Faculty
Lenora Champagne, Ph.D.
Professor of Drama Studies
School of Humanities
Office: 1003 HUM Building
Tel: (914) 251-6562
Fax: (914) 251-6559
Email: lenora.champagne@purchase.edu
Dr. Lenora Champagne is an associate professor of drama studies in the School of Humanities and a member of the interdisciplinary gender studies faculty. Her interests include contemporary theatre, drama, and performance; performance art; playwriting; and interdisciplinary performance. Additional information is available at www.lenorachampagne.com.
Education
- Ph.D., Performance Studies, New York University, 1980
- M.A., Drama, New York University, 1975
- B.A., English, Louisiana State University, 1972
Positions
- Resident Artist, HERE Arts Center, 2005-present
- Board Member, PAJ Publications, Fall 2004-present
- Member, New Dramatists (Writer's Executive Committee), 1993-2000
- Member, MacDowell Colony Fellows Executive Committee, 1997-2000
- Member, PEN American Center, 1998-present
- Resident Artist, Dance Theatre Workshop (Public Imaginations program), 1998-2000
- Artistic Associate, Classic Stage Company (CSC), 1990-1998
- Member, Music/Theatre Collaborative, 1994-1997
- Member, Director's Forum, The Women's Project, l988-90
- Usual Suspect, New York Theatre Workshop, 1989-present
- Artists Advisory Board, Danspace at St. Mark's Church, 1992-1996
- Contributing Editor, AMERICAN THEATRE, Fall 1996 (ongoing contributor)
- Member, Editorial Collective, Heresies: A Journal Of Feminist Art And Politics, 1983-l986
Areas of expertise:
Performance Art, Playwriting, Directing, 20th century French and American Theatre and Drama, Women's studies
Prizes and awards:
Chancellor’s Award for Creative and Scholarly Activities, Purchase College/SUNY, 2007
NYSCA Individual Arts Program commission for TRACES/fades, 2006
Yaddo Resident Fellow, 2006
HARP (HERE Artist Residency Program) Artist at HERE Art Center, 2005-2008
New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Performance Art, 2003
MacDowell Colony Fellow (residency), 2002
Richard Rodgers Award for Music Theatre from the American Academy of Arts and Letters (with composer Daniel Levy) 1999
Nominee, CalArts Alpert Award in the Arts 1999
Frederick Loewe Award for Music Theatre (with composer Daniel Levy) 1998
Weissberger Award (Finalist) for WANTS 1997
Jane Chambers Playwriting Award (honorable mention) for WANTS 1996
Native Voices/Visions Playwriting Prize (LSU) for ISABELLA DREAMS THE NEW WORLD 1993
Jane Chambers Playwriting Award (finalist) for WITH YOU THE REST OF.... 1992
Selected director, New York Theatre Workshop's New Directors Project 1987
Fellowships, Grants, Residencies:
MacDowell Colony Fellow 2000, 1998, 1994,1991,1989
New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Playwriting 1998
Sumner Locke Elliot Fellow, Australian National Playwrights Centre 1997
New York State Council on the Arts Individual Artists Program, commission for WANTS 1996
FIRST LIGHT commission, Dance Theatre Workshop with support from the Jerome Fdtn. 1996
Dancing in the Streets/Joyce Mertz-Gilmore OnSite/NYC development grant for MY NEBRASKA 1996
National Endowment for the Arts International Program Artist's Residency in Canada 1995
NYSCA Visual Artist grant for WAVES at Snug Harbor Cultural Center 1995
NYSCA Theatre Program, Performance Art grant for BEST THINGS 1993
Residency, Bemis Center for Contemporary Art (Omaha), the Art Farm (Marquette) 1993
Residency, New York Theatre Workshop at Hotchkiss 1993
National Endowment for the Arts Solo Theatre Artist Fellow 1990
New York State Council on the Arts Visual Arts Program Project grant 1990, 1986
Artists Space grant 1990, 1984
T.C.G./N.E.A. Director Fellow 1988-1989
Real Art Ways/N.E.A. Interarts Fusion/Fission grant 1989
Ford Foundation and Mellon Foundation support for "The Hysteria Project" 1987
Jerome Foundation/Franklin Furnace Fund for Performance Art grant 1986
Peg Santvoord Foundation grant 1986
Courses Taught:
Solo Performance, Playwriting, Adapting Literature for Performance, Production and Direction, Women and Drama, American Drama, European Drama of the Twentieth Century, Criticism, Performance of Dramatic Literature, Contemporary Theatre: Experiments and Performance Art, and 20th Century Italian Theatre
Research Interest:
Performance art; Writing and performance by women, mid-20th century to the present day; Arts collaboration across disciplines; Women's studies
Selected Publications:
Books
OUT FROM UNDER: TEXTS BY WOMEN PERFORMANCE ARTISTS Editor and Contributor (New York: Theatre Communications Group), 1990
FRENCH THEATRE EXPERIMENT SINCE 1968, (Ann Arbor: UMI Research Press), l984
Esays/Articles
“In the Public Eye,” Chain #11, 2004
"Departures: An Excursion into Discursiveness," PERFORMANCE RESEARCH, Spring 2001
"Notes on Admiring Fornes," in CONDUCTING A LIFE: REFLECTIONS ON THE THEATRE OF MARIA IRENE FORNES, edited by Caridad Svich and Maria Delgado, (Smith &
Kraus, 1999)
"Notes on Autobiography and Performance," WOMEN AND PERFORMANCE: A Journal of Feminist Theory, issue #19, Winter 1999
"When Angels Fall," (on Big Dance Theatre), AMERICAN THEATRE, May/June 2000
"Women in Flight," (on Ellen McLaughlin), AMERICAN THEATRE, November 1996
"Once Upon a Time in Performance Art," chapter in CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN THEATRE, edited by Bruce King, (London: McMillan; New York: St. Martin's), l991
Plays and Performance Texts
Mother’s Little Helper, Performance Research, “Generation” issue, vol. 9, no.3, Sept. 2004
A Tourist’s Guide to the Big Easy, Italics Mine, Spring 2004
Coaticook, in New Dramatists 2000: Plays By The Graduating Class (Smith and Kraus, 2001)
Dusk, PERFORMING ARTS JOURNAL, Winter 2001
Wants, excerpted in WOMEN AND PERFORMANCE JOURNAL, #19, 1999
Dr. Charcot's Hysteria Shows (script), in The Makings Of Dr. Charcot's Hysteria Shows, ed by Dianne Hunter (Mellen Press), 1998
Isabella Dreams The New World, excerpted in Best Stage Scenes and Best Men's Stage Monologues (Smith & Kraus, 1993)
Getting Over Tom, BENZENE #8, Fall l983, excerpted in Contemporary American Monologues For Women, ed London (TCG), 1998
Winter Heat, POETRY PROJECT NEWSLETTER #126,April-May l987
Manna, HERESIES #18, l985
The Way to the River, BETWEEN C & D, Winter l985
Women in Research (excerpt), HERESIES #17, l984