Richard Schechner Education Ph.D., 1962; Theatre, Tulane University M.A., 1958; English, University of Iowa B.A., 1956; English, Cornell University Biography Major Interests: comparative performance; performance theory; experimental theatre; theories and practice of directing for the stage. Affiliations: Editor, The Drama Review, The Journal of Performance Studies; General Editor, "Worlds of Performance" series; Advisory Editor, Asian Performance Journal and Journal of Ritual Studies; Artistic Director, East Coast Artists of New York; Honorary Professor, Shanghai Theatre Academy; Honorary Professor, Institute of the Arts, Havana; Emmens Professor, Ball State University, 1991-1992; Whitney Halstead Visiting Scholar, Art Institute of Chicago, 1989; Hoffman Eminent Scholar, Florida State University, 1987. Fellowships/Honors: 2002 Jay Dorff Lifetime Achievement Award of Performance Studies International; American Institute of Indian Studies Senior Research Fellow, 1997; Old Dominion Fellow, Princeton University, 1993; Special Recognition Award, New England Theatre Conference, 1991; Special Award for Contribution to Theatre, Towson State University, 1991; Asian Cultural Council Fellow, 1988-1995; National Endowment for the Humanities Senior Research Fellow, 1988; Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, 1987; Mondello Prize, Italy, 1985; Social Science Research Council, 1982; Fulbright Senior Research Fellow, 1976; Guggenheim Fellow, 1976. Performances DirectedYokastas (Stanescu and Schechner). East Coast Artists. 2003 Waiting for Godot (Beckett). Cornell University. 2002. Hamlet (Shakespeare). East Coast Artists. New York, 1999. Three Sisters (Chekhov). East Coast Artists. New York, 1995-1997 The Oresteia (Aeschylus). Contemporary Legend Theatre. Taipei, Taiwan, 1994. Faust/Gastronome. East Coast Artists. New York, 1993. Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (Wilson). Grahamstown Festival, South Africa, 1992. Mingri Jiuyao Chu Shan (Sun Huizhu. Tomorrow He'll be Out of the Mountains). Co-directed with Stephen Chan. Shanghai Peoples' Art Theatre, 1987. Don Juan (Moliere). Florida State University. 1987. The Prometheus Project (Schechner and others). University of Texas-Dallas and Performing Arts Garage (New York), 1983-1985. Cherry Ka Bagicha (The Cherry Orchard, Chekhov). Repertory Company of the National School of Drama. New Dehli, 1983. Richard's Lear (Shakespeare, Schechner). University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1981. The Red Snake (Michael McClure). Public Theatre. New York (closed in previews), 1981. With The Performance GroupThe Balcony (Genet), 1979-1980. Cops (Terry Curtis Fox), 1978-1979. Oedipus (Seneca), 1977. The Marilyn Project (David Gaard), 1975-1976. Mother Courage and Her Children (Brecht), 1975-1977. The Tooth of Crime (Shepard), 1972-1974. Commune (Schechner, The Performance Group), 1970-1972. Makbeth (Shakespeare, Schechner, The Performance Group), 1969-1970. Dionysus in 69 (Euripides, Schechner, The Performance Group), 1968-1969
BiographyMajor Interests: comparative performance; performance theory; experimental theatre; theories and practice of directing for the stage.
Affiliations: Editor, The Drama Review, The Journal of Performance Studies; General Editor, "Worlds of Performance" series; Advisory Editor, Asian Performance Journal and Journal of Ritual Studies; Artistic Director, East Coast Artists of New York; Honorary Professor, Shanghai Theatre Academy; Honorary Professor, Institute of the Arts, Havana; Emmens Professor, Ball State University, 1991-1992; Whitney Halstead Visiting Scholar, Art Institute of Chicago, 1989; Hoffman Eminent Scholar, Florida State University, 1987.
Fellowships/Honors: 2002 Jay Dorff Lifetime Achievement Award of Performance Studies International; American Institute of Indian Studies Senior Research Fellow, 1997; Old Dominion Fellow, Princeton University, 1993; Special Recognition Award, New England Theatre Conference, 1991; Special Award for Contribution to Theatre, Towson State University, 1991; Asian Cultural Council Fellow, 1988-1995; National Endowment for the Humanities Senior Research Fellow, 1988; Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, 1987; Mondello Prize, Italy, 1985; Social Science Research Council, 1982; Fulbright Senior Research Fellow, 1976; Guggenheim Fellow, 1976.
