CURRICULUM VITAE SUMMARY
EDUCATION
- Ph.D., Dramatic Art/Performance Studies with a graduate minor in Critical Theory, University of California, Davis
- Graduate Certificate, Acting & Theater Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz
- STC Certificate, Acting, American Conservatory Theater, San Francisco, California
- B.A., Art, Reed College, Portland, Oregon
- Université de Rennes, France, exchange student
- Full-time Lecturer of Acting & Theatre Arts, University of Miami, Florida, 2013 to present
- Adjunct Lecturer of Theatre History, University of Miami, Florida, 2012
- Adjunct Lecturer of Theatre, Pomona College, Claremont, CA, 2008 to 2010
- Visiting Assistant Professor of Acting & Dramatic Literature, Pomona College, Claremont, CA, 2007 to 2008
- Critical Inquiry Faculty, Pomona Academy for Youth Success, Pomona College, Claremont, CA, Summer 2008, 2009, 2010
- Teaching Assistant, University of California, UC Davis & UC Santa Cruz, 2002 to 2007
- Assistant Art Teacher, Board of Education, P.S. 154: The Bronx, NY, 1993 to 1995
- “Queering ethnicity and shattering the disco: Is there an enduring gay ethnic dance?” The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Ethnicity, edited by Shay, Anthony, and Sellers-Young, Barbara. Oxford University Press, 2016, pp. 91-112. Print. Oxford Handbooks.
- “1964: The Birth of Gay Theater.” The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide, vol. 21, no. 1, 2014, pp. 17–21.
- “How to Do Agitprop. Staging Social Justice: Collaborating to Create Activist Theatre (Review).” The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide, vol. 20, no. 6, 2013, p. 43-44.
- “Queer Theatre and the Legacy of Cal Yeomans by Robert A. Schanke (Review).” Modern Drama, vol. 56, no. 4, 2013, pp. 569–571.
- “Lay of the Land (Review).” Theatre Journal, vol. 64, no. 4, 2012, pp. 598–601.
- “Queering the Domestic and Domesticating the Queer: Utopian Genealogies in Lanford Wilson’s Fifth of July.” New England Theatre Journal, vol. 22., 2011, pp. 125-146.
- “The AIDS Show Broke the Silence.” The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide, vol. 18, no. 2, 2011, pp. 13–16.
DIRECTORIAL EXPERIENCE
- Catastrophe Collective, Spring 2019, Theatre Arts Capstone Project, Artistic Director/Faculty Supervisor, Hecht Studio Theater, University of Miami
- The Mask of Blackness, Spring 2019, written and performed by Estella McNair, Hecht Studio Theater, University of Miami
- The Dining Room, Fall 2018, Hecht Studio Theater, University of Miami
- Talley’s Folly, Spring 2018, Hecht Studio Theater, University of Miami
- Lucid, Spring 2018, Theatre Arts Capstone Project: Artistic Director/Faculty Supervisor, Hecht Studio Theater, University of Miami
- 24-Hour Play Festival, Spring 2016, 2017, & 2019, Jerry Herman Ring Theater, University of Miami, Director, Co-Producer, & Artistic Director of the Festival
- As Is, Fall 2015, Stonewall National Museum and Archives, Wilton Manors, Florida
- Burn This, Spring 2015, Hecht Studio Theater, University of Miami
- Minatory Mansion, Summer 2009, Virginia Princehouse Allen Theater, Pomona College
- Fifth of July, Fall 2007, Virginia Princehouse Allen Theater, Pomona College
- Hey Baby How’ve You Been?, Fall 2007, Highways Performance Space, Santa Monica, CA
- 10-Minute Play Festival, Artistic Director/Producer, Fall 2007, Spring 2009, Spring 2010, Pomona College
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TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Full-time Lecturer of Acting & Theatre Arts, University of Miami, Florida, 2013 to present
Full-time Lecturer of Acting & Theatre Arts, University of Miami, Florida, 2013 to present
- Currently working as a full-time lecturer teaching four (or five) undergraduate courses per semester. Per-semester enrollment averages 70-120 students.
