Nancy C. Jones

PROFESSIONAL DIRECTING EXPERIENCE

2019 The Bald Soprano, Workshop, translated and directed • Bolivar Gallery

2016 Radio Plays by Beckett, Beckett Festival of Short Plays, directed • Site Specific Theatre,

2015 The Dispute, translated and directed • Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Scotland

2014 The Lesson, translated and directed • Slant Culture Theatre Festival, Louisville, KY

2014 The Maids, translated and directed • La MaMa Experimental Theatre, NYC

2014 Insufficiency by Carl Djerassi • UK Art Museum, Staged Reading

2012 24 Hour Play Festival • Actors Theatre of Louisville

2010 General George Washington: Part II by Herman Daniel Farrell III • Directed Staged Reading at New Dramatists, NYC

2010 General George Washington: Part III by Herman Daniel Farrell III • Directed Staged Reading at Morris Gemel Mansion and Museum, NYC

2009 Life 101, by Claudia Barnett • MATC, Chicago, IL

2007 Molière’s Women, wrote and directed • Salle Adyar, Paris France

2007 casus belli, by Herman Daniel Farrell III • Staged Reading at New Dramatists, NYC

2007 Henry, by Claudia Barnett • MATC, Minneapolis, MN

2006 Molière’s Women, wrote and directed • Mae West Festival, Seattle, Washington

2005 Molière’s Women • Women in the Arts Festival, Saint Louis, Missouri

2002 Portrait of a President, by Herman D. Farrell III • Theatre for the New City, New York International Fringe Festival

2002 GODDESS: Inanna Project – directed, wrote and conceived • FOCAS Festival, ROOTS Southern Theatre Organization

2000 A Midsummer Night’s Dream • Lincoln Center Directors Lab, New York City - Workshop of Shakespeare’s Midsummer Night’s Dream

2000 The Bird Plays • Staged Readings of 4 plays by Lenora Champagne, Catherine Filloux, Sheri Wilner, New York Performance Works, New York City

1999 Blue Moon Over Memphis by Deborah Baley Brevoort • HERE, American Living Room Festival, New York City

1999 Storks by Catherine Filloux • Women Without Borders Festival, Immigrants Theater Project, New York City

1999 Memorial Day by Herman Daniel Farrell III • Staged Reading at New Dramatists,NYC

1999 The End of Jazz by Herman Daniel Farrell III • Staged Reading at New Dramatists,NYC

1998 Solo Goya by Herman Daniel Farrell III • HERE, American Living Room Festival, New York City

UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY DIRECTING EXPERIENCE

2020 Pasek & Paul Virtual Concert

2020 Alliance for Social Action Performance (ASAP)

2017 Little Shop of Horrors (Choreographed and Directed)

2015 Alice in Wonderland (Adapted and Directed)

2014 The Maids by Jean Genet (Translated and Directed) • Bardstown Theatre, Louisiville, KY

2012 Les Liaisons Dangereuses by Christopher Hampton

2011 Arlequin Polished by Love by Marivaux (Translation/adaptation from French)

2010 Blur in the Rear View by Alex Merilo (Winner of James Rodgers Competition)

2008 Island of Slaves by Marivaux

2007 Betty’s Summer Vacation by Christopher Durang

2005 Intimate Apparel by Lynn Nottage

2004 Everyman

2004 Bury the Dead - Staged Reading

2004 A Soldier’s Play - Staged Reading

2004 Grand Guignol: Tales of Horror and Ecstasy

2003 El Mundo de los Sueños, Conceived,Wrote, Directed and Adapted

2001 Affrilachia - poetry by Frank X. Walker (Regional Tour)

2000 Affrilachia - poetry by Frank X. Walker

2000 Tartuffe

1998 Pippin

1997 Rimers of Eldritch

ADDITIONAL DIRECTING DISTINCTIONS

1998, 1999, 2000 Member of Lincoln Center Directors Lab • Lincoln Center Theater, New York City

2000 International Directors Symposium • LaMaMa Umbria, Italy

2002 Salzburg Festival, Salzburg, Austria • Invited to attend by Jurgen Flimm, Artistic Director of the Salzburg Festival Theater component and Anne Cattaneo, Literary Manager of Lincoln Center Theater

2012 International Directors Lab, Toronto, Canada

OTHER SIGNIFICANT DIRECTING EXPERIENCE

1997 Much Ado About Nothing • Children’s Theatre Madison, Madison, Wisconsin

1996 Los Colores del Mundo – wrote, conceived, directed • Children’s Theatre Madison, Madison, Wisconsin

1996 The Missing Piece – wrote, conceived, directed • Children’s Theatre Madison, Wisconsin

1996 The Bacchae - Director & Choreographer • Western Illinois University, Department of Theatre

1995 Marisol • Western Illinois University, Department of Theatre

1995 Painting Churches • Western Illinois University, Simpkins Theatre, IL

1994 My Sister In This House • Western Illinois University, Simpkins Theatre, IL

1994 Runaways - Director & Choreographer • Fargo Performing Arts School, Fargo, North Dakota

1993 Imagine - International Collaborative Theater • Reineke Theater, Fargo, North Dakota

CHOREOGRAPHY, SELECTED CREDITS

1997 Miss Julie • So Grand Studio, NYC

1997 The Female Body - Co-creator & Performer • KY Women Writers Conference

1996 Zorro • Western Illinois University

1995 Cinderella • Summer Music Theater, IL

1995 Something’s Afoot • Summer Music Theater, IL

1995 My Fair Lady • Summer Music Theater, IL

1994 Tartuffe • Western Illinois University

1993 Peter Pan • Straw Hat, MN

1993 Nunsense II • Black Swan Dinner Theater

1993 Joseph & the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat • Trollwood Theater

1993 Chicago - Assistant Choreographer • Moorhead State University

1992 Oliver • Concordia College

1992 Anything Goes • Trollwood Theater

1991 Little Shop of Horrors • Fergus Falls Theater, MN

1990 Hair • Concordia College

1990 Moore by Four Holiday - Asst Choreographer • Cricket Theater, Minneapolis, MN

PUBLISHING

Molière’s Women, Mae West Fest: Anthology of Plays by Women, March 2006

TEACHING AND EMPLOYMENT

Professor, UK Department of Theatre and Dance

Teaching areas: Directing, Movement, Acting, French Theatre, and Education Abroad course on Art and Culture in Paris each summer