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Joy Pace
CURRICULUM VITAE/RESUME
Home Address:
117 Pithon St.
Lake Charles, LA 70601
Phone: 337-304-5218
e-mail: [email protected]
EDUCATION
Master of Fine Arts in Theatre (Directing), Virginia Commonwealth University
One year of post-baccalaureate study, University of New Orleans
Bachelor of Arts in Speech Communication (minor in Theatre), Centenary College of Louisiana
HONORS & MEMBERSHIPS:
Regional Chair
Vice-Chair
SDC Directing Initiatives
Coordinator:
Member
Member:
Member:
Member:
Award:
Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival – Region VI ( 2012-2015)
Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival – Region VI (2010-2012)
Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival – Region VI (2009)
Lake Charles Little Theatre BOARD
Phi Kappa Phi
Southeastern Theatre Conference
Alpha Psi Omega
Excellence in Costume Design, LA Festival KC-ACTF Region 6 2008, 2009
Award:
Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers (2004, 2005, 2009)
Award:
Excellence in Departmental Leadership Award – Virginia Commonwealth
University, School of the Arts, Department of Theatre (1999)
Award:
Outstanding Service & Leadership to the Department of Theatre and
Speech – Centenary College of Louisiana (1993)
EMPLOYMENT:
Artistic & Executive Director of Itinerant Theatre (Fall 2013- Present)
UNIVERSITY ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE:
McNEESE STATE UNIVERSITY
Coordinator of B.A. in Theatre Arts
KENTUCKY WESLEYAN COLLEGE
Head of Theatre Program/Wesleyan Players Advisor
(Fall 2007-2013)
(1999-2004)
UNIVERSITY TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Representative list of courses taught:
ANGELO STATE UNIVERSITY
Adjunct Instructor – Online
Intro to Dramatic Arts
(Fall 2014 -)
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BOSSIER PARISH COMMUNITY COLLEGE
Adjunct Instructor – Online
(Fall 2013-2014)
LONESTAR COLLEGE – MONTGOMERY
Adjunct Instructor- Online
(Fall 2013)
McNEESE STATE UNIVERSITY
Coordinator of Theatre Arts/Instructor of Theatre
Advanced Acting:
(Fall 2006 – 2007)
Acting styles including Classic, Elizabethan, Restoration, Expressionism,
Brechtian, and Absurd.
Intermediate Acting:
Theory and techniques of acting. Scene work, character development, and
contemporary European, Asian, and American performance techniques and
theories.
Beginning Voice & Diction: Elementary voice for the speaker and performer. Phonetic principles and
practices with emphasis on demonstrated competence in Standard American
pronunciation.
Stage Dialects: Introduction to various stage dialects with emphasis on vocal characterization techniques.
Development of vocal strength and endurance through appropriate
exercises.
Script Analysis:
Analysis of the structure within a script. Terminology and technique of
analysis for theatre practitioners.
History of the
Theatre from the Greeks through the 18th century. Study of societies,
playwrights, Theatre to 1800:
actors, theatrical means, and audiences which create theatre.
ContemporaryTheatre
History:
Romanticism, realism, and development of contemporary theatre theory and
practice
Interpretive Reading:
Techniques and practice in oral presentation of literature by an individual
and a group. Includes interpretation and adaptation of literature and
experimentation in styles of presentation.
Theatre Appreciation:
Introduction to the world of the stage, the terminology, live theatre, the
means of mounting productions, and the role of the audience. Attending
theatrical productions and/or some backstage production experience.
Theatre Career Management: Preparation of resumé, head shot, and audition package for performance.
Design or stage management portfolios for gallery viewing. Issues of
contracts, union affiliation, legal concerns, and artistic freedom.
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McMURRY UNIVERSITY
Adjunct Instructor
(Fall 2004)
Acting for Non-Majors:
An introduction to the art of acting and performance for the inexperienced
actor. A basic explanation of performance for live theatre.
KENTUCKY WESLEYAN COLLEGE
Associate Professor of Theatre
(1999- 2004)
Introduction to Theatre:
A survey of the major personalities, movements, and dramatic conventions
throughout world history. Read and discuss representative plays.
