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Jody McAuliffe

Professor of the Practice of Theater Studies
Theater Studies
Box 90680, Durham, NC 27708-0680
Campus Box 90680, Professor of the Practice, Durham, NC 27708

Presentations, Performances & Exhibitions


True Pearl by David Lang and Sibyl Kempson; dramaturg - Tapestry Room opera project · 2018 Exhibition, Screening, or Performance Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
Dramaturg, Panelist - Great Plains Theatre Conference · 2018 Invited Talk
Wendy Unwritten, by Kat Ramsburg; dramaturg - PlayLab · 2018 Exhibition, Screening, or Performance Great Plains Theater Conference
Our Half of the Sky, by Christine Ferrell; dramaturg; directed by Kristen Marting - PlayLab · 2018 Exhibition, Screening, or Performance Great Plains Theater Conference
Mrs. Polska, by Kenneth Prestininzi; dramaturg - PlayLab · 2018 Exhibition, Screening, or Performance Great Plains Theater Conference
Guest Director - Guest Faculty · 2018 Lecture National Theater Institute, Eugene O'Neill Theater Center
Don DeLillo's The Body Artist, adapted, directed, produced - Resident Artist · 2017 - 2018 Exhibition, Screening, or Performance Abrons Arts Center; Duke Performances
Guest Director - Guest Faculty · 2017 Lecture National Theater Institute, Eugene O'Neill Theater Center
Giantess by Genne Murphy; director - PlayLab · 2016 Exhibition, Screening, or Performance Great Plains Theater Conference
Everything is P.R., by Barbara Hammond; director/dramaturg - New Works Lab · 2016 Exhibition, Screening, or Performance Theater Previews at Duke
Mainstage Responder, Theatre Workshop Instructor, PlayLab Director · 2016 Other Great Plains Theatre Conference
Guest Director, Guest Faculty - National Theater Institute · 2016 Other Eugene O'Neill Theater Center
Let Us Now Praise Susan Sontag, by Sibyl Kempson; dramaturg - premiere · 2016 Exhibition, Screening, or Performance Abrons Arts Center
Anatomy of a Hug, by Kat Ramsburg; director - PlayLab · 2015 Exhibition, Screening, or Performance Great Plains Theater Conference
Guest Artist, PlayLab Panelist Theatre Workshop Instructor - Great Plains Theatre Conference · 2015 Other
Guest Director, Guest Faculty - National Theater Institute · 2015 Other Eugene O'Neill Theater Center
Guest Artist, PlayLab Panelist, Theatre Workshop Instructor - Great Plains Theatre Conference · 2014 Other
Drown, by David Hilder; director - PlayLab · 2014 Exhibition, Screening, or Performance Great Plains Theater Conference
Literature in Music & Music in Literature, "Use of Music in the Stage Adaptation of Shalamov's Kolyma Tales" · April 10, 2013 Lecture Duke University
The Mythical Bill, A Neurological Memoir · April 10, 2013 Lecture The Regulator Bookshop
Lear · 2013 Exhibition, Screening, or Performance Duke University
In the Process: Technology, Liveness & Stage/Screen Synthesis · March 13, 2012 Lecture CHAT Festival, Duke University
The Ballad of the Pine Tree Killers - Theatrical Translation as Creative Process: A Conference/Festival, Process Series · 2012 Exhibition, Screening, or Performance staged reading,
The Ballad of the Pine Tree Killers by Rebecca Kricheldorf, staged reading, Theatrical Translation as Creative Process: A Conference/Festival, Process Series, UNC/Duke, 2012 · November 29, 2011 Lecture
The Birthday Party · 2011 Exhibition, Screening, or Performance Common Ground Theatre Little Green Pig Theatrical Concern
Now You See Me - World Premiere · 2011 Exhibition, Screening, or Performance Manbites Dog Theater
Gatz: 10 Years After 9/11 · November 17, 2010 Lecture 2011 Comparative Drama Conference
TCG/ITI - US: Focus Group on International Exchange - Training for the World Stage · May 19, 2010 Lecture
The Beatification of Area Boy · 2010 Exhibition, Screening, or Performance Duke University
