AAlluummnnii RReevvuuee Ph.D. Program in Theatre The Graduate Center City University of New York Volume XIII (Updated) SP 2016 Welcome to the updated version of the thirteenth edition of our Alumni Revue! This issue was created since it was decided to publish a new edition every other year beginning with SP 2017. It once again expands our numbers and updates existing entries. Thanks to all of you who returned the forms that provided us with this information; please continue to urge your fellow alums to do the same so that the following editions will be even larger and more complete. For copies of the form, Alumni Information Questionnaire, please contact the editor of this revue, Lynette Gibson, Assistant Program Officer/Academic Program Coordinator, Ph.D. Program in Theatre, The Graduate Center, City University of New York, 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10016-4309. You may also email her at [email protected]. Thank you again for staying in touch with us. We’re always delighted to hear from you! Jean Graham-Jones Executive Officer Hello Everyone: his is the updated version of the thirteenth edition of Alumni Revue. As always, I would like to thank our alumni for taking the time to send me T their updated information. I am, as always, very grateful to the Administrative Assistants, who are responsible for ensuring the entries are correctly edited. The Cover Page was done once again by James Armstrong, maybe he should be named honorary “cover-in-chief”. The photograph shows the exterior of Shakespeare’s Globe in London, England and was taken in August 2012. It depicts the reconstructed Globe Theater together with posters for that summer’s season. As stated in my emails to you, for the past two years we have had alumni events near the end of the fall semester. We were happy that many of you attended Marvin Carlson’s 80th birthday celebration at the beginning of the fall semester this year. We will not be having a cocktail party before the end of the year, but we are planning to hold a Graduate Center event for alumni sometime in the early spring 2016 semester. We promise to keep you informed. We hope you enjoy this updated edition. Best regards. Lynette C. Gibson Editor THE GRADUATE UNIVERSITY CENTER OF THE CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK From the Editorial and Graphic Arts Assistants James Armstrong: I hope everyone enjoys the cover this year, with a picture of one of my favorite theatres! It’s always a pleasure to work on the Alumni Revue and help people keep in touch with colleagues, new and old. The breadth and depth of research being done by our graduates is truly amazing. Emily Clark: I’m grateful to have had the opportunity to work on the Alumni Revue throughout the years. As I move closer to completing my work, (it’s within reach!), it’s exciting to learn about your successes. I cannot wait to see what 2015 has in store for all of you! Margit Edwards: This is my first year here in the department and working on the Alumni Revue. What a wonderful experience it has been reaching out to our dynamic Alumni and learning about their accomplishments. Through the work I have done on the Alumni Revue I have been given a window into the future. I hope you all enjoy this year’s edition. Joseph Paul Hill: Last year I was in more direct contact with many of you because I worked to collect many of the additions and edits to your Alumni Revue entries. Although I have spent this year solely on the editing side of the process, I am no less enthused about the amazing things that our alumni do both in academia and in alternative careers. My favorite part of each entry continues to be “what you would most want your GC colleagues to know,” and I am particularly fond of the tidbits of advice that some of you have left in these notes. Thank you for those. Bindi Kang: It was a pleasure to work on the Alumni Revue again. Reading entries full of professional and personal success gives me hope whenever I turn to the dark side and rail against the impenetrable structures of the job market. I so wish that I could have attended the Alumni Cocktail Party to celebrate and to meet many of you. Alison Walls: It has been so interesting, encouraging, and exciting to get a glimpse of the impressive accomplishments and varied lives of our alumni through working on the Alumni Revue. It was especially nice to meet some of you in person at the Alumni Cocktail Party. I’m pleased to see that other loves (food, wine, animals) unite us, as well as theatre! Dr. ABBOTT, Erik email: [email protected] 4, Place Léon XIII L-1929 LUXEMBOURG Graduated: October 2014 Professional life: Founder and Artistic Director, Actors Repertory Theatre Luxembourg Actors Rep is the only professional English-language theatre company in Luxembourg. Founded