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KATIE PEARL

Department of Theater, Wesleyan University, 275 Washington Terrace, Middletown, CT 06457

kpearl@wesleyan.edu | (917) 699-3109 | www.katiepearl.com

EDUCATION

MFA, Writing for Performance. Brown University, 2015
BA, Drama. University of Washington, 1995, Magna Cum Laude

APPOINTMENTS

Academic

Assistant Professor, Theater Department, Wesleyan University, 2019-present.

Quinn Martin Guest Chair of Directing, Theater Department, University of California San Diego, 2017-18 Anschutz Distinguished Fellow, American Studies Department, Princeton University, 2017

Visiting Lecturer, Theater, Dance & Media Department, Harvard University, Fall 2016 Visiting Lecturer, Department of Theater, Whitman College, 2012

Adjunct Professor, University of Texas Austin, Fordham University, SUNY Purchase, 2010-2018

Professional

Co-Artistic Director of PearlDamour, NYC/New Orleans, 1997-present

ARTISTIC ACTIVITY AND SCHOLARSHIP

Original Work by PearlDamour

Co-Artistic Director with Pulitzer-nominated playwright Lisa D’Amour, 1997-present

Ocean Filibuster. Co-creator/Director. Performance featuring music and video, including interactive elements and collaborations with local environmental partners. Commissioning Producers: American Repertory Theater with the Harvard University Center for the Environment.

Premiere: American Repertory Theater, Cambridge, MA, Feb/Mar 2022

Tour: University of Houston, Quintero Theater, Houston, TX, Mar 2022; Live Arts Miami, Adrienne Arsht Center, Miami, FL, Nov 2022; Wesleyan University, Center for the Arts Theater, Middletown, CT, May 2023; The Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA, June, 2023; Duke Arts Presents, Reynolds Industries Theater, Durham, NC, Sep 2023; University of Utah, Kingsbury Hall, Salt Lake City, UT, Mar 2024

Milton. Co-creator/Director. A 5-year, 5-city performance and community engagement experiment made for and with 5 U.S. towns named Milton. Developed at Berkeley Rep Ground Floor, American Conservatory Theater, Brown University, 2012-2017.

Premiere/Tour: Performed in accessible community spaces in three Miltons: the Milton Woman’s Club, Milton, NC, Aug 2014; The Milton High School Auditorium Stage, Milton-Freewater, OR, Jun 2016; The Milton Public Library, Milton, MA, May 2017

Lost in the Meadow. Co-creator/Director. Site-specific for 45-acre meadow at Longwood Botanical Gardens. Commissioning Producers: Longwood Botanical Gardens and People’s Light and Theater.

Venue: “The Meadow” at Longwood Botanical Gardens, Kennett Square, PA, Sep 2015

How to Build a Forest. Co-creator/Director/Performer. 8-hour performance installation constructing and deconstructing an elaborate fabric-based forest on empty stages; audiences come and go throughout.

Premiere: The Kitchen, NYC, NY, Jun 2011

Tour: Duke University, Page Auditorium, Durham, NC, July 2012; Brown University, The Perry Marty Granoff Center for the Creative Arts, Providence, RI, Mar 2013; Vanderbilt University, Neely Theater, Nashville, TN, Mar 2014; Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA, Oct 2015

Terrible Things. Co-creator/Performer. Site-responsive for PS 122 theater space. Commissioning Presenter PS122. PS122 mainstage + Coil Festival, NYC, NY, December- January, 2010

Bird Eye Blue Print. Co-Creator/Director. Site-specific for empty office suite, Commissioning Producer: Arts > Brookfield Properties. World Financial Center, NYC, NY, May 2007

LandMARK. Co-Creator/Director. 24-hour site-specific multi-layered performance event on the Stone Arch Bridge over the Mississippi River made in partnership with community groups. Stone Arch Bridge + surrounds, Mississippi River, Minneapolis, MN, Aug 2005

Limo. Co-creator/Performer. Commissioned by Whitney Museum’s Performance on 42nd Street Series. Site specific for lobby of the Altria Building on 42nd Street across from Grand Central, NYC, NY, May, 2004.

Slabber. Co-Creator/Director. Traveling performance installation performed in various venues.

Premiere: Intermedia Arts, Minneapolis, MN, May, 1999

Tour: Frontera@Hyde Park Theater, Austin, TX, Feb, 2000; Women in Professional Theater Conference, Chicago, IL, July, 2001; Brown University, Providence, RI, April, 2004; NYC Itinerant series in basements, living rooms, and empty store fronts, NYC, NY, 2005

Nita & Zita. Co-Creator/Performer. Intimate spectacle about Hungarian Showgirl Sisters/outsider artists and their life in New Orleans in the mid-20th century.

Premiere: State-Palace Theater, New Orleans, LA, June, 2002

Tour: ALLGO, Austin, TX, Feb, 2003; Southern Repertory Theater, New Orleans, LA, May, 2003; Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA, 2005; Walker Arts Center OUT THERE Series, Southern Theater, Minneapolis, MN, 2005; HERE Theater, NYC, NY, 2005 *Obie Award; Pandemic Era Live Stream “Back from the Dead and Online,” virtual, 2020

Directing

Mud/Drowning by María Irene Fornés. Associate Director with JoAnne Akalaitis. Mabou Mines, Under the Radar Theater Festival at the Public Theater, NYC, Jan, 2022 (canceled due to COVID)

What of the Night? by María Irene Fornés. University of California/San Diego, La Jolla Playhouse, La Jolla, CA, 2017

Red Hills by Sean Lewis with Deborah Asiimwe Kawe. Site-responsive for two venues in two cities. Producer: Quantum Theater, venue: Outdoor parking structure, Pittsburgh, PA, 2017; Producer: En Garde Arts, venue: vacant 9th floor of a Financial District High Rise, NYC, NY, 2018

Panic! Euphoria! Black Out! by Ellen Maddow. Producer: The Talking Band. HERE Arts Center, NYC, NY, 2010

The Cataract by Lisa D’Amour. Producer: WP Theater (formerly The Woman’s Project), Julia Miles Theater, NYC, NY, 2006

The Wrestling Patient by Kirk Lynn with Anne Gottlieb and Katie Pearl. Producer: 40 Magnolias and Speakeasy Stage. Roberts Studio Theatre in the Stanford Calderwood Pavilion at the Boston Center for the Arts, Mar, 2009

Still Fountains by Michael Mitchell. Producer/Presenter: Salvage Vanguard Theater. Austin, TX, 2008

Nightswim by Steve Moore. Producer/Presenter: The State Theater. Austin, TX, 2004

Anna Bella Eema by Lisa D’Amour. Producer: New Georges, HERE Arts Center, NYC, NY, 2003 *Village Voice pick; Producer: Physical Plant Theater, The Blue Theater, Austin, TX, 2000


