Nelson Barre

Curriculum Vitae

210 Villard Hall 829 A Street

University of Oregon Springfield, OR 97477
Eugene, OR 97403 nelson.barre@gmail.com

CURRENT EMPLOYMENT

Visiting Assistant Professor of Theatre Arts​, University of Oregon

EDUCATION

Ph.D in Drama and Theatre Studies​, National University of Ireland – Galway, Galway,
Ireland, ​Successfully defended 13 July, 2016

Dissertation: “Acting is Believing: Ritual, Memory and Performance in Contemporary

Irish Theatre”

M.A. in Theatre Arts​, Villanova University, Villanova, PA, 2010

B.A. in English and Theater​, Wabash College, Crawfordsville, IN, 2008

PUBLICATIONS

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

2014 “’It’s Crazy, That Was Us’: The Implicated and Compliant Audience in ​The Boys of
Foley Street​.” ​Comparative Drama​ 48.1-2 (Spring-Summer 2014): 103-116.

2013 “Old Stories, New Styles: Irish Theater in 2012.” ​New Hibernia Review​ 17.3 (Autumn
2013): 87-99.

Book Chapters/Essays in Collections

2018 “​Danti-Dan​: Gina Moxley’s Re-vision of Irish Womanhood and Agency.” ​Irish Women
Playwrights and Theatre-makers​. Forthcoming.

2016 “Perpetual Stagnation and Transformation: ​Ballyturk​ and ​The Walworth Farce​ as
Memorial (Re)Inscription.” ​Irish Studies and the Dynamics of Memory​. Eds. Marguerite
Corporaal, Christopher Cusack, and Ruud Van Den Beuken. Bern, Switzerland: Peter
Lang (December 2016): 209-30.
2015 “Fantasising About Truth: Re-membered Histories and Performance in ​How These
Desperate Men Talk​.” ​The Theatre of Enda Walsh​. Eds. Mary Caulfield and Ian Walsh.
Dublin: Caryfort Press (September 2015): 105-18.

2015 “Interwoven Locality and a Globalised Dublin in Mark O’Rowe’s ​Terminus​.” ​Sullied
Magnificence: The Theatre of Mark O’Rowe​. Eds. Emma Creedon and Sara Keating.
Dublin: Carysfort Press (July 2015): 105-19.

2015 “If These Walls Could Talk: Performing Histories in the Works of Suzan-Lori Parks.”
Old Stories, New Readings: The Transforming Power of American Drama​. Eds. Miriam
López-Rodríguez, Inmaculada Pineda Hernández, Alfonso Ceballos Muñoz. Newcastle
upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars (March 2015): 171-92.

Book Reviews

2014 “Review: ​The Plays of Samuel Beckett​.” ​Theatre Research International​ 39.3 (September
2014): 238-239.

2014 “Review: ​Masculinities and the Contemporary Irish Theatre​.” ​Theatre Journal​ 66.1
(March 2014): 178-179.

2013 “Review: ​Oberon Anthology of Contemporary Irish Plays – ‘This Is Just This. It Isn't
Real. It's Money​.’” ​Irish University Review​ 43.2 (Spring/Summer 2013): 258-262.

Performance Reviews

2013 “Review: ​Life Behind the Venue​.” ​Irish Theatre Magazine​ (December 2013). Web.

2013 “Review: ​The Boys of Foley Street​.” ​Theatre Journal​ 65.3 (October 2013): 406-08.

AWARDS, HONORS AND ASSISTANTSHIPS

James Fisher American Theatre and Drama Society Fellow, 2016-17

Hardiman Research Scholarship, National University of Ireland, Galway, 2012-2016

Graduate Assistantship, Villanova University, 2008-2010

Patricia A. Maskinas Scholarship, Villanova University, 2008-2009

TEACHING

University of Oregon (Sole Instructor)

Independent Study: Dramaturgy and Praxis, BA (Spring 2018)

 Trauma and Theatre, BA (Spring 2018)

Theatre Arts Junior (‘Futures’) Seminar, BA (Winter 2018)

Theatre, Cognition, and the Canon, Seminar, PhD (Winter 2018)

Memory and Re-membering, Graduate Seminar, MA/PhD (Fall 2017)

Independent Study: Playwriting and Adaptation (Fall 2017)

Contemporary Irish Theatre: Beckett and Afterwards, BA/MA (Spring 2017)

Theatre History II and III, BA (Winter and Spring 2017, Winter and Spring 2018)

Playwriting, BA/MA (Fall 2016, Fall 2017)

Dramaturgy, BA/MA (Fall 2016)

National University of Ireland, Galway (Sole Instructor)

Theatre History, BA (Fall 2013-Spring 2014, Fall 2014-Spring 2015)

Independent Theatre Project: “Enda Walsh Project”, BA/MA (Spring 2015)

