David Marcia, MFA, PhD 321 Heritage Lane East Terre Haute, IN 47803 573-256-9712 [email protected] Web: www.davidmarcia.com Vimeo.com/tdmdm2
ACADEMIC BACKGROUND
PhD in Theatre: University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, 2012. Dr. David Crespy (Dissertation Chair), Dr. Cheryl Black (First Reader), Dr. Joseph Bien (Outside Advisor, Philosophy Department). Cognate Area: Performance Philosophy: the application of postmodern aesthetic theory to theatre and performance. Dissertation Title: “The Labor of Action for the Operation of Truth: The Phenomenology and Dramatic Platonism of Meisner Technique as Refined and Extended by William Esper.”
MBA in Marketing: Kennesaw State University, Kennesaw, Georgia, 2002.
MFA in Directing: Mason Gross School of the Arts, Professional Training Program, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey. Studied under Harold Scott and Edward Stern (Directing), William Esper, Victoria Hart and Maggie Flanigan (Acting), John Jensen (Design), Dr. Eileen Blumenthal (History/Critical Theory), Lloyd Williamson (Stage Movement and Choreography), and Rick Sordelet (Physical Action and Stage Combat Choreography).
BFA in Acting: Otterbein College (now Otterbein University), Westerville, Ohio.
Professional Acting Internship: The Virginia Stage Company, Norfolk, Virginia.
Master Classes: Stephen McKinley Henderson, Advanced Acting Workshop, University of Missouri, 2011. Elia Kazan, “Directing the Actor.” Robert Lewis, Acting/Directing Workshop. Sanford Meisner, “Teaching Meisner Technique.” Anna Sokolow, Period Styles, Rutgers University. Julie Taymor, “Puppets and Shadows”, Rutgers University. Joseph Chaikin, Directing Workshops, Rutgers University.
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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Associate Editor, New Perspectives in Edward Albee Studies (book series, Brill), 2019- present.
Full-Time Instructor of Theatre, Indiana State University (ISU), Terre Haute, Indiana, August 2017 to Present. Currently teaching: Theatre History, Dramaturgy, Theatre Management, Advanced Scene Study, and Introduction to Theatre. Director of Macbeth: Spring, 2019. Production photos: https://flic.kr/s/aHsmCThQKU Fight Choreographer for the ISU Productions: A Streetcar Named Desire, Never Swim Alone and The Actor’s Nightmare, 2017-2018 Season (ISU). Director of Marketing and Dramaturg for ISU’s professional summer theatre, Crossroads Repertory Theatre, August 2017 to Present.
Freelance Director and Independent Scholar, January 2014 to July 2017.
Visiting Assistant Professor of Theatre and Media Studies, Beloit College, Beloit, Wisconsin, January to December 2013. Courses taught: Theories of Contemporary Performance and Media, Media Content and Practice, Selling Performance and Media, Acting II, Basic Meisner Technique.
Graduate Teaching Instructor, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, 2009 to 2013. Courses taught: Acting II Basic Meisner Technique and Scene Study, Acting for Non-Majors, Beginning Playwrighting, Introduction to Theatre, Basic Set Construction.
Manager, BellSouth/AT&T Corporation, Atlanta, Georgia, 1997 to 2008.
Artistic Director, Jersey City Shakespeare Festival, Jersey City, New Jersey.
Producing Director, Waterfront Ensemble Theatre Company, Hoboken, New Jersey and New York City, New York.
Certified Mental Health Screener, Acute Psychiatric Services, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Piscataway, New Jersey.
Producing Director, Jameson Studio Theater, Mason Gross School of the Arts - Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey.
Graduate Teaching Assistant, Mason Gross School of the Arts - Rutgers University.
PUBLICATIONS
“Art is Hammer: Aura, Textual Awareness, and Comedy in Albee,” in Albee as Theatrical Innovator. Ed. David Crespy. New Perspectives in Edward Albee Studies book series. Volume 3. Brill. May 2019. https://brill.com/abstract/title/54487?rskey=TQCrzp&format=HC&offer=498843&result=1
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“The Aims of Spirit: Performing Marriage in Albee,” in Edward Albee and Sexuality/Gender. Ed. John M. Clum and Cormac O’Brien. New Perspectives in Edward Albee Studies book series. Volume 2. Brill. January 2018. https://brill.com/view/book/edcoll/9789004362710/B9789004362710_005.xml?lang=en
“The Absurdity of Mimesis: A History of Absurdist Criticism Related to the Plays of Edward Albee,” in Albee and Absurdism. Ed. Michael Y. Bennett. New Perspectives in Edward Albee Studies book series. Volume 1. Brill. January 2017. https://brill.com/view/title/33654
“The Actress Plays a Man: Making Neil LaBute’s Reasons to be Pretty Strange.” Ed. Ruis Woertendyke. Methods: A Journal of Acting Pedagogy. Pace University Press. November 2016. Methods, 2. P85-96. http://press.pace.edu/methods/
The Theatre Practice of Tadashi Suzuki by Paul Allain. Book review, Theatre Journal, Volume 64, Number 3, October 2012, 459-475.
