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	Didaskalia - Review
		JoAnne Akalaitis's critically acclaimed production of The Trojan Women in a new translation by University of Chicago classics professor Nicholas Ruddall was the first Greek tragedy ever produced by the Shakespeare Theatre.
		Just as in the opening she emphasized human guilt in the face of silly and ineffective gods, Akalaitis shines a spotlight on the faulty Talthybius's humanity.
		Talthybius's finest moment is protracted in a tableau; first Astyanax is allowed a brief whimpering scamper away from his guards and then the action freezes as the little boy is borne atop a Laocoon-like pyramid of guards and grieving women while Talthybius intones, "I'm not very good at this.
	www.didaskalia.net /reviews/1999_03_23_01.html (1513 words)

	Playbill Features: JoAnne Akalaitis: 'I Don't Consider Myself Avant-Garde'
		Akalaitis is quick to point out that directing the Greek classics is very different from staging another slice of modern American realism.
		Akalaitis points out that even after a career that spans more than 20 years, including six Obie awards and numerous prestigious grants, there is no room for nostalgia.
		Akalaitis, who also teaches at The Juilliard School (which she calls "a pure joy!"), says it's becoming more and more of a challenge as a theatre artist to making a living doing theatre.
	www.playbill.com /features/article/64571.html (1367 words)

	Amazon.fr : An Event in Space: Joanne Akalaitis in Rehearsal: Livres en anglais: Deborah Saivetz (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Akalaitis, an Obie winner and chair of the theater department at Bard College, is a controversial stage director who elicits strong positive and negative responses, probably a sign that she is doing something right.
		Saivetz, a director herself, examines Akalaitis's origins as cofounder of the experimental New York company Mabou Mines, arguing that Akalaitis was influenced, as an actor and director, by avant-gardists such as Jerzy Grotowski, Jean Genet, Samuel Beckett, and others.
		The last chapter is an unsatisfactory examination of why Akalaitis was fired from her position as artistic director of the New York Shakespeare Festival.
	www.amazon.fr /An-Event-Space-Akalaitis-Rehearsal/dp/1575252392 (487 words)

	Award-winning theater director to speak at KU Oct. 21 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Akalaitis is co-director of the Juilliard School directing program in New York City.
		Akalaitis is the second speaker in the 1998-99 Humanities Lecture Series sponsored by the Hall Center for the Humanities at KU.
		Akalaitis has received numerous honors and awards for her work, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, National Endowment grants for her writing, the Edwin Booth Award and the Rosamund Gilder Award for Outstanding Achievement in Theatre.
	www.news.ku.edu /1998/98N/OctNews/Oct15/director.html (396 words)

	ArtScope.net: In The Penal Colony
		In director Joanne Akalaitis' hands, IN THE PENAL COLONY has been transformed from an adaption of a Kafka short story into a meditation on Kafka's writing and imagination.
		Akalaitis achieved this effect by adding Kafka himself to the world of the opera.
		Akalaitis plays with portraying Kafka thinking/dreaming/writing the story at the same time that the story is portrayed on the stage.
	www.artscope.net /PAREVIEWS/penalcolony1100.shtml (824 words)

	Kilmer Safari
		The production of John Ford's Tis Pity She's a Whore that opened at the Public Theatre the first week of April, directed by JoAnne Akalaitis, is surprisingly engrossing.
		Akalaitis has updated the play to the Fascist Italy of the nineteen-thirties, to create the sense of an ossified, decadent, and repressive moral order, and in dealing with the violence she has opted for all-out realism, which is the only way to approach these plays.
		Akalaitis up to her old pseudo-avant-garde tricks (twitching and slow-mo).
	www.angelfire.com /ca3/kilmersafari/pity.html (692 words)

	More On the Quads 2
		Akalaitis dates her desire to produce a Greek play back to 1960, when she appeared in the chorus of Oedipus Rex at what she calls “the old Court Theatre”—a non-Equity, nonprofessional theater involving students, faculty, and commun-ity members.
		Remarkable, indeed: Akalaitis’ projects have earned her OBIE, Drama Desk, and Rosamund Gilder awards; Guggenheim and Rockefeller fellowships; and directorships at many of the nation’s foremost regional theaters.
		Currently, Akalaitis co-chairs the drama division at Juilliard and, though based in New York, plans to visit the U of C regularly during her Court residency.
	www2.uchicago.edu /alumni/College_Report/html/more_on_the_quads_2.html (689 words)