Independent Theatre Project: ​Women in Arms​, BA (Spring 2015)

Introduction to English, BA (Fall 2013-Spring 2014)

Drama Tutorial, BA (Fall 2013-Spring 2014)

National University of Ireland, Galway (Co-Instructor)

Introduction to Stagecraft, BA (Spring 2016)

Theatre History, BA (Fall 2015-Spring 2016)

Irish Drama from Beckett to the Present, MA (Fall 2015)

Theatre Practice: Shakespeare, BA (Spring 2015)

Prepared to teach:

Acting Sequence Community-Responsive Theatre

Directing Multicultural Performance

Performance-as-Research Theatre and Performance Theory

INVITED TALKS/WORKSHOPS

2017 Sean O’Casey’s ​The Silver Tassie​ and the Theatre of War; Theatre Arts Department,
University of Oregon

2015 Theatre, Space and Place: Site-specific and Site-responsive Performance; Drama and
Theatre Department, NUI Galway

2014 Intermediate Performance: Performance, Staging, and Cultural Politics; Drama and
Theatre Department, NUI Galway

2014 Performance Lab: Guillermo Gomez-Peña techniques/exercises workshop; Drama and

Theatre Department, NUI Galway

CONFERENCE ACTIVITY

Panels Organized and Chaired

2017 Mixed Race as Extra/Ordinary Body, American Society for Theatre Research

2014 Dreamed-Up Histories: Ruptured Realities and Invented Performance, Association for
Theatre in Higher Education

2012 Adrienne Kennedy and Amiri Baraka In Performance, International Conference on

American Theater and Drama

Papers

2018 Performing Native American Absence in Larissa FastHorse’s ​The Thanksgiving Play​,
American Literature Association Conference

2017 “Let’s now rehearse”: Enda Walsh’s ​The Last Hotel​ and Finding Identity in Death,
American Conference for Irish Studies West

2017 “born somewhere far from where I live”: ​Bulrusher​ as Performance of Mixed Race and
Space, American Society for Theatre Research

2016 Father Comes Home from the Wars​ and the Labor of Socio-Political Re-membering’s
Past and Present, Association for Theatre in Higher Education

2015 Perpetual Stagnation and Transformation: ​Ballyturk​ and ​The Walworth Farce​ as
Memorial (Re)Inscription, Irish Studies and Dynamics of Memory Conference

2015 “Are we Irish?”: Enda Walsh’s Revisionist Memory and Cultural Speculation, American
Conference for Irish Studies
2014 Human Palimpsests and Layered Storytelling: Ritual, Memory, and Oral Stratification in
Enda Walsh’s ​The Small Things​, International Federation for Theatre Research

2014 Remembering What Never Happened: Child’s Play, Dreams, and Memories in Enda
Walsh’s ​Disco Pigs​, Association for Theatre in Higher Education

2014 “All that’s left is ta start over”: (Dis)Embodying Memories in Enda Walsh’s ​bedbound​,
International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures

2013 Revising History: Performance and Ritual in ​The Walworth Farce​, American Society for
Theatre Research

2013 Mind-Made Worlds in ​The New Electric Ballroom​, Irish Society for Theatre Research

2013 Drinking with the Cast: The Price We Pay for Inclusion in ​Once​, Association for Theatre
in Higher Education

2013 Memory in the Menagerie of Human Possibility: ​Chekhov Lizardbrain​ at Play,

Association for Theatre in Higher Education

2013 Performed Globalized Urbanity in ​The Year of Magical Wanking​, International

Association for the Study of Irish Literatures

2013 The Sharp Edge of a Dull Space: Ritual and Memory in Enda Walsh’s ​Misterman​,
Canadian Association for Irish Studies

2013 “It’s Crazy, That Was Us”: ​The Boys of Foley Street​ and Performed Cultural Memory,
New Voices Conference

2013 “I Have Never Felt at Home Here”: ​Woman and Scarecrow​ as Feminist Re-membering,
European Federation of Associations and Centres for Irish Studies

2013 Fantasizing About Truth: Constructed Memory as Reality in ​How These Desperate Men
Talk​, American Conference for Irish Studies

2013 Racist Entrance Music: American Viewership and Stereotypes in ​The Elaborate Entrance
of Chad Deity​, Hellenic Association for American Studies

*Additional conference attendance prior to 2013 available upon request

Research Seminars

2014 Mellon School of Theater and Performance Research, Harvard University

(two week invited symposium for theatre PhDs and early career professionals)
THEATRICAL EXPERIENCE

