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JACOB JUNTUNEN
EDUCATION:
In-Progress Ohio University, MFA Professional Playwriting Program
Advisor: Charles Smith
2007 Northwestern University, Ph.D. Interdisciplinary Program in Theatre and Drama: Profitable Dissents: The Mainstream Theatre of Larry Kramer and Tony Kushner as a Negotiating Force Between Emergent and Dominant Ideologies
Dissertation Committee: Tracy C. Davis (chair), Jennifer Devere Brody, Craig Kinzer
2004 Northwestern University, M.A. in Theatre
1999 Reed College, B.A. in English
Thesis: Skism: A Play in Two Acts with a Critical Introduction
Advisors: Roger Porter, Lisa Steinman
1996 Clackamas Community College, A.A., Oregon Transfer Degree
Awarded phi theta kappa and President’s Honors
PUBLICATIONS:
“Presenting Death: Uncanny Performing Objects in Taduesz Kantor’s Dead Class.” Puppetry International. #31 Spring/Summer 2012 (peer review)
“’We Represent the Polish People’: The Western Press’ Portrayal of Tadeusz Kantor’s Cricot 2 Performances at the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles.” Polish-AngloSaxon Studies. 2011.
“Jesus Hopped the ‘A’ Train and Under America: How Mainstream Reviews Represent the Guilty and Obscure the Economics of the U.S. Prison Industry.” To Have or Have Not: New Essays on Commerce and Capital in Modernist Theatre. Ed. James Fisher. McFarland: Jefferson, North Carolina and London. 2011.
“Review: Theatre Oobleck’s An Apology for the Course and Outcome of Certain Events Delivered by Doctor John Faustus on This His Final Evening.” Theatre Journal. 62:2 (May 2010).
“Mainstream Theatre, Mass Media, and the 1985 Premiere of The Normal Heart: Negotiating Forces Between Emergent and Dominant Ideologies.” “We Will Be Citizens”: New Essays on Gay and Lesbian Theatre. Ed. James Fisher. McFarland: Jefferson, North Carolina and London. 2008. 7-32.
“Repairing Reality: The Media and Homebody/Kabul in New York, 2001” Tony Kushner: New Essays on the Art and Politics of the Plays. Ed. James Fisher. McFarland: Jefferson, North Carolina and London. 2006. 172-189.
“Infamous Commonwealth Theatre’s Weblog for The Kentucky Cycle.” LMDA Review. 15:2 (Spring/Summer 2005): 5.
“The International Istanbul Theatre Festival”
A review published in Tiyatroda.com, Turkey’s online performance journal. (2000)
Forthcoming:
“Review: Taduesz Kantor: Routledge Performance Practitioner Series.” Theatre Journal.
“Pain Overflowing Boundaries: Magical Realism in Contemporary US Drama.” Eyes Deep With Unfathonable Histories: The Poetics and Politics of Magic Realism Today and In the Past. Adam Mickiewicz University Press: Poznań. (peer review)
AWARDS AND HONORS:
2012 Understanding: Semi-Finalist in the National Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival 10-Minute Play Category
2012 Understanding: Winner of the Region II Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival 10-Minute Play Category
2012 1, 2, 3: Finalist in the Region II Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival 10-Minute Play Category
2011 Fulbright Award: Faculty Fellowship, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland
2011 Chicago Storefront Theatre use in Fall 2011; Department of Cultural Affairs; Spearheaded Mortar Theatre Company’s successful application
2010 Community Arts Assistant Program (CAAP) grant; City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and the Illinois Arts Council
2010 Arthur Kopit Master Class, Chicago Dramatists
2010 Senior Network Playwright, Chicago Dramatists
2009 Sundance 2010 Screenwriters Lab Finalist for After the Funeral
2009 Awarded Membership on the Joseph Jefferson Awards Committee
2008 Christopher Brian Wolk Playwriting Award Finalist for Under America
2008 Tennessee Williams Scholarship to attend the Sewanee Writers’ Conference
2007 Driehaus Foundation Selected Under America for submission to the Sundance Institute Theatre Program Chicago Roundtable
2005-2006 Diedrich & Johnson Scholarship for Dissertation Writing
2005 Literary Managers and Dramaturgs Association Debut Panel Award (Association for Theatre in Higher Education Focus Group)
2005 Lee Blessing Scholarship to attend Timberlake Playwrights’ Colony
2005 Preparing Future Faculty Fellow, Northwestern University
2004 Graduate Research Grant from Northwestern University
2003 Northwestern University’s Agnes Nixon New Play Award
2002 Graduate Student Debut Award from the American Theatre and Drama Society (Association for Theatre in Higher Education Focus Group)
2001–02 Northwestern University Fellowship
1998 Edward Albee produced Screwscotch (an original play)
A four-month production workshop culminating in a production at Stages Repertory Theatre: Houston, Texas.
