Education
PhD University of Toronto, Department of English, 2007. "Re-tuning Shakespeare: meter and timing in The Comedy of Errors and A Midsummer Night’s Dream." Supervisor: Dr. Ian Lancashire.
MA University of Toronto, Graduate Centre for the Study of Drama, 1996.
BA Hons. University of King’s College (Dalhousie University), English Literature, Theatre Minor, 1994.
Academic Appointments
Assistant Professor, Drama (tenure-track), Department of Drama and Speech Communication, 2008 to present.
Assistant Professor, Drama (limited term), Department of Drama and Speech Communication, 2007-8.
Assistant Professor, Shakespeare and Renaissance Studies (limited term), University of Windsor, Department of English, 2007.
Awards, Grants, and Fellowships
Principal Investigator. “Simulated Environment for Theatre.” SSHRC Standard Research Grant, 2011-13. Co-investigators: Teresa Dobson (UBC), Sandra Gabriele (York), Stan Ruecker (Illinois Institute of Design), Stéfan Sinclair (McGill). $150,650.
Fellow, Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, University of Toronto, September 2009-August 2012.
Principal Investigator. "Chester 2010: Records and Dissemination." UW SSHRC Seed Grant, 2010-11. $5484.
Co-applicant. "Chester 2010." SSHRC Conference Grant, 2010. $13,000. Principal Investigator: David Klausner (Toronto); Co-applicant: Helen Ostovich (McMaster).
Principal Investigator. "Preparing for Chester 2010". University of Waterloo Robert Harding Humanities and Social Sciences Endowment Fund Grant, 2009-10. $3000.
Co-applicant. "Investigating the Effectiveness of Drama as a Learning Methodology and Means of Engaging Students in the School of Pharmacy". University of Waterloo Learning Initiatives Fund Grant, 2009-11. $14,194. Principal Investigators Elaine Lillie and Tejal Patel (Pharmacy, Waterloo).
Principal Investigator. "Watching the Script". SSHRC ITST (Image, Text, Sound and Technology), 2008-10. $49,704. Co-applicants: Sandra Gabriele (York), Stan Ruecker (Alberta) Stéfan Sinclair (McMaster).
Principal Investigator. "Foundational Theatre Studies as Praxis". University of Waterloo Learning Initiatives Fund Grant, 2008-11. $19, 618. Co-applicants: Nancy Collins (Dana Porter Library), Scott Spidell (Drama and Speech Communication), Glenn Stillar (Canadian Centre for Art and
Technology, Digital Arts Communication).
Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award, University of Toronto, Department of English, 2006.
Renaissance Society of America Non-doctoral Research Grant, 2005. $2000.
George C. Metcalf Fellowship, Victoria College, University of Toronto, 2004-05. $2000.
Doctoral Fellowship, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, 2002-04. $20,000 per annum.
Ontario Graduate Scholarship, 2000-02, $15,000 per annum.
Theatre Ontario Professional Training Grant, 1998-2000, $5700.
Co-applicant. Canada Council for the Arts Explorations Grant, 1995-96. $10,000. With the Chestnut Tree Theatre, Halifax.
Travel grants and other graduate and undergraduate scholarships and awards available upon request.
Articles
" 'What Makes Thou Upon a Stage?': Child Actors, Royalist Publicity, and the Space of the Nation in the Queen's Men's True Tragedy of Richard the Third." Early Theatre 15.2 (2012): 192-205. Print and Web.
“Bring Your Own Theatre: Modeling Meaning-Making in Introductory Theatre Studies.” Theatre Topics 22.1 (March 2012): 73-87. Print and Web.
“Thomas Campion’s Iambic Pentameter: Further Evidence for Phonological Weight in Elizabethan English Quantitative and Non-quantitative Meters.” Language and Literature. Forthcoming.
“The Red Lion and the White Horse, Norwich: Inns Used by Patronized Performers in Norwich, 1583-1624.” Early Theatre 10.1 (2007). 109-44. Print and Web.
“Puttenham Rehabilitated: the Significance of ‘Tune’ in The Arte of English Poesie.” Computing in the Humanities Working Papers/Text Technology 12.1 (September 2003) <http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/epc/chwp/titles.html>. Web.
