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Juanita Rockwell

JUANITA ROCKWELL  (1958 - )

 Nationality:    USA
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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.

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         Between Trains         Cave in the Sky, A         Circle, The         Immortal: the Gilgamesh Variations         Language Monkey         Lunar Pantoum: For Tibet         Playing Dead         Waterwalk: Surface and Depth         World is Round, The

Between Trains

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.

Notes:
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1st Produced:
First reading at Access Theatre Gallery    2005

Organisations:
Creative Mechanics

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Play with Music

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  all play multiple roles

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Cave in the Sky, A

Synopsis:
Two women connect across time: from a Himalayan cave in 1913 to a web design studio in 2013

Notes:
Video And Sound by Chas Marsh

1st Produced:
the Culture Project, NYC    2001

Organisations:
Artists at St. Ann's Puppetlab

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
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Genre:
Multimedia Play with Puppets Piece

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  2            Other:  3 puppeteers

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Circle, The

Synopsis:
Washington, D.C.  banished? productions takes theatre to the streets, this time with the Circle, a performative audio-walk by award-winning playwright Juanita Rockwell. This special premiere of the Circle at the 2012 Capital Fringe Festival will lead tour groups of ten audience members through public spaces close by Festival grounds to walk, listen and live the secrets and memories of the Circle. After the Fringe Festival, participants will be invited take the same audio-walk through the Dupont Circle route in August. the Circle is the second installation of banished?s series of immersive, alternative art audio-walks and debuts on July 12 and runs till July 26, 2012.

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1st Produced:
the Fringe Baldacchino Gypsy Tent area, 607 New York Ave NW DC.    12 Jul 2012

Organisations:
banished productions

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
performative audio-walk 45 min

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Immortal: the Gilgamesh Variations

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.
- nytheatre.com

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1st Produced:
the Bushwick Starr
207 Starr Street, 4, 2nd floor, Brooklyn, NY 11237    20 Jan 2011

Organisations:
the Forge

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Adaptation

Parts:
Male:  8            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Language Monkey

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.
- dctheatrescene.com

Notes:
part of the Source festival "Lost And Found"

1st Produced:
Source, 1835 14th Street NW, Washington, DC    Jun 2011

Organisations:
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1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
10 min play

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Lunar Pantoum: For Tibet

Synopsis:
A Tibetan Landscape

Notes:
Accompanying Soundscape by Chas Marsh

1st Produced:
Maryland Institute, College of Art, Baltimore, MD    2001

Organisations:
Nancy Romita and the Moving Company

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Performance Poetry for Dance theatre Piece

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  1            Other:  -

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Playing Dead

Synopsis:
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Notes:
Original Playwrights - Presnyakov Brothers

1st Produced:
Towson University    -

Organisations:
Towson University Department of Theatre Arts

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Translation

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Waterwalk: Surface and Depth

Synopsis:
A woman travels inward and downward in order to surface.

Notes:
Music by Robert Macht for soprano And Gamelan Orchestra

1st Produced:
the Labyrinth at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, Baltimore, MD    2000

Organisations:
Nancy Romita and the Moving Company

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Libretto and Text for Music-theatre

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  2            Other:  1 singer (soprano)

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World is Round, The

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

Notes:
Music by James Sellars, Available At www.hogriver.com

1st Produced:
Wadsworth Atheneum by Company One Theater, Hartford, CT    1994

Organisations:
Company One Theater

1st Published:
Hog River Music, 1994   -

Music:
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Genre:
Opera Libretto Opera

Parts:
Male:  2            Female:  3            Other:  -

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