1997 Edward Albee produced Where Hebrus Wanders (an original play)
A four-month workshop culminating in a staged reading at the University of Houston
1996 Phi Theta Kappa
1996 Clackamas Community College President’s Honors
SCHOLARLY PRESENTATIONS:
“War During Peacetime: Mainstream Theatre, The Media, and AIDS Drama” presented by invitation at Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland, May 2011
“Pain Overflowing the Boundaries: Magic Realism in U.S. Drama” presented at the Literature in English conference, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland April 2011
“’We Represent the Polish People’: The Western Media’s Portrayal of Eastern Bloc Theatre at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Games” presented at the American Comparative Literature Association conference, April 2010
“’We Represent the Polish People’: The Western Press’ Portrayal of Tadeusz Kantor’s Cricot 2 Performances at the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles” presented at the Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association joint conference, April 2009
“Using Travel to Represent Nation: Tectonic Theater Project’s The Laramie Project” presented at the American Comparative Literature Association Conference, April 2008
“Mainstream Theatre, Mass Media, and the 1985 Premiere of The Normal Heart: Negotiating Forces Between Emergent and Dominant Ideologies” presented at the American Comparative Literature Association, April 20, 2007
“’The Writing on the Wall’: Alienation and Activism in the 1985 Public Theatre’s Production of Larry Kramer’s The Normal Heart” presented at the Association for Theatre in Higher Education, August 5, 2006
Respondent to Sonja Kuftinec’s paper “Collide-o-scopes: Methodologies of Performance Research in the Balkans and Jerusalem/Al Quds” at Northwestern University’s “Considering Calamity: An Interdisciplinary Conference on Methods for Performance Research”: October 1, 2005.
“The Online Egg Crack: Infamous Commonwealth Theatre’s Weblog for Robert Schenkkan’s The Kentucky Cycle” awarded the Literary Managers and Dramaturg’s Association debut Panel Award at the Association for Theatre in Higher Education, July 29, 2005
Chair for the panel: “1800, 1910, & Now: Continuities of Time in American Theatre” for Association for Theatre in Higher Education, July 29, 2005
“Not Persuasion, Not Preaching to the Converted: The Other Political Work of Tony Kushner’s Homebody/Kabul” presented at the International Conference on American Theatre and Drama, University of Málaga, Spain: May 18-22, 2004
“Not Persuasion, Not Preaching to the Converted: The Other Political Work of Tony Kushner’s Homebody/Kabul” presented at the Globalism is/in America conference at Northwestern University: April 29, 2004
“Commodity Magic and Colonial Fantasies: Exploring Desire in Act I of Tony Kushner’s Homebody/Kabul” awarded the Graduate Student Debut Award from the American Theatre and Drama Society focus group at the Association for Theatre in Higher Education, July 28, 2002
Chair and Respondent to the panel “German Actors and Authorship in the Long Nineteenth Century” at the University of Wisconsin – Madison Department of Theatre and Drama Graduate Student Conference. University of Wisconsin -Madison, 2001
TEACHING EXPERIENCE:
Adam Mickiewicz University (Faculty Fulbright Fellowship), 2011
Masters Pro-Seminar: African American Representation, Performance, and Theatre in the U.S.
Designed the syllabus, prepared and delivered lectures, led discussions, created assignments, graded papers, and held office hours for this 20+ masters seminar.
Masters Monographic Lecture: (How) Does U.S. Political Theatre Work?
Designed the syllabus, prepared and delivered lectures, and held office hours for this intensive 10 student lecture course.
University of Illinois at Chicago, 2005 – 2010
Theatre 109: Introduction to Theatre
Designed the syllabus, prepared and delivered lectures, led discussions, created assignments, graded papers and quizzes, and held office hours for this 60+ student course.
