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JUANITA ROCKWELL (1958 - ) |
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Nationality: USA Email: Click here to contact Website: n/a |
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Juanita Rockwell is a writer, director and theatremaker with over 25 years experience developing new work. Her projects have been performed in such theatres as The Ontological, Culture Project, Mabou Mines, Blue Heron and The Flea (NYC); City Theatre (Pittsburgh), Wadsworth Atheneum (Hartford), WPA (DC), Everyman Theatre (Baltmore), Teatro Municipão (São Paulo) and RS9 (Budapest). In addition to plays, she has written text for dance/theatre, multi-media, object theatre, site-specific projects and libretti for operas, including one for Indonesian Gamelan. For six years, Juanita was Artistic Director of Company One Theater in Hartford, where she directed dozens of premieres by Pulitzer, Tony, and Obie-winners such as Suzan-Lori Parks, Paula Vogel, and Rachel Sheinkin. Her work in radio includes directing plays for National Public Radio and WNYC. She is a full Professor at Towson University and was Founding Director of their MFA in Theatre, an interdisciplinary graduate program training the artist-as-producer of original experimental projects. Juanita was recently granted a Fulbright to Costa Rica and a Maryland State Arts Council Award in Playwriting, and is a union member of The Dramatists Guild and The Society for Stage Directors and Choreographers.
Plays by Juanita Rockwell
Between Trains | ||
| 1st Produced: | First reading at Access Theatre Gallery | 2005 | ||||
Company: | Creative Mechanics | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #25328 | |||
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Genre: | Play with Music | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | all play multiple roles | |||||
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Synopsis: | A woman wakes up in a train station, naked and scared. Looking for a way out, she looks for answers from a ticket seller, a man with an ukulele, a hot dog vendor, a 19th c. French adventurer, and a computer avatar, among others. | |||||
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Cave in the Sky, A | ||
| 1st Produced: | The Culture Project, NYC | 2001 | ||||
Company: | Artists at St. Ann's Puppetlab | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #29892 | |||
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Genre: | Multimedia Play with Puppets Piece | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | 3 puppeteers | |||||
Notes: | Video and Sound by Chas Marsh | |||||
Synopsis: | Two women connect across time: from a Himalayan cave in 1913 to a web design studio in 2013 | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Immortal: The Gilgamesh Variations | ||
| 1st Produced: | The Bushwick Starr | 20 Jan 2011 | ||||
Company: | The Forge | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #123931 | |||
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Genre: | Adaptation | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 8 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
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Synopsis: | Immortal: The Gilgamesh Variations transforms the legendary epic poem of Gilgamesh, the unforgettable hero/god/warrior/tyrant/king, into a dazzling contemporary stage experience written by 11 acclaimed playwrights, each of whom adapted one of the story's original stone clay tablets. The play episodically follows the maturation of Gilgamesh, King of Uruk, who was "two-thirds god and one-third man." The playwrights are: Charles Borkhuis, Erin Browne, Jane Ann Crum, Jeffrey James Keyes, Barbara Lanciers, Leonard Madrid, Gretchen Michelfeld, Kay Mitchell, Juanita Rockwell, Barry Rowell, and Gabriel Shanks. | |||||
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Language Monkey | ||
| 1st Produced: | Source, 1835 14th Street NW, Washington, DC | Jun 2011 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #129505 | |||
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Genre: | 10 min play | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | part of The Source festival "Lost and Found" | |||||
Synopsis: | Adult siblings Delia (Lisa Hodsoll), Pete (Ivan Zizek), and Paul (Nello DeBlasio) gather for their mothers funeral. The occasion offers the opportunity to reminisce about both parents and their childhood. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Lunar Pantoum: For Tibet | ||
| 1st Produced: | Maryland Institute, College of Art, Baltimore, MD | 2001 | ||||
Company: | Nancy Romita and The Moving Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #29893 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | Performance Poetry for Dance Theatre Piece | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Accompanying Soundscape by Chas Marsh | |||||
Synopsis: | A Tibetan Landscape | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Waterwalk: Surface and Depth | ||
| 1st Produced: | The Labyrinth at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, Baltimore, MD | 2000 | ||||
Company: | Nancy Romita and The Moving Company | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #29894 | |||
To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click from the Publisher, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand, signed & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Genre: | Libretto and Text for Music-Theatre | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | 1 singer (soprano) | |||||
Notes: | Music by Robert Macht for soprano and Gamelan Orchestra | |||||
Synopsis: | A woman travels inward and downward in order to surface. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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World is Round, The | ||
| 1st Produced: | Wadsworth Atheneum by Company One Theater, Hartford, CT | 1994 | ||||
Company: | Company One Theater | |||||
| 1st Published: | Hog River Music, 1994 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #29895 | |||
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Genre: | Opera Libretto Opera | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | Music by James Sellars, available at www.hogriver.com | |||||
Synopsis: | Adapted from Gertrude Stein's book for children, in which Rose journeys up a mountain with her blue chair to find that Rose is a Rose is a Rose | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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