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D. Ohlandt, Ph.D.

contact: profohlandt(at)gmail.com

 

Education & Fellowships

  • 2006 Ph.D. Theatre University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
    doctoral thesis: “Trying to Relate: Negotiating the Politics of Representing Disability in Contemporary Theatre”
    winner 2007 Michael Myatt Distinguished Dissertation in Disability Studies Award
  • 2005 Fulbright/IIE Postgraduate Award to Australia University of Sydney
  • 1999 B.A. Theatre / Philosophy New College, Sarasota, FL
    bachelor’s thesis: “Plays Well With Others: the Ensemble Theory of Theatrical Performance”

Teaching

for course descriptions and syllabi, please see my [ teaching ] page

  • 2014-present  Academic Editor, Writing Coach, Communications Consultant freelance
  • 2001-present  Experiential Educator and Teams Consultant freelance
  • 2010-2019  Instructor   Encore Learning / Arlington Learning in Retirement Institute, Arlington, VA
  • 2007-2009  Assistant Professor of Theater (non tenure-track) Lake Forest College, IL courses taught
  • 2006-2007 Mellon Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow, Theatre Arts Kalamazoo College, MI courses taught
  • 2001-2003 Instructor, Theatre & Drama University of Michigan, Ann Arbor courses taught

Administration

Publications

for a complete list and more details, please visit my [ scholarship ] page

  • peer-reviewed article “Engaging the Audience: Cultivating Stakeholders, Collaborators, and Partners” Theatre Topics, vol. 25 (June 2015)
  • chapter: “Voice Embodied: Rhetoric at the Intersection of Writing and Performance.”  Ohlandt, D. in What is the New Rhetoric? ed. Susan Thomas, Cambridge Scholars Press (2007)
  • peer-reviewed article: “Rehearsal As Cartography: Some Challenges for Metaphor and Practice.” Ohlandt-Ross, D. in About Performance, #6 (2006): 109-120, journal published by the University of Sydney
  • peer-reviewed article: “Playing the Line: Language Games in the Plays of Tom Stoppard.” Ross, Dee. in Text & Presentation, v. 23 (April 2002): 99-106, journal of the Comparative Drama Conference
  • book review Not Magic But Work: An Ethnographic Account of a Rehearsal Process (Gay McAuley) Theatre Topics, vol. 25 (June 2015)
  • book review The Philosophy of Improvisation (Gary Peters) and Composed Theatre: Aesthetics, Practices, Processes (ed. Matthias Rebstock and David Roesner) Theatre Annual, vol. 65 (2012)
  • program note “Coming of Age: Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? in 1962″
    Arena Stage presentation of Steppenwolf’s production of Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (2011)
  • contributing editor for online resource: Sub/Text: Your Virtual Dramaturg, Arena Stage (2010-11), audience enrichment articles on R. Buckminster Fuller and Edward Albee

Research Presentations

  • seminar: “Starving Artists? Exploring (and Advancing) Radical Economies of Theater,” convened and chaired seminar at the 2011 American Society for Theatre Research (ASTR) conference
  • juried conference presentation: “‘Pseudo-Ballerinas’ and ‘Tutu-Clad Studs’: The ‘Body Language’ of Les Ballets Trockadero,” paper presented at the 2010 American Society for Theatre Research (ASTR) conference
  • juried conference presentation: “The Appearance of Authenticity: Adapted & Artificial Language(s) in Deaf Theatre,” paper presented at the 2007 Performance Studies International (PSi) conference: “Event/Performance/Happening”
  • juried conference presentation: “Actors in the Mist: Observing Theatre Artists in Their Natural Habitat,” paper presented on the 2006 ASTR conference panel: “Live Subjects: The Pleasures and Perils of Field Research”
  • juried conference presentation: “Science or Art? A (Postmodern) Matter of Life and Death,” paper presented on the 2006 ATHE conference panel: “Abra Cadaver: The Dead Body in Performance and Spectacle”
  • juried conference presentation: “Speaking As / Speaking For: Mental Illness as Disability in Theatrical Performance,” paper presented at the 2006 Society for Disability Studies (SDS) conference
  • juried conference presentation: “Voice Embodied: Putting Performance Studies (Back) into Rhetoric, or the Other Way Around,” paper presented at the University of Sydney 2005 conference: “What is the New Rhetoric?”
  • juried conference presentation: “Getting Into History: the Problem with People in Historical Re-enactments,” paper presented at the 2005 Australasian Association for Drama and Performance Studies (ADSA) conference: “Journeys to the Interior”
  • juried conference presentation: “Casting Strategies as a Site of Aesthetic Refusal,” paper presented at the Philament journal (University of Sydney) 2005 conference: “The Politics and Aesthetics of Refusal”
  • seminar: “Considering Bodies in Evaluating Taste,” convened and chaired seminar at the 2004 American Society for Theatre Research (ASTR) conference
  • juried conference presentation: “Bodies of Research: On Acting, Ethnography, and Disability,” paper presented to the 2004 Int’l Centre for Advanced Theatre Studies (ICATS) seminar for invited PhD students
  • juried conference presentation: “Form and Function: Disabled Characters in 20th Century Drama,” paper presented at the 28th Comparative Drama Conference (2004)
  • juried conference presentation: “Purely Formal Bodies: ‘Characters Who Act’ and Witkacy’s Theory of Pure Form,” paper presented at the 27th Comparative Drama Conference (2003)
  • juried conference presentation: “Toward a Responsible Portrayal of Blindness: Casting ‘Across Ability’ in Friel’s Molly Sweeney,” paper presented at the 2002 ASTR conference roundtable seminar: “The Material Considerations of Casting”