Tool Development
Associate Co-editor, Productions. Queen’s Men Editions. Internet Shakespeare Editions, August 2010. Web < http://qme.internetshakespeare.uvic.ca/>.
Roberts-Smith, Jennifer (Principal Investigator), Teresa Dobson, Sandra Gabriele, Stan Ruecker, Stéfan Sinclair, et al. Simulated Environment for Theatre. Version 1. July 2010. Software prototype. Web <http://humviz.org/set/>.
Digital Editions
Roberts-Smith, Jennifer and Dmitry Senyshyn. The True Tragedie of Richard the Third (1594): Old-spelling. Queen’s Men Editions. Gen. ed. Helen Ostovich.
Lancashire, Ian, and Jennifer Roberts-Smith (assistant editor). Hall, John, "Interpretive Table," Lanfranke's Chirurgerie (1565); Holland, Philemon,“A briefe catalogue of the words of art…,” Pliny The History of the World (1601); Lily, William, A Shorte Introduction of Grammar (1567); Stepney, William, "El Vocabulario," The Spanish Schoole-master (1591); Strachey, William, "A Dictionarie of the Indian Language," Travaile into Virginia (1612); [Welsh-English vocabulary], BL 15048 (ca. 1575-1600). Lexicons of Early Modern English. Gen. ed. Ian Lancashire. Toronto: University of Toronto Library and University of Toronto Press, 2006. Web. See http://leme.library.utoronto.ca/.
Funded Research Disseminated as Performance
Director. The Chester Cycle, Play 10: The Three Kings, Herod, The Slaughter of the Innocents. Centre for Performance Studies in Early Theatre, University of Toronto. 23 May, 2010.
Director. The True Tragedy of Richard the Third. Centre for Performance Studies in Early Theatre/Graduate Centre for Study of Drama. November 2007.
Director. The Conversion of the Harlot Thais, by Hrotswitha of Gandersheim, trans. Robert Plowman. Graduate Centre for Study of Drama, University of Toronto, 2001.
Conference Proceedings
Roberts-Smith, Jennifer (lead author), Sandra Gabriele, Stan Ruecker, and Stéfan Sinclair with Matt Bouchard, Shawn DeSouza-Coelho, Diane Jakacki, Annemarie Akong, David Lam, and Omar Rodriguez. "The Text and the Line of Action: Re-conceiving Watching the Script." New Knowledge Environments: Research Foundations for Understanding Books and Reading in the Digital Age 1 (2009). Papers drawn from the INKE 2009: Birds of a Feather conference. 23-24 October 2009. Web. <http://journals.uvic.ca/index.php/INKE>.
Reviews
Rev. of Paul Whitfield White. Drama and Religion in English Provincial Society, 1475-1660. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008. Early Theatre 13.1 (2010): 183-86.
“Shakespeare and the Queen’s Men: The Research-Performance Experiments.” Research Opportunities in Medieval and Renaissance Drama 46 (2007).
Articles, Editions, and Collections in Progress
The True Tragedy of Richard the Third (1594): Modern-Spelling. For submission to Queen's Men Editions. Gen. Ed. Helen Ostovich.
Conference Presentations, Seminars, and Workshops
Patel, Tejal, Elaine Lillie, Jennifer Roberts-Smith (contributing author), Nancy Waite. "Investigating the Effectiveness of Drama as an Engagement Learning Methodology in an Integrated Therapeutics Course." Poster. American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy. Kissimmee, Florida, July 15-16, 2012.
Patel, Tejal, Elaine Lillie, Jennifer Roberts-Smith (contributing author), Nancy Waite. “Investigating the Effectiveness of Drama as a Learning Methodology and Means of Engaging Students Enrolled in PHARM 320 at the University of Waterloo School of Pharmacy.” Association of Faculties of Pharmacy of Canada, Ottawa, June 5-12, 2012.
DeSouza-Coelho, Shawn, Jennifer Roberts-Smith (co-author), and Stéfan Sinclair “Manipulating time and space in virtual worlds: design directions for the Simulated Environment for Theatre.” Society for Digital Humanities/Société pur l'étude des médias interactifs, Congress, May 26-28, 2012.
