| Christy Stanlake
Department of English United States Naval Academy 107 Maryland Avenue Annapolis, Maryland 21402-5044 Office: (410) 293-6233 Room 236 |
Christy Stanlake
(410)293-6233
stanlake@usna.edu
Education
Ph.D. June 2002: Ohio State University
– Theatre
Dissertation: “Mapping the Web of Native
American Dramaturgy”
MA. May 1997: University of
Oklahoma – Theatre
Thesis: “Theatricalizing Power:
A Performance Analysis of Selected Plays by
Contemporary Native American Women Playwrights”
Texas Teaching Certification Awarded
December 1994: English and Theatre,
Secondary Education (grades 6-12)
BBS. December 1994: Hardin-Simmons University – English
Publications
Entries on Native American Performance and Spiderwoman
Theater. Oxford Encyclopedia of Theatre and Performance.
Ed. Dennis
Kennedy.
Oxford:Oxford UP, Forthcoming.
“Shaping Ambiguity: The Chemistry Between
Silence, Ghosting, and Framing Devices Within a Production of Harold Pinter’s
Ashes
to
Ashes.” The Pinter Review (Collected Essays 1999 and 2000).
Eds. Francis Gillen and Steven H. Gale. Tampa: U of Tampa P,
2000.
141-51.
Contributing Editor: (Provided research on
playwright Tony Kushner and the major productions of his play Angels
in America: Millennium
Approaches, created the videography for all plays and playwrights contained
in the anthology, and created an annotated bibliography
for
major theatrical web sites.) Types of Drama: Plays and Contexts.
8th ed. Eds. Sylvan Barnet et. al. New York: Longman, 2000.
“Native American Theatre.” Introducing
Theatre. By Joy H. Reilly and M. Scott Phillips. 6th ed.
New York: Thomson Learning, 2000.
243.
“Book Review over Seventh Generation: An Anthology of Native American Plays.” Theatre Journal. 52.1 (2000): 144-145.
“Blending Time: Dramatic Conventions in Yvette
Nolan’s Annie Mae’s Movement.” Journal of Dramatic Theory
and Criticism. 14.1 (1999):
143-49.
“Book review over Charlotte Canning’s Feminist
Theatres in the U.S.A.: Staging Women’s Experience.” Theatre
Studies. 44 (1999):
48-49.
Te Ata "Bearer of the Morning"--Chickasaw actress who,
in the 1920s,
created a one-woman show which she toured for seven decades.
Papers
June-July 2002: XIV World Congress of the
International Federation for Theatre Research (IFTR), “Theatre and Cultural
Memory;
The
Event Between Past and Future”—Amsterdam.
·
Panel Coordinator: Staging Survivance: Contemporary Native American
Theatre Reclaiming Memories for Future Generations with
papers by JudyLee Oliva (Chickasaw), Uzziel Martinez (Yaqui), and Christy
Stanlake.
·
Paper: “Staging Survivance: Resisting Stereotypical Representations
Through the Power of Cultural Memories.”
August 2001: ATHE (Association for Theatre
in Higher Education)—Chicago, IL.
·
“Constructing the Critical Bridge: Oliva’s The Fire and the Rose
Modeling Platial Theory Through Native American Dramaturgy.”
June 2000: International Pinter Conference,
“Pinter in London,” hosted by International Harold Pinter Society—London,
England.
·
Paper: “Shaping Ambiguity: The Chemistry Between Silence, Ghosting,
and Framing Devices Within a Production of Harold Pinter’s
Ashes to Ashes.”
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Performance: Played Rebecca in Ashes to Ashes, hosted by conference.
March 1999: Native American Women Playwright’s
Archive Conference, “A Celebration of Native Women Playwrights” hosted
by Miami
University—Oxford,
Ohio.
·
“The Use of Time as a Dramatic Convention.”
October 1998: Midwest Theatre Colloquium,
hosted by Bowling Green University.
·
“Yvette Nolan’s Use of Dramatic Conventions in Annie Mae’s Movement.”