Whisky-Tango. Poems & Plays, Volume 19, March 2012. http://www.mtsu.edu/english/poemsandplays/
Theatre, Communication, Critical Realism by Tobin Nellhaus. Book review, Contemporary Theatre Review, publication August 2011, 21:3, 351-361. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10486801.2011.586220
PUBLICATIONS IN PROGRESS
“Art is True: Albee Via Adorno, Social Totality, Breakout, and Revolutionary Determination in Performance,” in Edward Albee: Influence. Ed. John M. Clum and Natka Bianchini. New Perspectives in Edward Albee Studies book series. Volume 4. Brill. Spring 2020.
“Utopia and Disbelief: Gender-Blind Casting in Macbeth,” in Theatre Topics 30.2 CFP: Special Issue on Queer Pedagogy in Theatre and Performance. Ed. Noe Montez and Kareem Khubchandani. ATHE. Peer Review October 15, 2019.
“Edward Albee,” Oxford Bibliographies in American Literature. Ed.Jackson R. Bryer, Richard Kopley, and Paul Lauter. Oxford University Press USA. Spring 2020.
“Chosen or Given? The Creation of Family in the Plays of Lanford Wilson,” Missouri Self- Taught: Lanford Wilson and the American Drama. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Spring 2020.
Courses Taught
Advanced Scene Study, Indiana State University, 2019.
Introduction to Theatre, Indiana State University, 2017 to present.
Theatre Management, Indiana State University, 2017 to present.
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Theatre History, Indiana State University, 2017 to present.
Dramaturgy, Indiana State University, 2017 to present.
Media Content and Practice, Beloit College, Fall 2013.
Theories of Contemporary Performance and Media, Beloit College, Fall 2013.
Selling Performance and Media, Beloit College, Spring 2013.
Acting II: Basic Meisner Technique and Scene Study, Beloit College, Spring 2013.
Acting II: Basic Meisner Technique and Scene Study, University of Missouri, Spring 2012.
World Dramatic Literature, University of Missouri, Fall 2011.
Beginning Playwriting, University of Missouri, three sections, 2011-2012.
Theatre and Society, University of Missouri, Spring 2010, Fall and Spring, 2011.
Acting for Non-majors, University of Missouri, nine sections, 2009-2012.
Basic Scenic Construction, University of Missouri, three sections, 2009-2012.
Guest Lecturer, Department of Philosophy, University of Missouri, 2010-2012.
Guest Lecturer on Basic Meisner Technique, Acting Styles, University of Missouri, Fall 2011.
PRESENTATIONS
“Macbeth in Modern Performance” The International Music and Cultural Festival, Indiana State University, March 15th, 2019.
“Chosen or Given? The Creation of Family in the Plays of Lanford Wilson” Missouri Self- Taught: Lanford Wilson and the American Drama, University of Missouri, April 25-29, 2018.
“Spitting Images: The Myth of Anti-War Protestors Spitting on Returned Soldiers and Shirley Lauro’s A Piece of My Heart as a Teachable Moment.” Mid-America Theatre Conference 2018, Pedagogy Symposium.
“Aesthetic Variety: Stanislavsky, Brecht, Adorno, and the Ludic Moment to Moment.” Mid- America Theatre Conference 2016, Practice and Production Symposium.
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“The Now, the Present, the Moment, and the Power to Reckon with the Possible: Stanislavsky and Merleau-Ponty’s Phenomenology.” 2nd Biennial Performance Philosophy Conference, April 2015.
“Inspiration as the Measure of an Artist’s Worth: Kazan, Stanislavsky, and Merleau-Ponty.” Mid-America Theatre Conference 2015, Practice and Production Symposium.
“Night Dreaming, Day Dreaming, and the Desert of the Real: Imagination and its Sources for the Performer and the Writer.” Panel Chair, ATHE 2014, Theory and Criticism Focus Group.
“Imagination and Time: Stanislavsky’s Perezhivanie Illuminated via Merleau-Ponty’s Phenomenology of Perception.” Im/Possible Performance Roundtable Series: Dreaming of Praxis--Pushing the Limits of Im/Possibilities in Rehearsal, Pedagogy, and Performance, ATHE 2014, Theory and Criticism Focus Group.
“Perezhivanie: The Present, The Now, and Stanislavsky Informed by Merleau-Ponty.” The 38th Comparative Drama Conference, April 4, 2014.
“Serving the Play: The Treatment of Text in Meisner Technique.” Panel Chair, ATHE 2013, Acting and Directing Focus Group.
