Rachel Evans
Office: Home:
1000 Morris Avenue 182 Ward Street
Dept. of Theatre, VE-411 New Brunswick, NJ 08901
Union, NJ 07083 (732) 565 – 1282
(908) 737 - 4429
revans@kean.edu
ACADEMIC PREPARATION
M.F.A. in Directing, Department of Theatre Arts, University of Pittsburgh, 1994
Through joint program with Carnegie Mellon University
Thesis Production: I am a Camera
Advisor: W. Stephen Coleman
B.F.A. in Theatre/Performance, Department of Drama and Dance, Hofstra University, 1989
Cum Laude with High Honors in Theatre Arts
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Assistant Professor of Theatre, 2004 - present
Department of Theatre, Kean University, Union, NJ
Developing new B.A. in Theatre with Theatre (K-12) Certification
Education Coordinator, 2005
Premiere Stages, Union, NJ
Teaching residencies, developing theatre education programming, supervising interns
Performing Arts High School Theatre Instructor, 1999 - 2004
Middlesex County Vocational & Technical High School, East Brunswick, NJ
NJ Teacher Certification in Speech/Drama and Vocational Arts/Dance
Teaching Artist, 2003
Middlesex County Arts & Education Center, New Brunswick, NJ
Teaching theatre to middle school and high school students at summer Arts Academy
Teaching Artist/ Assistant Director, 2002
McCarter Theatre, Princeton, NJ
Teaching staff for high school Summer Shakespeare repertory
Associate Director of Education and Outreach, 1997 - 1999
George Street Playhouse, New Brunswick, NJ
Managing touring theatre, theatre classes, intern programs, and residencies
Teaching Artist, 1998 - 1999
New Jersey Performing Arts Center, Newark, NJ
Developing and implementing curriculum in Careers in Theatre and Costume Design at
Hubbard Middle School, Plainfield, NJ
Operations Manager, 1996 - 1997
Carolyn Dorfman Dance Company, Union, NJ
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House Manager and Volunteer Coordinator, 1996
George Street Playhouse, New Brunswick, NJ
Company Manager, 1995
Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre, Pittsburgh, PA
Securing and coordinating touring engagements
Performance Coordinator, 1994
First Night Pittsburgh ‘95, Pittsburgh, PA
Theatre Events Coordinator, 1992 - 1994
Department of Theatre Arts, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
Establishing calendars, policy, and procedures for the departmental production schedule
PUBLICTIONS SUBMITTED and in PREPARATION
Evans, Rachel (2005), Pericles. Theatre Journal, expected October 2005.
PRESENTATIONS
Audio Description for the Theatre: Sharing Performance with Patrons who are Blind and
Visually Impaired. Presented at American College Theatre Festival, Region II,
Muhlenberg College, 2005.
Costuming Modern Dance. Presented at “Seeing Dance” course, Department of Dance, Mason
Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University, 2005.
Theatre Games of Viola Spolin. Presented at OctoberFest, Department of Dance, Mason Gross
School of the Arts, Rutgers University, 2004.
Careers in the Arts and Arts Administration. Presented at Dance Assembly, Department of
Dance, Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University, 2003.
CURRENT RESEARCH INTERESTS
Curriculum development for the pre-service teacher seeking for NJ’s Theatre (K-12)
Certification
The post-secondary pedagogy of acting for non-theatre majors
Audio description for the theatre as artistic process
Contemporary trends in costume design for modern dance
GRANTS RECEIVED
Surdna Foundation Arts Teachers Fellowship, research and study at Stratford Festival of
Canada, Summer 2003.
Geraldine R. Dodge Fellow, one of 25 outstanding NJ Alternate Route Teachers, 2000.
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PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
Association of Theatre in Higher Education
American Association for Theatre and Education
Educational Theatre Association
Speech and Theatre Association of NJ
NJ State Department of Education:
Performing Arts Exit Exam Committee
Performing/Visual Arts “Option B” Recommendation Team
Higher Education Committee for Arts Certification
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
Responder for the American College Theatre Festival, Region II
Picasso at the Lapin Agile, Robert Stockton College of NJ
The Laramie Project, Lycoming College
Audio-Description for Patrons with Visually Impairments
Spoken scripts are written and rehearsed to verbally describe the stage action that a
patron with visual impairments would not glean from listening to a live performance.
These descriptions are broadcast, in synch with the performance, through an infrared
audio system, into personal receivers worn by the patrons.
The goal is to provide patrons with a theatrical experience equivalent to the one a fully
sighted patron would have.