“Virtual Collaboration Across Time and Space: Substance and Citation”. Panel paper: The Queen’s Men Online: Visualizing Collaboration. Come Together: Digital Collaboration in the Academy and Beyond. Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, 11-13 May, 2012.
Patel, Tejal, Elaine Lillie, Jennifer Roberts-Smith (contributing author), Nancy Waite. “Investigating the Effectiveness of Drama as a Learning Methodology and Means of Engaging Students Enrolled in PHARM 320 at the University of Waterloo School of Pharmacy.” Sharing Session. Opportunities and New Directions Conference, University of Waterloo, 26 April 2012.
Roberts-Smith, Jennifer (lead author), Stan Ruecker, and Stéfan Sinclair. “ ‘Performing the Archive’: Visualizing Performance Reconstruction in the Simulated Environment for Theatre (SET).” Cultural Histories: Emergent Theories, Methods, and the Digital Turn. Transcanada Institute and Canadian Writing Research Collaboratory. University of Guelph, 1-3 March, 2012.
Seminar Leader. “Annotating Shakespeare: Old Words, New Tools.” Shakespeare Association of America. Forthcoming: Boston, April 2012.
“Original performance practices and innovation” and “Memory, autobiography, and testimony” working groups. History, Memory, Performance. University of Ottawa, 19-21 April 2012.
“Child Characters, Child Actors, and the Ontology of Performance in the Long English Medieval Theatre.” Imitation, Emulation, and Forgery: Pretending and Becoming in the Medieval World. Thirty-Third Medieval Colloquium of the Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Toronto. 2-3 March, 2012.
“ ‘Original Practices’: Performance as a Tool for Theatre History?” The Shakespearean Working Group of the American Society for Theatre Research, Boston, 17-20 November 2011.
Roberts-Smith, Jennifer, (lead author), Teresa Dobson, Sandra Gabriele, Omar Rodriguez, Stan Ruecker, Sinclair, Stéfan, with Shawn DeSouza-Coelho, Alexandra Kovacs. “Loose Media: The Play between Text and Stage in the Simulated Environment for Theatre.” Canadian Writers Research Collaboratory - Canadian Women Writers Conference: Space/PlacePlay | Espace/Lieu/Jeu. Ryerson University, Toronto, Ontario, 27-29 October 2011.
Grotkowski, Ali and Stan Ruecker (lead authors), Teresa Dobson, Sandra Gabriele, Jennifer Roberts-Smith (contributing author), Stéfan Sinclair. “From Pillars of Light to Four-Legged Friends and Chess Pieces with Noses: Avatar Design for the Simulated Environment for Theatre.” Society for Digital Humanities/Société pour l'Étude des Médias Interactifs 2011 Conference, Congress, May 2011.
“Bring Your Own Theatre: Autoethnography as Explicit Instruction in Foundational Theatre Studies.” Poster. Opportunities and New Directions Conference. University of Waterloo, April 27-28, 2011.
“Transubstantial Affect: Baby Puppets as Prosthetics in the Chester Cycle, 1572.” Seminar paper: Prosthetics and Performance. Shakespeare Association of America. Seattle, Washington, April, 2011.
"'What Makes Thou Upon a Stage?': 'Truthful' Space in the Queen's Men's True Tragedy of Richard the Third." Panel paper: Theatre and the Reformation of Space in Early Modern Europe 4: Virtual and Actual Spaces. Making Publics/Renaissance Society of America. Montreal, March, 2011.
Panelist. "Theatre and the Reformation of Space in Early Modern Europe V: Roundtable". Making Publics/Renaissance Society of America. Montreal, March, 2011.
Roberts-Smith, Jennifer (lead author), Teresa Dobson, Sandra Gabriele, Stan Ruecker, and Stéfan Sinclair, with Annemarie Akong, Matt Bouchard, Shawn DeSouza-Coelho, Diane Jakacki, David Lam, Leslie Northam, and Omar Rodriguez. "The Ontology of Stage Directions." Paper: Pacific Northwestern Renaissance Society Conference. Victoria, B.C., October 2010.
