Kimberly Jannarone

Thu, 2010-01-07 17:20 — mrmorris
Avant-garde literature and performance; French arts and literature; directing
Associate Professor

Kimberly Jannarone

Associate Professor, Theater Arts
Affiliated faculty, Digital Arts and New Media
Affiliated faculty, History of Consciousness
Email: 
kmj@ucsc.edu
Office: 
J-16 Theater Arts Complex
Phone: 
Office: 831-459-3490
Phone: 
Fax: 831-459-3553
Research Interests: 

Kimberly Jannarone researches and teaches dramatic literature and performance, especially experimental theater. She also teaches directing and dramaturgy, both of which she practices professionally. A central focus of her work is the politics of the audience/performer relationship.

 

Professor Jannarone's book, Artaud and His Doubles, University of Michigan Press, 2010, interprets the theater of Antonin Artaud in the intellectual and political history of interwar Europe. In Fall 2009, she was a Camargo Fellow in residency in Cassis, France, working on her next book, The Crowd in the Theater, which investigates mass performance through the lens of crowd theory and people's theaters.  She is currently editing Vanguards of the Right (forthcoming, University of Michigan Press), a book about avant-garde innovation in the service of right-wing regimes.

Education and Training: 
Yale School of Drama, 2000 D.F.A., Dramaturgy and Dramatic Criticism Program
Yale School of Drama, 1996 M.F.A. with Honors, Dramaturgy and Dramatic Criticism Program
Emory University, 1993 B.A., English and Theater. Summa cum laude.
Selected Publications: 

•  "The Uses and Abuses of Antonin Artaud," translated into Chinese in Theatre Arts, with responses from Atay Citron (Haifa University) and Richard Schechner (NYU), January 2012

• "L'Amour chez Jarry: Rupture, Ridicule, and Theatre" New Theatre Quarterly, Fall 2011

• "The Avant-Garde and Vector Studies: A Roundtable."  Co-written.  Avant-Garde Performance and Material Exchange, ed. Mike Sell, Palgrave, 2011 

• "Audience, Mass, Crowd: Theaters of Cruelty in Interwar Europe," Theatre Journal 61, May 2009*

• "Jarry's Caesar Antichrist and the Theatre of the Book," New Theatre Quarterly 25.2, May 2009

• "Exquisite Theater," chapter in The Exquisite Corpse: Chance and Collaboration in Surrealism's Parlor Game, eds. Kanta Kochhar-Lindgren, Davis Schneiderman, and Tom Denlinger, University of Nebraska Press, 2009

• "The Theater Before Its Double: Artaud Directs in the Alfred Jarry Theater," Theatre Survey 46.2, Nov. 2005*

(Reprint in Modern Drama: Critical Concepts in Literary and Cultural Studies, ed. Martin Puchner, Routledge UK, 2008)

• "The Year of Gombrowicz: The International Gombrowicz Festival and Theatrical Confrontations Festival, Lublin, Poland, 2004," Theatre Journal 57.2, May 2005

• "Exercises in Exorcism: The Paradoxes of Form in Artaud's Early Works," French Forum 29.2, Winter 2004

• "Puppetry and Pataphysics: Populism and the Ubu Cycle," New Theatre Quarterly 67, August 2001.

(Reprint in Twentieth Century Literature Criticism, Vol. 147, May 2004.)

Selected Performances: 

Director

Peer Gynt: multi-media performance, UCSC (2013; in progress) (video)

Stop the Press! devised performance, UCSC (2010)

The Skriker, by Caryl Churchill, UCSC (2005)

Leap, by Lauren Gunderson, staged reading, Brave New Works Festival, Theater Emory, Atlanta, Georgia (2005)

Cradle to the Grave: An Evening of Beckett, UCSC (2002)

Merry Wives of Windsor, Shakespeare to Go, Shakespeare Santa Cruz (2002)

 

Translation

"Pride, Pursuit, and Decapitation," by Marion Aubert (with Erik Butler).  Premier reading: Des Voix Festival, San Francisco.  Directed by Carey Perloff.  (website)

 

Dramaturgy

Alcestis, by Ted Hughes, co-production with Theater Emory and Out of Hand Theater Company, Atlanta, Georgia (2005)

Tango, by Slawomir Mrozek, Barnstorm, UCSC (2005)

Selected Presentations: 

"Memory and Mass Performace." Featured Speaker. "Temporalities of Reenactment" series, Visual and Performance Studies (VPS), UCSC

"Moonlight, Synaesthesia, and the Arts." Invited Speaker. Reediana Omnibus Musica Philosopha (ROMP), Reed College, 2012

"Memory and Mass Performance." Performance Studies International (PSI), Utrecht, the Netherlands (2011)

"The Uses and Abuses of Antonin Artaud," RS/PS, Richard Schechner and Performance Studies Conference, University of Haifa, Israel (2010)

"Artaud in the '60s," Modernist Studies Association conference, Victoria, B.C. (2010)

"Massed Bodies, Massed Power," Seminar Chair, American Society for Theater Research, Seattle (2010) 

"Crowds, Cruelty, Communion," Invited Speaker, SITE Santa Fe (April 2010)

"The Aftermath of the Artaudian Ideal of Presence in Modern Performance." International Federation for Theater Research, Munich (2010)

"The Space of Cruelty," 20th and 21st-Century French and Francophone Studies International Colloquium, Toronto (2010)

"To Have Done With the Judgment of Artaud," International Federation for Theater Research, Lisbon, Portugal (2009)

Honors and Awards: 

* ASTR Essay Prize, Honorable Mention.  For the best essay on theater research written and published in a scholarly journal or volume.  Awarded for "Audience, Mass, Crowd: Theaters of Cruelty in Interwar Europe," Theatre Journal 61, May 2009.

* Camargo Fellow.  Fall residency in Cassis, France. (2009)

* Gerald Kahn Scholar's Prize for best essay published in theater studies by a younger scholar.  Awarded for "The Theater Before Its Double: Artaud Directs in the Alfred Jarry Theater," Theatre Survey 46.2, Nov. 2005.

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