Theatre Productions

for a complete list and more details, please visit my [ productions ] page

Regional Theatre

  • 2011 Everything in the Garden, by Edward Albee
    director, as part of the Edward Albee Festival, hosted by Arena Stage (Washington, DC)
  • 2010 R. Buckminster Fuller: The History (and Mystery) of the Universe, by D.W. Jacobs
    assistant director for director D.W. Jacobs, Arena Stage (Washington, DC)
  • 2009-10 Dramaturgy Assistant Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater

Additional Directing and Producing

  • 2009 Pippin, music by Stephen Schwartz
    director, mainstage production for Lake Forest College Theater Department
  • 2008 A Midsummer Night’s Dream, by William Shakespeare
    producer for director Richard Pettengill, mainstage production for Lake Forest College Theater Department
  • 2007 The Madwoman of Chaillot, by Jean Giraudoux
    director, mainstage production for Kalamazoo College, Department of Theatre Arts
  • 2004 An Arthur Miller Celebration, concept by Mark Lamos
    head dramaturg, scene director, and project manager for director Mark Lamos, University of Michigan
  • 2001 Compleat Female Stage Beauty, by Jeffrey Hatcher
    dramaturg for Globe Theatre (San Francisco) director Mark Lamos, workshop at the University of Michigan

Additional Creative Works

  • Frigga and the Mistletoe, December 2012
    librettist for original one-act opera, with composer Barbara Schelstrate
    produced and directed productions at Chalice Theater (Arlington, VA) December 2012 and December 2014
  • A Day in the Life of An Undocumented Student, series of original monologues, October 2008
    project coordinator and dramaturg, in cooperation with the Lake Forest College Office of Intercultural Relations

Workshops, Seminars & Special Training

  • 2012-2013 Training in Non-Profit Leadership & Administration, including Capital and Annual Campaigns, Appreciative Inquiry, Emotional Systems, & Policy-Based Governance, J.D. Klote & Associates, Unity Consulting, and Joseph Priestley District of the Unitarian Universalist Association
  • 2010-11 Producing Seminar, with managing director Edgar Dobie, Arena Stage (Washington, DC)
  • 2008 Faculty Assessment of Student Learning Workshop, Associated Colleges of the Midwest
  • 2007-08 Monthly Workshop on Writing Assignments Across the Curriculum Lake Forest College
  • 2006 Three-Day Intensive Workshop on Excellence in Undergraduate Education Kalamazoo College
  • 2004 International Centre for Advanced Theatre Studies (ICATS) Helsinki, Finland
  • 2002 School of Criticism and Theory (SCT) Cornell University

Professional Service

  • 2010-2018 Script Reader, National Playwrights Conference (at the O’Neill)
  • 2010 Defining Diversity Task Force, American Voices New Play Institute
  • 2006-2009 KCACTF regional respondent
  • 2007, 2009 KCACTF Region III workshop leader

University Service

  • 2008-2009 Enrollment Committee, Lake Forest College
  • 2008-2009 LIT Advisory Committee, Lake Forest College
  • 2007-2008 Commencement Student Speaker Selection Committee and Coach, Lake Forest College
  • 2007-2009 Ally Program Member (Diversity Training), Lake Forest College
  • 2007-2008 Garrick Players Executive Board Advisor, Lake Forest College