Acting:
Various levels from Beginning to Advanced.
Directing:
Upper level course focuses on the fundamentals of directing for the
Theatre. Study includes techniques, practitioners, and methods of
Directing, with practical
application in scene study and production.
History of Theatre: Origin of the theatre and its development from the classical period in
Ancient Greece to the present. Topics investigated include Theatre
Architecture, Methods
of Staging, Theories of Drama, Styles of Acting, and other conventions and personalities.
Special Topics in Theatre: An upper level course offering an exploration of the power and creation
“Possessing the Power
of Performance:
of performance through several non-traditional genres and styles of
Theatre. An examination of auditions and improvisation as well as the
process of creating theatre for children and young adults. The second part
of the semester focuses on creating performances in experimental theatre
and performance art. Some of the styles explored are Boal’s “Theatre of
the Oppressed”, “Feminist Theatre”, and “Experimental Theatre”.
Voice and Diction:
The course covers the International Phonetic Alphabet, vocal health,
breath control and various vocal exercises to extend the student’s range,
control and flexibility. Focus is placed on acquiring a Standard American
dialect with an introduction to the Standard British dialect.
Stagecraft and Design:
A hands on course studying the techniques of design and fundamentals of
construction for sets, lighting and costumes in theatre.
Backstage on Broadway:
Annual trip to New York City during Spring Break. The students attend
7 – 8 Broadway and Off-Broadway productions, tour theatres, visit with
theatre professionals, keep a journal, experience other aspects of theatre and
meet each morning for class discussions of the plays and experiences.
Oral Interpretation
An examination of oral interpretation of literature through training in
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of Literature:
appreciation, analysis, and performance. Emphasis is upon literature as
human experience and upon the creative role of the reader as he/she engages
the literary text.
Interpersonal
Communication:
A course studying the theories and assigning the practical application of
understanding and improving the student’s interpersonal communication
skills. Practice in conversations, discussion, and human interaction.
Basic Public Speaking:
Public Speaking course teaching the techniques and mastery of speaking skills.
Students present informative, persuasive, commemorative, impromptu and
group speeches. There is emphasis on critical thinking and thought
organization.
VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY
Adjunct Instructor
Theatre History:
Intermediate Acting
Stage Voice & Speech I:
Stage Voice & Speech II:
(1996-1999)
A year-long undergraduate course in theatre history. The course is designed
to give the student a survey of the history of the theatre in Western
civilization from the beginning of theatre and drama in ancient Egypt and
Greece to the present.
Acting II for sophomores working with Authentic Movement, understanding
impulses, and exploring Michael Chekov’s Psychological Gesture as applied to
character analysis. Working with physical improvisation and exploration;
helping actors to understand their body and movement capabilities.
The course covers the International Phonetic Alphabet and various vocal
exercises to extend the actor’s range, control, and flexibility. Focus is placed
on acquiring a Standard American Dialect (regionalism free) with an
introduction to the Standard British dialect.
The second semester focuses on developing vocal strength and endurance
through various exercises and developing character voices through
changes in vocal placement, intensity and quality.
Introduction to Stage
Introduction to stage performance course for non-majors with no
Performance:
previous background in acting. The course covers improvisation,
monologues, scene work and other elements of performance.
Speech for Business &
An advanced level course focuses on giving informative, persuasive, and
the Professions:
group presentations with sections on interviewing skills and group meeting
skills.
Effective Speech:
Essentially the same course as Basic Public Speaking listed above.
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ADDITIONAL INSTRUCTIONAL EXPERIENCE
Taught workshops in Character Voices for Louisiana Theatre Festival (2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011)
Taught workshops including Character Voices, Vocal Health & Warm-Ups, and Creative Playwriting Ideas
for Louisiana Thespians Conference (2007, 2010)
Seeds of Success:
Region 14 Educational Services – Developing and directing a tutorial program for
homeless children using a theatre approach where the children write, rehearse and perform an original
play. Boys & Girls Club of America and Hope Haven (October 2004-April 2005)
As head of the theatre program at Kentucky Wesleyan College, and advisor to the Wesleyan Players, I was
solely responsible for the direction and production elements of all Wesleyan Players productions.
