Cole - CV 6 2015
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Joshua Bastian Cole
www.joshuabastiancole.weebly.com
Education
Beginning Fall 2015 – PhD student in Theatre Arts – Dept. of Performing and Media Arts
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
2012 Master of Arts - Theater History and Criticism
CUNY, Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, NY
GPA: 3.9
Thesis: When Trans Men Dance: FTM Embodied Subjectivity and Classical Ballet
Supervisors: Helen Richardson and Meg Araneo-Reddy (thesis); Erin Courtney (playwriting)
2002 Bachelor of Arts
James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA
GPA: 3.3
Major: Theatre and Dance
Thesis: Gender is Performance
Minor: Film Studies
Activities and Societies: Division I Varsity Fencing, Stratford Players, Golden Key Honor
Society, National Society of Collegiate Scholars, Army ROTC, Freethinkers—Atheist, Agnostic,
and Humanist Society, Harmony LGBTQA, Safe Zones Speaker and Panelist
Awards: Army ROTC Scholarship, Dean's List, Coach's Award (Varsity Fencing)
Semester Abroad – London, 2000
London Theatre History - University College London
Shakespeare Intensive and Masterclass with Patrick Spottiswoode and Andrew Gurr –
Shakespeare’s Globe, Bankside, London
Professional Affiliations
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Professional Staff Congress/CUNY
Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE)
Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas (LMDA)
Congress on Research in Dance (CORD)
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Conference Presentations
February 2015
July 2014
February 2014
October 2013
August 2013
March 2012
February 2012
March 2011
October 2011
April 2006
February 2003
23rd Festival of Original Theatre (FOOT)
Queer(ing) Performance
University of Toronto Centre for Drama, Theatre & Performance Studies
and Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies
Paper: Disappearing/Reappearing: Phenomenal Stage Presence of
Trans Men Actors
Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE)
Dream Acts: Performance as Refuge, Resistance, and Renewal
Workshop: Dream of a Queer Planet: Alternative Embodied Pedagogies
for Actor Training
Midwest Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference (MIGC)
MIGC14: ANIMACY
Paper: Cyborg Alice: Cyborgs and Erin Courtney’s The Service Road
trans* : Tufts Graduate Humanities Conference
Paper: Vanishing Point: Dys-Appearance and the Not-Quite-There of
Transmasculine Spectatorship
Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE)
P[L]AY: Performance, Pleasure and Pedagogy
Panel: Training Queer: Intersections of Queer/Gender Studies and
Actor/Performer Training
Paper: Phenomenal Presence of the Transmasculine Actor: DysAppearance, Trans-Parency, Fragmentation, & The Nothing
36th Comparative Drama Conference
Paper: Transitioning Twelfth Night: A Transgender Reading of a Female
Page
Congress on Research in Dance (CORD) Special Topics Conference
Meanings and Makings of Queer Dance
Paper: When Trans Men Dance: Hermeneutics of Dance Masculinities
35th Comparative Drama Conference
Paper: Athena in Armor: The Warrior Goddess in Greek Drama as an
Embodiment of Gender Variance
Union College Symposium
Southeast Regional Unity Conference
True Spirit Conference
Trans Forming Families, Author Panel
Page 3 of 8
Publications
“’Pressure and Movement, That’s How it Works’: Revisiting August Strindberg's Miss Julie in
Kim Davies' Modern-Day Smoke.” The Flea Theater. 11 Sept. 2014. Web.
“Who's Missing From the List? The Killjoys and Why American Theater Needs Trans
Playwrights.” Huffington Post. 31 July 2014. Web.
“Cyborg Alice: Cyborgs and Erin Courtney’s The Service Road.” Signals: A Contemporary
Performance Journal (2013). Web.
“Daily Beast Within.” Original Plumbing Magazine. August 2013. Web.
“Stop the Spot: Polemics of Transmale Stage Representation and Its Criticism.” Theatre
Provocateur (2012). Web.