Theatre 209: Modern Theatre
Designed the syllabus, prepared and delivered lectures, led discussions, created assignments, graded papers and quizzes, and held office hours for this 30 student course.
Honor’s 201: Theory, Performance and Social Justice
Successfully pitched the course to UIC’s Honor’s College, designed the syllabus, led discussions, created assignments, graded papers and held office hours for this 15 person course.
The School of the Art Institute, Chicago, 2007 – 2010
First Year Seminar: Art as Criticism, Criticism as Art
Designed the syllabus, prepared and delivered lectures, led discussions, created assignments, graded papers, and held office hours for this 15 person course.
First Year Seminar II Intensive: (How) Does Political Theatre Work?
Designed the syllabus, prepared and delivered lectures, led discussions, created assignments, graded papers, and held office hours for this 15 person course designed to be an intensive—almost honors—alternative for the school-wide First Year Seminar Requirement.
First Year Seminar I: Art and Ideology
Designed the syllabus, prepared and delivered lectures, led discussions, created assignments, graded papers, and held office hours for this 15 person course designed to be an intensive—almost honors—alternative for the school-wide First Year Seminar Requirement.
First Year Seminar I: Elegiac Writing: War, Genocide, Natural Disaster
Designed the syllabus, prepared and delivered lectures, led discussions, created assignments, graded papers, and held office hours for this 15 person course designed to be an intensive—almost honors—alternative for the school-wide First Year Seminar Requirement.
Northwestern University, 2001 – 2007
Theatre 366: Staging the U.S. Character
Designed the syllabus, prepared and delivered lectures, led discussions, planned and led outings to plays and to hear speakers, graded papers and held office hours for a junior/senior level course in the School of Continuing Studies for this 15 person course.
Theatre 365-2: U.S. Theatre: 20th Century Canons
Designed the syllabus, prepared and delivered lectures, led discussions, planned and led outings to plays and to hear speakers, graded papers and held office hours for a junior/senior level course of 15 students.
Theatre 366: Theory, Performance and Social Justice
Designed the syllabus, prepared and delivered lectures, led discussions, planned and led outings to plays and to hear speakers, graded papers and held office hours for a junior/senior level course of 15 students. One graduate student also enrolled and was under my supervision for the quarter.
Theatre 140B: U.S. Political Theatre: The Twentieth Century
Designed the syllabus, prepared and delivered lectures, led discussions, planned and led outings to plays and to hear speakers, graded papers and held office hours for a required course for 15 first-year theatre majors.
TA for Theatre 140A
Prepared and delivered lectures, led discussions, planned and led outings to plays and to hear speakers, graded papers and held office hours for a required course for 30 first-year theatre majors.
TA for English 234: Shakespeare
Led two weekly discussion sections of over 60 students total, prepared extra credit assignments, graded papers and held office hours
Lake Forest College, 2004
TA for Intro to Dramaturgy
Led some class discussions, graded papers and worked closely with the instructor as part of my fellowship for Northwestern University’s Preparing Future Faculty program.
Clackamas Community College, 1994 – 1996
Completed a year-long training course and then tutored students in English and Psychology for two years.
SELECTED PRODUCTIONS OF ORIGINAL PLAYS:
Teachers: Edward Albee, Charles Smith
2012 (forthcoming) Joan’s Laughter
Produced by the side project, Chicago; directed by Cecilie Keenan.
2011 Code Name: Astrea!
Produced by Caffeine Theatre, Chicago; directed by Dan Smith.
2010 Under America
Produced by Mortar Theatre, Chicago; directed by Rachel Edwards Harvith.
2010 Saddam’s Lions
Produced by the Source Festival, Washington, D.C.; directed by Danielle Drakes
2010 Saddam’s Lions
Produced by the Thoroughbred Theatre, Midway, Kentucky; directed by Jeremy Kisling
2009 Saddam’s Lions
Produced by the Vet Arts Project, Chicago; directed by Rachel Edwards Harvith.
2008 Antigone the Dog
Produced by Caffeine Theatre, Chicago. Director: Joanie Schultz.
2008 The Uptown Trilogy, Part II: The Catholic Worker (commissioned)
Produced by Scrap Mettle SOUL, Chicago; directed by Stefan Brün
2008 Killing David Mamet
Produced by The Mill, Chicago. Director: Kit McKay.