Stage Voice and Stage Speech training, teaching with Janet B. Rodgers, past President of VASTA (Voice and
Speech Trainers Association, Inc.)
Experienced in leading workshops in auditioning skills such as monologue selection, delivery, planting,
focus, and form for Virginia Thespians Conference. (1998 & 1999)
SERVICE
Immediate Past
Chair:
Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival, Region 6
Board Member:
Itinerant Theatre
Board Member:
Lake Charles Little Theatre
Board Member:
Rape Crisis Outreach is an informational and emotional support system for sexual
assault/abuse victims and their families. (2008-present)
Committee Member: Campus Life Committee - McNeese State University: designed to positively enrich the
faculty and students and create an effective and vital campus community.
Faculty Advisor:
Alpha Psi Omega – National Theatre Honor Society, local cast Pi Gamma (20072012)
Organizer/Director: Served as organizer and director for two productions of, “The Vagina Monologues”
for the worldwide movement of V-Day – Until The Violence Stops. V-Day is a global
movement to end violence against women and girls that raises funds and awareness
through benefit productions of Playwright/Founder Eve Ensler’s award winning
play The Vagina Monologues. (2004 & 2007)
Board of Directors: The RiverPark Center, the arts and cultural center for the Owensboro-Daviess County
Region, houses national touring productions, local theatre productions, and civic
organizations and events. (August 2003-2004)
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Workshop Leader:
Lead workshops in Acting and Character development for Kentucky Thespians
Society.
Guest Artist:
As part of the RiverPark Center’s “Arts Camp” I led a one-day work shop in vocal and
physical preparation for the actor for 3 different age groups of children ages 5 to 18.
Program Director:
Lead a one-week “drama camp” for Owensboro Parks and Recreation at the
RiverPark Center for children ages 8-12. It was an intensive yet fun introduction to
all aspects of theatre culminating in a performance for the parents at the end of the
week. (Summer 2000 & 2001)
Founding Member: Women’s Project of Theatre VCU (1996 –)
An organization formed and
designed to meet the needs of the students of theatre VCU exploring women’s roles,
cultures and performance. It is a community outreach organization working closely
with other campus groups addressing women’s issues. As a founding member I was
part of the planning committee, developing mission statement, setting goals,
establishing purpose.
Program Coordinator
The Most Massive Woman Wins production with the Women’s Project of
/Director: Theatre VCU in collaboration with the Women’s Studies department and the Nutrition and
Body Awareness student organization on campus. I directed the production and helped organize the
event, which included panel discussions with professionals in medicine, counseling, sociology and
political science. It was a part of the campus Health and Fitness awareness week for the University.
Program Director: Neighborhood School of the Arts, Richmond Virginia (1998) Community outreach
through teaching acting and theatre craft to students 8-12 years of age. Students
wrote and performed original work developed in the ten weeks program.
Script Evaluator:
Adjudicator:
New Voices for the Theatre, Theatre Virginia: A program for young playwrights in
which the selected script writers are invited to Richmond for workshops and
performances of their work by professional actors and directors. (1997)
Entry Auditions for VCU, Virginia Thespians Conference, Hampton, VA (1998)
ARTISTIC EXPERIENCE – DIRECTING
PROFESSIONAL:
The Vagina Monologues
An Evening with Nellie Lutcher
The Diary of Anne Frank
Louisiana Women: Art & Music
RACE
Louisiana Women: Bound
And the Rain Came to Mayfield
Itinerant Theatre
Itinerant Theatre
ACTS Theatre
Itinerant Theatre
Itinerant Theatre
Itinerant Theatre
Lake Charles Little Theatre
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Lake Charles, LA
Lake Charles, LA
Lake Charles, LA
Lake Charles, LA
Lake Charles, LA
Lake Charles, LA
Lake Charles, LA
Candida (Staged Reading)
Moon Over the Brewery
Christmas at the Gap
Haunted Village
Lysistrata
The Last Night of Ballyhoo
Loves! Labors! Lusts!