Roberts-Smith, Jennifer (lead author), Teresa Dobson, Sandra Gabriele, Stan Ruecker, Stéfan Sinclair, with Annemarie Akong, Matt Bouchard, Shawn DeSouza-Coelho, David Lam, Omar Rodriguez, and Karen Taylor. "Literary Theory and Theatre Practice: Watching the Script and the Simulated Environment for Theatre." Poster: Digital Humanities 2010. King's College London, UK, 7-11 July 2010.
Gabriele, Sandra (lead author), Teresa Dobson, Jennifer Roberts-Smith, Stan Ruecker, Stéfan Sinclair, with Marcelo Hong, Omar Rodriguez. "From Surface to Space: Adding a Dimension to a Theatrical Visualization Interface." Paper: Society for Digital Humanities/Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences. Montreal, May 2010.
Panelist. "Chester 2010: Performance and Iconography." Roundtable: Drama and Religion 1555-75: the Chester Cycle in Context. Toronto, May 2010.
"Speaking in Tongues: Metrical Dramaturgy in Sir Clyomon and Clamydes." Panel paper: Imagining the Queen's Men. Renaissance Society of America, April 2010.
Guest Lecturer. "Staging the Chester Cycle in 2010: the Problematics of Protestants, Protagonists, and Playing-places." Friday workshop series. Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, University of Toronto, March 2010.
“'There's not a boy left alive: dead boys and the politics of actor doubling in Shakespeare's Henry V and the Queen's Men's True Tragedy of Richard the Third.” Working group paper: Shakespearean Performance. American Society of Theatre Research, November 2009.
Symposium participant (funded). "Theatre and the Reformation of Space." Making Publics Project/ Folger Institute Fall Symposium. Washington D.C. October 2009.
Roberts-Smith, Jennifer (lead author), Sandra Gabriele, Stan Ruecker, Stéfan Sinclair, with Matt Bouchard, Shawn DeSouza-Coelho, Diane Jakacki, Annemarie Akong, David Lam, and Omar Rodriguez. "The Text and the Line of Action: Re-conceiving Watching the Script." Paper: INKE 2009: Birds of a Feather Conference, Victoria, B.C., October 2009.
Seminar Co-leader (with Helen Ostovich). “The Queen’s Men’s Theatrical Influence: Repertory, Dramaturgy, Performance”. Shakespeare Association of America, Washington, 2009.
Workshop Leader. “The Queen’s Men’s Theatrical Influence: Repertory, Dramaturgy, Performance”. Shakespeare Association of America, Washington, 2009.
“Rhythmic (and non-rhythmic) Richards: Shakespeare vs. the Queen’s Men.” Seminar paper: Shakespeare and the Creation of Language: Poetry in the World of Play. Shakespeare Association of America, Dallas, March 2008.
Panelist. Round Table Discussion. Shakespeare and the Queen’s Men. Toronto. October 2006.
Roberts-Smith, Jennifer (co-author), Peter Cockett, Alexandra F. Johnston, and Helen Ostovich. “Shakespeare and the Queen’s Men.” Panel presentation: Congress presentations on research-performance. Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Toronto, May 2006.
“Exceptional – and invisible – places and people: early English drama and the problem of the solitary reference.” Panel paper: A Tyranny of Documents: the Theatre Historian as Film Noir Detective. Association for Canadian Theatre Research, Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Toronto, May 2006.
“Riches to Rags: The White Horse, St. Martin-at-Palace, Norwich, 1601-1624.” Seminar paper: Performance: Primary Sources, 1500-1642. Shakespeare Association of America, Philadelphia, April 2006.
“Meter, timing, and dramaturgy in The Comedy of Errors and A Midsummer Night's Dream.” Seminar paper: Performing Textual Shakespeares. The American Society for Theatre Research and The Theatre Library Association, Toronto, November 2005.
“Norwich: A Theatrical Topography.” Paper: Medieval and Renaissance Dramatic Society, International Medieval Congress, Leeds, July 2005.
“In tune with the times?: English Renaissance Metrics and the Lexicons of Early Modern English.” Paper: Association for Computers and the Humanities-Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing, Victoria, British Columbia, June 2005.
Guest Lecturer. “Performance venues in Norwich, 1540-1642.” Friday workshop series. Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, University of Toronto, May 2005.