	The New York Institute For The Humanities > Fellows > Biographies and Photos
		JOANNE AKALAITIS is a founding member of Mabou Mines.
		She most recently directed Ti Jean Blues at the Actors Theater of Louisville, which she was commissioned to write by Tricycle magazine.
		Akalaitis is the recipient of a 1993 Obie Award for Sustained Achievement, the 1993 Edwin Booth Award, four Obie Awards for Distinguished Direction and Production, a Guggenheim Fellowship for experimental theater and Rockefeller, and NEA grants for playwriting.
	www.nyu.edu /fas/institute/nyih/about/akalaitis_joanne.html (82 words)

	Playbill News: Joanne Akalaitis and Danny Hoch Planned for PS 122
		Danny Hoch and Joanne Akalaitis are among the names scheduled for March and April shows at Off-Off-Broadway's Performance Space 122.
		April 17-20, director Joanne Akalaitis will develop a new piece, Tijean Blues: A Work In Progress, based on the life and writings of Jack Kerouac.
		Akalaitis hopes to capture "the energy of American cities and relentless travel, jazz, drugs and spirituality." Akalaitis, for a season the artistic director of Off-Broadway's Public Theatre, there directed Woyzeck and `Tis Pity She's A Whore.
	www.playbill.com /news/article/33546.html (612 words)

	Welcome: The Birthday Party
		Though superficially related to the social realism that dominated British and American theatre in the 1950s, Pinter's early masterpiece now seems closer to the poetic and absurdist dramas of Beckett, Genet, or Ionesco, whose theatre subverts tidy morality in favor of more complex systems of resonance and association.
		It is a great pleasure to revisit the enigmatic home of Meg and Petey with the benefit of fifty years' hindsight, and in the company of director JoAnne Akalaitis, well-known to A.R.T. audiences for her seminal productions of Genet's Balcony and Beckett's Endgame.
		From the Mechanicals and Fairy Queen of A Midsummer Night's Dream to the singing nomads of Highway Ulysses or the inhabitants of a seedy boarding house by the English seaside, they astonish us with their range and virtuosity.
	www.amrep.org /articles/2_3b/welcome.html (347 words)

	Phedre
		Akalaitis’ work at Court Theatre has featured distinctive directorial touches: including the introduction of the character of Kafka, the use of post-modern props like Diet Coke cans and Tylenol bottles, and a “riot grrlll” Iphegenia growling into a microphone.
		In Phedre, Akalaitis moves closer than with her other Court aesthetics to a clean modern aesthetic.
		Akalaitis’ resume is an incredible list of firsts for a female director.
	www.courttheatre.org /home/plays/0203/phedre/playnotes.shtml (10183 words)

	Variety.com - Reviews - The Birthday Party (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		But in JoAnne Akalaitis' production of "The Birthday Party" at the American Repertory Theater, the experimental director has layered symbol upon symbol, effect upon effect.
		It's hard to feel a genuine sense of claustrophobia, anxiety and doom in a kitschy living room decorated by four La-Z-Boy loungers, four armchairs, a couch, a fake fireplace, a giant teddy bear and a television set that remains on until the end of the play.
		This is Akalaitis' party -- and it's a bore.
	www.variety.com /av_result.asp?articleid=VE1117923409 (572 words)

	NYU > Office of Public Affairs > The Baryshnikov Dance Foundation and the Tisch School of the Arts Announce 2006 ...
		Under the direction and mentorship of renowned theater director and writer JoAnne Akalaitis, the 22 Fellowship recipients will be assembled into three multi-disciplinary teams to explore the “Myth of Creation” as a theme.
		The program’s intent will be to focus on the creative process, giving students the opportunity to experiment and take risks in a collaborative environment.
		JoAnne Akalaitis is the winner of five Obie Awards for direction and is the founder of the critically acclaimed Mabou Mines in New York.
	www.nyu.edu /public.affairs/releases/detail/1077 (720 words)

	village voice > theater > by Martha Hostetter
		When Glass first approached JoAnne Akalaitis, his longtime collaborator, about directing the opera, she balked.
		Akalaitis eventually found a way into the story through the figure of Kafka himself, whom she has made into a character in the opera.
		"He's an absolutely compelling person." Speaking words that Akalaitis culled from the writer's diaries, the Kafka character describes the story's creation, seeming to will it into existence and inviting us to share in his nightmare.
	www.villagevoice.com /theater/0123,hostetter,25308,11.html (935 words)