2007 Waiting for Management
Produced by Wingspace Theatre, Ithaca, NY. Director: Nicholas J. Clarey.
2007 The Uptown Trilogy, Part I: The Inspiration Café (commissioned)
Produced by Scrap Mettle SOUL, Chicago; directed by Stefan Brün
2006 Borderlines (commissioned)
Produced by Scrap Mettle SOUL, Chicago. Directed by Stefan Brün
2006 Here Be Dragons
Produced by Vestige Group, Austin. Director: Susie Gidseg.
2004 A Kind of Surrender
Produced by Infamous Commonwealth Theatre, Chicago. Director: Laura Forbes.
2004 Waiting for Management
Produced as part of The 24 Hour Project by the Storefront Theatre and the Chicago Mayor’s Office as part of Chicago’s Winter Delights. Director: Jason Kae
2002 A Kind of Surrender
Producer: Bleu Rat Productions, Minneapolis. Director: Alisha Baines.
2001 A Kind of Surrender
Producer: The Engaged Theatre: Portland, Oregon. Director: Jesse Baldwin.
1998 Screwscotch
Producer: Edward Albee and Stages Repertory Theatre: Houston. Director: Steve Spurgat.
SELECTED STAGE DIRECTION:
Teachers: Mary Zimmerman, Frank Galati, Anna Shapiro
2009 The Woods
Produced by the Vet Arts Project and the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs.
2006 Kantor! Kantor! (Solo!)
Produced by Experimental Theatre Chicago, Chicago.
2005 Kantor! Kantor! (a reading)
Producer: Chicago Dramatists.
2004 Lobsters and Lifers (a reading)
Producer: Chicago Dramatists.
2001 The Hospice
Produced by the Northwest Dramatists’ Guild: Portland, Oregon.
2000 Picture Rock (a reading)
Producer: Reed College English Department: Portland, Oregon.
1999 Skism (a reading)
Producer: Reed College English Department: Portland, Oregon.
SELECTED READINGS OF ORIGINAL PLAYS:
2011 Joan’s Laughter
Producer: Chicago Dramatists; Director: Cecilie Keenan
2010 One More Day
Producer: Chicago Dramatists; Director: Jeffrey Stanton
2009 Under America
Producer: The Side Project Theatre; Director: Rachel Edwards Harvith
2008 Under America
Producer: Prop Thtr and the Artisan Theatre Project; Director: Sean Kelly
2007 Under America
Producer: Gallery 400 as part of the “Captive Audience” exhibit curated by Marc Fischer; Director: Joanie Schultz
2005 Lobsters and Lifers
Producer: Infamous Commonwealth Theatre. Director: Laura Forbes.
2003 A Kind of Surrender
Agnes Nixon New Plays Festival at Northwestern University. Director: Jeremy Wechsler.
1997 Where Hebrus Wanders
Producer: Edward Albee and the University of Houston: Houston, Texas. Director: Steve Spurgat.
SELECTED DRAMATURGY:
2010 Baal
Producer: TUTA Theatre. Director: Zeljko Dukich
2009 The Man Who Was Thursday
Producer: New Leaf Theatre. Director: Jessica Hutchinson
2007 Cloud 9
Producer: Northwestern University. Director: Kit McKay
2007 Stone Cold Dead Serious
Producer: Circle Theatre. Director: Joanie Schultz.
2006 Betty’s Summer Vacation
Producer: Infamous Commonwealth Theatre. Director: Joanie Schultz.
2006 Saint Joan
Producer: Northwestern University. Director: Joanie Schultz
2005 Cloud 9
Producer: Infamous Commonwealth Theatre. Director: Genevieve Thompson.
2005 The Kentucky Cycle, Parts I and II (Joseph Jefferson Award: Best Production)
Producer: Infamous Commonwealth Theatre. Directors: Genevieve Thompson and Jason Kae.
2004 A Dybbuk
Producer: Northwestern University. Director: David Winitsky.
2004 Dealer’s Choice
Producer: Steep Theatre, Chicago. Director: G.J. Cederquist
SELECTED FILM PRODUCTIONS OF ORIGINAL SCREENPLAYS:
2011 Disowned and Dispossessed
A twenty-minute film produced by Almond Grief Productions. Director: Majel Cuza.
2009 Saddam’s Lions
A ten-minute film produced by the Vet Art Project. Director: Vance Smith.