in 2012, we presented one production in 2013, one in 2014, and two in 2015. Three are slated for 2016, with a possible fourth. In addition, we will be presenting a Shakespeare evening for the British Embassy in Luxembourg, as part of the 400th anniversary of his death. Theatre Critic, Wort.lu: I write theatre articles about and reviews of local and touring productions (other than my company’s own) for the online English-language version of the national newspaper of Luxembourg, the Luxembourger Wort. Independent Scholar Recent publications/papers: “Shouting at the Devil (and Everyone Else): Yaël Farber’s Production of The Crucible at The Old Vic”, European Stages, Volume 3 (Summer 2015); Numerous articles and reviews for Wort.lu Family: Spouse: Dena Child(ren): none listed Grandchild(ren): n/a Hobbies, Community Service, Volunteer: I regularly work on a voluntary basis with a non-profit in York, England. What you would most want your GC colleagues to know: nothing listed =============================================================================== Dr. ABRAMS, Joshua email: [email protected] 126 Casewick Road West Norwood, London SE27 0SZ UNITED KINGDOM Graduated: October 2008 Professional life: Principal Lecturer, Department of Drama, Theatre and Performance University of Roehampton London, ENGLAND Recent publications/papers: “Performing the Ephemeral: On Ice Cream and the Theatre,” Performance Research, On Ice, 18.6 (December 2013); “Mise en Plate: The Scenographic Imagination and the Contemporary Restaurant,” Performance Research, On Scenography, 18.2 (September 2013); “Affective Presents/Effective Presence: Intensity, Futurity, and the Theatrical Politics of the Child” Performance, Identity and the Neo-Political Subject, edited by Matthew Causey and Fintan Walsh (2013, Routledge) Family: Spouse: Jennifer Parker-Starbuck (‘03) Child(ren): 1 (female) Grandchild(ren): n/a Hobbies, Community Service, Volunteer: none listed Wh at you would most want your GC colleagues to know: I’ve recently been working largely at the intersection of Performance and Food Studies, winning a government grant for a collaborative culinary history project, “ Decade Dinners ” with the company CreativeBelly to explore the recent history of the popular in British cuisine, as well as a small grant for a one-off event at Roehampton, Memory Banq - uet, on nostalgia and food. I’ll be keynoting two conferences in the spring, PSi Fluid States North, in Copenhagen, and the CIA Worlds of Flavour conference in Greystone, CA. =============================================================================== Dr. AJELLO, Linell email: [email protected] [email protected] 1621 Fern Street New Orleans, LA 70118 Graduated: May 2012 Professional life: Mellon Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow Tulane University, School of Liberal Arts Department of Communication 219 Newcomb Hall New Orleans, LA 70118 Recent publications/papers: “A Game of Poverty and Tragic Deliberation,” forthcoming in Constellations: A Journal of Democracy and Critical Theory 21, no. 1 (March, 2014). “Soldiers, Scapegoats, and the Tragic Demands of Operation First Casualty,” forthcoming in International Journal of Cultural Studies, (published online before print: June, 2013). Family: Spouse: none listed Child(ren): none listed Grandchild(ren): none listed Hobbies, Community Service, Volunteer: none listed What you would most want your GC colleagues to know: nothing listed =============================================================================== Dr. ALCIDE SAINT-LOT, Marie Jose email: [email protected] 5574 Witney Drive, #D 313 Del Ray Beach, FL 33484 Graduated: May 1988 Professional life: Communication Consultant nothing listed nothing listed Recent publications/papers: Vodou: A Sacred Theatre (2003); Barack Obama Speaker of Genius (2012) Family: Spouse: Emile Saint-Lot, Computer Sciences Child(ren): none listed Grandchild(ren): none listed Hobbies, Community Service, Volunteer: none listed What you would most want your GC colleagues to know: I recently created “The Speak-to-Win-Project” which consists of seminars in Business Communication and Public Speaking dedicated to professionals of various fields. I also give conference s in museums, libraries and social clubs on Cultural Diversity. =============================================================================== [email protected] Dr. ALEANDRI, Emelise F. email: 3299 Cambridge Avenue, #3C New York, NY 10036 Graduated: February 1984 Professional life: Self-Employed Actress, Producer and Author Frizzi & Lazzi The Olde Time Italian-American Music & Theatre Company 3299 Cambridge Avenue, #3C Riverdale, NY 10463 Recent publications/papers: Just published by the Edwin Mellen Press, the 19th book in a multi-volume History of the Italian-American