Strange Conspiracy
All Their Songs Were Sad
Itinerant Theatre
Lake Charles, LA
Lake Charles Little Theatre
Lake Charles, LA
Buffalo Gap Historic Village
Abilene, TX
Buffalo Gap Historic Village
Abilene, TX
The Lysistrata Project
Owensboro, KY
Theatre Workshop of Owensboro Owensboro, KY
Blue Ridge Theatre Festival
Richmond, VA
Neighborhood School of the Arts Richmond, VA
LaPetit Theatre/Tennessee Williams Festival New Orleans, LA
UNIVERSITY THEATRE:
McNeese State University: (2006-2012)
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
The Last Days of Judas Iscariot
All My Sons
Pygmalion
Othello
Waiting for Godot
WORKING (a musical)
The Long Christmas Ride Home
Fuddy Meers
Wait Until Dark
Southern Discomfort (Staged Readings)
Twelfth Night
No Exit
The Vagina Monologues
Lake Charles, LA
William Shakespeare
Stephen Adley Guirgis
Arthur Miller
George Bernard Shaw
William Shakespeare
Samuel Beckett (KCACTF Region 6 Invited
production)
Stephen Schwartz/James Taylor…
Paula Vogel
David Lindsay-Abair
Frederick Knott
Original Student Works
William Shakespeare
Jean Paul Sartre
Eve Ensler
Kentucky Wesleyan College: (1999-2004)
Owensboro, KY
The Creation of the World
and Other Business
Arthur Miller
The Vagina Monologues
Eve Ensler
Two Rooms
Lee Blessing
The Laramie Project
Moisés Kaufman & The Tectonic Theatre Project
Raising the Dead
Dr. Grace Epstein
Picasso at the Lapin Agile
Steve Martin
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
William Shakespeare
The Crucible
Arthur Miller
Antigone
Jean Anouilh
And Then They Came for Me
James Still
Traces of Light (World Premiere) Dr. Grace Epstein
Dancing At
Lughnasa
Brian Friel
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged) Long, Singer & Winfield
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Private Eyes
Steven Dietz
Centenary College of Louisiana (1989-1993)
Assistant Director
Hamlet
William Shakespeare
University of New Orleans (1996)
Oleanna
David Mamet
Virginia Commonwealth University (1996-1999)
Playing For Time
Arthur Miller
The Most Massive Woman Wins
Madeleine George
Jack and Jane (Staged Reading)
Kira Mickle
Student Productions
Iphegenia at Taurus
A Phoenix Too Frequent
Lux in Tenebris
Shreveport, LA
New Orleans, LA
Richmond, VA
Euripides
Christopher Fry
Bertolt Brecht
ARTISTIC EXPERIENCE – ACTING
(representative list of roles)
PROFESSIONAL:
Itinerant Theatre
The Beauty Queen of Leenane
This Wide Night
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf
The Writers
The Firsts
Mag
Lorraine
Martha
Rosa Hart, Maggie Dixon
Rosa Hart, Maggie Dixon
Lake Charles, LA
Lake Charles, LA
Lake Charles, LA
Lake Charles, LA
Lake Charles, LA
Lake Charles Little Theatre
A Moon for the Misbegotten
Something Unspoken
Laundry & Bourbon
“A Christmas Pudding”
Josie Hogan
Cornelia Scott
Hannah
Multiple Roles
Lake Charles, LA
Lake Charles, LA
Lake Charles, LA
Lake Charles, LA
Independent Theatre Company
The Vagina Monologues
The Flood
Blue Ridge Theatre Festival
The Stronger
International
1998
Abilene, TX
Mrs. X
ShaferStreetPlayhouse/Sibiu
Theatre Festival, Romania –
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Footfalls
International
1998
Loves! Labors! Lusts!