Professional Staged Readings

Dressed Like an Egg and Dead End Kids (staged readings) by JoAnne Akalaitis. Mabou Mines 50th Anniversary Celebration, Mabou Mines at Performance Space NY, NYC, NY, June, 2022

Fornés Marathon. Director and Associate Producer. With JoAnne Akalaitis: a 12-hour marathon of readings of the plays of María Irene Fornés. Direction of What of the Night? (excerpts) Public Theater, NYC, NY, Aug, 2018

50,000 Mice by Jessica Litwak. 25th Anniversary Alumni Jam, Rattlestick Theater, NYC, NY, 2020

SHIT and Lover by Patricia Cornelius. Staged reading, Windham-Campbell Playwriting prize. Yale University, New Haven, CT, 2019

SHIT by Patricia Cornelius, Pen World Voices International New Play Festival, Martin E. Segal Theatre Center, City University of New York, NYC, NY, 2017

Town Hall by Caridad Svich. The Lark Theater and Ensemble Studio Theater, NYC, NY, 2017


New Play Development/Workshops

Address-less by Hungarian Company StereoAKT. Rattlestick Theatee, NYC, NY, Jan-May 2019

Little Miss 1565 by Peggy Stafford. Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab, Soho Repertory Theater, NYC, NY, 2010

Panic! Euphoria! Blackout! by Ellen Maddow. New Dramatists, NYC, NY, 2008

Breadcrumbs by Jen Haley. Play Penn New Play Development Conference, Philadelphia, PA, July 2008

Painful Adventures by Sylvan Oswald. St. Ann’s Puppetry Lab, St. Ann’s Warehouse, Brooklyn, NY, 2005


Directing for Wesleyan University Theater Department Mainstage Productions

Ocean Filibuster by PearlDamour. Center for the Arts Theater (proscenium), Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT, May, 2023

Everybody by Brandon Jacobs-Jenkins. Center for the Arts Theater (black box), Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT, Nov, 2022

Oedipus El Rey by Luis Alfaro. Center for the Arts Theater (black box), Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT, Nov, 2021

Slabber by Lisa D’Amour. Outdoor, socially distant performance on the Center for the Arts Green, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT, Oct, 2020

The Method Gun by the Rude Mechs, re-devised by the Wesleyan students. Intended venue: Center for the Arts Theater (proscenium), COVID pivot to zoom. May, 2020 (currently over 5K views on YouTube)

Playwriting

The Library Project. Fools Fury Production, San Francisco, CA, 2020 (canceled due to COVID)

The Earth’s Blue Heart. Commissioned by the Climate Change Theater Action Project (CCTA)

Performed internationally in festival format at the following venues:

  • The Earth’s Blue Heart, School of Humanities, Media, and Communication, Massey University, Wellington, New Zealand, April 25, 2023, and subsequently at the Universidad de los Andes, April 2023

  • UMeARTh, the University of Montana, Missoula, MT, Sep 20, 2019

  • Climate Change Theater Action, University of Rhode Island and the Wilbury Theater Group, Providence, RI, Sep 19, 2019

  • Climate Change Theatre Action in Eden Terrace, The Drama Discourse Society, Auckland, New Zealand, Oct 11, 2019

  • Climate Change Theater Greenfield, Greenfield, MA, Oct 13, 2019

  • Lighting the Way: Nine Short Plays That Stubbornly Celebrate a Sustainable Future, Mississippi Valley Textile Museum, Almonte, Ontario, Canada, Oct 17, 2019

  • Take 10 for Climate Change, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, Nov 4-8, 2019

  • Reading Camp, Water Radio/O Miami, University of Florida, Miami, FL, Nov 6, 2109

  • Camino Real Radio plays, KUNM, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, Nov 12, 2019

  • Climate Change Theatre Action at Harvard, Signet Society, Cambridge, MA, Nov 15, 2019

  • Performing Climate Change in Hamburg, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany, Nov 15, 2019

  • Eco-Design Charrette, Triga Studio, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Dec 2-20, 2019

  • An Evening of Action Theater, Siena College, Loudenville, NY, Dec 3, 2019

  • Climate Change Theater Action Day, Sonoma County, CA, Dec 7, 2019

  • Lighting the Way: Six Plays That Invite Us to Participate in a Global Conversation, to Talk to Each other for a While About Our World, Our Environment, Our Earth, Drama Dogs @ Santa Barbara Public Library, Santa Barbara, CA, Dec 8, 2019

  • Climate Change Theater Action Readings, NYU Abu Dhabi Theater Program, Abu Dhabi, UAE, Dec 11, 2019

  • Lighting The Way: Climate Change Theatre Action, Arts Commons, Motel Theatre, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, Dec 12, 2019

  • Climate Change Theatre Action: Lighting the Way, Ramapo College of NJ, Mahwah, NJ, Dec 12, 2019

  • Climate Change Theatre Action Fraser Valley, University of the Fraser Valley, Abbotsford, British Columbia, Dec 13, 2019

  • Your House is on Fire, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR, Dec 14, 2019

  • Climate Change Theatre Action in Ms. Maley’s New Paltz, New York Class, New Paltz, NY, Dec 20, 2019

Appreciation. Commissioned by the Climate Change Theater Action Project

Performed internationally in festival format at the following venues:

  • Heartbeats for the Earth, the Power of Humanity, Miami University and Engaging for Climate (ECO), Oxford Community Art Center’s Exhibition “Changing Climate, Changing Communities: Local

  • Reflections of a Global Issue,” Oxford, OH, Apr 2, 2024

  • Climate Changed: Facing Our Future, The Nobel Conference 55, Gustavus University, St. Peter, MN, Sep 24, 2019

  • This Sinking Island, The Anthropologists, Speyer Hall, University Settlement, NYC, NY, Oct 4, 2017

  • (Play). A Reading Series, NYU Abu Dhabi Saadiyat Campus, UAE, Oct 8, 2017

  • International Human Rights Arts Festival, @ Culture Project, NYC, NY, Oct 15, 2017

  • Climate Change Theatre Action in Liverpool, The Black-E, Liverpool, England, Oct 18, 2017

  • Koha for Greenpeace Climate Change Campaign, The Drama Discourse Society, Auckland, New Zealand, Oct 20, 2017

  • Climate Change Theater Action, Eckerd College, St. Petersburg, FL, Oct 24, 2017

  • Art for Change '17 Festival, Old City Multi-Use Co., Athens, Greece, Oct 27-29, 2017

  • An Interactive Night of Conscious Theatre, The Wilbury Group, Providence, RI, Nov 5, 2017

  • Climate Justice by SJW Readings, Social Justice Warrior Play Readings, #thebrownstoneofdreams, Central Harlem, NY, Nov 5, 2017

  • Climate Change Theater Action, Askanase Hall, North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND, Nov 8, 2017