2001 Breaking Bread
A twenty-minute film produced by 1/2 Productions and The Engaged Theatre, Portland, OR. Director: Will Brown.
SELECTED PRODUCER CREDITS:
2010 Under America, Mortar Theatre, Chicago
2010 Inherit the Whole, Mortar Theatre, Chicago
2001 Breaking Bread, (film) co-producer, 1/2 Productions and The Engaged Theatre, Portland, OR.
2001 A Kind of Surrender, The Engaged Theatre, Portland, OR.
UNDERGRADUATE ADVISING:
2009 – 2010 Faculty Advisor for Theatre Majors, UIC
Served as the faculty advisor for seven theatre majors, advising them in course selection, post-graduate work, time-management, and all other facets of their academic life.
2009 Faculty Advisor and Referee to SAIC student
Served as the faculty advisor and wrote a reference letter for a first-year student at the SAIC which led to her becoming the Phyllis Mandler & Gary Elden Point Scholar, a prestigious national position which will provide financially for the rest of her undergraduate education.
2007 – 2010 Faculty Liaison for Chicago Circle Players, UIC
Served as the mediator between UIC’s oldest, independent student group, Chicago Circle Players, and the Theatre Department negotiating both parties needs and desires and serving the students as an advisor for their independent productions both on and off UIC’s campus.
2005 – 2010 Supervised Students in Honors College Projects, UIC
Created an assignment to fulfill the requirements of the Honors College at the University of Illinois, Chicago for students in my Theatre 109 and 209 courses. The assignment included choosing a topic, researching and creating an annotated bibliography, and finally crafting an original argument in a paper that was longer and more in-depth than the students had previously attempted.
2004 – 2006 Assistant Master, Humanities Residential College, Northwestern
A half-time position where I advised and planned humanities related events for an undergraduate dorm of approximately sixty students. Served as resource person and performed various organizational and administrative tasks including, but not limited to: building relationships with students and faculty, attending meetings, writing reports, participating in college events, interacting and dining regularly with students and faculty, facilitating budgetary procedures and coordinating event details, and advising the college’s executive board in planning and executing academic and social programs.
2004 – 2005 Advised a Student Thesis in Comparative Literary Studies, Northwestern
Advised and provided feedback on a senior honors thesis in Northwestern University’s interdisciplinary Comparative Literary Studies department; the thesis was awarded Honors and won two Study Abroad Research Fellowships as well as the Comparative Literary Studies Departmental Distinguished Thesis Award.
2004 – 2005 Advised a Student in Paper Revision for Conference Submission, Northwestern
Advised and provided feedback on rewriting a paper from my interdisciplinary Theory, Performance and Social Justice class for submission to the Mid-America Theatre Conference Debut Panel, into which it was accepted. Further advised the student on how to get funding from the department to attend the conference.
2005 Advised a Student Summer Research Fellowship, Northwestern
Advised and provided feedback on applying for a summer research fellowship for the undergraduate to write a play combining her interests in performance theory and Buddhist philosophy, and then advised her project over the summer which culminated in a production of the play in fall 2006.
SERVICE:
University of Illinois, Chicago
Faculty Liaison for the independent student theatre group, Chicago Circle Players, 2007-Present.
University of Illinois, Chicago
Solicited donations from local theatres, collected scripts from disparate locations, secured funding, organized and maintained the Theatre Department’s script library, 2006-Present.
Northwestern University
Graduate Student Representative to the Executive Committee, Interdisciplinary Ph.D. in Theatre and Drama, 2001-02
Northwestern University
School of Speech Graduate Student Representative, 2001-02
Clackamas Community College
Student Representative, Oregon Community College Multicultural Initiative, 1995–1997
AFFILIATIONS:
Fulbright Fellow: Faculty Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland
Chicago Dramatists: Senior Network Playwright (2010-2012)
Mortar Theatre Company: Founding Managing Director (2009-2011)
Joseph Jefferson Awards Committee: Member (2009-2010)
Preparing Future Faculty Fellow, Northwestern University
Association for Theatre in Higher Education: Member
American Society for Theatre Research: Member
American Comparative Literature Association: Member
Scrap Mettle SOUL: Resident Playwright (2006-2008)
Dramatists Guild: Member
LANGUAGES:
English (native)
French (competent reading; basic writing and speaking)
Polish (survival phrases)
REFERENCES AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST
