Curriculum Vitae (CV)

EDUCATION
Master of Fine Arts, Playwriting
The New School for Drama/Actors Studio Drama School, 2006
Master of Arts, Creative Arts, Interdisciplinary Studies
San Francisco State University, 1990
Bachelor of Arts, Psychobiology
University of California at Santa Cruz, 1980

ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE
Interim Vice President for Student Affairs
Hampshire College, Amherst, MA 07/19 to 06/20
•  served as a liaison between Academic Affairs and Student Life
•  supervised two Deans of Students, the Assistant Dean of students and Assistant to the VPSA
•  allocated funds to programs within the division, and balanced the annual budget
•  served as a steward to the Board of Trustees
•  represented the College at public events
•  implemented new federal and state health and safety guidelines
•  revised sanctions for student conduct in relation to new health and safety guidelines
•  allocated and disbursed student emergency funds during the health pandemic
Dean of the School for Interdisciplinary Arts
Hampshire College, Amherst, MA 07/12 to 06/15
•  served as a liaison between administration, faculty and staff
•  supervised daily operations of the School including management of the two staff employees
•  allocated funds to academic programs, and balanced the annual budget
•  facilitated faculty searches, hires, reappointments and promotions
•  annually reviewed faculty
•  represented the College at public events

TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Universities & Colleges
Professor of Theatre
Hampshire College, Amherst, MA 07/07 to present
•  designing and teaching theatre courses
•  advising undergraduate students in all phases of production
•  developing and supporting programmatic strategies
•  participating in college governance and community service
Visiting Adjunct Professor of Theatre
Amherst College, Amherst, MA 07/16 to 12/16
•  designed and taught undergraduate playwriting courses
•  advised undergraduate theatre students
Visiting Assistant Professor of Theatre
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 01/00 to 06/03
•  developed acting curriculum for BA students
•  taught beginning and intermediate acting
•  advised BA students
Visiting Assistant Professor of Creative Writing
Minneapolis College of Art & Design, MN 09/98 to 12/01
•  developed liberal arts curriculum for BFA students
•  dramatic writing and acting
•  advised BFA students
Adjunct Professor of Theatre & Dance
Macalester College, Saint Paul, MN 03/96 to 12/02
•  taught Haitian dance and folklore
•  choreographed and directed dance performances for annual concerts
Visiting Adjunct Professor of Dance
Stanford University, Menlo Park, 03/94 to 06/94
•  taught traditional Haitian dance and folklore
•  taught Dunham technique
Adjunct Professor of Dance
City College of San Francisco, San Francisco, 01/91 to 06/93
•  taught traditional Haitian dance and folklore
•  taught Dunham technique
•  choreographed and directed student performances for annual concerts

Academies & Community Organizations
Artist-in-Residence
Pillsbury House, Minneapolis, MN 08/19 to present
•  teaching playwriting and performance to emerging artists of color
American Musical & Dramatic Academy, NYC, NY 10/06 to 06/07
•  taught beginning acting and scene study
Patrick’s Cabaret, Minneapolis, MN 10/94 to 08/06
•  taught acting and dramatic writing workshops
•  directed student performances
The Loft, Minneapolis, MN 04/97 to 07/03
•  mentored young writers of color
•  taught dramatic writing workshops
Performing Arts Workshop, San Francisco, CA 09/90 to 06/93
•  taught creative process to children (K-6)
•  developed and staged personal narratives with youth (ages 14-17)
Institute of Choreography, San Francisco, CA 06/90 to 6/94
•  taught traditional Haitian dance and folklore
•  taught Dunham technique
School of the Arts, San Francisco, CA 09/89 to 06/94
•  taught traditional Haitian dance and folklore
•  taught Dunham technique
•  choreographed and directed student performances
Third Wave Dance, San Francisco, CA 03/87 to 06/90
•  taught traditional Haitian dance and folklore
•  taught Dunham technique
Cadaqués Dance Center, Barcelona, Spain, 06/85 to 12/85
•  taught traditional Haitian dance and folklore
•  taught Dunham technique

