Joanne Schultz 165 W. 26TH Street #5E [email protected] New York, NY 10001 LinkedIn c. 646.575.0886 Joanne Schultz teaches theater and public speaking in higher education with an emphasis on stimulating and supporting the development of each student's unique creative expression. She is a stage director who collaboratively devises theater and directs plays with socially engaged content. 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,