Now You See Me · 2010 Exhibition, Screening, or Performance Manbites Dog Theater Other Voices
Hunger (Steve McQueen, 2008), Screen/Society Panel Discussion · November 10, 2009 Lecture Duke University
Duke Arts Weekend Creative Arts Panel, Moderator · November 10, 2009 Lecture
Documenting the Pain of Others, Gulag Follies - The Second Nomadikon Meeting · July 6, 2009 Invited Talk University of Bergen, Norway, University of Bergen, Norway
Roundtable Discussion: Images of Pain/Painful Images - The Second Nomadikon Meeting · July 6, 2009 Invited Talk University of Bergen, Norway, University of Bergen, Norway
Film/Video/Digital Capstone,On Directing Actors · March 22, 2009 Lecture Duke University
Ibsen's "Ghosts" · March 22, 2009 Lecture Insight Speakers Series, Triad Stage, Greensboro
Gulag Follies - Gulag Follies · February 19, 2009 - February 21, 2009 Exhibition, Screening, or Performance Sheafer Theater,Duke University
The Italian Actress · 2009 Exhibition, Screening, or Performance Little Green Pig
The Italian Actress · 2009 Exhibition, Screening, or Performance Manbites Dog Theater
Gulag Follies · 2009 Exhibition, Screening, or Performance Duke University
The Rule of Fate · 2009 Exhibition, Screening, or Performance Manbites Dog Theater Other Voices
RODINA (documentary short) · December 24, 2008 Lecture Scenes of Secrecy, Interdisciplinary Inquiries on Suspicion, Intelligence, and Security, Duke University
Discord: Soviet Music & Memories · 2008 Exhibition, Screening, or Performance Duke University
Going After Alice - Theater Previews at Duke · 2008 Exhibition, Screening, or Performance
Shadow of Himself - New Play Summit · 2007 Exhibition, Screening, or Performance Denver Center Theater
Betrayal · 2007 Exhibition, Screening, or Performance Duke University
Shadow of Himself - World Premiere · 2007 Exhibition, Screening, or Performance Duke University
My Lovely Suicides · 2007 Exhibition, Screening, or Performance Manbites Dog Theater
My Lovely Suicides · 2007 Exhibition, Screening, or Performance Little Green Pig
Grand Guignol, A Sinister Scene - Unnamed event · 2006 Exhibition, Screening, or Performance Little Green Pig Theatrical Concern
The Special Prosecutor · 2006 Exhibition, Screening, or Performance Duke University
Three Nights in Prague · 2005 Exhibition, Screening, or Performance Duke University
The Pen in the Gashes - Unnamed event · 2004 Exhibition, Screening, or Performance Street Signs for Literature and Performance staged reading
Safe House - World Premiere · 2004 Exhibition, Screening, or Performance Burning Coal Theatre Company
Like a Christmas Tree - Arts in the Time of War · 2003 Exhibition, Screening, or Performance Duke University
Why Things Burn - ASTR Conference · 2003 Exhibition, Screening, or Performance Duke University
MAO II - Theater Previews at Duke · 2002 Exhibition, Screening, or Performance
Hortensia and the Museum of Dreams - Theater Previews at Duke · 2000 Exhibition, Screening, or Performance Duke University
Somewhere in the Pacific · 1999 Exhibition, Screening, or Performance Manbites Dog Theater
The Mystery of Attraction - Pacific Playwrights Festival · 1999 Exhibition, Screening, or Performance South Coast Repertory
Bliss Moon · 1999 Exhibition, Screening, or Performance Theater Previews at Duke
Orpheus Descending · 1998 Exhibition, Screening, or Performance Duke University
The New Trial - English Language Premiere · 1998 Exhibition, Screening, or Performance Duke University
Orpheus Descending - Tennessee Williams New Orleans Literary Festival · 1998 Exhibition, Screening, or Performance
The Bay of Naples - New Works Festival (American Premiere) · 1997 Exhibition, Screening, or Performance Duke University
The Father - Unnamed event · 1996 Exhibition, Screening, or Performance Duke Drama Program