  • Symposium, California State University, Fullerton, CA, Nov 9, 2017

  • ClimateAct: An Open Play Reading, Main St. Landing Performing Arts Ctr, Burlington, VT, Nov 9, 2019

  • Does Theatre Have the Capacity to Truly Move People to Action, Maryknoll School, Honolulu, Hawaii, Nov 9, 2017

  • Eco-Performance, Berklee Conservatory of Music, Boston, MA, Nov 10, 2017

  • Climate Change Theatre Action-Chicago, Pride Arts Center, Chicago, IL, Nov 10, 2017

  • Climate Change Theatre Action in Shanghai, One World Theater, Shanghai, China, Nov 11-12, 2017

  • Climate Change Theatre Action in Ealing, Beaufort Players, West London, Ealing, Great Britain, Nov 15, 2017

  • Climate Change Theatre Action, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, Nov 16, 2017

  • The Spaces Between Us, Spingold Theater Center, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, Nov 17, 2017

  • Climate Change Theatre Action in New Hampshire, Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, NH, Nov 17, 2017

  • #WAKEUP, Pomona College Department of Theatre, Claremont, CA, Nov 28, 2017

  • Climate Change Theatre Action at Artichoke Dance Co., Brooklyn, NY, Dec 10, 2017

Today is a Good Day. Commissioned by the After Orlando International Theatre Action Project

Performed internationally in festival format at the following venues:

Arnie Louis and Bob. Commissioning Producer: Trinity Repertory Theatre. Premiere, Trinity Rep, Providence, RI, Apr, 2016

Related Professional Work

Producing

Film: The Rest I Make Up. Director, Michelle Memran. Named one of the best documentary films of 2018 by The New Yorker. “An intimate and exhilarating documentary portrait”—Richard Brody

  • International screenings and festivals (selected– complete list of past screenings here):

  • Museum of Modern Art, Doc Fortnight Festival, NY, NY, Feb 16, 2018 American Premiere; extended run Aug 23-29, 2018

  • María Irene Fornés Institute Symposium. Princeton University, Princeton, NJ. Featured Event, April 14, 2018

  • Inside Out Toronto LGBT Film Festival. Canadian Premiere, May 27, 2018

  • Frameline 42 International Film festival. West Coast Premiere, Jun 16, 2018

  • Havana International Film Festival. Cuban Premiere, Dec 11-12, 2018

  • Mardi Gras Film Festival as part of Queer Doc, Sydney, AU. Australian Premiere, Feb 24, 2019

  • FemCine: Festival de Cinema de Mujeres, Cineteca de National Chile, Cultural La Moneda, Santiago, Chile.

  • Chilean Premiere, Mar 21, 2019

  • Sebastopol documentary Film Festival. Best Documentary Feature, Mar 29, 2019

  • The Institute of Contemporary Art, The Mall, London, England. British Premiere, April 5-9, 2019

  • Cohen New Works Festival, the University of Texas @ Austin. Keynote event, Apr 16-18, 2019

  • Metrograph Theater, NYC, NY. Q&A with Tony Kushner and Michelle Memran, May 6, 2019

  • Mabou Mines, with Mud/Drowning. NYC, NY, Oct 3, 2022

  • Philip Glass’s Days and Nights Festival, with Mud/Drowning. Sebastopol, CA, Oct 9, 2019

  • Queer Porto. Portuguese Premiere, Oct 12, 2019

  • Heartland International Film Festival, Oct 14-20, 2019

  • Centre Pompidou, Cinéma 2, Paris, France. French Premiere, Nov 16-27, 2019

  • Documenta15, Cuban Cinema exhibition LAND WITHOUT IMAGES: THE ABSENT IN CUBAN CINEMA, Kassel, Germany, Jun-Sep, 2022

The Fornés Marathon. Associate Producer to JoAnne Akalaitis. The Public Theater, NYC, NY, Aug 27, 2018

Intimacy Choreography

No One is Forgotten, by Winter Miller. Rattlestick Theater, NYC, NY, July 2019

Recent Alien Abduction, by Jorge Ignacio Cortiñas. Play Company, Walkerspace, NYC, NY, Mar 2019

PUBLICATIONS

Books

Pearl, Katie and D’Amour, Lisa. MILTON: A Performance and Community Engagement Experiment. 53rd State Press distributed by Theater Communications Group (TCG). NYC, NY, 2019

Plays

Pearl, Katie. “The Earth’s Blue Heart.” In Lighting the Way: An Anthology of Short Plays About the Climate Crisis, ed. Bilodeau, Chantal and Peterson, Thomas. York University Press, 2020. 259-264

Pearl, Katie. “Appreciation.” In Where Is the Hope? An Anthology of Short Climate Change Plays. Ed. Chantal Bilodeau. Toronto: Center for Sustainable Practice in the Arts, 2018. 247–251

Pearl, Katie and D’Amour, Lisa. “Always Never Her Trilogy.” In Play: Journal of Plays, Issue 3, 2007

Book Chapters and Essays

Pearl, Katie and Memran, Michelle. (forthcoming) ‘Queer Aging: María Irene Fornés’ chapter in Garcia- Romero, Anne and Herrera, Brian Fornés in Context. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge England, 2024

Pearl, Katie et al. ‘Milton: A Community Engagement and Performance Experiment’ in Svich, Caridad Audience (R)evolution, Dispatches from the Field. TCG Press, NYC, NY, 2016

Pearl, Katie. ‘Considering Imagination’ in Svich, Caridad Innovation in Five Acts. TCG Press, NYC, NY, 2015

Academic Journals

Pearl, Katie and Pryor, Jaclyn I. “Total Dramaturgical Collapse: American Theatre in Pandemic Time” in Theatre Topics, vol 31, no 2, 2021

Pearl, Katie. “‘Conversation Constellations’ in After the Show: A Play Based on Actual Events.” Editors Robert Quillen Camp and Gavin Kroeber. In Theater, 44, (3): 51-52, 2014

“A BAM Dialogue: How to Agitate the Theater of the Perfectly Harmless,” with D’Amour, Gibson, and Kievman in Theater, vol 31 no 2, 2001: p75–87, 2001.