“Metrical Pacing in The Comedy of Errors?” Seminar paper: The Comedy of Errors: New Directions. Shakespeare Association of America, Bermuda, March 2005.
“Musical-metrical vocabulary in Early Modern English: a preliminary lexicon.” Panel paper: Renaissance Digital Humanities. Renaissance Society of America, Toronto, 2003.
“Re-tuning English Renaissance Poetry: an application of the Lexicons of Early Modern English.” Paper: Consortium for Computers in the Humanities/Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English, Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities, Toronto, May 2002.
“Generic miracles: Hrotswitha’s theatrical poetics.” Paper: Association for Canadian Theatre Research, Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities, Toronto, May 2002.
Selected Performance
(Canadian Actors’ Equity Association contracts unless otherwise indicated)
Actor: John’s wife, The Prince and Me, dir. Martha Coolidge, PF Films, Inc., 2003.
Petra. An Enemy of the People by Henrik Ibsen. Dir. Marti Maraden, National Arts Centre English Theatre (Ottawa) and Citadel Theatre (Edmonton), 2001.
Martha. The Secret Garden (remount). Dir. Marti Maraden. National Arts Centre English Theatre (Ottawa), 2000-01.
Actor: Nancy. Stephen and Mr. Wilde. By Jim Bartley. Dir. Barbara Worthy. CBC/Stratford Festival Series, CBC Radio 1, Radio 2, 2000.
Sissy Jupe. Hard Times. Adapt. Michael O’Brien. Dir. Marti Maraden. National Arts Centre English Theatre (Ottawa), 1999-2000.
Miss Feletti. Accidental Death of an Anarchist by Dario Fo. Dir. Micheline Chevrier. Festival Canada, National Arts Centre (Ottawa), 1998.
Martha. The Secret Garden. Dir. Marti Maraden. National Arts Centre English Theatre (Ottawa), 1998-9.
Viola. Twelfth Night by W. Shakespeare, dir. Martin Hunter, Cakes and ale Co-op (Toronto), 1996.
Nancy. Stephen and Mr. Wilde by Jim Bartley. Dir. Martin Hunter. Lovers and Madmen at Bathurst Street Theatre (Toronto), 1995.
Ensemble. The Misfit by Neil Norman and Ned Vukovic. Dir. Ned Vukovic. Lovers and Madmen at the Bathurst Street Theatre (Toronto), 1995.
Anya. The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov. Dir. Michael Langham and Helen Burns. Atlantic Theatre Festival (Wolfville, Nova Scotia), 1995.
Miranda. The Tempest by William Shakespeare. Dir. Michael Langham and Helen Burns. Atlantic Theatre Festival (Wolfville, Nova Scotia), 1995.
Ensemble. The Attic by and dir. Natalie Meisner. Chestnut Tree Theatre (Halifax), 1995. Non-Equity.
Ensemble: Popova/Smirnov/Looka, The Bear by A. Chekhov. Dir. Robert Plowman. Chestnut Tree Theatre (Halifax), 1995. Non-Equity.
Ensemble: The Chestnut Tree Cabaret, Chestnut Tree Theatre (Halifax), 1995. Non-Equity.
Directing and Dramaturgy
Contract status as indicated.
Text Consultant. A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare, dir. Richard Rose. Canadian Stage Company, 2012. Contract.
Director/Dramaturge. The Women of Gonzales by Trenna Keating. Submitted to Summerworks Festival, 2012. Contract.
Dramaturge, The Muse Factory by Robert Plowman. In development, 2011 - present.
Director, Trafalgar 24 (10 new plays in a day - play development/fundraiser), Driftwood Theatre, Whitby, Ontario. 2008, 2009. Contract.
Director, Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare. Department of Drama, University of Waterloo, 2008. Faculty position.
Associate Director, Yerma by Federico García Lorca, George Brown College, Toronto, 2005. Dir. Richard Rose. Contract.
Director, Catch and The Moonbath Girl by Graeme Gillis, Summerworks Festival (Toronto), 2004. Contract.
Director. The Europeans. By Howard Barker. Department of Theatre, Dalhousie University. Halifax, Nova Scotia, 2004. Contract.