Somewhere in the Pacific - New Play Readings · 1996 Exhibition, Screening, or Performance Manbites Dog Theater
The Seagull - New Works Festival-Duke Drama Program · 1995 Exhibition, Screening, or Performance
The Knee Desires the Dirt - Bay Area Playwrights Festival · 1995 Exhibition, Screening, or Performance Magic Theatre
Rachel Carson Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea - ATHE New Play Development Workshop · 1995 Exhibition, Screening, or Performance
McTeague - Duke Drama Program · 1994 Exhibition, Screening, or Performance
The Edge of Night - Duke Drama Program · 1994 Exhibition, Screening, or Performance
The Seagull · 1994 Exhibition, Screening, or Performance Vassar College
25 Fish in Dogpatch - Mondays-At-Three, New York Theatre Workshop · 1994 Exhibition, Screening, or Performance
The Seagull - New York Theatre Workshop Retreat · 1994 Exhibition, Screening, or Performance Dartmouth Development
25 Fish in Dogpatch - Bay Area Playwrights Festival · 1993 Exhibition, Screening, or Performance Magic Theatre
Hotel Florida - Unnamed event · 1993 Exhibition, Screening, or Performance Reading
Madness and Other Pleasures - Unnamed event · 1993 Exhibition, Screening, or Performance Duke Institute of Arts
The Idea - Mondays-At-Three, New York Theatre Workshop · 1993 Exhibition, Screening, or Performance
Skies, Cries, Mysteries and Some Horses · 1992 Exhibition, Screening, or Performance Durham, NC
Camouflage - Unnamed event · 1992 Exhibition, Screening, or Performance Readings of New Plays by Duke Students
The Front Page - NC Shakespeare Festival · 1992 Exhibition, Screening, or Performance
Roe's Bouquet - Unnamed event · 1992 Exhibition, Screening, or Performance Readings of New Plays by Duke Students
Man and Superman · 1992 Exhibition, Screening, or Performance DePauw University
The Suppliants by Aeschylus - Winterfest of Contemporary Arts VIII · 1992 Exhibition, Screening, or Performance Duke Institute of Arts
He Who Gets Slapped · 1991 Exhibition, Screening, or Performance Duke Drama Program
Lizzadro - Duke University Coffeehouse · 1991 Exhibition, Screening, or Performance
Otherwise Engaged · 1991 Exhibition, Screening, or Performance Virginia Stage Company
My Man Ray - Carolina Film & Video Festival · 1991 Exhibition, Screening, or Performance
Accelerando by Lisa Loomer - World Premiere · 1991 Exhibition, Screening, or Performance Odyssey Theatre Ensemble, Los Angeles
My Man Ray · 1991 Exhibition, Screening, or Performance North Carolina Museum of Art
Sounds Dangerous · 1991 Exhibition, Screening, or Performance Duke Women's Center
Face of Stone · 1991 Exhibition, Screening, or Performance NC Medicine & Society Reader's Repertory Theater
Entertaining Mr. Helms · 1990 Exhibition, Screening, or Performance Seventh Street
My Man Ray - Video Refuse Festival · 1990 Exhibition, Screening, or Performance San Francisco
Mud · 1990 Exhibition, Screening, or Performance Duke Drama Program
My Man Ray · 1990 Exhibition, Screening, or Performance Vancouver Women in Focus Society Exhibition
An Earful of Lickings - World Premiere · 1990 Exhibition, Screening, or Performance Duke Drama Program
Stories · 1990 Exhibition, Screening, or Performance Duke Readers Theatre
Libra · 1989 Exhibition, Screening, or Performance Duke Readers Theatre
The Storm · 1989 Exhibition, Screening, or Performance University of Southern California
The Miser · 1989 Exhibition, Screening, or Performance Duke Drama Program
Arsenic and Old Lace · 1989 Exhibition, Screening, or Performance Duke Stage Company
I've Got You Under My Skin - World Premiere · 1989 Exhibition, Screening, or Performance Duke Drama Program
My Man Ray · 1989 Exhibition, Screening, or Performance American Film Institute Exhibition
Ten Below · 1989 Exhibition, Screening, or Performance Sundance Institute