“A New ‘American Gothic’: Tallgrass Gothic at the New Workshop Theater.” The Kingsman
[Brooklyn College Newspaper]. 25 Oct. 2010, Arts and Culture: 11. Print.
“Some Femmes Don’t Wear Heels.” Visible: a Femmethology. Ed. Jennifer Clare Burke. Vol. 1.
Ypsilanti: Homofactus Press, 2009. Print.
“Tarheels and Transfags.” Beyond Masculinity. Ed. Trevor Hoppe.
http://www.beyondmasculinity.com. 2008. Web.
“I’ll Be Different.” With Julie Loyd. Trans-Fusions. 2008. CD.
“Real Trans (In)Visibility.” Lambda Magazine, [UNC LGBT Magazine]. The Transgender
Issue. December, 2005. Print.
“Tomboy to Femme Boy.” Trans Forming Families. Ed. Mary Boenke. New Castle: Oak Knoll
Press, 2003. Print.
Public Appearances in Media
Tillett Wright, iO. “The Self Evident Truths Project.” We Are You. Sept. 2014. Web.
“What Is Taking So Long?” Interview by Jacqueline E. Lawton. TCG Circle. Theatre
Communications Group, 04 Aug. 2014. Web.
“The Birds and the Bees…Unabridged.” Interview by Rhina Valentin. Open. BronxNet. 15 Mar.
2013. Television.
Osen Averill, Julia. “Queering the F*ck Out of Musical Theater: The Personal is Political is Art.”
Autostraddle. Feb. 2013.
“31+ Interviews | Joshua Bastian Cole and Topher Cusumano.” Interview by Chelsey Little.
31 Plays in 31 Days. 13 Aug 2012.
Mac, Amos. Original Plumbing Magazine, The Entertainment Issue. 2012.
Halpern, Ashlea. “Date These Trans Folks.” Time Out New York. 5 Nov. 2009.
Moore, Candace. “Beyond Narrative and Name.” Curve Magazine. Oct. 2009.
Dugan, Jess T. Transcendence I. June 2009. Web.
Anderson-Minshall, Jacob. “Becoming a Different Kind of Man.” TransNation. 4 Nov. 2008.
Cooper, T. “The Trans Fags.” Out Magazine. Apr. 2008.
Taormino, Tristan. “The New Wave of Trans Cinema.” The Village Voice. 8 Apr. 2008.
Cahalane, Claudia. “When Girls Will be Boys.” Metro. 6 Feb. 2008. London, UK.
Diana Cage Show. Interview by Diana Cage. Sirius Radio. Dec. 2007. Radio.
“Early Transcasting.” Interview by Fausto Fernos. Feast of Fun. 30 July 2007. Podcast.
“The End?” Interview by Fausto Fernos. Feast of Fun. 23 July 2007. Podcast.
Block, Kael T. XX Boys: Portrait de la Transsexualité Masculine. 2005. Web.
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Paone, Rocco Jr. “The Story of J. Bastian Cole.” Accept This!!! E-zine. 2004.
Nelson, Corey. “Kind of a Drag.” The Breeze. 1 Mar. 2004. Harrisonburg, VA.
Fenn, Jessica. “The Advent of J. Bastian Cole.” 2003.
Jeffreys, Angie. “It’s Good to be King.” Hollins Columns. 2003. Roanoke, VA.
Interview. JMU Bluestone. 2002.
Clarke, Jessica. “Battle of the Sexes.” Daily News-Record. 4 May 2002, Harrisonburg, VA.
Ferber, Lawrence. “Altered Image.” Frontiers Magazine. 2001.
Guest Speaking on Transgender Topics
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Champlain College, Gender, Sexual Identity, and Communication guest lecturer, 2015
Brooklyn College, MA Theatre History guest discussion facilitator, 2014
Union College, 2011
Duke University, 2009
James Madison University, 2008
Wakefield High School GSA, 2008
Guilford College, 2008
Chapel Hill Unitarian Universalist Youth Group, 2008
Wakefield High School GSA, 2007
University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill, 2007
North Carolina State University, 2006
Sweaty Southern Radical Queer and Trans Convergence, Durham, NC, 2006
Hollins University, 2004
Mary Baldwin College, 2003
Lynchburg Pride, Lynchburg, VA, 2002
Roanoke Unitarian Universalist Youth Group, 2002
Morris Hills High School GSA, 2001
Student speaker at James Madison University and Safe Zones panelist, 2000-2002
Related Work Experience
2014 – 2015
Adjunct Lecturer
State University of New York at Plattsburgh
Plattsburgh, New York
•
Lectured 3 different courses in Communication Studies with a total of 100 students
•
Designed new syllabi centered on critical thinking and writing across the curriculum
•
Collaborated with Career Development Center and the Center for Teaching Excellence
2014 – 2015
Paraeducator
Burlington School District
Burlington, Vermont
•
Customized instruction for a special needs 9th grade student one-on-one, as well as in
small group and classroom environments
•
Supplemented the educational process under the direction of professional staff members,
occupational therapists, and physical therapists
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•
Created modified independent study in Greek mythology, covering Heracles, The Iliad,
and The Odyssey
2012 – 2014
Adjunct Lecturer
City University of New York, Borough of Manhattan Community College
New York City
•
Lectured Fundamentals of Speech in Speech, Communications, and Theatre Arts
•
Instructed effective public speaking, active listening, and critical thinking skills
•
Participated in College Now – college courses for NYC public high school students
Internships and Volunteering
2012 – 2014
Script Reader
New Georges, New York City
• Aided the Literary Department of New Georges with script submissions
• Read scripts, wrote synopses and comments, and made recommendations as to whether the
company should pursue the play or playwright further
2012 – 2013
Co-Founder and Resident Dramaturg
{Your Name Here} A Queer Theater Company, New York City
• Primary member of the Literary Department
• Research and development for new works, direct collaboration with playwrights and directors
• Script soliciting, submissions review, season planning and curating
• Archival research
2011
Department Recruiting (Intern)
Brooklyn College, Brooklyn
• Assessed and selected competitive undergraduate theater programs in the U.S. and Canada
• Compiled extensive faculty contact list from 266 undergraduate colleges and universities
2011
Theater Intern
Time Out New York Magazine, New York City
• Interned for noted New York theater critics, David Cote and Adam Feldman
• Verified press release details for weekly print and online magazine performance listings
• Transcribed audio interviews
Page 6 of 8
PERFORMANCE
Year
Role/Type
Production
Venue/Company/Director
2014
Wife of Bath
Ensemble Theatre
Kings of
Macedonia
2014
Susie Bright
Dance Theatre
Susie Bright
Dance Theatre
Angry Women
REvisited
Angry Women
REvisited
2013
Self
Ensemble Theatre
The Birds and the
Bees: Unabridged
2011
Self
Ensemble Theatre
Self
Spoken Word
The Box
(development)
Nothing, or
Nowhere,
Michigan
Brooklyn College MFA
reading series
Andrew Ondrejcak, Jessica
Almasy
HERE Arts Center, NYC
Dir. J Dellecave
Dixon Place, HOT!
Festival, NYC
Dir. J Dellecave
University Settlement,
NYC
Dirs. Maggie KeenanBolger and Rachel Sullivan
Dir. Jared R. Pike
Self
Contemporary
Dance
Charlie (lead)
Theatre
Dancer in gorilla
suit
Performance Art
Self
Modern Dance
Homing
2008
Self
Lyrical Dance
Cornflake Girl
2007
Self
Spoken Word
Self
Lyrical Dance
Self
Lyrical Dance
Self
Spoken Word
Poems by Spence
2013
2010
2009
2009
2009
2009
2007
2006
2006
Shh
Queer Memoir,
Queers for Economic
Justice Performance Space,
NYC
Judson Church,
Movement Research
Yve Laris Cohen
Ripley-Grier Studios, NYC
Dir. Casey Llewellyn
Mongrel Vaudeville,
Freddy’s Bar, NYC
Bryn Kelly
Multiple Exposure III,
Barriskill Dance Theatre
School, Durham, NC
Julie Mulvihill
Body Language
Transcendence
UNC – Chapel Hill
Tranz This!
Blend, Chapel Hill, NC
Tranz This!
Blend
Cat’s Cradle, Carrboro, NC
Poems by Cass
Hodges
Unity Conference,
Blend
White Boys in
Paradise
A Bit of Light
Opera
7 Voluntary Acts
Snow White Queen
Page 7 of 8
Self
Performance Art
Dunham Goode
Performance Art
Half-Male King
Cuntry Kings, Cat’s Cradle
Hey Pretty
Charm City Boys,
Gallagher’s, Baltimore,
MD
Year
2015
Position
Curator
Production
Things With
Friends
2014
Curator
Smoke
2014
Dramaturg
Sagittarius
Ponderosa
2014
Curator
I Will Be Gone
2014
Dramaturg
Yellow Clover
2012
Curator
Holiday BLIPS!
2012
Dramaturg
Untitled Ramón
Novarro Project
2012
Dramaturg
Love Poems for
Dead Bodies
2012
Dramaturg
Queering History
2012
Curator
BLIPS
2011
Costume Designer
Mouth for String
Venue/Company/Director
New Works Brooklyn
Playwright: Kristoffer Diaz
Dir. Lear DeBessonet
The Flea Theater, NYC
Playwright: Kim Davies
Dir. Tom Costello
Upstream Artists’
Collective
Two Moon Art House,
NYC
Playwright: MJ Kaufman
Dir. Gretchen Van Lente
New Works Brooklyn
Playwright: Erin Courtney
Dir. Mary Beth Easley
Fresh Fruit Festival,
Nuyorican Poets Café,
NYC
Playwright: Jess Eisenberg
Dir. Sara Lyons
{Your Name Here},
TADA, NYC
{Your Name Here},
TADA
Playwright: James Pugh
{Your Name Here},
TADA
Playwright: MJ Kaufman
The Producer’s Club, NYC
Dir. Maggie KeenanBolger
{Your Name Here},
TADA
BAX/Brooklyn Arts
Exchange
SAWTOOTH dancers
2005
2004
TECHNICAL/
LITERARY
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2002
Interviewee
Building Houses on Houses On The Moon
the Moon
Theater Co.
(development)
Playwright: Jeffrey
Solomon
Year
2014
Title
I’m Dead
Event
Pussyfest III:
The Reckoning
2012
Cheeky Ladies
Holiday BLIPS!
2012
Two Truths and
Allie
Radical Acts
2012
City Mice
BLIPS
2005
Spheres &
Cylinders
Table reading
Venue/Company/Director
Caps Lock Theatre,
The Gym at Judson Church
Dir. Aimee Todoroff
{Your Name Here},
TADA
Dir. Gretchen Van Lente
{Your Name Here},
Shetler Studios
Dir. Gretchen Van Lente
{Your Name Here},
TADA
Dir. Gretchen Van Lente
Duke University
Year
Role
Production
Company/Director
2010
Sam (lead)
The Dinner Party
2009
Trans man (lead)
2009
Kirk (lead)
Against a Trans
Narrative
Kirk/Spock
2009
Maggots and Men
2009
Russian sailor
(extra)
Self
2003
Self
gmf
All Gender Health Online
Dir. Melissa Li
MamSir Productions
Dir. Jules Rosskam
3 Minutes in Heaven
Dir. Felix Endara
Postcode Productions
Dir. Cary Cronenwett
FilmArtGender
Dir. JoieRey Cohen
Cricket Dog
Dir. Christy Pessagno
PLAYWRITING
FILM
Gender?
www.joshuabastiancole.weebly.com
Education
Beginning Fall 2015 – PhD student in Theatre Arts – Dept. of Performing and Media Arts
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
2012 Master of Arts - Theater History and Criticism
CUNY, Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, NY
GPA: 3.9
Thesis: When Trans Men Dance: FTM Embodied Subjectivity and Classical Ballet
Supervisors: Helen Richardson and Meg Araneo-Reddy (thesis); Erin Courtney (playwriting)
2002 Bachelor of Arts
James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA
GPA: 3.3
Major: Theatre and Dance
Thesis: Gender is Performance
Minor: Film Studies
Activities and Societies: Division I Varsity Fencing, Stratford Players, Golden Key Honor
Society, National Society of Collegiate Scholars, Army ROTC, Freethinkers—Atheist, Agnostic,
and Humanist Society, Harmony LGBTQA, Safe Zones Speaker and Panelist
Awards: Army ROTC Scholarship, Dean's List, Coach's Award (Varsity Fencing)
Semester Abroad – London, 2000
London Theatre History - University College London
Shakespeare Intensive and Masterclass with Patrick Spottiswoode and Andrew Gurr –
Shakespeare’s Globe, Bankside, London
Professional Affiliations
•
•
•
•
Professional Staff Congress/CUNY
Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE)
Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas (LMDA)
Congress on Research in Dance (CORD)
Page 2 of 8
Conference Presentations
February 2015
July 2014
February 2014
October 2013
August 2013
March 2012
February 2012
March 2011
October 2011
April 2006
February 2003
23rd Festival of Original Theatre (FOOT)
Queer(ing) Performance
University of Toronto Centre for Drama, Theatre & Performance Studies
and Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies
Paper: Disappearing/Reappearing: Phenomenal Stage Presence of
Trans Men Actors
Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE)
Dream Acts: Performance as Refuge, Resistance, and Renewal
Workshop: Dream of a Queer Planet: Alternative Embodied Pedagogies
for Actor Training
Midwest Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference (MIGC)
MIGC14: ANIMACY
Paper: Cyborg Alice: Cyborgs and Erin Courtney’s The Service Road
trans* : Tufts Graduate Humanities Conference
Paper: Vanishing Point: Dys-Appearance and the Not-Quite-There of
Transmasculine Spectatorship
Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE)
P[L]AY: Performance, Pleasure and Pedagogy
Panel: Training Queer: Intersections of Queer/Gender Studies and
Actor/Performer Training
Paper: Phenomenal Presence of the Transmasculine Actor: DysAppearance, Trans-Parency, Fragmentation, & The Nothing
36th Comparative Drama Conference
Paper: Transitioning Twelfth Night: A Transgender Reading of a Female
Page
Congress on Research in Dance (CORD) Special Topics Conference
Meanings and Makings of Queer Dance
Paper: When Trans Men Dance: Hermeneutics of Dance Masculinities
35th Comparative Drama Conference
Paper: Athena in Armor: The Warrior Goddess in Greek Drama as an
Embodiment of Gender Variance
Union College Symposium
Southeast Regional Unity Conference
True Spirit Conference
Trans Forming Families, Author Panel
Page 3 of 8
Publications
“’Pressure and Movement, That’s How it Works’: Revisiting August Strindberg's Miss Julie in
Kim Davies' Modern-Day Smoke.” The Flea Theater. 11 Sept. 2014. Web.
“Who's Missing From the List? The Killjoys and Why American Theater Needs Trans
Playwrights.” Huffington Post. 31 July 2014. Web.
“Cyborg Alice: Cyborgs and Erin Courtney’s The Service Road.” Signals: A Contemporary
Performance Journal (2013). Web.
“Daily Beast Within.” Original Plumbing Magazine. August 2013. Web.
“Stop the Spot: Polemics of Transmale Stage Representation and Its Criticism.” Theatre
Provocateur (2012). Web.
“A New ‘American Gothic’: Tallgrass Gothic at the New Workshop Theater.” The Kingsman
[Brooklyn College Newspaper]. 25 Oct. 2010, Arts and Culture: 11. Print.
“Some Femmes Don’t Wear Heels.” Visible: a Femmethology. Ed. Jennifer Clare Burke. Vol. 1.
Ypsilanti: Homofactus Press, 2009. Print.
“Tarheels and Transfags.” Beyond Masculinity. Ed. Trevor Hoppe.
http://www.beyondmasculinity.com. 2008. Web.
“I’ll Be Different.” With Julie Loyd. Trans-Fusions. 2008. CD.
“Real Trans (In)Visibility.” Lambda Magazine, [UNC LGBT Magazine]. The Transgender
Issue. December, 2005. Print.
“Tomboy to Femme Boy.” Trans Forming Families. Ed. Mary Boenke. New Castle: Oak Knoll
Press, 2003. Print.
Public Appearances in Media
Tillett Wright, iO. “The Self Evident Truths Project.” We Are You. Sept. 2014. Web.
“What Is Taking So Long?” Interview by Jacqueline E. Lawton. TCG Circle. Theatre
Communications Group, 04 Aug. 2014. Web.
“The Birds and the Bees…Unabridged.” Interview by Rhina Valentin. Open. BronxNet. 15 Mar.
2013. Television.
Osen Averill, Julia. “Queering the F*ck Out of Musical Theater: The Personal is Political is Art.”
Autostraddle. Feb. 2013.
“31+ Interviews | Joshua Bastian Cole and Topher Cusumano.” Interview by Chelsey Little.
31 Plays in 31 Days. 13 Aug 2012.
Mac, Amos. Original Plumbing Magazine, The Entertainment Issue. 2012.
Halpern, Ashlea. “Date These Trans Folks.” Time Out New York. 5 Nov. 2009.
Moore, Candace. “Beyond Narrative and Name.” Curve Magazine. Oct. 2009.
Dugan, Jess T. Transcendence I. June 2009. Web.
Anderson-Minshall, Jacob. “Becoming a Different Kind of Man.” TransNation. 4 Nov. 2008.
Cooper, T. “The Trans Fags.” Out Magazine. Apr. 2008.
Taormino, Tristan. “The New Wave of Trans Cinema.” The Village Voice. 8 Apr. 2008.
Cahalane, Claudia. “When Girls Will be Boys.” Metro. 6 Feb. 2008. London, UK.
Diana Cage Show. Interview by Diana Cage. Sirius Radio. Dec. 2007. Radio.
“Early Transcasting.” Interview by Fausto Fernos. Feast of Fun. 30 July 2007. Podcast.
“The End?” Interview by Fausto Fernos. Feast of Fun. 23 July 2007. Podcast.
Block, Kael T. XX Boys: Portrait de la Transsexualité Masculine. 2005. Web.
Page 4 of 8
Paone, Rocco Jr. “The Story of J. Bastian Cole.” Accept This!!! E-zine. 2004.
Nelson, Corey. “Kind of a Drag.” The Breeze. 1 Mar. 2004. Harrisonburg, VA.
Fenn, Jessica. “The Advent of J. Bastian Cole.” 2003.
Jeffreys, Angie. “It’s Good to be King.” Hollins Columns. 2003. Roanoke, VA.
Interview. JMU Bluestone. 2002.
Clarke, Jessica. “Battle of the Sexes.” Daily News-Record. 4 May 2002, Harrisonburg, VA.
Ferber, Lawrence. “Altered Image.” Frontiers Magazine. 2001.
Guest Speaking on Transgender Topics
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
Champlain College, Gender, Sexual Identity, and Communication guest lecturer, 2015
Brooklyn College, MA Theatre History guest discussion facilitator, 2014
Union College, 2011
Duke University, 2009
James Madison University, 2008
Wakefield High School GSA, 2008
Guilford College, 2008
Chapel Hill Unitarian Universalist Youth Group, 2008
Wakefield High School GSA, 2007
University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill, 2007
North Carolina State University, 2006
Sweaty Southern Radical Queer and Trans Convergence, Durham, NC, 2006
Hollins University, 2004
Mary Baldwin College, 2003
Lynchburg Pride, Lynchburg, VA, 2002
Roanoke Unitarian Universalist Youth Group, 2002
Morris Hills High School GSA, 2001
Student speaker at James Madison University and Safe Zones panelist, 2000-2002
Related Work Experience
2014 – 2015
Adjunct Lecturer
State University of New York at Plattsburgh
Plattsburgh, New York
•
Lectured 3 different courses in Communication Studies with a total of 100 students
•
Designed new syllabi centered on critical thinking and writing across the curriculum
•
Collaborated with Career Development Center and the Center for Teaching Excellence
2014 – 2015
Paraeducator
Burlington School District
Burlington, Vermont
•
Customized instruction for a special needs 9th grade student one-on-one, as well as in
small group and classroom environments
•
Supplemented the educational process under the direction of professional staff members,
occupational therapists, and physical therapists
Page 5 of 8
•
Created modified independent study in Greek mythology, covering Heracles, The Iliad,
and The Odyssey
2012 – 2014
Adjunct Lecturer
City University of New York, Borough of Manhattan Community College
New York City
•
Lectured Fundamentals of Speech in Speech, Communications, and Theatre Arts
•
Instructed effective public speaking, active listening, and critical thinking skills
•
Participated in College Now – college courses for NYC public high school students
Internships and Volunteering
2012 – 2014
Script Reader
New Georges, New York City
• Aided the Literary Department of New Georges with script submissions
• Read scripts, wrote synopses and comments, and made recommendations as to whether the
company should pursue the play or playwright further
2012 – 2013
Co-Founder and Resident Dramaturg
{Your Name Here} A Queer Theater Company, New York City
• Primary member of the Literary Department
• Research and development for new works, direct collaboration with playwrights and directors
• Script soliciting, submissions review, season planning and curating
• Archival research
2011
Department Recruiting (Intern)
Brooklyn College, Brooklyn
• Assessed and selected competitive undergraduate theater programs in the U.S. and Canada
• Compiled extensive faculty contact list from 266 undergraduate colleges and universities
2011
Theater Intern
Time Out New York Magazine, New York City
• Interned for noted New York theater critics, David Cote and Adam Feldman
• Verified press release details for weekly print and online magazine performance listings
• Transcribed audio interviews
Page 6 of 8
PERFORMANCE
Year
Role/Type
Production
Venue/Company/Director
2014
Wife of Bath
Ensemble Theatre
Kings of
Macedonia
2014
Susie Bright
Dance Theatre
Susie Bright
Dance Theatre
Angry Women
REvisited
Angry Women
REvisited
2013
Self
Ensemble Theatre
The Birds and the
Bees: Unabridged
2011
Self
Ensemble Theatre
Self
Spoken Word
The Box
(development)
Nothing, or
Nowhere,
Michigan
Brooklyn College MFA
reading series
Andrew Ondrejcak, Jessica
Almasy
HERE Arts Center, NYC
Dir. J Dellecave
Dixon Place, HOT!
Festival, NYC
Dir. J Dellecave
University Settlement,
NYC
Dirs. Maggie KeenanBolger and Rachel Sullivan
Dir. Jared R. Pike
Self
Contemporary
Dance
Charlie (lead)
Theatre
Dancer in gorilla
suit
Performance Art
Self
Modern Dance
Homing
2008
Self
Lyrical Dance
Cornflake Girl
2007
Self
Spoken Word
Self
Lyrical Dance
Self
Lyrical Dance
Self
Spoken Word
Poems by Spence
2013
2010
2009
2009
2009
2009
2007
2006
2006
Shh
Queer Memoir,
Queers for Economic
Justice Performance Space,
NYC
Judson Church,
Movement Research
Yve Laris Cohen
Ripley-Grier Studios, NYC
Dir. Casey Llewellyn
Mongrel Vaudeville,
Freddy’s Bar, NYC
Bryn Kelly
Multiple Exposure III,
Barriskill Dance Theatre
School, Durham, NC
Julie Mulvihill
Body Language
Transcendence
UNC – Chapel Hill
Tranz This!