Voice
Shafer Street Playhouse/Sibiu
Theatre Festival, Romania –
Puck
Agecroft Hall – 1996
UNIVERSITY:
McNeese State University
(2006-2008)
An Adult Evening with Shel Silverstein Inspector/Woman
Doubt
Sister Aloysius
The Vagina Monologues
“The Flood” & Ensemble
Kentucky Wesleyan College (1999-2004)
The Vagina Monologues
“The Flood” & Ensemble
On The Verge
Mary
Traces of Light
Mother
Virginia Commonwealth University (1996-1999)
Angels in America
Hannah/Henry
Three Viewings
Mac
Madman and the Nun
Sister Barbara
Million Pound Banknote
Mrs. Harris/Anabel/others
Centenary College of Louisiana (1989-1993)
Dancing at Lughnasa
Maggie Mundy
Camino Real
Gypsy
I Hate Hamlet
Felicia
The Boys Next Door
Sheila
A Doll’s House
Anne Marie
th
On The 20 Century
Agnes/Chorus
The Women
Olga
Runaways
Sunny
Baby With the Bathwater
Nanny
A My Name is Alice
Poetess
EVITA
Chorus
PRODUCTION EXPERIENCE
PROFESSIONAL:
Producer, Set Design, Costume Design
Jesus Christ Superstar
Producer, Set Designer Tuesdays with Morrie
Set Designer
Cleoma
Fight Choreographer Mauritius
Vocal Coach The Sisters Rosensweig
Itinerant Theatre, Lake Charles, LA
Itinerant Theatre, Lake Charles, LA
Itinerant Theatre, Lake Charles, LA
Lake Charles Little Theatre, Lake Charles, LA
Barksdale Theatre, Richmond, VA
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Co-Producer
Italian American Reconciliation
Stage Manager
Italian American Reconciliation
Development Intern Theatre Virginia
Marketing Intern Theatre Virginia
Assistant to Director Wishing Aces
Theatre Gym, Richmond, VA
Theatre Gym, Richmond, VA
Richmond, VA
Richmond, VA
Southern Repertory Theater, New Orleans,
LA
UNIVERSITY:
McNeese State University (2006- 2013)
Costume & Sound Design Othello
McNeese Theatre
Sound Design
Waiting for Godot
McNeese Theatre
Costume Design
Working: A Musical
McNeese Theatre
Costume Design
A Doll’s House
McNeese Theatre
Costume Design
The Long Christmas Ride Home
McNeese Theatre
Set & Costume Design
Fuddy Meers
McNeese Theatre
Costume Designer
Two Rooms
McNeese Theatre
Vocal/Dialect Coach
Blithe Spirit
McNeese Theatre
Vocal/Dialect Coach
Caroline or Change
McNeese Theatre
Vocal/Dialect Coach
Das Barbecü
McNeese Theatre
Vocal/Dialect Coach
The Skin of Our Teeth
McNeese Theatre
Vocal/Dialect Coach
Anton in Show Business
McNeese Theatre
Kentucky Wesleyan College (1999-2004)
Producer
Wesleyan Players Playhouse
On The Verge
Student-Directed “One-Act Festivals”
All other above mentioned productions from Kentucky Wesleyan College
Virginia Commonwealth University (1996-1999)
Co-Producer
The Women’s Project
Spring Shows
Shafer Street Playhouse
Manager
Julius Caesar
Raymond Hodges Theatre
University of New Orleans (1995/1996)
Costume Designer Keely & Du
Assistant SM
Measure for Measure
Centenary College of Louisiana (1989-1993)
AD/Stage Manager Hamlet
Sound Designer
Prelude to a Kiss
Properties
Biloxi Blues, Ghosts, Under Hunter’s Moon
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Stage
REFERENCES
Charles McNeely
Associate Professor of Theatre
McNeese State University
MSU Box 92175
Lake Charles, LA 70609
475-5041
[email protected]
(337)
Gregg Henry
Co-Manager/Artistic Director KCACTF
John F. Kennedy Center for Performing Arts
2700 F Street, NW
Washington, DC 20566
(202) 416-8864
[email protected]
Dr. Diane Earle
Professor of Music – Dept of Fine Arts (Chair)
Kentucky Wesleyan College
Frederica St.
Owensboro, KY 42301
852-3617
[email protected]
Dr. Grace Epstein
Assistant Professor of English
College of Applied Sciences
University of Cincinnati
2220 Victory Parkway
OH 45206
[email protected]
[email protected]
Dr. Rob Kingsolver
Dean of Arts and Sciences
Bellarmine University
2001 Newburg Road
Louisville, KY 40205
(502) 452-8059
3000
(270)
Cincinnati,
[email protected]
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