Joanne Schultz 165 W. 26TH Street #5E [email protected] New York, NY 10001 LinkedIn c. 646.575.0886
Joanne Schultz teaches theater practice, theory and history in higher education with an emphasis on stimulating and supporting the development of each student's unique creative expression. She is a stage director whose explorations in theatrical forms have included play development and direction; devised theater; socially engaged theater; music theater and vocal performance; solo performance; puppet, image, and object theater, and applied theater. For a decade she was Artistic Director of Ninth Street Theater, an Off-off Broadway theater company based in Manhattan's East Village. She has also performed and toured widely.
Teaching Experience
Fall 2017−Present Adjunct Instructor, Borough of Manhattan Community College-CUNY Dept. of Speech, Communications and Theatre Arts, New York, NY
Fundamentals of Speech, Introduction to Theatre
Spring 2007−Spring 2018 Adjunct Assistant Professor, College of Staten Island-City University of New York Performing and Creative Arts Department, Staten Island, NY
Acting I, Theatre Introduction, Theatre Studies
Faculty, FIRST Program Learning Community (2007-2010)
Fall 2007-Spring 2008 Substitute Assistant Professor, College of Staten Island-CUNY Directed production and mentored students
Fall 2015−Spring 2017 Adjunct Assistant Professor, City College-City University of New York Department of Theatre and Speech, New York, NY Introduction to Theatre Arts Adjunct Assistant Professor, Marymount Manhattan College 1999−2006 Division of Fine and Performing Arts, New York, NY Elements of Directing, Directing II/Advanced Directing Acting for Non-Majors, American Drama and Theatre Contemporary Images of Women in Theatre, Film, and Literature Exploring the Performing Arts, Introduction to Drama and Theatre
Adjunct Assistant Professor, LaGuardia Community College-City University of NY 2000−05 Performing Arts Area, Long Island City, NY Acting I/II, Theatre Production Workshop Creative Drama, Theatre as Communication Off-Campus Faculty, MFA Program in Interdisciplinary Arts, Goddard College, Plainfield, VT 2001−02 Advised MFA students in individualized, distance learning program
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Mercy College, New York, NY 2000 Intermediate Vocal Articulation Education
Master of Fine Arts In Theatre, Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY Bachelor of Arts, Goddard College, Plainfield, VT Fields Of Study Directing: Paul Austin, Ernest Abuba Acting: Austin (Stanislavski), Jim Sherwood (Hagen), Louis Scheeder (Shakespeare),
Ernest Abuba (Experimental/Butoh) Mask/Puppetry: Peter Schumann Theatre History: Arthur Sainer, Rosette Lamont Special Interests Devised Theater, Socially Engaged Theater Feminism and Theater, Contemporary Plays
Work Experience
1986−95 Artistic Director/Co-Producer, Ninth Street Theater, NYC Conceived, directed, co-created and co-produced full-length, original productions for Off-off Broadway theater Co-produced monthly community performance series at Performance Space 122 1978−82 Touring Company Member, Bread and Puppet Theater, Glover, VT Created leading roles as performer, narrator and singer in puppetry and performance works that toured nationally and internationally 1996−97 Program Director, Elders Share the Arts, NYC Supervised twenty multicultural, intergenerational programs synthesizing oral history and the creative arts in educational and community-based settings 1991−2000 Teaching Artist, Elders Share the Arts, NYC Devised and directed collaborative, theater-in-education/community workshops and intergenerational performances with older adults and students in alternative high schools, intermediate and elementary schools
Directing & Performances: Selected Credits Original Productions, Plays, Puppetry Arts, Film
2015 Director, development workshop of Everything Is Subject to Change!, Theater for the New City, NYC
2012 Director, Widowbird (Emma Gibson), The Street Theatre, Canberra, Australia 2011 Director, staged reading of Widowbird, The Hive Program, The Street Theatre, Canberra, Australia
2010 Director, The Will to Freedom (Maike Brill/Anthony Smith), The Street Theatre, Canberra, Australia
2008 Director, A Zany Spring Comedy, Performing and Creative Arts Department, College of Staten Island-CUNY, NYC 2006 Director, Big City Blues, Puppeteers’ Cooperative with Kenny Wollesen/Himalaya, Lincoln Center Out of Doors Festival, NYC