	JoAnne Akalaitis - playwright
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		Adapter/director JoAnne Akalaitis weaves the life and writing of Kerouac into an exuberantly brilliant dramatic fabric.
		Using stylised movement and both individual and choral expressions of Kerouac's dynamic language, TI Jean Blues captures the sizzle of the Beat Poet's life journey.
	www.doollee.com /PlaywrightsA/akalaitis-joanne.html (662 words)

	Amazon.ca: An Event in Space: Joanne Akalaitis in Rehearsal: Books: Deborah Saivetz (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Amazon.ca: An Event in Space: Joanne Akalaitis in Rehearsal: Books: Deborah Saivetz
		She then reviews Akalaitis's basic rehearsal exercises, which are used in collaboration with her actors to develop productions, and demonstrates Akalaitis's working methods by delving into two major productions, both of which Saivetz worked on.
		Unfortunately, Saivetz does not fully examine the conflict between art and commerce that both drove the decision and explains Akalaitis's controversial career.
	www.amazon.ca /An-Event-Space-Akalaitis-Rehearsal/dp/1575252392 (513 words)

	Find in a Library: An event in space : JoAnne Akalaitis in rehearsal
		Find in a Library: An event in space : JoAnne Akalaitis in rehearsal
		An event in space : JoAnne Akalaitis in rehearsal
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	worldcatlibraries.org /wcpa/ow/2a22213235ebf864a19afeb4da09e526.html (65 words)

	Bard College Press Releases - Full Story (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		BARD THEATER PROGRAM PRESENTS ORESTES, DIRECTED BY JOANNE AKALAITIS, ON OCTOBER 22—24 Free performances to be given in Theater Two of The Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College, designed by Frank O. Gehry
		ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON, N.Y.—Euripides’ drama Orestes, directed by JoAnne Akalaitis, will be performed at Bard College from Friday, October 22, through Sunday, October 24.
		Performances are free and open to the public in Theater Two of the Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts on Friday at 7:00 p.m., and Saturday and Sunday at 2:00 and 7:00 p.m.
	inside.bard.edu /tools/pr/fstory.php?id=781 (177 words)

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		She has received numerous awards for performance, including OBIE Awards for Hajj by Lee Breuer; Through the Leaves by Franz Xavier Kroetz and Mabou Mines Lear, a gender reversed production of Shakespeare’s play in which she played the title role.
		She collaborated with JoAnne Akalaitis on a stage adaptation of Jean Genet’s Prisoner of Love.
		More recently, she appeared in Martha Clarke and Charles Mee’s Belle Époque at Lincoln Center.
	www.maboumines.org /storage/bios/Ruth+Maleczech.txt (191 words)

	Table of contents for Women direct Shakespeare in America
		Contents may have variations from the printed book or be incomplete or contain other coding.
		Contents Acknowledgments Introduction The Directors Jayme Koszyn Lisa Wolpe Tina Packer Ellen O'Brien Abigail Adams Melia Bensussen Barbara Gaines JoAnne Akalaitis The Productions 1.
		Once Upon a Time: Barbara Gaines and JoAnne Akalaitis Direct Cymbeline Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index
	www.loc.gov /catdir/toc/ecip0419/2004015220.html (193 words)

	Past Productions: The Birthday Party
		Party Politics - Ryan McKittrick talks with Birthday Party director JoAnne Akalaitis
		Boston Phoenix - After Endgame: JoAnne Akalaitis throws a Birthday Party - by Iris Fanger
		The residency of JoAnne Akalaitis supported by Ted and Mary Wendell
	www.amrep.org /birthday (298 words)

	DEAD END KIDS - Ellen McElduff Ruth Malaczech Good JoAnne Akalaitis Documentary Historical 1986 -
		DEAD END KIDS - Ellen McElduff Ruth Malaczech Good JoAnne Akalaitis Documentary Historical 1986 -
		Main Characters: Army Stenographer / Schoolteacher / TV Host,
		Well-made an interesting documentary about the development and use of nuclear power, and the social implications surrounding it.
	www.movies2go.net /review/DeadEndKids.html (84 words)

	A Few Final Selections of Interest (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The writing goes beyond clichÆ into something more provocative.
		Included are plays by Thomas Babe, Charles Mee, Jeffrey Jones, Joanne Akalaitis, and Phil Bosakowski.
		English is spoken worldwide by more than a billion people, and wherever it is spoken it is enriched by its speakers.
	www.ironkettle.com /page7.htm (8341 words)

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