CONFERENCES
Panels & Performances

Tell That: A Tribute to Laurie Carlos, Augusta Savage Gallery, Amherst, MA 2019
•  Writer/Performer – staged reading with Dr. Priscilla Page & Ben Davis
Tell That: A Tribute to Laurie Carlos, Soundworks Gathering #6, Easthampton, MA 2018
•  Writer/Performer – staged reading with Dr. Priscilla Page & Shakeel Sohail-Gibran Cullis
Robbie McCauley Symposium: A Convening in Performance, Emerson College, Boston, MA 2017
•  Writer/Performer – A Tribute to Robbie
Merit by Lenelle Moise, Smith College, Northampton, MA 2017
• Performer – staged reading
Fire & Ink: Witness, Advocacy for GLBT People of African Descent, Detroit, MI 2015
•  Presenter/Workshop: ‘Writing/Embodying Autobiography’
•  Performer: sash & trim – staged reading
•  Performer: The Messiah Complex by Nia Witherspoon – staged reading
Festival of Original Theatre (FOOT): Queer(ing) Performance, University of Toronto, ON 2015
•  Presenter/Panel: Verbatim Theatre and Black Queer Narratives
•  Performer: Picasso’s Black Canvas, by Antonio Cayonne
Fire & Ink: Cotillion, A Writer’s Festival for LGBTQ People of African Descent, Austin, TX 2009
•  Performer: Delta Dandi by Sharon Bridgforth – staged reading

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Playwright
sash & trim
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Curtain, UMass, Amherst, MA 2008
cover
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Samuel French One-Act Festival, NYC, NY 2006
oranges & honey
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The New School for Drama, NYC, NY 2005
Queen Nanny, Queen Nanny
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In the Heart of the Beast, Minneapolis, MN 2002
Mighty Real: A Tribute to Sylvester
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National Black Theater Festival, Winston-Salem, NC 2001
•  Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, MA 2000
•  Intermedia Arts, Minneapolis, MN 2000
The House That Crack Built (with Aaron Barnell)
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Pillsbury House, Minneapolis, MN 2000
Where I’m At
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Southern, Minneapolis, MN 1998
Forever Hold Your Piece (with Patrick Scully)
•  Illusion, Minneapolis, MN 1997
•  Dance Theater Workshop, NYC, NY 1996
Sweet Sadie
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Dixon Place, NYC, NY 1997
•  Patrick’s Cabaret, Minneapolis, MN 1997, 1994
•  Out North, Anchorage, AK 1996
•  Josie’s Cabaret, San Francisco, CA 1994

Actor
Oba Qween Baba King Baba by Ni’ja Whitson
•  Saint Marks Church, NYC, NY 2019
River See by Sharon Bridgforth
•  Theatre Offensive, Boston, MA 2014
…and Jesus Moonwalks the Mississippi by Marcus Gardley
•  Curtain, UMass, Amherst, MA 2009
sash & trim
•  Curtain, UMass, Amherst, MA 2008
Fools & Lovers adapted by Moonwork
•  Connelly, NYC, NY  2006
con flama by Sharon Bridgforth 
•  Penumbra, Saint Paul, MN 2001
Black Nativity by Langston Hughes 
•  Penumbra, Saint Paul, MN 2001, 1999
Mighty Real: A Tribute to Sylvester
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National Black Theater Festival, Winston-Salem, NC 2001
•  Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, MA 2000
•  Intermedia Arts, Minneapolis, MN 2000
Angels in America, Part II: Perestroika by Tony Kushner
•  Pillsbury House, Minneapolis, MN 2001
The Darker Face of the Earth by Rita Dove
•  Guthrie, Minneapolis, MN 2000
Blues for an Alabama Sky by Pearl Cleage
•  Penumbra, Saint Paul, MN 1999
blood pudding by Sharon Bridgforth
•  Frontera@Hyde Park, Austin, TX 1998
Forever Hold Your Piece (with Patrick Scully)
•  Illusion, Minneapolis, MN 1997
•  Dance Theater Workshop, NYC, NY 1996
Sweet Sadie
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Dixon Place, NYC, NY 1997
•  Patrick’s Cabaret, Minneapolis, MN 1997, 1994
•  Out North, Anchorage, AK 1996
•  Josie’s Cabaret, San Francisco, CA 1994
Dark Fruit with Pomo Afro Homos
selected venues include:
•  Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA 1994
•  Drill Hall Arts, London, UK 1994
•  Lincoln Center, NYC, NY 1993
•  Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, MA 1993
•  Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH 1993
•  ICA, London, UK 1993
•  Public Theater, NYC, NY 1991
Fierce Love: Stories from Black Gay Life with Pomo Afro Homos
selected venues include:
•  Lincoln Center, NYC, NY 1994
•  Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA 1994
•  Walker Arts Center, Minneapolis, MN 1994
•  Wexner Arts, Columbus, OH 1993
•  ICA, London, UK 1993
•  Drill Hall Arts, London, UK 1992
•  Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, MA 1991
•  Dance Theatre Workshop, NYC, NY 1991

Actor (film)
“Black Is… Black Ain’t”, Marlon Riggs, director, 1994
“Anthem”, Marlon Riggs, director, 1991
“Normal Deviant Behavior”, Adam Chin, director, 1990
“Tongues Untied”, Marlon Riggs, director, 1989

