LIVE PERFORMANCE WORK

STRAIGHT TALK play written/directed by JMc. Premiering Dixon Place New York July 2010.

CHANGING COURSES; THE REAL DINNER THEATRE Collaboration with Jacob Pinholster, Lance Gharavi, Jennifer Setlow, Amira DelaGarza. work-in-progress showing Engrained Cafe, Arizona State University/Tempe April 2010. Further development 2010-2011.

FAILURE TO THRIVE (we small hours) monologue written and performed by JMc. Directed by Antonio Ocampo-Guzman. Hemispheric Institute for Performance and Politics, Buenos Aires, Argentina (June 2007); Dixon Place New York (July 2007; Teatro Caliente! Phoenix,AZ (November 2007); Highways Performance Space Santa Monica, CA (January 2008)

COUNTER INDICATIONS installation/performance collaboration with designer Jake Pinholster. Supported by research grants from Herberger College of the Arts, Arizona State University and the Arizona Commission on the Arts. Work-in-Progress Space 55 (Phoenix) April 2008.

SPECIAL OPERATIONS play for 3 actors (writer/director) Staged Reading Son of Semele Ensemble Los Angeles (December 2008); workshop Arizona State Univ. December 2004

HONORABLE DISCHARGE monologue (writer/director). "Teatro Caliente" at Modified Arts, Phoenix, AZ October 2003 & April 25, 2004; Dixon Place, (NYC) July 2004; Performance Studies International #11 (Brown University) April 2005

A CERTAIN RELEASE work in progress April 2003, Institute for Studies in the Arts, Arizona State University; Reading at Dixon Place (NYC) July 2000

HEEL Institute for Studies in the Arts, Arizona State University, April 2002; excerpts: Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics “Anti-War Cabaret” New York University (July 2003); "Memoria/Memoire" webcast September 2002; "Reflect, React, Remember" Arizona State University December 2001

PROJECT DESIRE Collaboration with Brian Webb. The Citadel-Rice Theater/Jazz City Festival (Edmonton, Alberta) June 1997; Firehall Arts Centre (Vancouver, B.C.), Dancers’ Studio West (Calgary, AB) July 1997; Brian Webb Dance Company/John Haar Theatre (Edmonton, AB) November 1998; Dancemakers (Toronto, ONT), Performance Space 122 (NYC) May 1999

CITY OF GOD Solo. Premiere Dance Theater Workshop (NYC) December 1993; Dance Center/Columbia College (Chicago) March 1994; Brian Webb Dance Company (Edmonton, Alberta) May 1994; Contemporary Dance Theater (Cincinnatti, OH) October 1994; ArtsWatch (Louisville,KY) Huntington Beach Art Center (Huntington Beach, CA) September 1995; Excerpts at Los Angeles Festival September1993; Dixon Place (NYC) 1993; HOME/Public Theater NYC December 1992

TORN LANGUAGE/DIALOGUE OF DOUBT w/Elia Arce, Keith Mason. Premiere Dance Theater Workshop (NYC) March 1992; excerpts at Alternate ROOTS Annual Meeting (NC) August 1992

SCATTER Solo. Premiere "New Stuff" Performance Space 122 (NYC) March 1991 Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival August 1991; Newport Harbor Art Museum (CA) 9/91; Highways (Santa Monica, CA) 11/91; Cleveland Perf. Art Fest. 3/92

DISCONTENTS Solo. Premiere Dance Theater Workshop (NYC) March 1990; Cleveland Performance Art Fest. 5/90; Highways 12/90; Arts Fest. of Atlanta 9/89; Barnsdall Gallery Theater (LosAngeles) 11/89; "P.S. 122 Field Trips" at Oliphant Theater/DanceWorks (Toronto, CAN), Cameo Theater (Miami, FL), Klein Studio (Lake Worth, FL) 10/90; "Best of the Fest" at The Dance Hall (Cincinnati, OH) 10/90; Towson State Univ. (Baltimore, MD) 2/91; Temple Univ./Tyler School of Arts (Philadelphia, PA) 1/92; Center for Contemporary Art/Taos Art Assoc. (Santa Fe/Taos NM) 9/92; Jump-Start Theater (San Antonio, TX) 9/92

LIFE/TIME piece with mental-health clients. Hospital Audiences, Inc. at Ensemble Studio Theater NYC 6/89.

AWAY FROM YOU Group piece. Premiere Performance Space 122 (NYC) November 1988.

