Jeff Storer – Curriculum Vitae
Director / Producer / Playwright / Actor / Teacher
jmsheepdog.com
317 East Trinity, Durham, NC 27701
(919)308-0057, (919)660-3360
jmsheepdog@gmail.com
EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND
Master of Fine Arts
Dallas Theatre Center, Dallas, Texas (Trinity University, San Antonio)
Acting/Directing Focus, August 1981
Master in Theatre Arts
Illinois State University, Normal, Illinois
Acting and Directing Focus, August 1976
B.A., Liberal Arts
Rollins College, Winter Park, Florida
May 1975, with honors
EMPLOYMENT RECORD
Professor of the Practice
Duke University Department of Theater Studies, Durham, NC
Teaching, Directing, Administration (5 years Chair and 3 years DUS), 1982–1987 and 1993–Present. Co- Teacher, Duke in New York City 1998-present. Director, Duke in London, 2019.
Artistic Director/Co–Founder/Producer/Director
Manbites Dog Theater Company, Durham, NC, 1987–Present*
Thirty one seasons of regional and world premieres. Company purchased theater space and visual arts gallery in 1997. Other Voices Series, Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell Festival of Queer performance and Downtown Durham Puzzle Hunt are all examples of additional regional event programming.
Visiting Assistant Professor
Colorado College, 2001
Assistant Professor of Theatre
Rollins College, Winter Park, FL
Teaching and Directing, 1991–1992
Spring Semesters 1989–91 and 1977–79
Artistic Director
John Michael Kohler Arts Center Theatre, Sheboygan, WI
Directing, Administration, Workshops, Summers 1986–1987
Instructor/Administrator
Boston University Theatre Institute, Boston, MA
Teaching, Directing, Administration, Summers 1982–1985
Instructor
Paul Mellon Arts Center, Choate Rosemary Hall, Wallingford, CT
Teaching, Directing, 1981–1982
Assistant to General Director
Nikolais–Louis Foundation, New York, NY
Summer 1981
Artistic Director
Struttin’ Street Stuff. Council of Arts and Sciences, Orlando, FL
Summers 1979–1980, original street theatre
Professional Apprentice
Dallas Theatre Center, Dallas, Texas
Professional experience in all aspects of theatre, 1979–1981
SPECIAL TRAINING
Directing
Tina Landau, Viewpoints Workshop, 1997
Joanne Akalaitis, ATHE Workshop, 1995
Marshall Mason, Circle Repertory Theatre, 1984–1985
Paul Baker, Dallas Theatre Center, 1979–1981
Robert Wilson, Performance Workshop, 1981
Voice/Movement
Patsy Rodenburg, Jeanette Nelson, and Kelly McEvenue, Royal National Theatre, VASTA Workshop, 1995
Stephen Chun–Tao Cheng, The Tao of the Voice Workshop, 1995
Cecily Berry, VASTA Workshop 1987
Roy Hart Technique, Raphael Lopez–Barrantes, Fall 1993.
Ivan Midreigh, VASTA, 1994
Alexander Technique, Marge Barstow, Omaha, Nebraska, 1979–1981
Lessac Voice and Diction, Randy Moore, Dallas Theatre Center, 1979–1981
Laban Movement, Robyn Flatt, Dallas Theatre Center, 1979–1981
Special Skills
Masks, Make–up, Soft–Sculpture, Costume Design, Irene Corey–Barr, Dallas Theatre Center, 1979–1981
Artist in Public Schools.
Theater of the Oppressed Facilitators Training, Marc Weinblatt, techniques of Augusto Boal, 2000
GRANTS/AWARDS
Personal
Arts and Sciences Research Grants, 2018, 2008 and 2002.
Trinity College Distinguished Teaching Award 1995-96
NC Playwrighting Fellowship, Honorable Mention, 1993 and 1994
Mary Duke Biddle Foundation Artists Grant, 1984
Durham Arts Council Emerging Artists Grant, 1985 and 1986
Manbites Dog Theater
NEA Grants, 1994, 1995, 1996
North Carolina Theatre Conference Professional Division 1993 Award for Excellence
Various annual Grants from NC Arts Council, Durham Arts Council, Biddle Foundation, Glaxo Inc., Fund for Southern Communities, 1987–2011
REPRESENTATIVE DIRECTING EXPERIENCE
Manbites Dog Theater Company
2016-17 Life Sucks, Wakey, Wakey
2015-16 The Trump Card, The Open House, Marjorie Prime
2014-15 Mr. Burns: a post electric play, brownsville song, b side for Tray
2013-14 Cock, Spirits to Enforce, I and You
2012-13 The New Electric Ballroom, The Homosexuals
2011-12 Middletown, Edith Can Shoot and Hit Things
2010-11 Breadcrumbs, Oh, The Humanity and Other Exclamations
2009-10 Neighborhood Three:Requisition of Doom, God’s Ear
2008-09 The Receptionist
2007-08 The Rabbit Hole
2006-07 an oak tree, At the Vanishing Point, Dying City
2005-06 Speak Truth to Power,* The Fall to Earth, thom pain (based on nothing)
2004-05 Sonnets for an Old Century
2003-04 Bucknaked* (world premiere, dramaturg and director), NYC
2002-03 Tomorrowland, Silver River*, Sonnets for an Old Century
2001-02 This Is Our Youth, Plays Well with Others* (world premiere, adapted and directed)
2000-01 The Last Train to Nibroc*, Fuddy Meers, A Tune for Tommy* (world premiere, co-author and directed)
1999-00 Stop Kiss, The Mystery of Irma Vep, The Time Machine (world premiere, adapted and directed)
1998-99 Cloud Tectonics
1997-98 Walking Miracles (Video), Walking Miracles (world premiere), Walking Miracles (Duke Revival) (world premiere, co-author*), The Food Chain, How I Learned to Drive
1996-97 Cryptogram, A Poster of the Cosmos, The Moon Shot Tapes
1995–96 Tone Clusters, Hotline*
1994–95 Always Sometimes Never, The Swan, Lonely Planet, Oscar Over Here* (world premiere, by Romulus Linney)
1993–94 Dark Ride, The Mystery of Irma Vep, Execution of Justice
1992–93 The Mystery of Irma Vep, A Betrothal, A Poster of the Cosmos; Night Songs, Street Songs, 7 Blowjobs, The Baltimore Waltz, Blue Window
1991–92 Reckless
1990–91 The Dead Monkey, Christmas on Mars, The Illusion, The Red Address
1989–90 Some Things You Need to Know before the World Ends (A Final Evening with the Illuminati), The Day Room, Indecent Materials/Report from the holocaust* (world premiere, co-authored).
