{"id":217,"date":"2017-10-23T18:32:32","date_gmt":"2017-10-23T18:32:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/theatreanddance\/facultystaff\/bethcleary\/"},"modified":"2021-08-06T19:32:42","modified_gmt":"2021-08-06T19:32:42","slug":"bethcleary","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/theater-and-dance\/facultystaff\/bethcleary\/","title":{"rendered":"Beth Cleary"},"content":{"rendered":"

Professor Cleary is a director, writer and theatre historian.\u00a0 Her scholarship and production research have focused on dissident theatre practice, with an emphasis on ensemble performance and work by women artists.\u00a0 She has directed five plays by Naomi Wallace, including a U.S. premiere, and has published and presented continuously about Wallace’s work.\u00a0 She has also worked with, and published about, DAH Theatre of Belgrade, Serbia.\u00a0 Cleary is the recipient of the 2017 Oscar Brockett Outstanding Teacher of Theatre in Higher Education Award, presented through the Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE).\u00a0 Her experience as both a practitioner and scholar is the foundation for her course, “Performance Methods: Shakespeare to Butoh,” where students conduct both traditional and performance-based research into performance history and training methods.\u00a0 Cleary’s own recent training in oral history ethics and methods led to the 2017 Macalester production, Acute Care: Performing Emotional Labors,\u00a0<\/em>based on thirty oral histories with nurses conducted by Cleary and 12 students; the production toured to the MN Nurses’ Assocation union headquarters.\u00a0 Cleary is the co-founder of the East Side Freedom Library, an educational and cultural center on St. Paul’s east side.\u00a0 She holds a Ph.D. from UC-Berkeley where she wrote her dissertation on the Bread & Puppet Theatre, with whom she worked for five years as a performer-collaborator.<\/p>\n

Areas of Teaching Expertise<\/h3>\n

Feminisms in Performance
\nOral Histories in Performance
\nPerformance Methods and Histories
\nDirecting and Devising
\nActor Training
\nPolitical Theatre, Puppet Theatre<\/p>\n

Macalester Courses<\/h3>\n

Performance Methods: Shakespeare to Butoh
\nCreative Nonfiction Performance
\nPlaying for Life
\nOral Histories in Performance
\nIndependent Projects and Capstones<\/p>\n

Selected Productions<\/h3>\n

Acute Care: Performing Emotional Labors<\/em>, Macalester College and MN Nurses’ Assn, April 2017
\nThe Glass Menagerie<\/em> (Williams), Macalester College, April 2016
\n12 Ophelias<\/em> (Svich), Macalester College, April 2013
\n3 Figure$<\/em> (Emily Zimmer ’00), Naked Stages\/Pillsbury House Theatre, December 2013
\nThe Inland Sea<\/em> (Wallace), U.S. Premiere, Macalester College, November 2011<\/p>\n

Selected Publications<\/h3>\n

“Oh, Darkness!” Punctuate, Nonfiction Magazine, Columbia College Chicago, October, 2017.
\n“The Lost Show: Tender, Tender, Tenderly and Yugo-nostalgia,” in Barnett, Dennis, ed. (2016) DAH Theatre: A Sourcebook, Lexington Books.
\n\u201cCrucial Unspeakables, or Pedagogies of the Repressed: Directing Sex in the Plays of Naomi Wallace,\u201d in Cummings & Abbitt, eds.(2014) The Theatre of Naomi Wallace: Embodied Dialogues, Palgrave Macmillan.<\/p>\n

Professional Associations<\/h3>\n
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Association of Writers & Writing Programs (AWP)
\nAssociation for the Study of Adoption & Culture (ASAC)
\nAssociation for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE)
\nThe Loft Literary Center
\nYoga Alliance\/American Viniyoga Institute<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":549,"template":"","class_list":["post-217","profile","type-profile","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/theater-and-dance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/theater-and-dance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/theater-and-dance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/theater-and-dance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/theater-and-dance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6522,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/theater-and-dance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/217\/revisions\/6522"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/theater-and-dance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macalester.edu\/theater-and-dance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}