2005 Director, International Voices; scenes from The Great USkrainian Circus (Myrna Casas) and Dial-a-Mom/Casa Matriz (Diana Raznovich), Performing Arts Area, LaGuardia Community College-CUNY, NYC
SCHULTZ | 2 of 6 (cont.) Directing & Performances: Selected Credits Original Productions, Plays, Puppetry Arts, Film
2004 Director, American Dreams: Scenes from Pulitzer Prize-winning Plays, How I Learned to Drive (Paula Vogel), Anna in the Tropics (Nilo Cruz) The Piano Lesson (August Wilson), LaGuardia Community College-CUNY
2003 Acting Coach, American Dreams (Studs Terkel) film adaptation, dir. Phil Hopper, Theater and Media Program, Marymount College at Fordham University, Tarrytown, NY 2003 Acting Coach, Twelve Angry Men (cross-gender cast), dir. Phil Hopper, Theater and Media Program, Marymount College at Fordham University, Tarrytown, NY 2002 Director/Adapter, Iraq Diaries (one-woman show with Margo Lee Sherman), Theater for the New City, NYC 2001 Director, Reality Check: An Evening of One Act Plays, Performing Arts Area, LaGuardia Community College-CUNY
1997−99 Sarah Lawrence College Theatre Department, Bronxville, NY: Director, The Grace of Mary Traverse (Timberlake Wertenbaker) Director, Yesterday’s Window (Chiori Miyagawa) Director, Nightwatch (Botho Strauss) Director, The Man Who Pretended to Be from Biscay (Cervantes)
Actress, Poof (Lynn Nottage)
1996 Producer, Songs from Antigone by Ralph Denzer, Judson Memorial Church, Theater for the New City, NYC 1995 Solo Performer, Traces of a Mother and Co-Producer, Mothers and Daughters, Women’s performance festival with Thulani Davis, Peggy Pettitt, Vernice Miller, and Rae C. Wright, Theater for the New City, NYC
1993−94 Co-Director/Co-Creator (with Peking Opera performer Kuang-Yu Fong of Chinese Theatre Works), Instinct, mask and movement theatre commissioned by The Orchestra of St. Luke’s Children’s Free Opera and Dance at Brooklyn Academy of Music; Pace University Schimmel Theatre, Theater for the New City, NYC 1992 Actress/Performer, MEDEAMATERIAL (Heiner Muller), dir. Ulla Neuerburg Site-specific performance/installation, East Village, NYC 1991 Director/Co-Adapter/Performer, Accident: A Day’s News (Christa Wolf), Theater for the New City 1991 Actress (film),The Hawthorne Experiments, dir. Eric Breitbart 1989−92 Director/Co-Creator/Performer, Home Family God Country Flag Shadow puppetry/performance at Arts at St. Ann’s, Performance Space 122, New York City; Baltimore Theatre Project; Painted Bride Arts Center, Philadelphia 1987−88 Director/Co-creator/Performer, The Ideal (Music-theater), Performance Space 122; German tour including Tubingen Festival; Werkstatt Buhne, Düsseldorf; Fletch Bizzel, Dortmund; Brotfabrik, Bonn 1985−88 Performer: Cabaret, Object Theater, and Spoken Word Club WB WB and Das Max Cabaret, dir. Pablo Vela, BACA, NYC
Paul Zaloom’s Theater of Trash, Dance Theater Workshop, NYC
I Want to Plant a Heart on the Earth, LaMama La Galleria, NYC
Seven Deadly Sins, with music by Dave Douglas & friends, Performance Space 122
1978−88 Touring Performer, Bread and Puppet Theater, dir. Peter Schumann Selected performances: Brooklyn Academy of Music, Theatre at St. Clement’s, Arts at St. Ann’s, Judson Church, New York City; Walker Arts Center, Minneapolis; Epic West, San Francisco; Riverside Studios, London, Theatre de L’est Parisien, Theatre de la Tempete, Paris; Taganka Theater, Moscow; Schauspielhaus, Bochum, Germany
SCHULTZ | 3 of 6 Honors & Grant Awards
2009 Adjunct Professional Development Fund, Professional Staff Congresss-CUNY
2001−05 Professional Development Grants (3), Educational Development Initiative Team (EDIT), LaGuardia Community College-CUNY
1995 Panelist, New York Foundation for the Arts/New York State Council on the Arts
1994−95 Grants for Performance Projects with Elders Share the Arts: National Endowment for the Arts
New York State Council on the Arts
1988−96 Grants for Directing Projects with Ninth Street Theater: New York City Department of Cultural Affairs New York State Council on the Arts Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Puffin Foundation
Henson Foundation
Professional Affiliations
New York Foundation for the Arts Theatre Communications Group Theatre Development Fund Professional Staff Congress-City University of New York New York State United Teachers American Federation of Teachers
Professional Development