“Playing Vs. Pretending: Imaginary Circumstances as Rules of the Game in Noël Coward’s Hay Fever and Neil LaBute’s Reasons to be Pretty.” Play/Ground Roundtable Series: Playhouse of Praxis-Testing Theories of Play in Rehearsal and Performance, ATHE 2013, Theory and Criticism Focus Group.
“Performing Marriage: The Phenomenology of Audience, Metaphor, and Truth in Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” The 37th Comparative Drama Conference, April 4, 2013.
“Improvised Stage Combat Choreography as a Tool for Teaching and Expanding on Meisner’s Repetition Exercise.” (adjudicated exercise), ATHE 2012, Acting Focus Group.
“Gender as Imaginary Circumstance: The Theory and Praxis of Female Actors Playing Male Characters.” University of Missouri Research and Creative Activities Forum, March 17, 2012. Awarded third place in the adjudicated round.
“Gender as Imaginary Circumstance: The Praxis of Female Actors Portraying Male Characters in the University of Missouri’s Production of Neil LaBute’s Reasons to be Pretty.” Mid-America Theatre Conference 2012, Acting and Directing Symposium.
“The Phenomenology of Evil in Sarah Kane’s Blasted.” The Remains of Evil in Contemporary Drama, ATHE 2011, ATDS Focus Group.
“Meisner Technique for the Non-Theatre Major.” Mid-America Theatre Conference, 2011, Pedagogy Symposium.
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CREATIVE EXPERIENCE
Playwriting
Lust of the Flesh and the Wiles of Sin, Finalist, National Playwrights Conference of the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center, 2011, and granted a full reading by the Manhattan Class Company, Inc.
Coward Land, Semi-Finalist, National Playwrights Conference of the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center, 2012 and Semi-Finalist at WordBRIDGE Playwrights Laboratory, 2012. Also selected for presentation at the Indiana University Graduate Symposium on Theatre and Performance Studies “War Making Bodies” December 10th, 2011, and fully produced at Beloit College, October 2013.
What Breaks Your Heart?, Semi-Finalist, National Playwrights Conference of the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center, 2013.
Whisky-Tango, Published in Poems & Plays, Vol. 19, March 2012, selected for presentation at the Mid-America Theatre Conference in March 2011, and at the Mizzou New Play Series, April 2011.
Slamdog and Razor-Girl, Alternate, KCACTF Region 5 Ten-Minute Play Festival, 2012.
Game Changer, Selected for presentation at the Mid-America Theatre Conference, March 2010.
Everybody Smokes in Hell, produced and performed at the 23:59 Ten-Minute Play Festival at the University of Missouri, November 2011.
Home Game, produced and performed at the 23:59 Ten-Minute Play Festival at the University of Missouri, November 2010.
Orbit of Souls, produced Off-Off Broadway in 1996, and at Dad’s Garage Theatre, Atlanta, GA in 2003.
Tattoos and Taboos, Semi-Finalist, Actors Theatre of Louisville’s National Ten-Minute Play Festival.
Directing
Stupid Fucking Bird by Aaron Posner, Indiana State University, April 2020.
Macbeth, Indiana State University, April 2019. (Archive recording available.)
(See www.davidmarcia.com for production photos.)
Coward Land by David Marcia, Beloit College, October 2013. (Archive recording available.)
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Hay Fever by Noël Coward, Beloit College, April 2013. (Archive recording available.)
Reasons to be Pretty by Neil LaBute, University of Missouri, December 2011. http://www.columbiatribune.com/6df1ef23-4406-5127-b1d7-1ae8ffa2fc6f.html
Tongue of a Bird, by Ellen McLaughlin, Semi-finalist, KCACTF Region 5 SDC Directing Initiative, 2011.
Adrian Looks in a Mirror by Larisa Netterlund, KCACTF Region 5 Ten-Minute Play Festival 2010. Commended for directing.
English by Fonzie Geary, 23:59 Ten-Minute Play Festival, University of Missouri, November 2009.
Orbit of Souls by David Marcia, Dad’s Garage Theatre, Atlanta, GA, 2002.
Orbit of Souls by David Marcia, Ohio Theatre, NYC.
Macbeth, Jersey City Shakespeare Project, Jersey City, NJ.
Shelter by Kate Milae, Samuel Beckett Theatre, NYC.
Ping-Pong by Richard Lloyd, Ohio Theatre, NYC.
The Rise and Rise of Daniel Rocket by Peter Parnell, Gilgamesh Theatre Group, Samuel Beckett Theatre, NYC.
Orphans by Ken Kessler, Theatre Fest, Montclair, NJ.
The Rimers of Eldritch by Lanford Wilson, Montclair State University, Montclair, NJ.
Fugue for Sirens by Richard Lloyd, Samuel Becket Theatre, NYC.