- Courses taught include: Theater History I: Ancient Greece through the British Restoration, Theater History II: 18th Century to the Present, Introduction to Acting, Intermediate Acting, Introduction to Theater, Queer Theater: Body Politics/Staging Sexuality, and Theatre Arts Senior Capstone.
- Teaching load has included upper-division theater history classes for BA/BFA theater majors, advanced project supervision for BA theater majors, as well as general education classes for cognate students and other non-majors
- Directed three productions for the UM Theatre Arts department’s prestigious, highly-competitive BFA performance program: Burn This (Spring 2015); Talley’s Folly (Spring 2018); The Dining Room (Fall 2018)
- Taught Theater History I, a survey of the development of Western theatre in Europe, from Ancient Greece through the British Restoration.
- Courses taught included four sections of Basic Acting: Meisner’s Improvised Realism and one section of Intermediate Acting
- Served for three years as Artistic Director and Producer for the Claremont Colleges 10-Minute Play Festival.
- Courses taught included an upper-division dramatic literature/women’s studies seminar as well as classes in theater practice:
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Queer Theater: Body Politics/Staging Sexuality –
Utopian Dreams, Dark Divas, and Drama Queens
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Basic Acting: Meisner’s Improvised Realism
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Playwriting: Creating Solo Work for the Stage
- Directed an
acclaimed sold-out production of Lanford Wilson’s ensemble piece Fifth of July, in a thrust space
- Worked in an intensive summer college preparatory program for gifted minority high school rising senior students
- Curriculum devised in collaboration with an interdisciplinary committee of faculty colleagues
- Readings drawn from 20th-century cultural history, African American studies, anthropology, art history, Asian American studies, Chicano/Latino studies, comparative literature, cultural studies, ethnic studies, film & media studies, gender studies, history, performance studies, queer studies, philosophy, psychology, and sociology.
- Course themes:
Gender and Society (‘08); Race/Environment/Economy (‘09); Education in
Contemporary U.S. Society (‘10)
Acting Instructor: Meisner Technique and Long-form
Improvisation, Alexander Hughes Community Center, Claremont, CA, 2008 to 2009
Teaching Assistant, University
of California, Davis, Department of Theatre Arts, 2006 to 2007
· Teaching Assistant, University
of California, Santa Cruz, Department of Theatre Arts, 2002 to 2004
Assistant Art Teacher, Board
of Education, P.S. 154: The Bronx, NY, 1993
to 1995
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PUBLISHED ARTICLES
Blaney, Darren
Patrick. “Queering ethnicity and shattering the disco: Is there an enduring gay
ethnic dance?” The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Ethnicity, edited by Shay,
Anthony, and Sellers-Young, Barbara. Oxford University Press, 2016, pp. 91-112.
Print. Oxford Handbooks.
Blaney, Darren.
“1964: The Birth of Gay Theater.” The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide, vol.
21, no. 1, 2014, pp. 17–21.
Blaney, Darren.
“Queering the Domestic and Domesticating the Queer: Utopian Genealogies in
Lanford Wilson’s Fifth of July.” New England Theatre Journal, vol. 22., 2011,
pp. 125-146.
Blaney, Darren. “The
AIDS Show Broke the Silence.” The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide, vol. 18,
no. 2, 2011, pp. 13–16.
BOOK/PERFORMANCE REVIEWS
Blaney, Darren. “How
to Do Agitprop. Staging Social Justice: Collaborating to Create Activist
Theatre (Review).” The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide, vol. 20, no. 6,
2013, p. 43-44.
Blaney, Darren
Patrick. “Queer Theatre and the Legacy of Cal Yeomans by Robert A. Schanke
(Review).” Modern Drama, vol. 56, no. 4, 2013, pp. 569–571.
Blaney, Darren
Patrick. “Lay of the Land (Review).” Theatre Journal, vol. 64, no. 4, 2012, pp.
598–601.
