Dramatic Literature and Criticism, Performance
Tmay33@uoregon.edu
541-346-1789
207 Villard Hall
Courses:
Introduction to Theatre, Art/Nature/Culture, Postcolonial Theatre,
Eco-drama,
Various topics in Advanced Acting.
“No matter how many years I teach, before every class I must find my nerve again. It’s like taking hold of a rope swing over a river: you swing out, then you let go, and only then does the encounter take place. Then it’s exhilarating even if I miss my mark, or go down swallowing water; then there is joy. The river takes you, takes me, takes the students, and we discover ourselves discovering the material together. What my students don’t know is how much I learn from them. Who they are, what they think, how they feel about the world is a constant gift. They make it worth the risk.”
Research Interests:
Ecocriticism, Postcolonial and Globization theory, new works.
Awards and Accomplishments:
Co-Artistic Director for Ecodrama Playwrights Festival at Humboldt State, 2004-05; Artistic and Founding Director of “Theatre in the Wild,” community-based company 1988-97, Seattle; Resident artist at Centre Internacional del Teatro Nuevo, Juan Griego, Venezuela, 1998; Invited participant in Jerzy Grotowski’s Mountain Project, Teatr Laboratorium, Poland; 1977
Publications:
Upcoming book: Earth Matters On Stage: the Implications of Ecology in
American Theatre.
Book: Greening Up Our Houses: A Guide to a More Ecologically Sound Theatre, with Larry K.
Fried. New York: Drama Book Publishers, 1994.
Book: Voices of Puget Sound: an Interdisciplinary Curriculum for Environmental
Education and Performing Arts. Olympia: Puget Sound Water Quality Authority, 1991.
Chapters in Edited Volumes:
“Watershed Democracy & Community-based Theatre,” in Community Performance:
A Reader, Petra Kuppers & Gwen Robertson, (eds.). London: Routledge. 2006
“Remembering the Mountain: Grotowski’s Deep Ecology,” in Performing Nature:
Explorations in Ecology and the Arts, Gabriella Giannachi and Stewart Nigel (eds.), Bern, Switzerland: Peter Lang,. 2005
Journal Articles:
2007. “Beyond Bambi: Toward a Dangerous Ecocriticism in Theatre Studies,” Theatre Topics 17:2 (September 2007): 95-110
2006. “Unforeseen Consequences… Environmental Justice & Performance: In the Wake of Katrina,” Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism, Spring 2006.
2006. “Greening the Theatre: Taking Ecocriticism from Page to Stage,” Journal
of Interdisciplinary Studies, Ian Marshall, ed. (forthcoming).
2004. “The Ecology of Willy Loman,” New England Theatre Journal, 14: 63-76.
1999. “(Re)Placing Lillian Hellman,” Journal of American Drama and Theatre, 11(2): 17-41.
1999. “Frontiers: Environmental History, Ecocriticism and The Kentucky Cycle,” Journal
of Dramatic Theory and Criticism, 14(1): 159-178.
1999. “Taking the Cage Out of the Gaze: Perception, Wilderness and the New Zoo,” Theatre
Insight, 10(2).
1999. “Bahktin on Site: Chronotope in Theatre in the Wild’s Dragon Island,” On
Stage Studies, 22:19-38
Recent Production Credits:
Director: Trojan Women, University Theatre 2007;
Salmon is Everything, community-based (Klamath), Humboldt State
2006; An
Interrupted Life: The Diaries of Etty Hillesum, Humboldt State,
2003.