PERFECT PLACE Solo. Premiere Barn Theater (Chilmark, MA) July 1988; The Yard at ChoreoSpace (NYC) 9/88; New Years Portland Fest. (Portland, ME) 1/89.

SHORT PERFORMANCES/BENEFITS/CLUBS: Highways 5/89; The Field Pagnano fund (NYC) 4/89; Movement Research (NYC)1988; Dixon Place (NYC) 5/88; Wah-Wah Hut (NYC) 4/88; "Barry Laine Memorial" and "Hothouse Project" at P.S. 122 1/88; P.S. 122 Benefit February 1991,1987, 1984, 1983.

CALLING Solo. Premiere "New Stuff" at Performance Space 122 (NYC) April 1988; The Wallenboyd Theater (LA,CA) 8/88; Cleveland Performance Art Fest. 4/89.

PALISADE: A CLIFFHANGER IN FIVE ACTS Site-specific collaboration with Jacki Apple. Santa Monica Arts Festival (Santa Monica, CA) August 1987. Audio portion: Art to Air-The Listening Room broadcast by Visual Studies Workshop (Rochester, NY) 12/89-2/90.

CIRCLE OF LINES/DIVIDED GROUNDS Solo. P.S. 1 Spring Dance Series, June 1987, NYC; Dia Art Foundation NYC 10/87.

IT IS YOU SPEAKING Solo. Zap Club (Brighton, England) 6/86; Institut Francais (Copenhagen,) Negerhalle (Munich) 7/86; The Dance Hall (Cincinnati, OH) 10/86

MORE MOVING PICTURE Site-specific group. Presented by The Neuberger Museum (Purchase,NY) September 1985.

YOUR HELPING HAND Premiere Performance Space 122, 1/85. The Kitchen NYC 11/84. Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE) 4/85.

BELIEVE YOU ME solo. Premiere P.S. 1 NYC 4/83; Hallwalls (Buffalo, NY), Just Above Midtown (NYC) 12/83; Video Free America (San Francisco), LACE (LA) 10/83.

RATE OF EXCHANGE Dance/Media solo. Franklin Furnace NYC 9/82; P.S. 122 12/82, Beyond Baroque (Venice, CA). 1/83

STURDY CHILD solo. Presented by Dancers For Disarmament at P.S. 122 June 1982.

CULT OF PERSONALITY solo monologue. At "Three of Them", Club 57 NYC April 1982.

LONG MARCH solo. P.S. 122 NYC July/August 1981.

MEMOR solo theater P.S. 122 February 1981.

SMILE AT KNIFE solo theater. Premiere "Men Together" Festival, P.S. 122 November 1980, "Avant-Garde-Arama" P.S. 122 12/80

FILM/VIDEO WORK

CROSS BODY RIDE Dance film directed by J.M. Premiered Performance Space 122 Benefit (NYC) February 1988; Encuentro de Cine Super-8 (San Juan, Puerto Rico) 2/88; "New Stuff" P.S. 122 4/88; Exit Art Int. Forum of Super-8 Film Millenium (NYC) 5/88. 2nd NYC Gay/Lesbian Experimental Film Festival 10/88; 8th Chicago Lesbian/Gay Int. Film Fest. 11/88; Hallwalls (Buffalo, NY) 11/88; "NO-TV" Greater Rochester Cablevision Ch. 12 (Rochester, NY) 1/89; Montreal Int. Fest. for Young Cinema 3/89; "NEW TELEVISION" broadcast on public TV stations in NY, LA, Washington, D.C., Boston in June 1989; New Festival/NY Int. Fest. of Lesbian/Gay Film 6/89; San Francisco Int. Lesbian/Gay Film Fest. 6/89. "Eyes Wide Open" Dance Theater Workshop (NYC) 12/88. European Media Art Fest.(Osnabruck, Germany) 9/89; Interfilm Fest. Berlin 9/89; Shaffey Theater Video Dance Fest. Amsterdam 11/89. 4th Biennale de la Danse Lyon, France 9/90; IMZ Dance Screen 90 Frankfurt, Germany 10/90.

TELL ME MOVING Dance film directed by J.M. Premiered Performance Space 122 Benefit (NYC) February 1986; "New Stuff" at Performance Space 122 4/86, Chisenhale Dance Space (London) 7/86; Dance On Camera Festival (NYC) 11/86; Collective For Living Cinema (NYC) 11/86. Finalist in 8th Int. Fest. of Super-8 Film, and shown in Fest. of City of Quebec (Quebec) 4/87; 5th Int. Youth Film Fest. (Turin, Italy) 10/87. Award Winner in 13th Int. Fest. of New Super-8 Film and Video (Caracas) 9/88.

