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's book, Artaud
and His Doubles, on Antonin Artaud
and his place in intellectual and
political history in the interwar
era in Europe, is appearing in
2010 from the University of Michigan
Press. She is currently a Camargo
Fellow, in residency in Cassis,
France, working on her next book,
The Crowd in the Theater, which
ties together histories of people's
theaters and crowd theory.
Jannarone studies avant-garde
art and thought across genres,
grounded in performance. A central
focus is 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
"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: Collaboration,
Creativity and the World’s
Most Popular 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
"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