Faculty Bio

Professional Bio

2004 Ph.D., Communication/Performance studies. University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Dissertation: Applied theater in corrections (Community, identity, learning and transformation in collaborative processes of performance praxis)

2001 M.A. University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Thesis: Coordinated management of meaning in the productive postshow (An analysis of facilitated audience conversation following a one-woman show about the experience of seeking treatment for breast cancer)

1995 B.A. Hampshire College, Amherst, MA. Division II: Film video and music. Division III: Treating Me (Using documentary video, theatre and dialogue together as critical inquiry)

Research & Scholarship

Research & Scholarship

2012 Performing Arts and Community Exchange (PACE) and the Fulfillment of the Jesuit Educational Promise. Jesuit Higher Education: A Journal, Vol 1, No 1 (2012)

2007 Critical Thinking About Critical Thinking. Chapter in Karson, M. Deadly Therapy. Rowman & Littlefield

2009 Theater, artful inquiry and public purpose: Communicating deeply important stories and helping to make them relevant. In Foreman-Wernet, L. and Dervin, B. Audiences and the Arts: Communication Perspectives. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press

2005 Applied theater in corrections. Dissertation. ProQuest Information and Learning Company. Ann Arbor, MI

2004 The productive postshow. Theatre Topics 14:1 317 - 338. The Johns Hopkins University Press

Papers, Presentations & Panels

2012 The House Not Touched by Death. Play; panel discussion about theatre and health care. Performing the World International Conference, New York, NY

2012 Face: Online, live and immediate theatre for teens in a wireless world. Round table/workshop. Performing the World International Conference, New York, NY

2012 Face: Online, live and immediate theatre for teens in a wireless world. Preconference session. Dramatic Change: An Anti-Bullying Initiative. American Alliance for Theatre Education National Conference, Lexington, KY

2010 Activating the Campus: Can Performance Make a Difference? Panel session. Theatre Alive: Theater, Media, and Survival:24th Annual Association for Theatre in Higher Education National Conference, Los Angeles, CA

2010 Bringing Light to the Darkness Where the Worst of Us are Kept: Using Theatre to Connect to Correctional Institutions. Panel presentation. Theatre Alive: Theater, Media, and Survival:24th Annual Association for Theatre in Higher Education National Conference, Los Angeles, CA

2009 Guest lecturer on Performance Theory. Artur Poczardowski, Ph.D., Professor. Sports and Performance Program, Graduate School of Professional Psychology, University of Denver, CO

2008 Should you have said that? Remembering why free speech is important in a climate of blame, shame and fear. Panel session. Rocky Mountain Communication Association. Ft. Collins, CO

2006 Public speaking and community-based learning. National Communication Association, San Antonio, TX.

2005 How do we talk About it? Playback, community-grounded pedagogy and the productive postshow. International Playback Theater Symposium. Tempe, AZ

2005 Prison teaching and research: Conflict, change and conformity. Society for Applied Anthropology 65th Annual Convention. Santa Fe, NM

2004 A study of the impact of a long-term collaborative theater project in a Massachusetts correctional facility. Citizen Artist: Theater, Culture, and Community. International Federation for Theater Research annual conference, June 26 - July 2. Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, University of Maryland, College Park

2004 Democratic process as a rite of limen: A social drama perspective on the controversy over The Crux at Amherst Regional High School. NCA, Performance Studies Division

2001 Challenging and transforming deadly spaces of authority: steps towards a responsible and responsive educational body. Borderlands Conference: (re) Mapping Zones of Identity and Culture.

2001 The meaning in stories told about awkward moments. Eastern Communication Association. New York, N.Y.

Awards & Recognition

Fellowships, Awards & Honors

2006 Rehearsal residency for development of new work. Ko Festival of Performance

2003 Top paper, Performance Studies Division, National Communication Association

00-04 Javits fellow, Department of Communication, University of Massachusetts

1997 Copeland fellow, Amherst College

1995 Winner, best documentary (Treating Me) Five Colleges film & video festival Janna L. Goodwin 3/4

1995 Grand Prize, U.S. Super 8 film & video festival (Composer, The Third Day - Wendy Woodson, director)

1994 Denice O’Neill fellow, Hampshire College

1993 Massachusetts delegate, Women as Leaders National Conference. Washington, D.C.

Grants

2012 Regis University faculty publication grant

2011 Regis University summer grant

2007 Case Foundation Make It Your Own! Award for Five Two Eight O

2006 Regis University summer grant

2001 Women's Fund of Western Massachusetts

1996 AHAB-Neodata grant

1996 AHAB-Addison mini grant

1996 Boulder Arts Commission grant

1994 Infinity Video grant

1993 Public Service and Social Change grant

1993 Hampshire College Women’s Center grant

      1992 Burroughs-Wellcome Community grant

Community Involvment & Service

Advising

2004-prsnt Advise undergraduate students, both Communication majors and entering freshmen - on course selection & programmatic decisions. Mentor, listen, help to reframe when appropriate, and provide information about support services available to students who need more than academic advising

2008-2012 Founded and advise student sketch and improv comedy ensemble, OutRegis!

Other service

2012-13 Communication Department chair

2012-13 Communication Department search committee chair

2012-2013 Founder, convener of Regis Performance Alliance and administrator of social media page

2012-2013 Administrator, Communication Department social media page

2012 Faculty Development committee substitute member

2008 Campus Facilities working group member

2007 English Department search committee member

Fall/07 Produced campus colloquium on difference

Spr/07 Within context of community-based learning in upper division dialogue class, produced campus-wide dialogues on race and racism in collaboration with Diversity Office

    Facilitated a collaboration between Regis and director Angela Astle to produce Dead Man

    Walking at the Denver Victorian Theatre. Regis students participated as actors or production assistants, and Regis classes attended

    Within context of community-based learning in undergraduate Honors speech communication course, evaluated, revised and produced content for ACEC website and community brochure

2006-2012 Created, produced and facilitated many campus dialogues on diversity

Fall/06 Within context of community-based learning in undergraduate Honors speech communication course, produced a documentary video for the Adams County Educational Consortium (ACEC) on their activities, specifically their Career Expo for 8^th graders. The video is used by ACEC to communicate ACEC’s mission to middle school and high school teachers and students, parents and community

2005-2008 Participated on campus Strategic Planning committees

2005-2008 Budget and Facilities committee (also committee liaison to Board of Trustees)

2004-2006 Co-coordinated and co-produced faculty Speaker Series

2004-2013 Incorporate service learning and community-based inquiry into courses

2004-2013 Serve as Director of Com 210 (Public Speaking) course; oversee and supervise course, produce semi-annual Student Speaker Showcase; develop and oversee curriculum, promote course revisions and manage course relationship to Regis core

Professional Activity 

2009 Facilitator. Network of Ensemble Theatres Summit: Discussion of Fuku Americanus. San Francisco, CA

2008 Planning Committee for the (2008) Western States Communication Association conference

2008 Western States Communication Association conference. Facilitated a Community Roundtable during the opening event, where communication scholars offered pro bono consultation to local nonprofits. Broomfield, CO

2008 Represented Ko Theatre Works at the Network of Ensemble Theatres Gathering in New Orleans, LA

2008 Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE) conference in Denver, CO

2007 Wrote the Western States Communication Association’s (WSCA) Colorado promotional production

2007 Planning committee, Rocky Mountain Communication Association (RMCA) annual conference, hosted by Regis, Denver

2005 WSCA annual conference. Chaired panel for Undergraduate Scholars Research Preconference. Palm Springs, CA

2005 Member of the 5-person consulting team from DramaWorks, Inc. for Oxford Biosciences. Cape Cod, MA

Creative Work

Plays and other work (original solo or collaboratively-developed scripts and productions)

2012 Face: Online, live and immediate theatre for teens in a wireless world. A collaboration with Modern Muse Theatre. (Created, developed, wrote)

2011 LaughingStock. Full length play. (Wrote, with Ethan Karson)

2007 Just Pretend Everything is Perfectly Normal. Evening of original work. (Wrote, directed,

performed). Playwright Theatre, Denver, CO

2006 Pointers. One act play. (Wrote, directed, performed). Opened at Ko Festival of Performance

2006 Scenes from TransContinental. Unnamed character. Experimental video. Wendy Woodson

2005 Lenore-Nerve. Self. Experimental video. Wendy Woodson

2006 If You Lived Here, You’d Be Home By Now. One act play. (Wrote, directed, performed). Workshop

performances UMass, Amherst; Ko Festival of Performance. Directed by Sheila Siragusa

2000 The House Not Touched By Death. Full length musical. (Wrote, directed, performed with Pilgrim Theatre). Boston, MA. Sponsored by Hospice of New England on tour. Directed by Kim Mancuso

1995-96 Before You Go; Horses and La Chair (Flesh). Three short pieces. (Wrote, directed, performed). National

 

Shakespeare Conservatory, New York; The Colorado Shakespeare Festival AIDS Cabaret

1992 Serving Time. Full length play created from real letters between an American woman and an Algerian bank robber imprisoned in France. (Collected, edited, translated from French; performed). Ko Festival of Performance. Directed by Sabrina Hamilton

 

1992 The Third Day. (Performed; created sound score) Experimental video. Wendy Woodson

1991 A Little Café On Watercourse Way. Full length play. (Wrote, directed, performed). National Shakespeare

Conservatory, New York

Directing (Theatre, documentary and experimental video)

2010 Those Whose Arms Are Open (Created and directed with students of Denver Venture Charter

School, Regis students and kocoloco community-based arts)

2006 Mothers Day. One act play. (Wrote, directed). Public reading. Ko Festival of Performance (2006)

2004 Space is Destiny. A video argument for innovative learning spaces at Regis University.

2001 Keeping a Breast. One woman performance about seeking treatment for cancer. by B.J. Goodwin. Ko Festival of Performance; New England tour

 

1998 Eve. One woman performance by Lesley Farlow. Thorne’s Marketplace, Northampton, MA

1997 Undiscovered Country. Colorado Shakespeare Festival New Works Series.

1994 Treating Me. Video about health care providers and women living with HIV/AIDS. Dist. by New England AIDS Education & Training Center.

1994 Karaoke Night (with Andrew Martin). Center for Human Resources Development

 

1991 Improvisation and comedy. Various locations, Amherst and Northampton, MA

1991 The Dream. Theater/puppetry, Peter Lobdell. Eugene O’Neill Center

1985 Killing Andrea. Full length comedy. Denver Theater Project

Composing: Sample commissioned music and sound scores for theater, dance, and video

2001 Dig. Theater/movement/video work by Wendy Woodson, Amherst College

1996 Othello. Directed by Lynn Nichols. The Colorado Shakespeare Festival

1995 The Caucasian Chalk Circle. Directed by Lynn Nichols. University of Colorado

1994 The Bakkhai. University of Massachusetts

1994 Whose Home? video by Ellen Kaplan. Smith College

1993 Octet. Theater/dance work by Wendy Woodson

1992 Trout. Video by Wendy Woodson