ACADEMIC CONFERENCE PAPERS/PRESENTATIONS
·
2018, Missouri
Self-Taught: Lanford Wilson and the American Drama, University of Missouri
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Participant in
the Lanford Wilson and the Queerness, Subversion, and Silence panel
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Paper: Necessary
Distractions as Integral Tactics: Staging Ensemble and Queer Visibility in
Lanford Wilson’s Balm in Gilead
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2015: ATHE:
Association for Theater in Higher Education, Montreal
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Participant in
the From Triage to Marriage: Teaching GLBTQ Theatre and Film History panel
·
2011: Comparative
Drama Conference, Los Angeles
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Participant in
the Queer(ing) Memory panel
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Paper:
Constructing Community at the Caffe Cino through a Utopian Staging of Self:
Robert Patrick’s The Haunted Host
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2010: ATHE:
Association for Theater in Higher Education, Los Angeles
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Participant in
the Theory and Criticism panel entitled: Night
of the Living Dead!: Performing Survival/Surviving Performance
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Paper: Theatrical
gifts as negotiations of exchange that enable survival: Theatre Rhinoceros’
utopian confrontations with the AIDS crisis
·
2010: ATHE:
Association for Theater in Higher Education, Los Angeles
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Organizer/Moderator
of an LGBT Focus Group panel entitled: Surviving
Queerly, Why theater needs YOU more than YouTube: Advice from practitioners about the necessity
of theater in a well-balanced queer survival diet
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Panelists
included: Joan Lipkin, Tim Miller, Randy Paulos, Cynthia Ruffin, Steven Ruiz,
Robert Schanke, and Denise Uyehara
·
2010: ATHE:
Association for Theater in Higher Education, Los Angeles
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Organizer/Moderator
of an LGBT Focus Group panel entitled: Caffe Cino: The Cradle of Gay Theater:
An interview with Robert Patrick
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2010: Women and
Theater Program/LGBT Focus Group Joint Preconference: ATHE, Los Angeles
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Speaker/participant
in Women and Theatre Program/LGBT Focus Group joint preconference plenary
panel: Kinship and Shared Spaces / Exploring Queer Childhood
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Other panelists
included Ricardo A. Bracho, Norma Bowles, and Ashley Lucas
·
2010: Comparative
Drama Conference, Los Angeles
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Participant in
the Gender and Sexual Identity on Stage panel
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Paper: Lanford
Wilson’s The Madness of Lady Bright:
A Queen’s Plea for Home as a Harbinger of Hope and a Duenna of Defiance
·
2007: Comparative
Drama Conference, Los Angeles
o
Participant in
the Mothers, Language, and Power in Shakespeare panel
o
Paper: A Victory
for Matriarchy? - Is All Well When Paroles Doesn't End Well?
·
2005: ATHE:
Association for Theater in Higher Education, San Francisco
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Participant/Actor:
Play Development Workshop
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Participant/Actor:
Jane Chambers Play Development Workshop, LGBT Focus Group
DIRECTORIAL EXPERIENCE
·
Catastrophe Collective, Spring 2019, Theatre Arts Capstone Project: Artistic
Director/Faculty Supervisor, Hecht Studio Theater, University of Miami,
Florida, Department of Theatre Arts
·
The Mask of Blackness, Spring 2019, written and performed by Estella McNair,
Hecht Studio Theater, University of Miami, Florida, Department of Theatre Arts
· The Dining Room, Fall 2018, Hecht Studio Theater, University of Miami, Florida, Department of Theatre Arts
·
Talley’s Folly,
Spring 2018, Hecht Studio Theater, University of Miami, Florida, Department of
Theatre Arts
·
Lucid, Spring
2018, Theatre Arts Capstone Project: Artistic Director/Faculty Supervisor,
Hecht Studio Theater, University of Miami, Florida, Department of Theatre Arts
·
24-Hour Play Festival, Spring 2016, 2017, & 2019, Jerry Herman Ring
Theater, University of Miami, Department of Theatre Arts. Director, Co-Producer
and Artistic Director of the Festival
·
As Is, Fall
2015, Stonewall National Museum and Archives, Wilton Manors, Florida
·
Burn This, Spring
2015, Hecht Studio Theater, University of Miami, Department of Theatre Arts
·
Minatory Mansion, Summer 2009, Claremont School of Theatre Arts, Virginia Princehouse
Allen Theater, Pomona College Theatre and Dance Department
·
Fifth of July,
Fall 2007, Virginia Princehouse Allen Theater, Pomona College Theatre and Dance
Department
·
Hey Baby How’ve You Been?, Fall 2007, Highways Performance Space, Santa Monica,
CA. An original solo piece, curated by Leo Garcia for 4X4: Four New Works by
Four Queer Artists
·
Scene Studies,
2002-2019, As an acting teacher, I have directed hundreds of scene studies by a
variety of modern and contemporary playwrights including Albee, Beckett,
Chambers, Chekhov, Durang, Fornes, Inge, Kondoleon, Kushner, Lorca, Moraga,
Norman, Odets, Pinter, Shanley, Shepard, Stoppard, Valdez, Vogel, Wasserstein,
Wilde, Wilson, and Williams
·
10-Minute Play Festival, Artistic Director/Producer, Fall 2007, Spring 2009,
Spring 2010, Pomona College Department of Theatre and Dance.