The Road to Mecca · 1989 Exhibition, Screening, or Performance Virginia Stage Company
Heartbreaker · 1989 Exhibition, Screening, or Performance Sundance Institute Playwrights Lab
Piano · 1988 Exhibition, Screening, or Performance LabWorks, Los Angeles Theatre Center
Mink Sonata - Play Discovery Program · 1988 Exhibition, Screening, or Performance Old Globe Theatre
Full Moon - World Premiere · 1988 Exhibition, Screening, or Performance Duke Drama Program
Suicide in B Flat · 1988 Exhibition, Screening, or Performance University of Southern California
My Man Ray · 1988 Exhibition, Screening, or Performance American Film Institute Directing Workshop for Women, produced, adapted & directed by Jody McAuliffe
Cinders · 1987 Exhibition, Screening, or Performance University of Southern California
Cocks Must Crow (excerpts) - Opera Buffs · 1987 Exhibition, Screening, or Performance National Opera Association
Rita · 1987 Exhibition, Screening, or Performance California State University, Long Beach
The Soiled Eyes of a Ghost - New Writers · 1987 Exhibition, Screening, or Performance New York
Dakota's Belly, Wyoming - New Works Project · 1987 Exhibition, Screening, or Performance Los Angeles Theatre Center
Adriadne on Naxos · 1987 Exhibition, Screening, or Performance Long Beach Opera
Haut Gout - West Coast Premiere · 1987 Exhibition, Screening, or Performance South Coast Repertory
Riders to the Sea - Intermedia Festival · 1987 Exhibition, Screening, or Performance Long Beach
Hans und Zuruck · 1987 Exhibition, Screening, or Performance California State University, Long Beach
Tango · 1986 Exhibition, Screening, or Performance University of Southern California
The Beggar's Opera Benjamin Britten version · 1986 Exhibition, Screening, or Performance Cal State Long Beach
Souvenir · 1986 Exhibition, Screening, or Performance Mark Taper Forum Cabaret
Virgil's Dream - Intermedia Festival · 1986 Exhibition, Screening, or Performance
The Other Side of the Curtain - Unnamed event · 1985 Exhibition, Screening, or Performance Mark Taper
The White Devil · 1985 Exhibition, Screening, or Performance Taper Lab
Sleeping Dogs - New Theatre For Now · 1985 Exhibition, Screening, or Performance Mark Taper Forum
Eleanor Roosevelt: First Lady of the World · 1984 Exhibition, Screening, or Performance Taper Literary Cabaret
Hage-The Sexual History · 1983 Exhibition, Screening, or Performance Vassar College
The Little Foxes · 1983 Exhibition, Screening, or Performance State University of New York, Purchase
Emigres - West Coast Premiere · 1983 Exhibition, Screening, or Performance Theatre/Theater
Philoctetes - English Language Premiere · 1981 Exhibition, Screening, or Performance The Open Space, New York
Drums in the Night · 1980 Exhibition, Screening, or Performance Yale School of Drama
Orestes · 1980 Exhibition, Screening, or Performance National High School Institute, Northwestern University
Interludes by Allan Havis - World Premiere · 1978 Exhibition, Screening, or Performance Ensemble Company for the Performing Arts, New Haven
The Misanthrope · 1978 Exhibition, Screening, or Performance Ensemble Company for the Performing Arts, New Haven

Service to the Profession


Panelist, Emerging Artists panel, Durham Arts Council · 2016 Community Outreach Community Service
Emerging Artists Panel · 2016 Other Durham Arts Council
Dean's referee on promotion for Northwestern University · 2015 Other
external reviewer for promotion, Old Dominion University · May 15, 2012 Other Service to the Profession
external reviewer for tenure appointment, UCSB · December 24, 2008 Other Service to the Profession
Emerging Artists Panel · 2008 Other Durham Arts Council
EXTERNAL REVIEWER FOR PROMOTION, UCSB · 2008 Other Service to the Profession
external reviewer for tenure at SUNY Buffalo, George Mason University, and Northwestern University · 2006 - 2014 Other