Writing for the Field

“Caridad Svich’s ‘Town Hall’: Resistance and Change,” with playwright Caridad Svich. The Theatre Times, June 4, 2017

“The ‘Us’ of Town Hall,” with playwright Caridad Svich. HowlRound Theatre Commons, April 26, 2017 “The Rest I Make Up: María Irene Fornés,” Brooklyn Rail, Oct 2016

“Creativity, Aging, and Alzheimer’s,” with Michelle Memran, HowlRound Theatre Commons, April 23, 2016

“We are the Climate,” HowlRound Theatre Commons, Theatre in the Age of Climate Change series. Ed. Chantal Bilodeau, April 16, 2017

RECOGNITION

Fellowships and Awards

College of the Environment Spring Faculty Fellowship, Wesleyan University, 2023 Sustainability & Environmental Justice Pedagogical Initiative award, Wesleyan University, 2021

Center for Humanities Faculty Fellowship, Wesleyan University, 2021

Inclusion in the Library of Congress’ “The Coronavirus Web Archive” for “Directing on Zoom” website, 2021

Anschutz Distinguished Fellowship, Princeton University, 2016-17

Lee Reynolds Award, League of Professional Theatre Women, 2011

Zelda Fichandler Award for Directors (finalist), Society for Stage Directors and Choreographers, 2010

National Endowment for the Arts Outstanding New American Play Finalist, 2008

Best Site Specific Play, Bird Eye Blue Print, The Gothamist, NYC 2007

Roothbert Foundation Fellowship, 2006 Obie Award, 2003

Drama League Directing Fellowship, 2000

Major Grants

New England Foundation for the Arts, National Touring Project Grant, 2021

Alternate Roots Solidarity Fund Grant Recipient, 2021

New York State Council on the Arts Individual Artist Award, 2018

NEA Our Town Grant, 2017

NEA Our Town Grant, 2015

Network of Ensemble Theaters Exchange Grant, 2013

Multi-Arts Production (MAP) Fund, 2012

Creative Capital Award, 2009

Multi-Arts Production (MAP) Fund, 2009 Multi-Arts Production (MAP) Fund, 2008

Mellon Foundation, community building with the New Works Theater Community Austin TX, 2008

Multi-Arts Production (MAP) Fund, 2005

Commissions

American Repertory Theater with the Harvard University Center for the Environment, 2016: Ocean Filibuster

Steinberg Playwriting Commission Trinity Repertory Theater, 2015: Arnie Louis and Bob

People’s Light and Theatre with Longwood Botanical Gardens, 2013: Lost in the Meadow

PS122 Performance Commission, 2010: Terrible Things

The Kitchen Performance Commission, 2009: How to Build a Forest

Whitney Museum, Performance on 42nd Street series, 2004: Limo

Arts>Brookfield Properties, World Financial Center, NYC, 2007: Bird Eye Blue Print

Artist Residencies

SPACE on Ryder Farm, Brewster NY, 2019: for development of Ocean Filibuster

University of Houston, 2019-21 (moved online due to COVID): for development of Ocean Filibuster

Fitt Artist Residency, Brown University, 2016: for development of Fornés Project

Ground Floor at Berkeley Repertory Theater, Berkeley CA, 2014: for development of Milton

Design Residency Brown University Theater Department, 2014: for development of Milton

American Conservatory Theater, San Francisco CA, 2013: for development of Milton

Hampshire College, 2009: for development of How to Build a Forest

Appalachian State University, 2009: for development of How to Build a Forest

Voice and Vision Artist Residency, Bard University Campus, 2008: for development of Terrible Things

Citations

Tilley, Elspeth. Drinking Imaginary Cosmopolitans in Beijing: Or Why Kiwis Sometimes Fly, in All Good Things Must Begin: An Anthology of Short Plays About the Climate Crisis, edited by Chantal Bilodeau, Arts & Climate Initiative and the Centre for Sustainable Practice in the Arts, 2024 (forthcoming)

Bilodeau, Chantal. ATT On Air #19: Rain/Regen, Deutches Theater Podcast, Berlin, Germany, March 2024 Svich, Caridad. “Town Hall” in Critical Stages, The IATC Journal/Revue de l’AICT, Issue No. 26, Dec 2022

Star Rogers, Hannah et.al. Routledge Handbook of Art, Science, and Technology Studies, Routledge, Oxon/New York, 2022

Triga Collective: Doyle, Shannon Lea et. al., with Ian Garett, editors. Climate Change Theatre Action Lighting the Way EcoDesign Charrette, Center for Sustainable Practice in the Arts, Toronto, ON, 2021

Chaudhuri, Una. CLIMATE LENS: The Human Story in a More-Than-Human Frame, School of Performance and Cultural Industries webinar series 2020-1, School of Performance and Cultural Industries, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK, May 24, 2021

Balestrini, Nassim Winnie. “Anthropogenic Climate Change Condensed: Creating Community in Very Short Plays” in Journal of the Short Story in English, vol. 73, Autumn 2019. p. 121-134

Landis, Kevin and McCauley, Suzanne. Cultural Performance, Ethnographic Approaches to Performance Studies, MacMillan 2017. p201-226

Harris, Anne and Homan-Jones, Stacy. Writing for Performance, Sense Publish, The Netherlands, 2018. p80-81

Rowlands, Ian. “A Sense of Prayer in a Landscape of Catastrophe: The Plays of Caridad Svich (introduction)” in The Hour of All Things and Other Plays, Intellect Ltd, Bristol UK, 2018

Celik, Aysan. On the virtual theater commons site HowlRound: “Does Laughter Have a Place Here?” Mar 19, 2018

Warden, Claire. Innovation in Five Acts: Strategies for Theatre and Performance edited by Caridad Svich, Contemporary Theatre Review, 2016. 26:2, 276-277

Mosser, Jeffery. On the virtual theater commons site HowlRound: “The Psychology of the Audience, Rules of Engagement,” Dec 14, 2012

REVIEWS AND PRESS

J.J. Colagrande. “Ocean Filibuster is Brilliant, Imaginative, Interactive Satire.” Miami Jitney, Nov 13, 2022

Helena Alonso Paisley. “Ocean Filibuster Lights a Fuse.” Art Burst Miami review, Nov 9, 2022

Don Shewey. “Mabou Mines Looks Back at Half a Century of Looking Forward” (featured mention). American Theater Magazine June 28, 2022

Megan Sandberg-Zakian. “Milton: A Performance and Community Engagement Experiment.” Stage Directors and Choreographers Association Journal p.76, Vol. 10 No. 1, Spring 2022

Mark Favermann. “Surfing the Waves of Immersive Science and Art.” Arts Fuse, Mar 17, 2022

Amelia Parenteau. “The Shows That Got Away and/or Found a Way.” American Theater Magazine (article p10), Mar 10, 2022

Andrea Shea. “The Ocean Comes to Its Own Defense in a New Musical that Confronts Climate Change.” WBUR, Mar 8, 2022

Lian Parsons. “We Are Ocean.” Harvard Gazette, Mar 1, 2022

Christopher Wallenberg. “Ocean Filibuster—An Argument for a Sea Change with a Bit of Spectacle.” Boston Globe, February 24, 2022

Alan Smason. “The Ghost of Nita and Zita Return During an Uncertain Time,” Theater Criticism, Aug 31, 2020

Elena Araoz. “Directing on Zoom,” Innovations in Socially Distant Performance, June 29, 2020

Daniel Krane. “At Wesleyan University, Students Pioneer New Work in Zoom Theater,” Civilians’ Extended Play Blog, June 17, 2020

Matt Caprioli/photography by Cole Wilson. “PearlDamour’s Lost in the Meadow,” Chance Magazine, issue 6, 2020

Rob Weinert-Kendt. “Where the Year Went: A Look Back, and Forward,” American Theater Magazine, Mar 11, 2021

Jean Tarbox. “Breaking New Post-Dramatic Ground: Wesleyan University,” HowlRound, Sep 28, 2020

Chantal Bilodeau. “Digging for New Roots,” American Theater Magazine (featured mention), Feb 18, 2020

Pamela Newton. “The Generative Generation.” American Theater Magazine, January 3, 2018

Martha Wade Steketee. “The Maria Irene Fornes Play Marathon We Need Right Now” (featured mention), Clyde Fitch Report, Aug 21, 2018

Joyelle Ball. “Review of Milton.” Theatre Journal, vol. 69 no. 1, 2017, p. 94-96.