Dancer
Drummers & Dancers of Langa, Morris Johnson, choreographer, 1994 to 1997
Flesh & Spirit, Djola Branner, artistic director/choreographer, 1989 to 1994
La Petit Croix, Blanche Brown, choreographer, 1985 to 1988

Choreographer
The Sonic Life of a Giant Tortoise by Toshiki Okada, (directed by Kym Moore)
•  Brown University, Providence, RI 2019
for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf by Ntozake Shange (directed by Kym Moore)
•  Penumbra, Saint Paul, MN 1999

Director
Seriously… What Did You Call Me? by Onawumi Jean Moss
•  Northwestern University, Chicago, IL 2018
•  Powerhouse, Amherst College, Amherst, MA 2017
•  Nyack Center, Nyack, NY 2016
•  Ko Festival of Performance, Amherst College, Amherst, MA 2015
BFE by Julia Cho
• Hampshire College, Amherst, MA 2010
oranges & honey
• 
The New School for Drama, NYC, NY  2005
Making Lemonade by Patrick Scully
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Patrick’s Cabaret, Minneapolis, MN 2003
Journey/Sanctuary by Cathy Young, Robert Robinson & Mary Easter 
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Southern, Minneapolis, MN 2001
The B-Sides by Bianca Pettis
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The Garage, Minneapolis, MN 1998
The Magic of Laughter by Danielle Daniel
•  Fringe Festival, Minneapolis, MN 1997
Esker by Tim Herwig
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Patrick’s Cabaret, Minneapolis, MN 1997

Director (film)
Mighty Real
•  Hampshire College, Amherst, MA 2019

Dramaturg
Leaves of Grass – Uncut by Patrick Scully
•  Guthrie, Minneapolis, MN 2019
• Dixon Place, NYC, NY 2016
Making Lemonade by Patrick Scully
Patrick’s Cabaret, Minneapolis, MN 2003

PUBLICATIONS
Contributing author
Black Gay Genius (Vintage Entity Press, 2015)
Mighty Real: An Anthology of African-American Same Gender Loving Writing
(Effusses/Sangha Publications, 2010)
In the Life (RedBone Press, 2007)
Voices Rising
(RedBone Press, 2007)
The Performer’ s Guide to the Collaborative Process (Heinemann, 2001)
Monologues for Actors of Color: Men (Routledge, 2000)
Staging Gay Lives (Westview Press, 1996)
Colored Contradictions (Plume, 1996)
ZYZZYVA (Vol. VIII, No. 3, 1992)

Contributing editor
Evergreen Chronicles (quarterly, Minneapolis, 1995-98)
Bay Guardian (weekly, San Francisco, 1991-94)

Collected plays
sash & trim (RedBone Press, 2013)

Collected poems
lyrics of the last born (Magpie Publications, 1996)

GRANTS
Fellowships
Ethics & the Common Good, Amherst, MA 2020
Marion & Jasper Whiting Foundation, Amherst, MA 2016
Bush Foundation, Saint Paul, MN 2000
Performance Artist – McKnight Foundation, Minneapolis, MN 1999
Interdisciplinary Artist – Jerome Foundation, Minneapolis, MN 1998
Playwright – Jerome Foundation, Minneapolis, MN 1994

Production
Mighty Real: A Tribute to Sylvester
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Creative Capital, NYC, NY 2000
•  Philanthrofund, Intermedia Arts, Minneapolis, MN 2000
•  Metropolitan Regional Arts Council, Saint Paul, MN 1998
•  Jerome Foundation, Saint Paul, MN 1998
Forever Hold Your Piece (with Patrick Scully)
•  Many Voices Collaboration Grant, Playwrights’ Center, Minneapolis, MN 1996

Development
Mighty Real: A Tribute to Sylvester
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Faculty Development Grant, Hampshire College, Amherst, MA 2008
The House That Crack Built (with Aaron Barnell)
•  Diverse Visions Regional Grant, National Endowment for the Arts, DC 1996

AWARDS
Marilyn Levin Professor, Hampshire College, Amherst, MA 2018 to present
Millay Artist Residency, Austerlitz, NY 2018
Out on the Edge, Theater Offensive, Boston, MA 2014
Lamdba Literary Award (finalist), LGBT Drama, Lambda, sash & trim and other plays, 2014
Best Thespian, Lavender Magazine, Minneapolis, MN 2000
Austin Critic’s Circle (nominee), Austin, TX – Best Actor in a Supporting Role, blood pudding, 1998
Bessie Award, Outstanding Performance, Dance Theater Workshop, NYC, NY – Fierce Love, 1992

ARCHIVES
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Performing Arts Research Collections, NYC, NY
Hemispheric Institute Digital Video Library, New York University, NY

AFFILIATIONS
Dramatists Guild