia, Fredonia NY
Communications Seminar · February 18, 2012 Lecture Sandford Institute-Duke University
Panel Taylor Mac Performance - Arts Initiative · December 4, 2011 Other UNC, Kenen Theater

Invited Lectures ; I have been asked to be on a post performance panel for the upcoming presentation of Taylor Mac's The Young Ladies Of... as part of UNC’s campus-wide arts initiative, The Gender Project. I was asked as a local Theater director, and as a director who has worked on Solo performance projects.

Office Hours Radio Show · December 4, 2011 Lecture Duke University
Lecture: Leadership training · December 4, 2011 Lecture Bryan Center Duke University
Expression, Behavior and Performance - Franklin Scholar · September 1, 2010 - April 13, 2011 Other John Hope Franklin Center -Duke, Duke

Part of Franklin Scholar Panel for the year

Process Theater class -4 weeks · November 1, 2008 Lecture UNC Grad School in Theater

Service to the Profession


Director : Archipelago Theater Inc. · 2008 Event/Organization Administration Chapel Hill, NC