Please Note: On Leave 2007-08
jschluet@uoregon.edu
210 Villard Hall
Courses:
Playwriting and Adaptation; History/Literature II; Staging America: American Popular Entertainment; Black Like You: African American Performance; Censors, Patrons, and Impresarios
“The theatre requires that we (as practitioners, scholars, and audience members) step away, however tentatively, from the limiting comforts of certainty.”
Research Interests:
American popular culture and entertainment, European and American modernism, historiography, the critic, theorizing American race and ethnicity, theory and practice of adaptation and translation
Awards and Accomplishments:
Co-artistic Director, for/word company 2006-present
Presidential Fellow (Ohio State University) 2007-2008
Graduate Associate Teaching Award (Ohio State University) 2006
Publications:
The Art of Now. Coauthored with Lesley Ferris. McGraw Hill. Forthcoming 2008.
“Patronage and Playwriting: Richard B. and Jeanne Donovan Fisher's Support of Charles L. Mee.” Angels in American Theatre. Ed. Robert Schanke. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2007.
“Staging Versailles: Charles L. Mee and the Re-Presentation of History.” Journal of American Theatre and Drama. 17.3. Fall 2005.
“Review of Redmoon Theatre’s The Cabinet.” Theatre Journal. May 2006.
“Review of Heather Woodbury’s What Ever.” Theatre Journal. December 2004.
Recent Production Credits:
North. (director and author). On the life of Anne Morrow Lindbergh. Constructed from her diaries, letters, novels, and memoirs, as well as those of Charles Lindbergh and Antoine de Saint-Exupèry. Produced by the for/word company. Staged at the American Theatre Company, Chicago. June 2008.
El Entrecejo/The Brow. (director) By Angeles Romero. Solo performance piece, on the life of Frida Kahlo. Talento Bilingüe Houston, April 2007.
A Movie Star Has to Star in Black and White. (dramaturg) By Adrienne Kennedy.Directed by Lesley Ferris. New York University. New York, New York. April 2006.
Dominion. (dramaturg) By Brian Rotman. Directed by Robin Post. World premiere production. Theatro Technis. London, England. August 2005.