Leap of Faith, by the Waterfront Ensemble, Pelican Theatre, NYC.
Moonlight on the Water by Constance Elgar, Roundabout Theatre Lab, NYC.
Oh! Ralph by Ray Davis, American Theatre of Actors NYC.
The Diviners by Jim Leonard, Jr., Livingston Theater, Rutgers University.
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Standing on My Knees by John Olive, Jameson Studio Theater, Rutgers University.
Medal of Honor Rag by Tom Cole, Jameson Studio Theater, Rutgers University.
Minnesota Moon by John Olive, Cabaret Theater, Rutgers University.
After Midnight-Before Dawn by David Campton, Jameson Studio Theater, Rutgers University.
Botticelli by Terrence McNally, Jameson Studio Theater, Rutgers University.
Hopscotch by Israel Horovitz, Otterbein College, Westerville, Ohio.
Representative Concert Readings
Coward Land by David Marcia, 2011 Indiana University Graduate Symposium on Theatre and Performance Studies “War Making Bodies” December 10, 2011.
Whisky-Tango by David Marcia, Mizzou New Play Series, April 2011.
Nights on the Couch by Matt Fotis, Mizzou New Play Series, April 2011.
58 & 59 by Matt Fotis, Mizzou New Play Series, April 2011.
Nights on the Couch by Matt Fotis, KCACTF Region 5 One-Act finalist, 2011.
Lust of the Flesh and the Wiles of Sin by David Marcia, Mizzou New Play Series, April 2010.
In the Blood by Heidi Schmidt, Mizzou New Play Series, April 2010.
Houseblend by David Crespy, Mizzou Summer Rep, Comedies in Concert, 2009.
Professional Organizations
Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE) Representative at large for the Theory and Criticism Focus Group. Former graduate student representative for the Acting Focus Group, 2011-2012.
Performance Philosophy: A Research Network for the field of Performance Philosophy.
Center for Entrepreneurship in Liberal Education at Beloit College (CELEB).
The Edward Albee Society.
The American Society for Aesthetics.
Mid-America Theatre Conference (MATC).
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Recommendations
Dr. Chris Berchild Chair and Associate Professor Department of Theater Indiana State University Artistic Director Crossroads Repertory Theatre 536 North 7th St. Terre Haute, IN 47809 812-234-3342 (Office) 812-230-7120 (Cell) [email protected]
Dr. Cheryl Black Professor of Theatre and Director of Graduate Studies Catherine Paine Middlebush Chair in Fine and Performing Arts President, American Theatre and Drama Society Department of Theatre 129 Fine Arts University of Missouri Columbia, MO 65211 573-882-0530 (Office) 573-864-3021 (Cell) [email protected]
Dr. David Crespy Professor of Playwriting, Acting, & Dramatic Literature Artistic Director, Missouri Playwrights Workshop Co-Director, MU Writing for Performance Program President, Edward Albee Society Department of Theatre 129 Fine Arts University of Missouri Columbia, MO 65211 573-882-0535 (Office) 573-999-5695 (Cell) [email protected]
Dr. Michael Y. Bennett Editor, Albee and Absurdism, New Perspectives in Edward Albee Studies book series. Amsterdam: Brill | Rodopi Associate Professor of English Department of Languages and Literature Laurentide Hall 3270 800 W. Main Street University of Wisconsin-Whitewater Whitewater, WI 53190
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262-472-5037 [email protected]
Shelley Delaney MFA Head, Professional Actor Training Program Ohio University School of Theater Kantner Hall 206 Athens OH 45701 740-541-1619 [email protected]
Dr. Amy Sarno Associate Professor Department of Theatre, Dance, and Media Studies Beloit College 700 College St. Beloit, WI 53511 608-363-2156 [email protected]
Chris Johnson MFA Head of Dance Department Beloit College 700 College St. Beloit, WI 53511 608-363-2713 [email protected]
Donna Thalman Costume Design and Costume Shop Supervisor Beloit College 700 College St. Beloit, WI 53511 608-363-2735 [email protected]
Dr. Joseph Bien Department of Philosophy 414 Strickland Hall University of Missouri Columbia, MO 65211 573-882-3664 [email protected]
Dr. Alexandra Socarides Associate Professor of English University of Missouri
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332 Tate Hall Columbia, MO 65211 573-884-0267 [email protected]
Rick Sordelet MFA Screenwriter Professor of Stage Combat and Physical Action Yale School of Drama 46 Forest Street Montclair, NJ 07042 [email protected]
Dennis Delaney MFA Head, Professional Directing Program Ohio University School of Theater Kantner Hall 211 Athens OH 45701 740-593-4261 [email protected]
Bill Bowers MFA Mime, Actor, Teacher William Esper Studio Artist of Eminence, University of Wyoming, 2009 646-298-5241 [email protected]