COMPETE PERFORMANCE & ACTING RESUME
Please see:
http://resumes.actorsaccess.com/darrenblaney
PRODUCED ORIGINAL PLAYS
You May Now Kiss… My Sass…?
This solo show was
presented at Exit Theater in September of 2005, produced in conjunction with
the San Francisco Fringe Festival. It
was also presented at University of California, Davis in October of 2005. The piece satirizes and problematizes the
issue of same-sex marriage, and features eleven character depictions that
demand rapid character shifts
What the Hell Is Going on Here?
This play was
co-authored with feminist playwright Kristina Goodnight, and featured eleven
diverse characters. The piece was
produced in the Experimental Theater at UC Santa Cruz, in conjunction with the
Chautauqua Festival, Spring 2003. A political satire, the play grappled with
the inherent ironies of living in a pluralistic American society post-9/11
The Bird Club: Letter to Sandra Bernhard
This solo show was
presented at Phoenix Theater, produced in conjunction with the San Francisco
Fringe Festival, September 2001.
Excerpts from this piece were also presented at Highways Performance
Space in Los Angeles (November 2007).
The show in its entirety was also produced by Works San Jose (March
2004), as well as independently produced at Shotwell Studios in San Francisco
(April 2001) and at Santa Cruz’s Broadway Playhouse (May 2004). The piece features seven distinctive
character monologues that require intricate physical and vocal work in
performance
DRAMATURGY
·
Spring Awakening, Jerry Herman Ring Theatre, University of Miami, Spring 2017.
Director: Laura Rikard.
·
Romeo and Juliet, Jerry Herman Ring Theatre, University of Miami, Fall 2017. Director:
Laura Rikard
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ADDITIONAL PERFORMANCE TRAINING
Pomona College: Movement & Voice, Claremont, CA,
2007 to 2010
· Studied
Feldenkrais technique, Alexander
technique, Chicano
theater, physical acting, and commedia dell’arte, Shakespearean verse, diction, and physical style
University of California, Davis: Movement & Voice,
Davis, CA, 2005 to 2007
· Studied
Fitzmaurice vocal technique & dialects, “Body
Energy Centers” / chakra acting & movement technique
Ian McRae Studio: Meisner Technique, Santa Cruz, CA,
2003 to 2004
· Studied privately
for one year in an intensive program with Ian McRae, who held a seven-year
tenure as a senior acting instructor at Sanford Meisner’s Neighborhood
Playhouse in New York City
University of California, Santa Cruz: Yoga, Santa
Cruz, CA, 2002 to 2004
Studied Iyengar yoga
for two years with Julie Kimball
· Also studied
Ashtanga, Hatha, Kundalini, Vinyassa, and Bikram yoga at various studios for
over 25 years
Bay Area Theater Sports: Long-form Improvisation, San
Francisco, CA, 2000 to 2002
· Studied long-form
improvisation privately for two years with Regina Saisi, Diane Rachel, &
Rafe Chase
Herbert Berghof Studio & Baruch College, New York
City, 1996 to 1999
· Studied acting,
improvisation, & Linklater technique at these Manhattan schools
Private Vocal Coaching, New York City, 1995 to 1999
· Studied opera,
voice for the stage, and contemporary vocal styles with Aïnegua, Barbara
Christopher, & Ron Toutz
Martha Graham School of Contemporary Dance, Dance
Space Inc., Smith College, & Reed College, 1991 to 1995
· Studied ballet,
modern, and jazz dance at these renowned schools in Manhattan, Massachusetts,
& Oregon
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
- 2013-2019, B.A. Curriculum/Recruitment Committee – Ongoing committee working in consultation with the Chair of Theatre Arts and the Dean of Arts and Sciences, University of Miami. As a committee member, my contributions included creating course proposals and syllabi for UM’s Senior Theatre Arts Capstone, and an LGBTQ theater history class.
