Juanita Rockwell
Artistic Associate , MFA Theatre- jrockwell@towson.edu (410)704-
2120
JUANITA ROCKWELL is a director and
writer with over 25 years experience developing new works for theatre,
opera, radio, multi-media, and site-specific performance.
She has directed projects at Ontological-Hysteric Theater, Culture
Project, New Dramatists, Mabou Mines/Suite, The Flea, Access Theatre
Gallery, Blue Heron Theatre (NYC); Everyman Theatre (Baltimore);
WPA, Source Theatre (DC); City Theatre (Pittsburgh); Studio RS9
(Budapest) and Teatro Municipão (São Paolo, Brazil),
among others.
For six years, she was Artistic Director of Company One Theater
(Hartford, CT), directing dozens of world premieres by writers
who went on to win Pulitzers, Tonys and Obies, such as Paula Vogel,
Suzan-Lori Parks, and Rachel Sheinkin. She has directed radio plays
for NPR, WBGO and WNYC, including a live broadcast series of new
plays, RadioPlaying.
Juanita’s writing includes the libretto for James Sellars’ The
World is Round (after Gertrude Stein) and the book/lyrics for Robert
Macht’s Waterwalk: Surface and Depth (commissioned by Nancy
Romita/Moving Company for live Gamelan). Her play Between Trains
received a reading at Access Theatre Gallery, NYC and a workshop
with Teatro Abya Yala as part of a Fulbright Fellowship in Costa
Rica. Other international work includes projects in Poland, Hungary,
Russia, France, Egypt, Tibet, Bali, and Brazil, as well as directing
the TCG/ITI 2000 International Conference at Towson University.
Juanita was Founding Director of Towson’s MFA in Theatre
training the artist-as-producer of original experimental projects,
where she has taught since 1994. She has been writer-in-residence
for the O’Neill National Theatre Institute, The Visual Playwriting
Conference at Gallaudet University, and Wilkes University’s
M.A. in Creative Writing. Since 1993, she has been listed in various
editions of Marquis’ Who's Who, including the World,
America, Entertainment, American Women, and American Education,
among
others.
She is a member of the Dramatists Guild and the Society of
Stage Directors and Choreographers, and is a recipient of the
Maryland
State Arts Council 2007 Individual Artist Award in Playwriting.