Andrea Tieman. “Charming and Familiar: Arnie Louis and Bob.” Broadway World, Apr 12, 2016

Susan McDonald. “Trinity Rep’s Arnie Louis and Bob: An Intriguing Family Portrait.” Sun Chronicle, Apr 12, 2016

Benjamin Morris. “Performing Change: How to Build a Forest.” Pelican Bomb review, Dec 7, 2015

Julie Baumgardner. 9 Artists Respond to Climate Change. Artsy, Sep 22, 2015

Nicole Rubersberg. “PearlDamour Sees the Way Home in Stars over Milton,” Springboard for the Arts Creative Exchange Blog, Sep 15, 2015

Anita Rao and Phoebe Judge. “What Five Towns Named Milton Tell Us About America,” WUNC, North Carolina Public Radio, Aug 1, 2014

Ian Daniel. “PearlDamour Explores What It Means to American, One Town Named Milton at a Time,” Extended Play Blog, The Civilians, Apr 20, 2015

Benjamin Morris. “Performing Change: A Reflection on How to Build a Forest at the Contemporary Arts Center,” Pelican Bomb, Dec 7, 2015

Martin Brady. “How to Build a Forest,” The Nashville Scene, Mar 27, 2014

Richard Goldstein. “How to Build a Forest,” Bomb Magazine interview, June 22, 2011

Lizzie Olesker. “How to Build a Forest with PearlDamour and Shawn Hall,” The Brooklyn Rail, June 2011 Bryna Turner. “How to See a Forest,” American Theater Magazine, June 2011

Alexis Clements. “Uncertain Possibilities,” L Magazine review, Dec 17, 2009

Alexis Soloski. “Quarky, Quirky Terrible Things,” Village Voice review, Dec 15, 2009 John Del Signore. “Opinionist: Terrible Things,” The Gothamist, Dec 6, 2009

Justin Boyd. “Something Old Something New: Bird Eye Blue Print,” Brooklyn Rail, May 2007 John Del Signore. “Opinionist: Bird Eye Blue Print,” The Gothamist, May 20, 2007

Barbara & Scott Siegel. “Indie Theater,” Theater Mania review, Oct 3, 2003

Alexis Soloski. “Mobile Poem: Either the Interstate or the End of the World,” Village Voice, Sep 23, 2003

Anita Gates. “Anna Bella Eema: Another Story of Symbolism as Complex as One, Two, Three,” New York Times review, Sep 18, 2003

George Patterson. “Nita and Zita: White Sauce and Diaper Babies/ Performance Art #1,” Ambush Magazine, Vol. 20, Issue 12, 2002

Wayne Alan Brenner. “Anna Bell Eema: Here’s Mud in Your Eye,” Austin Chronicle review, May 18, 2001


PANELS AND PRESENTATIONS

Session leader: “Ocean Filibuster: Maximizing the Impact of Your Science with Supercharged Storytelling.” Ocean Sciences Meeting, New Orleans, LA, Feb 23, 2024

Panelist: “Our One Earth–Artists Engaging Climate.” The Gathering, Laboratory for Global Performance and Politics, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, May 5, 2022

Featured Artist: “A Conversation with the Makers of Ocean Filibuster.” Behind the Scenes series, American Repertory Theater (online), April 6, 2021

Panelist: “Making Feminist Theater and Making Theater Feminist.” Digital Theatre + (online), Oct 28, 2021

Featured Artist: “Build From Here.” Fools Fury Convening: The Future of Ensemble (online), July 2021

Featured Artist: “Visions in Progress, Climate Underneath the Surface.” Theater and Policy Salon (online), 2021

Panelist: “Virtual Performance Series: Site Specific Workflows.” USITT21 (online), Mar 8, 2021

Panelist: Peace Café, with Seeds of Peace. Theater and Policy Salon (online), Oct 19, 2020

Featured Artist: “Longstanding Collaborations.” Part 1, Dramatist Live #10 (online), June 10, 2020

Featured Artist: “Ocean Filibuster.” Guggenheim Presents Works and Process (online), June 8, 2020

Panelist: “María Irene Fornés, Then and Now.” Great Plains Theater Conference, Omaha, NE, July 2019

Featured Artist: The Rest I Make Up. Screening and discussion, Association for Theatre in Higher Education Conference, Orlando, FL, Aug 10, 2019

Panelist: “The Rest I Make Up: Documenting the Legacy of Maria Irene Fornés.” Association of Theatre in Higher Education Conference, Orlando, FL, August 11, 2019

Panelist: “Hungarian Cultural Realities and the Theatre of Opposition.” With Martin Borass of StereoAkt (Hungary) and Daniella Topol, Rattlestick Theater. The Gathering, Laboratory for Global Performance & Politics, Georgetown University, Davis Performing Arts Center, Gonda Theatre, May 11, 2019

Keynote Speaker: “The Eternal Newness of Maria Irene Fornés.” David Mark Cohen New Works Festival, B. Iden Payne Theater, University of Texas @ Austin, Austin, TX, April 15, 2019

Panelist: New Dramatists Creative-Producing Summit. New Dramatists, NYC, NY, Jan 11, 2019

Panelist: “Women Directors on Fornés as Director.”New York University Tisch School of the Arts Colloquium on Fornés, NYC, April 15, 2018

Lecturer: “Making Theater For and With Community.” Anschutz Fellowship lecture, Chancellor Green Rotunda, Princeton University, Mar 28, 2017

Presenter: “The Artist Citizen: Practicing Community (Conversations about Holding Together).” Idea Forum workshop with Ananya Chatterjea, National Performance Network Conference, Austin TX, Dec 3, 2016

Presenter: “Conversation Constellations.” After the Show, Martin E. Segal Center, NYC, NY, Nov 14, 2013

Interviewee: “How to Build a Forest.” After the Show, Martin E. Segal Center, NYC, NY, Nov 14, 2013