Assistant Director, Romeo and Juliet: Music, Opera, Drama, Dance. Teacher’s Festival Liaison Council MODD Project (Toronto), 2002. Adapt. & dir. Richard Rose. Contract. Director, Blip by Craig Poile, On the Verge... Festival, National Arts Centre/Great Canadian Theatre Company (Ottawa), 2000. Contract.
Director-dramaturge, Blip by Craig Poile. Playwright’s Unit/On the Verge.... Festival, Great Canadian Theatre Company/National Arts Centre (Ottawa), 2000. Contract.
Director, Catastrophe (and other endings): short plays by Samuel Beckett. The End Co-op at Great Canadian Theatre Company (Ottawa), 2000. Self-produced.
Associate Director, The Winter’s Tale, by William Shakespeare. Rising Tide Theatre (Trinity, Newfoundland), 2000. Dir. Richard Rose. Funded apprenticeship.
Script Reader – submissions, Play Development Project, Necessary Angel Theatre (Toronto), 1999. Contract.
Assistant Director, Hysterica Passio (workshop), NecessaryAngel Theatre (Toronto), 1999. Dir. Richard Rose. Funded apprenticeship.
Assistant Director, Blue Monday by George Gershwin, Opera Theatre of Northern Virginia (Arlington, VA), 1998. Dir. Richard Rose. Funded apprenticeship.
Assistant Director, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Stratford Festival of Canada, 1998. Dir Richard Rose. Funded apprenticeship.
Script Reader – submissions, Department of Literary Services, Stratford Festival of Canada, 1999. Contract.
Assistant Director, Inexpressible Island, Necessary Angel Theatre (Toronto), 1998. Dir. Richard Rose. Funded apprenticeship.
Assistant Director, Glace Bay Miners’ Museum, Great Canadian Theatre Company (Ottawa), 1998. Dir. Richard Rose. Funded apprenticeship.
Director, Death and the Fool by Dario Fo, Chestnut Tree Cabaret, Chestnut Tree Theatre (Halifax, Nova Scotia), 1994. Self-produced.
Co-Director, Electricity Comes from Other Planets, Chestnut Tree Theatre, Atlantic Fringe Festival (Halifax, Nova Scotia), 1994. Self-produced.
Graduate Teaching
Note: There is no graduate program in my department.
PhD Committee Work
Candidate: Karen Ward (English). In progress.
Candidate: Diane Jakacki (English). "'Covetous to parley with so sweet a frontis-peece': Modes of Illustration in Early Modern English Play-Texts." Supervisor: Dr. Kathy Acheson. Department of English, University of Waterloo. Defended September 2010.
Workshops
“Playing with Shakespeare and his Source: Richard the Third”. Graduate Centre for Study of Drama, University of Toronto, 2007. Eleven MA-level participants.
Research Assistants
Introductory Theatre Studies as Praxis: Diane Jakacki (Waterloo), Alysse Rich (Toronto).
Simulated Environment for Theatre: Diane Jakacki (Waterloo), Leslie Northam (Waterloo), Alexandra Kovacs (Toronto).
Chester 2010: Karen Ward (Waterloo).
The True Tragedy of Richard the Third, Graduate Centre for Study of Drama, University of Toronto: Dimitry Senyshyn, Jennifer Rae-McDermott, and eleven MA-level dramaturgy and performance assistants.
Student Co-authors
Simulated Environment for Theatre: Diane Jakacki (Waterloo), Alysse Rich (Toronto).
The True Tragedy of Richard the Third: Dimitry Senyshyn (Toronto).
Teaching Assistants
Introduction to Theatre 1: Diane Jakacki (Waterloo) 2008, 2009; Alysse Rich (Toronto) 2010; Cassandra Silver (Toronto) 2011. Introduction to Theatre 2: Janelle Rainville (Waterloo). Theatre History 1: Diane Jakacki 2009, Alexandra Kovacs 2011.
Undergraduate Teaching
Undergraduate Thesis Supervisions
Candidate: Ciaran Myers. Playwriting: Consent. Department of Drama, University of Waterloo. 2009-10.
Candidate: Montgomery Martin. "Directing Lee MacDougall's High Life." Department of Drama, University of Waterloo. 2008-09.