April 1998: Hybridizing Modernity: Rhetorics
and Poetics, hosted by University of Oklahoma English Department.
·
“Disembodied Desire: An Analysis of the Portrayal of Native American
Desire in D.H. Lawrence’s The Plumed Serpent.”
Theatrical Experience
Producer-Events Coordinator:
Spiderwoman Theater Residency at The Ohio State
University, October 17-21, 2000.
Fundraiser, event coordinator, publicity manager, and public relations
developer for Spiderwoman Residency. Residency consisted of
three
community events— lecture demonstration at Linmore Middle School, Storyweaving
workshop for theatre students and Native
American
community, and “A Place for Community Dialogue with Spiderwoman Theater
at the Ohio Union”—and two performances
of Spiderwoman Theater’s play Rever-ber-berations.
New Works Development:
1st Reader/Responder for Fetish by Barry
Cavin
1st Reader/Responder for Angel’s Light
by JudyLee Oliva
1st Reader/Responder for Spirit Line by
JudyLee Oliva
1st Reader/Responder for The Fire and the Rose
by JudyLee Oliva
1st Reader/Responder for On the Showroom Floor
by JudyLee Oliva
1st Reader/Responder for 99 Cent Dreams
by JudyLee Oliva
1st Reader/Responder for Call of the Loons
by JudyLee Oliva
1st Reader/Responder for Kairos by Barry
Cavin
Directing:
Saint Joan (2002)
United States Naval Academy
U Da Naa (directing intern 2001)
Native Voices Autry Museum’s Wells Fargo Theatre, Los Angeles,
CA
Still Lives (2001)
Women at Play
On the Showroom Floor , Selected scenes
(2000)
Ohio State University
You Can’t Take it With You, Assistant Director
(1994) Cooper High School
Postcards (1994)
Hardin-Simmons University
Gumdrop Dragon (1991)
Hendrick Home for Children
Zoo Story (1990)
Abilene High School
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Dramaturgy:
Spirit Line by JudyLee Oliva. Native
American Women Playwrights Archive at Miami University—Oxford, OH, 2001
Feral Music by Brian Silverman at Ohio
State University, 1999
Acting; Stage:
The Jogger and the Dinosaur
Jogger
Columbus Symphony Orchestra
Still Lives
Evie
Co-director with: Katherine Burkaman
Children’s Defense Fund: Fundraiser
Multiple Roles
Director: Ric Wanetic
Ashes to Ashes (Lonon, England)
Rebecca
Director: Katherine Burkman
Ashes to Ashes (Columbus, Ohio)
Rebecca
Director: Katherine Burkman
Angels in America:Millennium Approaches
Angel, Ella
Director: Woodie King Jr.
Crops
Rachel Turner
Director: Chuck Gordon
Te Ata (Off-Broadway reading)
Te Ata
American Indian Community House
Te Ata (Norman, Oklahoma)
Te Ata
Director: JudyLee Oliva
Blood Relations
Emma
University of Oklahoma
Interactive Theatre Company
Improvisation Troupe
University of Oklahoma
The Man Who Came to Dinner
Lorraine Sheldon
Hardin-Simmons University
Exit the King
Queen Marie
Hardin-Simmons University
Moment’s Notice
Improvisation Troupe
Hardin-Simmons University
Extremities
Terry
Abilene Repertory Theatre
The Seagull
Nina
Hardin-Simmons University
Love’s Labor’s Lost
Costard
Hardin-Simmons University
Noises Off
Poppy
Hardin-Simmons University
The House of Bernarda Alba
Magdelena
Hardin-Simmons University
Acting; Film:
Neighbors
Featured
Director: Craig Harmon
Promo video for Westman Insurance
Supporting
Flying Fish Productions
Commercial for Ohio State Fair
Featured
Diamond Mine Productions
Commercial
Featured
Harmony Family Services
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JudyLee Oliva (Chickasaw)
performing the title role in her musical,
Te Ata, at the presentation at University of Sciences and Arts of Oklahoma, May 1997 in Chickasha, Oklahoma. |
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