Julia Listengarten, Ph.D.

• Professor
• Artistic Director, Theatre UCF
  Coordinator, Graduate Studies & Research
• julia.listengarten@ucf.edu
• Campus Location: PACT220
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A theatre artist and scholar, Julia Listengarten has worked professionally in New York City with various experimental theatre companies and is currently Professor of Theatre, Artistic Director, and Coordinator of Graduate Studies at the University of Central Florida. Her research interests include avant-garde theatre, contemporary scenographic practice, and performances of national identity. Her translation of Christmas at the Ivanovs' (with Karin Coonrod) premiered off-Broadway at Classic Stage Company and was included in Theater of the Avant-Garde, 1890-1950. Among her directing credits are Cloud 9, Marisol, Eurydice,The Burial at Thebes, Gem of the Ocean, Vinegar Tom, and The Baltimore Waltz, and she is the recipient of many meritorious achievement awards in directing from the Kennedy Center. 

Listengarten is the author of Russian Tragifarce: Its Cultural and Political Roots (Susquehanna UP, 2000), co-author of Modern American Playwriting: 2000-2009 (with Cindy Rosenthal, Methuen, forthcoming), and co-editor of Theater of the Avant-Garde, 1950-2000 (Yale UP, 2011) and Playing with Theory in Theatre Practice (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012). She has also contributed to many academic journals and edited book collections. Listengarten is currently the series editor for Modern American Drama: 1930-2009 (with Brenda Murphy; Methuen Drama) and is co-editing the UK-based peer-reviewed journal Stanislavski Studies.

Education

• Ph.D. in Theatre Studies from University of Michigan (1996)

Selected Publications

Articles/Essays

• Julia Listengarten (with Lyubov Zabolotskaya Weidner), "Vasiliev Methodology: Situational and Ludo Structures.” In Stanislavski Studies: Practice, Legacy and Contemporary Theater. 5.1: 13-20.   

Courses

Updated: Aug 21, 2017