Featured Presenter: “PearlDamour’s MILTON.” Workshop showing and discussion, Association for Theatre in Higher Education Conference, Orlando, FL, Aug 2, 2013

Lecturer: “Specificity and Site.” McDade Center for Literary and Performing Arts, Syracuse University, Scranton, PA, Mar 29, 2010

Presentation: “Imperfectly Harmful Theater.” BAMdialogue Series curated by Mac Wellman, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn, NY, May 4, 2000

MASTER CLASSES AND WORKSHOPS

“Leading by Following: Making Performance through a Climate Lens” for Professor Una Chaudhuri and Jay Wegman, Contemporary Experimental Performance, NYU, Sep 23, 2021

“Site-Specific Performance-Making” for Professor Nicole Stanton, Composition Across the Arts (DANC 212), Wesleyan University, Sep 3-5, 2019

“Negotiation within Creative Communication” for the Great Plains Theater Conference, Omaha, NE, May 30, 2019

“Writing from the Outside In” for the Playwrights Group, Museum of Jurassic Technology, Los Angeles, CA, June 6, 2019

“Devising Narrative” for Andy Paris, Devising Performance, University of North Carolina School of the Arts, Durham, NC, March 13-15, 2019

“Skies over Seattle” for University of Washington School of Drama. A year-long residency with interdisciplinary MFA cohort creating new performances with and for local community organizations, University of Washington, Seattle, WA Sep 2015-Jun 2016

“Solo Performance” for Marya Lowry, Brandeis University MFA program. Two-week residency with MFA actors focused on strategies and techniques for creating solo performance. Brandies University, Waltham, MA, March 2014

“Getting out of the Way: A Performance Workshop” for the American Theater in Higher Education Conference, Orlando, FL, Aug 1, 2013

“Workshop: Specificity and Site” for Professor Hank Willenbrink, McDade Center for Literary and Performing Arts, Syracuse University, Scranton, PA, Mar 30, 2010

“Negotiation within Creative Collaboration” for University of Iowa MFA playwrights, Iowa City, IA, Sep 10, 2009


COLLEAGUESHIP & SERVICE

To the University

Standing Committees

  • Compensation and Benefits Committee, 2024-2026

  • Faculty Executive Council, Tenure Track Representative Division 1, 2023

Committees

  • WIAL (“Hamlin Project”) Steering Committee, 2023-24

  • Creative Campus Initiative Committee, 2019-present

Searches

  • CFA Director Search (chair, Nicole Stanton), 2022

Working Groups

  • Student Theater Working Group (chair: Dean Roger Grant), 2021

  • Pedagogy Working Group: Covid Taskforce around curriculum planning (Chair: Demetrius Eudell), 2020

Campus-wide Talks

  • Center for the Humanities Monday Night Lecture: “Entering a Life: Maria Irene Fornés and the Stuff of Making,” Spring 2021

  • All Staff Luncheon: “Theater as Conversation,” 2019

Advisor to CFA Programming

  • “Pearl Creates MILTON, a Performance and Community Engagement Experiment,” Wesleyan Connection, Jan 16, 2020

  • Forklift Danceworks project “Wes Works,” 2021

  • Kristina Wong year-long engagement, 2020/21

  • Facilitated a viewing party of Wong Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest with Shades student theater group

  • Coordinated with then-head of Albritton Center Katja Kolcio to bring Kristina Wong to campus (zoom) for Engage 2020 lecture, and co-moderated the post-lecture discussion with student Esmé Ng

  • Conceived and organized a conversation between Kristina Wong and the AAPI community on campus (moderated by colleague Maria-Christina Oliveras)

  • Elevator Repair Service (ERS) Residency, 2021:

  • Hosted a watch party of the original Baldwin/Buckley debate and facilitated an online campus-wide conversation

  • Worked with the CFA and ERS to develop ERS’s online presentation, then moderated a conversation with the ERS ensemble alongside student Pablo Fitzroy Wickham III

Collaboration with CFA

Ocean Filibuster, Art into Action Series, Spring 2023

In partnership with the CFA, conceived and produced a semester-long interdisciplinary, cross-campus series bringing together art and activism, science and storytelling building to the CFA presentation and Connecticut premiere of PearlDamour’s Ocean Filibuster. The series consisted of:

Art and Policy Salon: Acting on Climate Change. Artists help us imagine possible futures. How can they effect actual change? With Asst. Professor Raquel Bryant (E&ES), Environmental Justice specialist Alex Rodriguez (Save the Sound), community muralist Dr. Kat Owens, and Strategic Advisor Michael Feldman. Ring Family Hall, Wesleyan University, Mar 28, 2023

Sea Creature Sewing: Entangled and Ingested. Researcher and artist Dr. Kat Owens works with communities to create life-sized murals of sea animals harmed by plastic pollution. The Wesleyan community spent an afternoon helping to sew a new ocean mural from discarded plastic. Usdan lawn, Wesleyan University, Apr 14, 2023

Talking Out Ocean Filibuster: Humans viz. Ocean. With Professors Elise Springer (PHIL) and Joey Weiss (ANTHRO). In conjunction with Environment-related Artist Book open house, special collections. Develin Room, Olin Library, Wesleyan University, Apr 6, 2023

Fireside Ocean Jam: Songs and Storytelling About the Ocean. With Asst. Professor Raquel Bryant (E&ES), an evening at the CFA pop-up firepit sharing songs and stories about the Ocean and diving deep into a celebration of the ocean-human ecosystem. Center for the Arts Green, Wesleyan University, Apr 21, 2023

Guest speaker

“Devising Sound Design” for Professor Paula Matthusen course: Composition Seminar (graduate), MUSC208. Oct 3, 2022

“Performing Chekhov” for Associate Professor Roman Utkin’s course: Chekhov: Prose vs Drama, Roman Utkin. RULE279. Nov 15, 2022

“MILTON: Performance and Civic Engagement” for Professor Katja Kolcio’s course: The Artist in Community. DANC376. Mar 8, 2021

General Service

Faculty Judge: FYS Essay Prize, 2022

Wesleyan Press

Andrew Chatfield. “Connecticut Premiere of Ocean Filibuster,” Wesleyan Connection, April 5, 2023

Andrew Chatfield. “Artists and Activists Discuss Climate Change,” Wesleyan Connection, April 5, 2023

“Citizen Artist—Creating Socially Engaged Theater as Civic Practice,” Wesleyan University Magazine, issue 2, September 24, 2020

Olivia Drake. “Theater Department’s Interdisciplinary “Talk It Out” Focuses on Contagion and Pandemics,” Wesleyan Connection, Sep 24, 2020

Olivia Drake. “Theater Department Performs Socially-Distanced Fall Show, SLABBER,” Wesleyan Connection, Oct 19, 2020