2017 Climate Change Theatre Action, College of Staten Island, NYC
2016 Conference on Socially Engaged Performance: A Global Conversation, Theater Without Borders, LaMama Theatre, NYC
2012 Paula Vogel's Playwriting Boot Camp, New York Theatre Workshop, NYC
2011−2018 Reclaiming Our Lives, Living on Earth, workshop for women in Jungian psychology and the expressive arts, Sheffield, MA
2011 Aitor Basauri's master class in clown/comedy (observer), Brooklyn, New York
2010 Artist Talk: Socially Engaged Theatre and the Art of Collaboration, The Street Theatre, Canberra, Australia
2001−05 Professional Development Grants (3), Educational Development Initiative Team (EDIT), LaGuardia Community College–CUNY
1996 Theories of Directing, Richard Schechner, Performance Studies, New York University, NYC Scene study, Arthur French, HB Studios, NYC
1988 Composition for the Stage, Anne Bogart, Movement Research, NYC
1984−89 Vocal Performance, Roy Hart Theatre, NYC Voice/Movement/Theatre, Meredith Monk/The House, NYC Performance workshop, Lanny Harrison, NYC
SCHULTZ | 4 of 6 Publications
Gibson's flair is brought to life, Canberra Times, September 11, 2012, Glenn Burns Power and the Passion, Canberra City News, August 26, 2010, Joe Woodward Contributing author, Chapter 5: Finding the Form, Generating Community: Intergenerational Partnerships Through the Expressive Arts, New York: Elders Share the Arts, 1994 A Stage Door to the Past, Daily News, May 24, 1994, Suelain Moy Queens Profile, Newsday, May 3, 1996, Sheila McKenna Ninth Street Theater at Painted Bride, Philadelphia Inquirer, February 29, 1992, Douglas J. Keating A Melting Pot of Puppetry and Images, Baltimore Sun, March 15, 1991, J. Wynn Rousuck Shadow Play Captures What Makes Our Values Tick, The Villager, 1989, Tom Wachunas Puppets on Parade, The Village Voice, December 26, 1989, James Magruder Approaches to Rosa L.: Vehement Theater in the Zeche Carl, Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung, June 4, 1988, Jurgen Boebers
Media Reviews About Productions Directed by Joanne Schultz
“Widowbird…is an intriguing fable tackling big themes and…under Joanne Schultz’s direction, becomes a haunting meditation on the abuse of power, on the division within societies, on the universality of war, and on compassion and hope.” —Canberra Times, Canberra, Australia
“The Will to Freedom” is powerful, full of passion, with an engaging musical score driven by a sense of necessity.” —Canberra City News, Canberra, Australia
"Their play describes the life of a woman who had a vision without compromise: of a humane, cooperative, free society which to this day does not exist in the extreme that she demanded…They made this vehement opera into a sparkling theater spectacle that captivated the audience for two hours… A fresh approach to impart history: as a fascinating, skillful, theater play." —Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung
"…Brilliant theater…Cheerful street theater humor, grotesque exaggerations, shadow plays, film elements, formations of movement that remind of the Peking Opera, the discipline of the individual actor who integrates himself into this play—and the enormous musicality of each of the actors is dazzling…" —Neue Rheinische Zeitung
"The Ninth Street Theater describes itself as a collaborative ensemble of performers, musicians and puppeteers. All three are represented in the nine-person cast performing at The Painted Bride. It is a talented ensemble, presenting an artistically imaginative, technically skillful show." —The Philadelphia Inquirer
"…An endlessly inventive marve…in an evening of continual surprise for the audience." —The Village Voice
"Directed with taste and delightful whimsy by Joanne Schultz, who also participates in the show, the work presents a series of stories based on the cast's family histories covering three generations." —The Baltimore Evening Sun
SCHULTZ | 5 of 6 References
Prof. George Sanchez, Chair (2006-2018) Performing and Creative Arts Department College of Staten Island−CUNY 2800 Victory Blvd #1P-203 Staten Island, NY 10314 t. 347-414-2393 [email protected] Pablo Vela, Acting Instructor 642 President Street Apt. 3R, Brooklyn, NY 11215 t. 718−622−6272 [email protected] Dr. Mary Fleischer, Chair Department of Theatre Arts Marymount Manhattan College 221 E 71st Street, New York, NY 10021 t. 212−774−0761 [email protected]
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