Juanita Rockwell is a director and writer specializing in the development of new work, presenting at such venues as The Ontological, Mabou Mines/Suite, Culture Project, Blue Heron (NYC); Source Theatre, Washington Project for the Arts, Everyman, Theatre Project, Single Carrot, Iron Crow (DC/Balto); Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford Arts Center (Hartford); City Theatre (Pittsburgh); Teatro Municip‹o (S‹o Paolo); Teatro Abya Yala (San José, CR); RS9 (Budapest); and on National Public Radio.
In addition to her freelance directing, she was Artistic Director of Hartford's Company One Theater for six years, directing early premieres by Paula Vogel, Suzan-Lori Parks, Rachel Sheinkin, Erik Ehn and Donna diNovelli, as well as her own work.
Her produced writing includes The World is Round and Waterwalk (operas); Cave in the Sky (puppets/multimedia); Lunar Pantoum (dance-theatre); Upstream (radio); Across the Void and Packing/Pecking (short plays); and What's a Little Death (play with songs).
Upcoming productions of her plays include Between Trains (Gas & Electric Arts, Phila, 9/2010), Immortal: The Gilgamesh Variations (a multi-playwright adaptation commissioned by The Forge, NYC, 1/2011) and Calutron Girls (in development at Maryland Ensemble Theatre, Frederick, 2010-2012). Upcoming directing projects include the premiere of Jennifer L. Nelson's 24, 7, 365 at Theatre of the First Amendment (Fairfax, VA).
Juanita was Founding Director of Towson University's MFA in Theatre Program in 1994 and directed the program for over a dozen years. She continues to teach in both the grad and undergrad programs at Towson, as well as in Wilkes University's Creative Writing MA/MFA. She has also directed and/or taught at UMBC, University of Hartford, Trinity College, and the University of Connecticut at Storrs, where she earned her MFA.
She is a Fulbright Scholar, and was writer-in-residence at the Ko Festival of Performance, the O'Neill National Theatre Institute, the Pennsylvania Writer's Conference and the Visual Playwriting Conference at Gallaudet University.
Juanita is a member of the Society of Directors and Choreographers and the Dramatists Guild, and lives in Baltimore with her husband and chief collaborator: Music, Sound and Video Artist Chas Marsh.
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