“Isolation. Imagination. Total Commitment. The Method Gun,” Video. Wesleyan/Wesleyan University Communications, 2.9K views, July 27, 2020

Olivia Drake. “Theater Department Produces, Livestreams The Method Gun,” Wesleyan Connection, May 4, 2020

“Pearl Creates MILTON, a Performance and Community Engagement Experiment,” Wesleyan Connection, Jan 16, 2020

To the Department

Search Committees

Part time Visiting Faculty Position in Stage Management (chair, Marcela Oteíza), 2024

Full time Visiting Faculty Position in Directing (chair, Marcela Oteíza), 2023

Professor of Costume Design (chair, Marcela Oteíza), 2021

Professor of Lighting Design (chair, Ron Jenkins), 2020

Department Liaison

Center for the Arts 2019-2022

Major Reps 2019-2021

2nd Stage/Shades student theater groups 2019-2020

Talk It Outs

Developed and facilitated an embodied, interdisciplinary dramaturgy series in conjunction with theater department productions. Talk It Outs bring together a range of expert and invested faculty, student, and community voices from different disciplines, departments and backgrounds to engage with themes of the plays through group conversation.

  • Talking Out Ocean Filibuster: Humans viz. Ocean. With Professors Elise Springer (PHIL), Joey Weiss (ANTH), and the 6-member student cast. Develin Room, Olin Library, April 6, 2024

  • Talking Out Everybody and Antigonick: How We Have Died. With Professors Andy Szegedy-Mazcek (CLST), Gary Shaw (HIST), and student actor Nikhil Sekaran (CLST). Russell House, Oct 18, 2022

  • Talking Out Oedipus El Rey: Self Determination vs. The Weavers of Fate. With Professors Edward Torres (THEA), Eirene Visvardi (CLST), capstone student actor Milton Espinoza (THEA), Jason Torello (CPE) and professional graffiti artist Linda Luz. Downey House Lounge, Oct 28, 2021

  • Talking Out Slabber: Dis/Ease: Contagion and Pandemics in our World and its Stories. With Professors Fred Cohen (BIO), Anthony Hatch (SISP), and student dramaturg Luna Mac-Williams (THEA). Online, Sep 22, 2020

  • Talking Out The Laramie Project: Centering Queer Voices—Documenting Trauma and Resilience. With Professors Christina Crosby (ENG), Calvin Anderson (THEA), student dramaturg Nathan Pugh (THEA), and original creator/cast member of Tectonic Theater’s The Laramie Project Leigh Fondakowski. Downey House Lounge, Nov 7, 2019

Department Community Building, Convener & Organizer

  • WESeminar “Theater as Gathering– Excerpts from Senior Projects”

With Professors Katie Brewer Ball and Marcela Oteíza. A WESeminar event promoting the concept of performance as an opportunity for community engagement, showcasing the work of graduating seniors. Theater Studios TST001, Apr 25, 2024

  • Trustees Showcase

With Prof. Marcela Oteíza and the technical support of Prof. Courtney Gaston, Theater department Trustees showcase at Theater Studios TST001, Friday February 24, 2023

  • Open Graffiti Party

With Prof. Marcela Oteíza and Muralist Lindaluz Carillo, Homecoming event connected to the department production of Oedipus El Rey at the Center for the Arts Green, October 27, 2021

  • Play Club

Launched in 2019, a weekly get-together for informal play readings and discussions, Theater department Lounge. This continued throughout the “pandemic pivot” spring of 2020 online, and has now become a .5 credit course THEA180 “Reading Plays for Production” for students participating in the department’s season selection process.

  • Department Production Post-Mortems

With Prof. Eddie Torres and the support of other production faculty, launched in 2020 to create a responsive system of building best practices for department productions.

Coordinator: Guest Artist Visits

Dante Green, as Breaking New Ground visiting artist and sound designer for department shows Oedipus El Rey and Sonnets for an Old Century, 2021/22

Lindaluz Carillo, Graffiti Artist. Participated in Open Graffiti Party and Talk it Out in conjunction with department show Oedipus El Rey, Fall 2021

Lisa D’Amour, playwright and Jenn Kidwell, actor. Rehearsal residency with student participation around

Ocean Filibuster development, Spring 2020

Leigh Fondakowski, original cast member The Laramie Project. Visited course Performance Ensemble (THEA 391) and participated in Talk It Out in conjunction with department production of The Laramie Project, 2019

Department Policy

Curricular Working Group with Professors Marcela Oteíza and Edwin Sanchez, 2024

Participating writer in updating thesis requirements with Professors Katie Brewer Ball and Marcela Oteíza, 2020/21

Participating Writer in Department Self Study, 2021

Lead writer in guide to student theater-making/rehearsing during COVID, with department colleagues and CFA production staff, 2020

To the Profession

Working Groups

Member Creative Core, The Lab, Georgetown University, 2024-present

SDC Academic Initiatives Task Force (Stage Directors and Choreographer’s Union), 2023

Fornés Institute: Lead by Brian Herrera of Princeton University and Anne Garcia-Romero of the University of Notre Dame, 2020-present

Founding member, Climate Lens: Lead artist/scholar: Una Chaudhuri (NYU), 2017-present

Founding co-curator, Works on Water: an interdisciplinary triennial showcasing artists working on, in, or with the world’s waterways (2016-emeritus).

Convener & Organizer

Gulf South Climate Justice Artist and Cultural Organizer Convening, New Orleans, LA, June 9-11

Book Proposal Reviewer

Routledge Theatre and Performance Studies division, The Shape of Time: Perspectives on the Theatre of Les Waters, edited by Scott Cummings

Mentoring & Development

“Pearl Creates MILTON, a Performance and Community Engagement Experiment,” Wesleyan Connection, Jan 16, 2020

“Directing on Zoom” website, created with students in THEA 381 Directing II (2020) and picked up for use by over 30 Universities, teachers, and theater resource lists world-wide, and tapped for inclusion in the Library of Congress COVID archive, 2021

Theater Anywhere: A Cookbook of Activities by Alex Ates, Westtown Theater, in partnership with American Alliance for Theatre & Education, Aug 12, 2020

Respondent, Great Plains Theater Conference, Omaha Nebraska, May 26-Jun 1, 2019

New Work development at New Dramatists Playwrights’ Service Organization: directing readings /leading workshops for various award-winning playwrights between the years 2005-2019

TEACHING

Courses Taught

Undergraduate Courses taught at Wesleyan University (selection)

Theater Arts

THEA 183-01: The Actor’s Experience (Spring 2024, Fall 2022, Fall 2021)

THEA 281-01: Introduction to Directing (Fall 2020, Fall 2021, Fall 2022)

THEA 331-05: Technical Practice B (Fall 2021)

THEA 381-01: Directing 2 (Spring 2024, Spring 2020,)