- 2013-2019, Academic Advisor – Advised B.A. Theatre majors and minors at the University of Miami, Florida
- 2017-2019, Manuscript Peer Reviewer – American Studies, Managing Editor: Justine Greve, amerstud@ku.edu
- 2011, Manuscript Peer Reviewer – Dance Research Journal, editor: Professor Mark Franko
- 2008-10, Curriculum Development Committee – Assisted in formulating learned outcomes, learning goals, and assessment criteria for the Acting and General Theater majors in the Pomona College Department of Theatre and Dance
- 2006-7, Graduate Student Representative – Attended faculty meetings, compiled notes, mediated and expressed graduate student concerns, and acted as a liaison between faculty and students for the Department of Theater & Dance at UC Davis
- 2006-8, Research Assistant – Associate Professor Jon Rossini, UC Davis
- 2003 to present, Academic Reference – Have written over 40 recommendations for former and current students for graduate work, scholarships, or study abroad
FELLOWSHIPS & AWARDS
- 2010, Semifinalist, American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) New Faculty Fellowship.
- 2004-2006, Eugene Cota-Robles Fellowship, University of California, Davis. The Eugene Cota-Robles Fellowship Program is a merit-based diversity enhancement two-year fellowship program that provides financial support to assist students from diverse backgrounds to successfully complete a graduate degree
OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Freelance Actor
& Performer, 1985 to present
- Worked for both
community-theater and regional equity companies including California
Shakespeare Festival, Marin Shakespeare, New Conservatory Theater Company and
Berkeley’s Shotgun Players in the San Francisco Bay Area; and the Main Street
Playhouse and Andrews Living Arts Theater in South Florida, as well as
independent dance troupes and musical ensembles
Independent
Producer, 1990 to present
- Worked on a variety of creative projects in California, Connecticut, Florida, Massachusetts, New York, and Oregon
- Organized and managed independent musical groups and theater companies
- Conceived, designed, and distributed publicity materials including posters and postcards
- Curated performances and gallery exhibits
- Wrote press releases and programs
Red-Cross Certified
Swimming Instructor & Lifeguard, 2012
to 2013
- Worked for the
City of Tamarac, Florida and the Fort Lauderdale Aquatic Complex as a pool
lifeguard and swimming instructor. Taught basic swimming and water survival
skills to hundreds of students in South Florida. Worked with all ages from
toddlers to elementary and high school students to working adults and senior
citizens
Freelance Graphic
Artist and Administrator 1998 to 2002
- Worked
temporarily in various non-profit and corporate office environments as a
desktop publisher, graphic artist, and administrator. Competent in most Microsoft Office and Adobe
Graphics software programs
Metropolitan Museum
of Art 1995 to 1998
- New York City,
NY. Worked in public relations and security at this internationally recognized
art museum, the largest in the Western Hemisphere
INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCE
- Resided in Rennes, France for six months in an undergraduate student exchange program, 1989 to 1990
- Regular active participant at the French language lunch table at Pomona College’s Oldenborg Center for Modern Languages and International Relations, 2007 to 2010
- Traveled abroad in Argentina, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Great Britain, Holland, Ireland, Mexico, Morocco, Spain, and Sweden
- Conversant in French, beginner in Spanish
MEMBERSHIPS
American Studies
Association (ASA)
Association for
Theater in Higher Education (ATHE)
American Society for
Theatre Research (ASTR)
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