Directing

The Father Winter 2018 University of Oregon

Men on Boats​ (Staged Reading) Summer 2017 Summer SOUP
The (curious case of the) Watson Intelli… Summer 2017 Summer SOUP
Orpheus Road Spring 2016 Galway Theatre Festival
…touched… Spring 2016 #wakingthefeministswest
How These Desperate Men Talk Spring 2015 NUIG Drama/Theatre Dept
My Friend Duplicity Spring 2015 NUIG Drama/Theatre Dept
The Small Things Spring 2015 NUIG Drama/Theatre Dept
The Break-In​ (Staged Reading) Fall 2013 Galway Theatre Festival
Big Love​* Summer 2013 NUIG Drama Society
All in the Timing Summer 2013 Feile Na Bealtaine Festival
Lifelines Winter 2013 Jerome Hynes Festival
Chatroom Winter 2013 NUIG Drama Society
Play​ * Summer 2011 Vasey Theatre
Waiting for Godot​ * Summer 2011 Vasey Theatre
The Maids Spring 2010 Villanova Theatre Dept
The Chairs​ * Winter 2010 Villanova Theatre Dept
Amadeus​ * Fall 2009 Villanova Theatre Dept
Wrong For Each Other​ * Fall 2009 Villanova Theatre Dept
* ​indicates extended scene work, not a full production

Dramaturgy

Left Hand of Darkness Fall 2017 University of Oregon

Mr. Burns Spring 2017 University of Oregon
The House * Spring 2016 Developmental
The Love of Small Appliances * Spring 2016 Developmental
Dialogue of Dead Women * Spring 2016 Developmental
How To Achieve That Natural Look * Spring 2016 Developmental
A Simple Request * Spring 2016 Developmental
For a Little Lonely While * Spring 2016 Developmental
The America Play Spring 2013 Plays and Players
Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson Winter 2013 Plays and Players
The New Electric Ballroom Fall 2012 NUI Galway
Travesties Spring 2012 Plays and Players
Sittin’ In​ * Spring-Summer 2012 Developmental
Never Swim Alone Summer 2012 Villanova Theatre Dept
The Walworth Farce Spring 2012 Inis Nua Theatre
Spring Awakening Spring 2012 Media Theater
Living in Skin​ * Winter 2012 Developmental
Joe Turner’s Come and Gone Winter 2012 Plays and Players
*indicates World Premiere

*Acting, playwriting, theatrical design, and technical activity available upon request

ACADEMIC/DEPARTMENTAL SERVICE

2017-present Selection Committee Member and Dramaturgical Advisor - New Voices (Student
Playwriting Development Program), University of Oregon Theatre Arts Dept.

2017-present Co-director – Summer SOUP (Summer Theatre Production Program), University

of Oregon Theatre Arts Dept.

2017-present Co-facilitator – On Sawm Bluh (Experimental Reading/Workshop Series),

University of Oregon Theatre Arts Department

2016-present Ph.D. Committee Member – Rachel Foran Dissertation

2012-present Peer Reviewer – ​Praxis: The Journal for Theatre, Performance Studies, and
Criticism

2014-2016 Ph.D Student Representative – Drama and Theatre Department Faculty/Student

Committee

2014-2016 Website Facilitator – Irish Society for Theatre Research

2014 Conference Organizer – New Voices Conference

RELATED EMPLOYMENT

2015-2016 Co-Artistic Director and Project Coordinator – #wakingthefeministswest Play

Season, Galway, Ireland

2009-2012 Literary Manager and Resident Dramaturg – Plays and Players Theater,
Philadelphia, PA

2010-2012 Assistant Technical Director – Villanova University Theatre Department

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS AND MEMBERSHIPS

American Conference for Irish Studies (2011-present)

American Society for Theatre Research (2013-present)

 American Theatre and Drama Society (2012-present)

Association for Theatre in Higher Education (2012-present)

Irish Society for Theatre Research (2011-present)

International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures (2013-present)

International Federation for Theatre Research (2014-present)

Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas (2009-present)

SKILLS AND TRAINING

Directing Master Class – taught by Garry Hynes (2015)

Corporeal Mime Workshop – taught by Sandra O’Malley (2013)

QLab and Audacity (Sound Editing Software)

Vectorworks (Drafting/Architecture Software)

LANGUAGES

French (advanced reading, writing, speaking)

German (reading proficiency)

Spanish (beginner reading, writing, speaking)

REFERENCES

Professor Patrick Lonergan – PhD Supervisor

Professor and Head of Department of Drama, Theatre and Performance
O’Donoghue Centre
Drama & Theatre Studies
National University of Ireland, Galway
Galway, Ireland
patrick.lonergan@nuigalway.ie
(+353) 91 492631

Doctor John Schmor – Professional Colleague

Associate Professor of Theatre Arts
105 Villard Hall
University of Oregon
Eugene, OR 97403
jbschmor@uoregon.edu
(541) 346-4171

Doctor Michael Najjar – Professional Colleague

Associate Professor of Theatre Arts
209 Villard Hall
University of Oregon
Eugene, OR 97403
mnajjar@uoregon.edu
(541) 346-2237

*Additional references available upon request