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Chair, Associate Professor
cleary [at] macalester.edu
Courses Currently Taught at Macalester: Directing Theory & Production I and II; Acting Theory & Performance I; Playwrighting & Textual Analysis; Feminism in Performance
Areas of Special Interest and Training: Directing; playwrighting; American theater; political theater; theater made by and for women and communities of color; puppetry; dance; yoga and somatic inquiry.
Recent Shows Directed at Macalester:
The Love Song of J. Robert Oppenheimer, by Carson Kreitzer (S 07)
In the Heart of America, by Naomi Wallace (F 05)
Tongue of a Bird, by Ellen McLaughlin (F 04)
Mother Courage and her Children, by Bertolt Brecht (Mannheim), (S 04)
A Show of Hands, group-devised project (F02)
Artistic and/or Scholarly Work Outside Macalester (selected):
Directing and Dramaturgy:
Director, Cherry Docs (David Gow), MN Jewish Theatre Company, Fall 2007
Dramaturg, Mother Courage and her Children (Brecht/Hare), Frank Theatre, Minneapolis, Fall 2006
Director, The View from Here (Dulaney), Okoboji Summer Theatre, June 2006.
Playwrighting and Academic Publications:
Performance Review, Maggie’s Brain by Off-Leash Area Productions (Theatre Journal, Winter 2008)
Two Poems, Artist & Influence, Hatch-Billops Collection, 2006.
Performance Review, Come home, Charley Patton by Ralph Lemon & Co. (Theatre Journal, Winter 2006)
Break (one-act play) Staged Readings: Last Frontier Theater Conference June 2004; Minneapolis Playwrights Center Fall 2003. Published Cross-Cultural Poetics Winter 2004.
Findings Uncertain: a play about Adoption in Three Pieces Staged Readings: Theatre Unbound Festival, Boston Theatreworks, June 03; Westbest Series NYC, Jan 03; Minneapolis Playwrights’ Center Spring 02.
“Haunting the Social Unconscious: Naomi Wallace’s In the Heart of America, Journal of American Drama and Theatre, Spring 2002.
Degrees:
Ph.D. University of California at Berkeley, 1994. Department of Dramatic Art, Director/Scholar Program. Dissertation: “’Making the gods’ voices yell:’ Performing Theories of the Bread and Puppet Theatre”
M.A. University of California at Berkeley, 1992, Department of Dramatic Art.
B.A. Middlebury College, VT. Major in English with an Honors’ Thesis in Playwrighting. Minor in French.
Other:
I am certified as a yoga teacher through the American Viniyoga Institute (2005), and am registered at the 500-hour training level with Yoga Alliance. I have been studying yoga since 1983, and I teach at the Riverbend Yoga Studio in St. Paul.
Beth Cleary's Dogs
I love dogs of all kinds, and am fortunate to be the human companion to two large collies
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