Blend, Chapel Hill, NC
Tranz This!
Blend
Cat’s Cradle, Carrboro, NC
Poems by Cass
Hodges
Unity Conference,
Blend
White Boys in
Paradise
A Bit of Light
Opera
7 Voluntary Acts
Snow White Queen
Page 7 of 8
Self
Performance Art
Dunham Goode
Performance Art
Half-Male King
Cuntry Kings, Cat’s Cradle
Hey Pretty
Charm City Boys,
Gallagher’s, Baltimore,
MD
Year
2015
Position
Curator
Production
Things With
Friends
2014
Curator
Smoke
2014
Dramaturg
Sagittarius
Ponderosa
2014
Curator
I Will Be Gone
2014
Dramaturg
Yellow Clover
2012
Curator
Holiday BLIPS!
2012
Dramaturg
Untitled Ramón
Novarro Project
2012
Dramaturg
Love Poems for
Dead Bodies
2012
Dramaturg
Queering History
2012
Curator
BLIPS
2011
Costume Designer
Mouth for String
Venue/Company/Director
New Works Brooklyn
Playwright: Kristoffer Diaz
Dir. Lear DeBessonet
The Flea Theater, NYC
Playwright: Kim Davies
Dir. Tom Costello
Upstream Artists’
Collective
Two Moon Art House,
NYC
Playwright: MJ Kaufman
Dir. Gretchen Van Lente
New Works Brooklyn
Playwright: Erin Courtney
Dir. Mary Beth Easley
Fresh Fruit Festival,
Nuyorican Poets Café,
NYC
Playwright: Jess Eisenberg
Dir. Sara Lyons
{Your Name Here},
TADA, NYC
{Your Name Here},
TADA
Playwright: James Pugh
{Your Name Here},
TADA
Playwright: MJ Kaufman
The Producer’s Club, NYC
Dir. Maggie KeenanBolger
{Your Name Here},
TADA
BAX/Brooklyn Arts
Exchange
SAWTOOTH dancers
2005
2004
TECHNICAL/
LITERARY
Page 8 of 8
2002
Interviewee
Building Houses on Houses On The Moon
the Moon
Theater Co.
(development)
Playwright: Jeffrey
Solomon
Year
2014
Title
I’m Dead
Event
Pussyfest III:
The Reckoning
2012
Cheeky Ladies
Holiday BLIPS!
2012
Two Truths and
Allie
Radical Acts
2012
City Mice
BLIPS
2005
Spheres &
Cylinders
Table reading
Venue/Company/Director
Caps Lock Theatre,
The Gym at Judson Church
Dir. Aimee Todoroff
{Your Name Here},
TADA
Dir. Gretchen Van Lente
{Your Name Here},
Shetler Studios
Dir. Gretchen Van Lente
{Your Name Here},
TADA
Dir. Gretchen Van Lente
Duke University
Year
Role
Production
Company/Director
2010
Sam (lead)
The Dinner Party
2009
Trans man (lead)
2009
Kirk (lead)
Against a Trans
Narrative
Kirk/Spock
2009
Maggots and Men
2009
Russian sailor
(extra)
Self
2003
Self
gmf
All Gender Health Online
Dir. Melissa Li
MamSir Productions
Dir. Jules Rosskam
3 Minutes in Heaven
Dir. Felix Endara
Postcode Productions
Dir. Cary Cronenwett
FilmArtGender
Dir. JoieRey Cohen
Cricket Dog
Dir. Christy Pessagno
PLAYWRITING
FILM
Gender?
