Dr. Rebecca Daniels
St. Lawrence University
Submitted by rdaniels on Wed, 05/14/2008 - 18:18.
Associate Professor of Performance and Communication Arts
Courses I teach regularly:
Beginning Acting (PCA 107), Playwriting (PCA 223), Directing (PCA 309), special topics in performance practice (PCA 313), Performing Diversity (FYS).
My research interests:
Women in theatre (especially directors), directing pedagogy, theatre and technology, creating plays and/or performance pieces from historical/real life materials.
Sample student projects I have supervised:
WOYZECK (Andrew Long). A playwriting and directing senior project in PCA. Spring 2007.
Sarah Scoot. An original solo performance senior project in PCA. Spring 2005.
Mc Nair mentor for Travis Babcock (fall 2003) and Aaron Marshall (spring/summer 2004).
Examples of presentations, exhibitions, performances and published work:
WOMEN STAGE DIRECTORS SPEAK: Exploring the Effects of Gender on Their Work. McFarland and Co., Publishers, NC, September 1996.
THE FAMOUS MRS. BEACH (an original play based on the life of composer, Amy Beach), produced in April 2003 at SLU under my own direction and given a professional staged reading at Artists Repertory Theatre (Portland, OR) in December of 2004.
SEAROAD CHRONICLES, literary cabaret staged reading adapted and directed from a story by Ursula K. LeGuin (in collaboration with Ms. LeGuin), January 1994.
Ways I offer service to my discipline and/or the University:
Active member of the Directing Focus Group of the Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE).
Taught for nine full years in the First Year Program (and continue to teach an ongoing First Year Seminar)
Servied on both Faculty Council (including being vice-chair) and the Professional Standards Committee (including serving one year as chair). Also served as the project shepherd for the multi-phase arts renovation project (phases one and two).
Examples of my work as a visiting scholar or guest at another institution:
Guest director at Stockton College of New Jersey, Lee Blessing's INDEPENDENCE, October 2007
Guest director at Stockton College of New Jersey, Shakepeare's TWELFTH NIGHT, October 1998
My current projects:
THE WAR: A Love Story. A performance piece and/or family memoir based on my mother's short stories and my father's letters home from overseas during World War Two.