1988–89 Hunting Cockroaches, Suddenly Last Summer; Night Songs, Street Songs, Strange Snow
1987–88 The Normal Heart, The Woolgatherer, Seventy Scenes of Halloween
The Public Theatre, NY Shakespeare Festival; Joseph Papp, Producer.
1990 Indecent Materials (co–author, new script)
San Francisco
1991 Indecent Materials
Los Angeles
2001 The Last Train to Nibroc,* Powerhouse Theater and Tamarind Theater
Portland
2004 Silver River,* Profile Theater; Breadcrumbs, Portland Stage Company
New York City
2013 Say, Theater Row
2004 Silver River,* Actor’s Studio
2004 Bucknaked*, Theater Row
2002 Plays Well With Others,* Raw Space.
1985 Darts (original script), Circle Repertory Theatre Directing Lab
1982 Mouth, Little Church Around the Corner
Duke University
2013 Uncle Vanya
2012 Ragtime
2011 The Laramie Project
2008 Spring Awakening
2006 Speak Truth to Power*
2005 Angels In America Millenium Approaches (fully staged), Angels in America Perstroika (staged reading)
2003 Library in Flames, Does Time Have a Sound
2002 Cloud Nine
2001 Playwrights/Actors Workshop, Darker Face of the Earth
1999 The Illusion
1998 The Journey of Glow
1997 Timbre and the Anniversary Story
1996 Carousel
1995-2000 Freshman Arts Focus in Performance (exploring the theater techniques of Augusto Boal)
1993- 94, 2003-06 Co-ordinator of New Works for the Stage
1994 The House of Blue Leaves
1987 Mamet, Cole
1986 The Hot L Baltimore, SITE–ings (original dance/theater collaboration), Heat Lightning (new script).
1985 The Good Woman of Setzuan, Old Times, To Kill a Mockingbird
1984 The Bear, The Actor’s Nightmare, Riders to the Sea, Sganarelle, The Marriage Proposal, Exposures (A.C.T.F. Regional Festival, new script), Fifth of July.
1983 The Comedy of Errors, Man of La Mancha
1982 Uncommon Women and Others
Rollins College
1992 Wild Honey, Cold Journey Into Dark, Amadeus (vocal coach)
1991 King Lear (acting and vocal coach; role of Gloucester), Working
1990 The Clouds, The Bells of Orleans
1989 All My Sons
1979 Equus, Look Homeward Angel, The Belle of Amherst
1978 Follies, Shenandoah, One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest
1977 Romeo and Juliet
1976 Ten Little Indians
1975 Celebration
John Michael Kohler Arts Center
1987 Deadline at Dawn (co–author, World Premiere), On the Verge, Strange Snow
1986 The Occasional Waltz (co–author, World Premiere), Talley’s Folly
Boston University
1984 Weave and Spin (original collaboration)
1983 Keys (original collaboration)
Paul Mellon Arts Center
1981–82 Antigone, Working, The Hot L Baltimore
Dallas Theatre Center
1981 A Moon for the Misbegotten, A Journey Through the Night
Struttin’ Street Stuff Parks Tour
1979 Rainbow of Rags (original)
1978 Steppin’ Out (original)
REPRESENTATIVE PLAYWRIGHTING
1986 Heat Lightning (co–author, original adaptation)
1986 The Occasional Waltz (co–author)
1987 Deadline at Dawn (co–author, original adaptation)
1990 Indecent Materials/Report from the holocaust* (co–author, original adaptation)
1991 Hotline* (co–author)
1997 Walking Miracles* (co-authored)
1999 The Time Machine (co-authored, original adaptation)
2000 A Tune For Tommy* (co-authored)
2001 Plays Well With Others* (co-authored, adaptation)
2003 Library in Flames (script consultation)
2003 Bucknaked* (script consultation)
2003 Does Time Have a Sound (script consultation)
2006 Listen (script consultation)
2013 Say (script consultation)
REFERENCES
Sarah Beckwith, Former Chair
152 Pinecrest Road
Durham, NC 27705
ott@duke.edu
John Clum, Former Chair
55 East Pearson Street Apt 2108
Chicago, IL 60611 johnclum1941@gmail.com
Erin Cressida Wilson, Playwright /Screenwriter
(212) 254-1054
erincressida@gmail.com
Tim Miller, Former Artistic Director
Highways Performance Space
1651 18th Street
Santa Monica, CA.90404
(310) 453-1755
José Rivera, Playwright
(323) 660-0510
paperain@sbcglobal.net
Ben Cameron, President of the Jerome Foundation
(212) 697-5230
bcameron@jeromefdn.org
* denotes top ten influential contributions.