THEA 390-01: Performance Ensemble (Spring 2024, Fall 2019)

THEA 391-01: The Live Event (Spring 2023)

THEA 432-01-02/433-01-02-03: Theater Projects Performance Practice–Department Productions (Spring 2024, Spring 2023, Fall 2022, Spring 2022, Fall 2021, Spring 2020, Fall 2020, Fall 2019)

Professor of record for students acting in Capstone projects with student director as principal advisee:

THEA 427-01-02-03/ 428-02: Performance Practice Senior Project A (Fall 2022, Fall 2021, Fall 2020, Spring 2020, Fall 2019)

THEA 430-02/431-01-02-03: Performance Practice Senior Project B (Spring 2024, Spring 2023, Fall 2022, Fall 2021, Fall 2020, Spring 2020)

Theater Methods

CHUM 352-01/THEA 552 Following Fornés: Creativity, Intimacy, and Imagination (Spring 2021)

Tutorials

THEA 402-02: Individual Tutorial (Spring 2020)

THEA 403/404–03, 05: Department Project/Essay (Spring 2022, Spring 2021, Fall 2021)

THEA 408-01: Senior Tutorial (Spring 2020)

THEA 409- 410: Senior Thesis Tutorial sections 17, 22 (Spring 2024, Spring 2023, Fall 2022, Spring 2022, Fall 2021, Fall 2020, Spring 2020, Fall 2019)

THEA 411/1412–Sections 02, 05, Group Tutorial (Spring 2023, Fall 2022)

THEA 419/420: Student Forum sections 01, 02 (Spring 2023, Fall 2022)

THEA 491/492: Teaching Apprentice Tutorial (Spring 2023, Fall 2021, Fall 2020, Fall 2019)

Graduate Courses taught at Wesleyan University’s Institute of Curatorial Practice in Performance (ICPP)

ICPP 575A/B-01 Considering Site, Wesleyan University (Winter/Spring 2021, Summer/Fall 2020)

Class Visits to Other Universities as part of Ocean Filibuster Tours

“Immersive and Community-Oriented Theater-Making” for Andra Harbold, Musical Theater Training Program, University of Utah, March 19, 2024

“Ocean Filibuster” for Johann Montozzi-Wood, Manifesto Workshop–Climate Change, Afro-/Solar Punk, and Performance, Duke University, Sep 21, 2023

“Performance and Policy Change” for Catherine Admay, MA Ethics and Policy-Making course, School of Public Policy, Duke University, Sep 20, 2023

“PearlDamour Work Talk” for Marcia Rego, Writing About Performance, FOCUS / Thompson Writing Program, Duke University, Sep 19, 2023

Artist Talks at Other Universities

“PearlDamour Artist Talk” for Holly Hughes, Live Arts Survey, Stamps School of Art & Design, University of Michigan, October 19, 2024

“Devising Design” for MacArthur “Genius” Mimi Lien, MFA Design workshop, NYU Tisch School of the Arts, New York, NY, Sep 23, 2021

Academic Advising, Wesleyan

Capstones: Senior Projects and Theses, Tutor

Lila Popell, 2024
Essay: Theatre Without Production: Celebrating the Psychological Benefits of the Theatre-Making Process. Awarded High Honors

Nina Jakobsen, 2024
Essay: Somatics in Performance: Shaping Social Bodies On and Off The Stage
Production: Small Mouth Sounds by Bess Wohl, at the Patricelli ’92 Theater. Awarded Honors

Isabelle Chirls, 2023
Essay: Make the Roof Cave In: Writing Queer Experience on the Page and the Stage. Creative Component: Redefining the Writing Workshop. Awarded High Honors

Sarah Shapiro, 2023
Essay: From Commodity to Communitas: Envisioning American Theater as Secular Ritual. Production: Antigonick by Anne Carson, at the Theater Studio, TST 001. Awarded High Honors

Ellis Collier, 2023
Senior Project: Original, experimental Performance in General Scholarship: The King in Yellow, at the Patricelli ’92 Theater

Anna Buchmueller, 2022
Essay: Theater Cannot be a Monologue: Interrogating the Lack of Ideological Diversity in the American Theater.
Production: Heroes of the 4th Turning by Will Arbery, at the Patricelli ’92. Awarded High Honors

Will Blumberg, 2022
Senior Project: Original play (writing/directing) “What’s the Matter with Mim.” Alternative venue, Wood- frame House

Lauren Stock, 2021
Essay: Curious Choreography: Interpersonal and Structural Practices of Universal Design in Theatrical and Social Performance, co-advised with Professor Tony Hatch, dual thesis in THEA/SOC.
Production: A Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night by Simon Stephens, at the Patricelli ’92 Theater. Awarded Honors

Julia Chung, 2021
Senior Project: Original solo performance “The Worst-Case Survival Handbook.” Alternative venue, Davison Art Center Outdoor Patio (now the Digital Design Commons Outdoor Patio)

Elizabeth Woolford, 2021
Senior Project: Original site-specific performance “Party at the Edge of the World.” Alternative venue, College of the Environment, 284 High Street, Middletown, CT

Ava Grob, 2020
Essay: Who are We to Debate Nature? Exploring the Construction of Identity Through Jen Silverman’s works.
Production: Phoebe in Winter by Jen Silverman, at the Patricelli ’92 Theater. Awarded Credit

Capstones: Senior Essay and Theses, Reader

Mo Andres, 2024
Essay: How Do We Talk About It? A Trans-disciplinary Conversation About Suicide as Social Suffering in Higher Education, 2024
Production: Every Brilliant Thing by Duncan Macmillan and Jerry Donahoe. Alternative venue: Downey House Lounge

Adriana Bollinger, 2024
Essay: The Self and the Strange: Defining the Self and Reality Through Fantastical and Surrealist Storytelling, 2024
Production: Anna Bella Eema by Lisa D’Amour at the Patricelli ’92 Theater

Talia Rodriguez, 2024
Essay: Crisis in the Not-So-Promised Land: Building and Destroying Miami’s Environment

Betsy Zaubler, 2022
Essay: Staging the White Gaze: Slave Play and Fairview in a Moment of Racial Reckoning. Dual thesis in THEA/AMST

Isabel Algrant, 2021
Essay: The Braided Project: An Experiment in Reclaiming Success
Production: Othello–The Braided Project, online

Mae Davies, 2021
Original Play: Easter Lilies

Alessandra Viegas, 2020 Original Play: Before We Were
Essay: One Million Lifetimes– Dramatizing Queer Time in Before We Were

Master’s Reader

Jamie Galon, MA 2021, Institute of Curatorial Practice in Performance
Thesis: Commons-Based Approaches in Contemporary Theatre and Performance: Resisting Twenty- First Century Enclosure at Double Edge Theatre, the Latinx Theatre Commons, and HowlRound Theatre Commons

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

Member of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Union (SDC)