AWARDS/GRANTS/HONORS

HERBERGER INSTITUTE FOR DESIGN AND THE ARTS 2010 Research grant for development/production of script, Straight TalkARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE FOR HUMANITIES RESEARCH: 2009 Seed Grant funding as Principal Investigator for development of Changing Courses: the real dinner theatre investigating our relationship to food, eating, and the environment.
EDWARD F. ALBEE FOUNDATION: awarded 5-week writing residency at The Barn in Montauk, NY Fall 2009
ARIZONA COMMISSION ON THE ARTS project grant for Counter Indications collaboraiton with Jacob Pinholster 2008
HOSPICE OF THE VALLEY supporting Mayo Clinic (Scottsdale, AZ) nurse training project with ASU theatre students 2007
HERBERGER COLLEGE OF THE ARTS Research Grant 2007 for development of Counter Indications
MAYO CLINIC (AZ) "Improving Caring Efficacy Through Effective and Compassionate End of Life Communication" 2006
CREATIVE CAPITAL FOUNDATION & ARIZONA COMMISSION ON THE ARTS mid-career artist management seminar 2006
NEW YORK STATE COUNCIL ON THE ARTS Playwright commission 2003
MONETTE/HORWITZ TRUST RESEARCH AND SCHOLARSHIP AWARD 2001
NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS INTER-ARTS PROJECT GRANT 1988
NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS FELLOWSHIPS 1984, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1992, 1993, 1996
NEW YORK FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS FELLOWSHIP 1988.
NEW YORK STATE COUNCIL ON THE ARTS Company funding 1988/89, 1989/90, 1993/94.
NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS DANCE FILM/VIDEO PROJECT 1984.

OTHER PERFORMANCE WORK

Disorientalism performer in piece by Marianne M. Kim, Katherine Behar ASU West 2008

The Cherry Orchard acted role of Leonid Gayev in Marshall W. Mason's production Arizona State University   February 2004

The Staging of Science four parts, professional reading student plays Herberger Theatre Gitta Honegger's class. April 2003

Lysistrata choreographed staged reading as part of nationwide anti-war performances Arizona State University March   2003

911: Operation My Big Hands Theatre in My Basement (Phoenix,AZ) actor in reading at Modified Arts October 2002

Sound Zero produced Lance Gharavi’s solo installation piece. Institute for Studies in the Arts, Arizona State University Jan/Feb. 2002

As good as it gets,voice-over for Linda Mancini piece at DTW 11/92

970-Debb Consulting Artist for Deb Margolin P.S. 122 9/90

Yield Both Ways Assistant Cameraman for Michael Stiller's 1986 film.

How To Win An Argument voice-over for Warner Publishing educational tape. 1985. Produced by Gregory Miller.

The Campaign Game featured in radio play by E-Radiotheatre. Premiered July 1984 WBAI radio.

Street Performances performed in street performances with Yoshiko Chuma and the School of Hard Knocks 1983

Cost Of Living appeared in Tim Miller's work-in-progress at Danceteria, NYC May 1982.

Men In Dark Times featured in Eric Bogosian's theater piece The Kitchen NYC, The Mudd Club NYC March 1982.

Postwar performed in Tim Miller's piece Dance Theater Workshop NYC January-February 1982.

Word Of Mouth produced and performed in reading/performance event at Club 57 NYC May 1981.

Winter Safari produced benefit for P.S. 122 February 1981.

Live Boys stage-managed performance by John Bernd/Tim Miller at P.S. 122 March 1981.

What We're Made Of! by Ishmael Houston-Jones. Network Theater NYC June 1980; Contemp. Arts Center, (Phila. PA).