Publications by Richard SchechnerBooksPerformance Studies: An Introduction, revised and expanded second edition. London: Routledge, 2006
Over,Under, and Around.Calcutta:Seagull Books, 2004
A Performance (Hungarian). Budapest: Muszak, 1989.
Performance Theory. New York: Routledge, 1988.
El Teatro Ambientalista (Spanish). Mexico City: Arbol, 1988.
The Engleburt Stories: North to the Tropics. New York: PAJ Publications, 1987.
Between Theater & Anthropology. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1985.
La Teoria Della Performance (Italian). Rome: Bulzoni, 1984.
Performative Circumstances: From the Avant Garde to Ramlila. Calcutta: Seagull Books, 1983.
The End of Humanism: Writings on Performance. New York: Performing Arts Journal Publications, 1982.
Makbeth, After Shakespeare. Schulenburg: I.E. Clark, 1978.
With Brooks McNamara and Jerry Rojo. Theatre, Spaces, and Environments. New York: Drama Books Specialists, 1975.
Environmental Theater. New York: Hawthorn Books, 1973.
Public Domain: Essays on the Theater. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1969.
Book chapters (selected since 2000)"Fundamentals of Performance Studies," ix-xii. Teaching Performance Studies. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2002.
"What Is 'Performance Studies' Anyway?" New Approaches to Theatre Studies and Performance Analysis. Gunter Bergaus Tubingen: Niemeyer Verlag, 2001.
"Food." Performance Artists Talking in the Eighties. Ed. Linda Montano. Berkely: University of California Press, 2000.
"Die Zukungt De Rituals (German)." Aufbruch Zu Neven Welten Theatralitat an Der Jahrtausendwende. Eds. Sussane Schwinghammer, Monika Wagner, and Michael Huttler. Frankfurt: IKO-Verlag fur Interkulturelle Kommunikation, 2000.
"Approaches to Performance Theory." The Routledge Reader in Politics and Performance. Eds. Lizbeth Goodman and Jane de Gay. London: Routledge, 2000.
"Organicity in Action, Exercises, Spaces, and Persons: Jerry Rojo's Project." Preface to Jerry Rojo's An Acting Method Using the Psychophysical Experience of Workshop Games-Exercises. Lewiston: Edwin Mellen Press, 2000.
Articles (selected since 2000):
"Performance Studies in/for the 21st Century." Anthropology and Humanism (2001).
"Rasaesthetics." TDR (2001).
"A Maharajah's Festival for Body and Soul." New York Times, 26 November 2000.
"Already Reworking the Classics of Modern Realism." New York Times, 13 February 2000.
Performances DirectedYokastas (Stanescu and Schechner). East Coast Artists. 2003
Waiting for Godot (Beckett). Cornell University. 2002.
Hamlet (Shakespeare). East Coast Artists. New York, 1999.
Three Sisters (Chekhov). East Coast Artists. New York, 1995-1997
The Oresteia (Aeschylus). Contemporary Legend Theatre. Taipei, Taiwan, 1994.
Faust/Gastronome. East Coast Artists. New York, 1993.
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (Wilson). Grahamstown Festival, South Africa, 1992.
Mingri Jiuyao Chu Shan (Sun Huizhu. Tomorrow He'll be Out of the Mountains). Co-directed with Stephen Chan. Shanghai Peoples' Art Theatre, 1987.
Don Juan (Moliere). Florida State University. 1987.
The Prometheus Project (Schechner and others). University of Texas-Dallas and Performing Arts Garage (New York), 1983-1985.
Cherry Ka Bagicha (The Cherry Orchard, Chekhov). Repertory Company of the National School of Drama. New Dehli, 1983.
Richard's Lear (Shakespeare, Schechner). University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1981.
The Red Snake (Michael McClure). Public Theatre. New York (closed in previews), 1981.
With The Performance GroupThe Balcony (Genet), 1979-1980.
Cops (Terry Curtis Fox), 1978-1979.
Oedipus (Seneca), 1977.
The Marilyn Project (David Gaard), 1975-1976.
Mother Courage and Her Children (Brecht), 1975-1977.
The Tooth of Crime (Shepard), 1972-1974.
Commune (Schechner, The Performance Group), 1970-1972.
Makbeth (Shakespeare, Schechner, The Performance Group), 1969-1970.
Dionysus in 69 (Euripides, Schechner, The Performance Group), 1968-1969.