Shakespeare Theatre of NJ: Macbeth
Illyria
The Glass Menagerie
George Street Playhouse: The Last Five Years
Address Unknown
Lend Me a Tenor
The Winning Streak
Celadine
To Kill a Mockingbird
Voices in the Dark
After-Play
Down the Garden Path
Syncopation
Kean University: Once Upon a Mattress
The Trojan Women
The Theatre Project: Top Girls
Site Evaluator and Grant Panel Member for the Middlesex County Cultural & Heritage
Commission
DIRECTING
Kean University
When Technology Met Tradition: 150 Years at Kean University, December 2004
William Paterson University
The American Plan, October 2004
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Middlesex County Vocational & Technical High School, School of Performing Arts, 1999 - 2004
HAMLET
Twelve Angry Jurors Scenes Seen at Night
All’s Well That Ends Well The Man Who Came to Dinner
Midnight Chimes A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Open Doors Antigone
Blithe Spirit Twelfth Night
King Lear Blue Cubes
Culture Shock Riding the Rails
George Street Playhouse
Classic Scenes from Plays and Novels: Of Mice and Men and To Kill a Mockingbird, 1999
The Tempest, Summer Theatre Program, July 1999
The Case of the Missing Necklace, Summer Theatre Program, July 1998
Theseus and the Minotaur, Summer Theatre Program, July 1998
University of Pittsburgh
Execution of Justice Guest Director for Mainstage Season 1994-95
I am a Camera M.F.A. Thesis Production
Burn This
Orchards
Speed-the-Plow cited in IN PITTSBURGH:
1993 Outstanding Director/Production/Ensemble Performance
PERFORMANCE (representative roles)
Pride Theatre of NJ (June 2005)
The Soldier Dreams Judy
Music Theatre North
The Robber Bridegroom Marjorie/Chorus
Three Rivers Shakespeare Festival
Horse of a Different Color Tweenie
New Theatre at St. Francis University
Lion in Winter Alais
A Man for All Seasons Margaret
Cresson Lake Playhouse
Death on the Nile Jackie
Joseph...Dreamcoat Mrs. Potiphar
The Curious Savage Fairy May
University of Pittsburgh
What the Butler Saw Geraldine
The Changeling Antonio/Ensemble
Hofstra University
Twelfth Night Maria
Great God Brown Margaret
No Exit Estelle
Company Kathy
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STAGE MANAGEMENT
Three Rivers Shakespeare Festival, Pittsburgh, PA
AEA Production Stage Manager: Taming of the Shrew, Merchant of Venice, Midsummer
Night’s Dream, Much Ado About Nothing, STEEL/CITY, Comedy of Errors
Assistant Stage Manager: The Tempest, Richard II, As You Like It, Othello
Gargaro Productions, Pittsburgh, PA
AEA Stage Manager: A Chorus Line
Theatre at Hartwood, Pittsburgh, PA
AEA Production Stage Manager: One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
University of Pittsburgh/ Theatre Arts, Pittsburgh, PA
Production Stage Manager: A Month in the Country, Happy End, The Oresteia
American Stage Festival, Milford, NH
Stage Management Internship, including STARMITES’ out-of-town try-out
Music Theatre North, Potsdam, NY
Assistant Stage Manager and Properties Assistant
COSTUME DESIGN
Costume Designer for John Evans and Dancers
Red Hair is Better Generous Undercurrent
Divisible I Awoke Gasping
HENDRIX Far As the Eye Can See
Latitude 161, Longitude 0 Farming in Sixes
And the sea shall give up its dead HITCAT
Falling Lengthwise I’m Getting My Second Wind
Twentynine Palms
University of Pittsburgh
Chamber Music
The Oresteia (masks only)
HONORS and AWARDS
TheatreLink, participating teacher with Manhattan Theatre Club
National distance learning arts education program via Internet and Video Conferencing
Paper Mill Playhouse, Adopt-a-School, participating teacher for 3-year arts education program
Teacher of the Year, 2001 NJ Governor’s Teacher Recognition Program
ADDITIONAL SKILLS AND INTERESTS
Playwriting:
Down to a “T” (with Manhattan Theatre Club’s TheatreLink project)
Culture Shock (with Manhattan Theatre Club’s TheatreLink project)
Midnight Chimes (with Manhattan Theatre Club’s TheatreLink project)
Riding the Rails: Teenagers on the Move During the Great Depression
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Nine Muses in One: The Life of Isadora Duncan
Think About It: Don’t Drink and Drive
On the Piazza: Life with the Roosevelts on Sagamor Hill
Choreography:
My Fair Lady
Joseph… Dreamcoat
King and I
Oliver!
Camelot
REFERENCES
The following are available to write letters of recommendation on my behalf:
Dale Schmid
Visual & Performing Arts Coordinator
NJ Department of Education, Trenton, NJ
(609) 984 - 6308
dschmid@doe.state.nj.us
Holly Logue
Department of Theatre, Chair
Kean University, Union, NJ
(908) 737 – 4420
hlogue@kean.edu
Kathleen Flynn
Dance Instructor, School of Performing Arts
Middlesex County Vocational & Technical Schools
East Brunswick, NJ
(732) 254 – 8700
katfly001@yahoo.com