EDUCATION

COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF THE ARTS Writing Division 1996-1998. Master of Fine Arts October 1998
THE NEW SCHOOL Non-fiction writing with Candy Schulman Summer 1995
EMPIRE STATE COLLEGE/STATE UNIVERSITY NEW YORK 1992-95. Bachelor of Arts 1995; Leach Fellowship Performing Arts
REED COLLEGE two years study 1975-77. Theater with Larry Oliver and Diana Bellamy. Dance with Judy Massee.
REED COLLEGE SUMMER REPERTORY COMPANY 1976 actor in company. VOICE TRAINING with Diana Bellamy and Stan Vincent in Lessac and Linklater techniques.
SINGING LESSONS with John Eppler/Jeanette Lovetri in NYC. 1985-1994.
SKINNER RELEASING two years of study with Joan Skinner and members of company. Seattle 1977-78. CONTACT IMPROVISATION with Mangrove Collective; JAMES TYLER Hawkins-based dance technique; DAVID SHEIN study with member of Blake Street Hawkeyes and Iowa Lab Theatre; RUTH ZAPORAH physical theater. San Francisco 1979.

TEACHING

ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY Assistant Professor, School of Theatre and Film, Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts, Fall 2005-present; Interim Director MFA Performance Program August 2003-May 2005; Senior Lecturer/Resident Artist, Institute for Studies in the Arts, Fall 2001-Spring 2003; (Tempe, AZ)
KUTZTOWN UNIVERSITY: Instructor in Performance Art, and Writing for Performance 1996-1998 (Kutztown, PA)
ARTIST IN RESIDENCE: Center for New Dance Development (Arnhem, The Netherlands) April 1991
OTIS ART INSTITUTE Instructor in Performance Art Fall 1991 Semester (Los Angeles, CA)
ART CENTER COLLEGE OF DESIGN Instructor in Performance Art Fall 1991 Semester (Pasadena, CA)
CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE FOR THE ARTS (CAL ARTS) Instructor in Dance Video Fall 1991 (Valencia, CA)
VISITING ARTIST: Instituto Superior de Artes, (Havana, Cuba) 2004; Cal Arts’ Critical Studies Program 2000; Dartington College (Totnes, England) 2000; Glasgow School of Art (Glasgow, Scotland) 2000; artsadmin (London) 2000, Arts University (Brno, Czech Republic) 1999; Univ. of Nevada/Las Vegas (1996); Univ. of Southern California (1995); Scripps College (Pomona, CA) 2000, 1995; Univ. of LaVerne 1995,1996 (LaVerne, CA) Columbia College, Chicago 1994; Univ. of California/Irvine 1989; Cleveland State Univ. 1989; State Univ. of NY/Brockport 1989; Martha's Vineyard Public Schools, Fall 1988; Los Angeles Poverty Dept. (Theater Group) 1988; Art Center College of Design (Pasadena, CA) 2000, 1985, 1987; Otis Art Institute (Los Angeles, CA) 1987,1995; Cal Arts 1985; Fieldston Perf. Arts Inst. (NYC) 6/92; Barnsdall Art Park (Los Angeles, CA) 7/87;
BARD PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL (Red Hook, NY) lead writer of arts curriculum. 1999
LITTLE MEADOWS EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER (NYC) Artist in Residence 1991-1999
YOUNG AUDIENCES/NY workshops for NYC Public Schools in Creative Movement, March 1987-2001.
LINCOLN CENTER INSTITUTE Workshops and teacher training in aesthetic education NYC public schools 1993-2001
ARTS HORIZONS Creative movement workshops and teacher training 1994-2001 ORCHESTRA OF ST. LUKES Aesthetic education program NYC schools 1996-1999
ARTSGENESIS Creative Movement workshops and teacher training in NYC public schools 1992-1995 ARTS CONNECTION/ARTS EXPOSURE: creative movement workshops in NYC public schools 1989-1994. NORTH CAROLINA ARTS COUNCIL Monthlong residency at Ocracoke School (Ocracoke, NC) May 1993
HOSPITAL AUDIENCES,INC. Dance and movement teacher for mental health facilities in NYC. 1983-89

RELATED ACTIVITIES

RED WING PERFORMING GROUP, INC. Assoc. Director 1986-present
PERFORMANCE SPACE 122 Associate Director 1982-86.
UBIQUITY Board member of Arizona State University LGBTQ faculty/staff organization 2004-present
CONTRACT NEGOTIATING TEAM 1999-2001 for Lincoln Center Institute Teaching Artists local (United Federation of Teachers)
Activist: ARTISTS COALITION FOR GAY/LESBIAN MARCH ON WASHINGTON 1993 GET SMART! NYC anti-censorship group 6/90; NYC Arts Coalition 1990; ARTS COALITION OF INDEPENDENT DEMOCRATS (NYC) 1991-1994; DANCERS FOR DISARMAMENT 1982.
CUMMINGTON COMMUNITY OF THE ARTS in residence September 1981.
BOARD MEMBER/OFFICER of 512 East 11th Street HDFC (Low-income Housing Co-op) 1982-2001. Building Manager 1992-98
MEMBER: Dramatists' Guild of America, Playwrights' Center, College Art Assoc., National Writers Union, Center for Lesbian/Gay Studies; Modern Language Association; Association for Theater in Higher Education, Assoc. of Theatre Movement Educators
ADVISORY BOARD MEMBER: Steven Kent Institute for Conscious Acting, University of LaVerne