Courses
University of Waterloo: Introduction to Theatre 1, Introduction to Theatre 2, Theatre History 1, Theatre History 2, Modern Drama, Drama to 1642, The Chester Cycle in Performance, Elizabethan Performance Practice, Theatre Criticism, Introduction to Performance, Intermediate Acting, Advanced Acting, Theatre Workshop, Performance: Julius Caesar; Theatre Workshop, Dramaturgy: Julius Caesar.
University of Windsor: Early British Literature to 1700, The Queen's Men and Their Plays, Shakespeare 1 to 1599.
University of Toronto: Effective Writing
University of Ottawa: Theatre in English Canada
Research Assistants
Introductory Theatre Studies as Praxis: Adam Proulx (Waterloo).
Simulated Environment for Theatre: Shawn DeSouza-Coelho (Waterloo).
Chester 2010: Dante Labriola (Waterloo), Pouya Emami (Waterloo), Ivan Karpenko (Waterloo).
Student Co-authors
Simulated Environment for Theatre: Shawn DeSouza-Coelho (Waterloo), David Lam (Waterloo).
Professional Development
University of Waterloo Teaching Excellence Academy, 2009.
Service
Performance Editorial Board, Digital Renaissance Editions, 2012-present.
Associate Co-editor, Productions (with Peter Cockett), Queen’s Men Editions, 2009-present.
Co-founder and steering committee member, Centre for Performance Studies in Early Theatre, 2008-present.
Co-convener (with Ian Lancashire). Shakespeare’s Language - Praxis Group, University of Toronto, 2010-present.
Silversides Distinguished Visitor Series, Interviewer, Drama, University of Waterloo, 2007 - 11. Coordinator, 2009. Centre for Performance Studies in Early Theatre, Co-founder and steering committee member, 2008-present.
Library Liaison, Drama, University of Waterloo, 2007-present.
Presenter, “Using e-Portfolios to support critical thinking and academic research and integrity in Drama 101A.” Introducing D2L/LEARN’s Integrated E-portfolio. Centre for Teaching Excellence, University of Waterloo. 16 December 2011.
Co-author (with Katherine Lithgow, Centre for Teaching Innovation, University of Waterloo): “Jennifer Roberts-Smith’s use of ePortfolios to support critical thinking and academic research and integrity in Drama 101A.” Goodbye UW-ACE, Hello LEARN - How Instructors are using LEARN. LEARN User Group, Centre for Teaching Excellence, University of Waterloo. 8 December 2011.
Guest Co-Lecturer (with Alexandra Kovacs). "Misanthropic Mischief: Molière in Paris and Toronto, 1666 and 2011." University of Toronto Senior Alumni Lecture Series. 8 February 2011.
Dean’s Committee, Drama, University of Waterloo, 2010-11.
Co-presenter (with William Chesney and Jocelyne Sobeski). Mock lecture for Drama, University of Waterloo Campus Day, 2011.
Supervisor, University Co-op Education Program (UCEP), Waterloo Catholic District School Board. Student: Alex Reed. Program Director, Mike McKay. September-January 2010-11.
Co-organizer (with the Centre for Performance Studies in Early Theatre), Chester 2010. Twenty-three plays performed by twenty-one institutions from across North America. University of Toronto, May 2010.
Co-convener (with David Klausner and Helen Ostovich), Chester 2010 Conference: Drama and Religion 1555-1575: The Chester Cycle in Context. University of Toronto, May 2010.
External Reviewer. Dramatic Arts, Brock University, winter 2010 department production. Peer review of director's contribution for the purpose of annual performance assessment and promotion.
Co-presenter (with Helen Ostovich). “Teaching Resources: Performing the Queen’s Men.” Workshop for high school teachers. Pacific-Northwest Renaissance Conference. Victoria, British Columbia, October 2010.
Chair Nominating Committee, Drama, University of Waterloo, 2008 and 2010.
Facilitator, Curriculum Review, Drama, University of Waterloo, 2009-10.
Guest Lecture. “Directing Julius Caesar.” Waterloo Unlimited Grade 12 “Roadmap to Research” Program. December 2008.