Education and Training Yale School of Drama
2000 D.F.A., Dramaturgy and Dramatic Criticism Program
1996 M.F.A. with Honors, Dramaturgy and Dramatic Criticism Program Emory University
1993 B.A., English and Theater. Summa cum laude.
Research Interests
Kimberly Jannarone studies dramatic literature and performance with an emphasis on modernism, especially the American and European avant-garde. She also teaches directing and dramaturgy, both of which she practices professionally. Her interest in ancient drama fuels her investigations of modernism in theory, history, and practice.
Professor Jannarone spent Fall 2006 on leave in Paris on a Special Research Grant to finish her book, Artaud and His Doubles, on Antonin Artaud and his place in intellectual and political history in the interwar era in Europe. She has published on Artaud's directing practice as well as his early prose and poetry works. Her work on Artaud exemplifies her focus on the development of the relationship between the audience and the performer in theater--what kind of spectatorial experience does a given dramatic event presuppose or, more frequently, mandate? This research leads her to uncover histories of the theatrical audience and the often unspoken politics of those audience-performer relationships.
Selected Publications
"The Theater Before Its Double: Artaud Directs in the Alfred Jarry Theater," Theatre Survey 46.2, Nov. 2005
"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
"Performing Opposition: Modern Theater and the Scandalized Audience," book review, Theatre Survey 45.2, November 2004
"Puppetry and Pataphysics: Populism and the Ubu Cycle," New Theatre Quarterly 67, August 2001. (Reprint in Twentieth Century Literature Criticism, Vol. 147 (TCLC-147), May 2004.)
Selected Recent Productions Director The Skriker, by Caryl Churchill, UCSC (2005)
Leap, by Lauren Gunderson, staged reading, Brave New Works Festival, Theater Emory, Atlanta, Georgia (2005)
"Cradle to Grave: An Evening of Beckett," UCSC (2002)
Merry Wives of Windsor, Shakespeare to Go, Shakespeare Santa Cruz (2002)
Dramaturg 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)
Teaching Interests
Theater History, Directing, Dramatic Literature, Dramaturgy, Dramatic Theory, Ancient Drama, the Avant-Garde in arts and literature
Kimberly Jannarone