PUBLICATIONS, PANELS, EVENTS

PUBLICATIONS: TDR/The Drama Review (pending 2011); TDR/The Drama Review, Summer 2006; PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art #81 (Fall 2005); Scripts for HEEL and Honorable Discharge in PERFORMING THE HERE AND NOW ed. Chris Danowski (2005 Kendall/Hunt); The Gay and Lesbian Review Worldwide, (Jan-Feb 2004), Street Signs, (University of London, 2003), Movement Research Journal #22 (Winter/Spring 2001); New England Review (Summer 2000), Threepenny Review #81 (Spring 2000), City Limits Magazine (December 1997); New York Blade News (November 28, 1997) Teaching Tolerance (Fall 1996);”XXX Fruit #3”(1996); Consider The Alternatives ed. Ron Ehmke (Hallwalls 1996); Contact Quarterly (Winter/Spring 1996); Performing Arts Journal #50/51 (1995); American Dance (American Dance Guild 1994-95); Culture Wars ed. by R. Bolton (New Press 1992); Poor Dancers' Almanac (Duke Univ. Press 1993);Wedge Magazine (Fall 1982). Letters in: New York Times, New York Newsday, Taconic Gazette Advertiser, FYI.
PANEL CHAIR: College Art Association "Collaborative teaching of Collaboration" (Seattle 2004); Association for Theatre in Higher Education "Moving through masculinity: rethinking maleness through theatre, movement and dance”“(Los Angeles 2010); New Theatre/New Media: integrating technology and live performance” (New York, 2003); “Performance Art and Education” at College Art Assoc. 1995, also Assoc. for Theater in Higher Education 1995.
PANEL MEMBER: Assoc. for Theater in Higher Education (New York 2009, New Orleans 2007, San Diego 2002); Hemispheric Institute for Performance and Politics (Bogota, Colombia 2009; Buenos Aires, Argentina 2007); Performance Studies International #12 (Zagreb, Croatia 2009; Univ. of London/Queen Mary 2006); College Art Association (Los Angeles 2009), "The United States in the 1980s: the Reagan Years" Rothermere American Institute, Univ. of Oxford (U.K.) November 2005; NoPassport (New York 2010); Society for Scientific Study of Sexuality 2004 (San Diego); Ethics & the Arts Conference, Lincoln Center for Applied Ethics, Arizona State Univ. (Tempe, AZ) October 2001; Modern Language Association (Washington, D.C.) December 2000; Performance Art, Culture, Pedagogy Symposium (Penn State Univ.) November 1996; Power In Practice Arts Education Conf. (Philadelphia, PA 1996; American Dance Guild Annual Meet June 1991 (Politics and Dance); NYFA/Common Ground 1990 (Censorship and Arts Funding) and 1992 (Artist/Therapist collaboration in early education).

CITATIONS

“Causing More Trouble Out There: Mark Russell on P.S. 122” Beth Kurkjian TDR/The Drama Review 51:3  (T195)Fall 2007; Honorable Discharge BarrioZona magazine Hispanic Inst. of Social Issues (Phoenix, AZ) Nov-Dec 2004; Homecoming: Celebrating 20 Years of Dance at P.S. 122. Film by Charles Dennis (2004);"Performing Identity: The Politics and Pedagogy of Witnessing the Self" Doctoral dissertation by Dahn Hiuni (Pennsylvania State University May, 2005); Caught In The Act Dona Ann McAdams (Aperture 1996); The NEA Tapes (1995); Performing Pedagogy: Toward an Art of Politics by Charles Garoian (SUNY 1999); "When Artists Hesitate" Samar Farah (Christian Science Monitor 3/7/02)

CONCEIVED AND ORGANIZED

Mayo Clinic Hospital/ASU School of Theatre and Film Palliative Care nurse training with graduate acting students 2006-present

"911: Calling the Creative Community," series of public events for ASU examining September 11 attacks (Tempe, AZ) October 2, 2001.

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