FACULTY AND STAFF

JANE S. ARMITAGE

Jane S. Armitage, Professor Armitage collaborated for two main stage productions with her dance colleagues: Nusha Martynuk on Kaspar by Peter Handke and more recently with Ann Cooper Albright on Women of Troy. In New York, she has served as director of training programs at Riverside Shakespeare Company and has taught at Boston University in both the music and theater departments. She has taught at the American Musical and Dramatic Academy in New York, the National Shakespeare Conservatory, served as register and Provost for the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco and has remained active with the American College Theater Festival. She as adapted twelve plays, and her play, Speaking Out of Character, was presented for the hundredth anniversary of the founding of the American Association of University Women and at the Charles Playhouse in Boston. Jane has directed a number of productions including the equity production of A Moon for the Misbegotten, The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, Orfeo, The Media Myth, Marisol and Through Ruby's Eyes.

In her professional work outside of Oberlin, Armitage has been working with the newly formed feminist theaters in Cleveland, The Red Hen Productions and Cleveland Women's Theater Project as director and actor. Last spring, she adapted and directed earlier at the same theater, directed her adaptation of Charlotte Perkins Gilman's The Yellow Wallpaper as a one- woman play. It toured, performing for many women's studies programs and various theater festivals. She also directed the world premiere of Power in the Blood by Sarah Berly at the Doboma Theater in Cleveland Heights.

Jane has taught Period Styles and Play Analysis at the Masters Degree Program at Roosevelt University in Chicago. She continues to adjudicate the students master thesis productions both in the U.S. and Europe. Armitage served as Associate Director of an off-Broadway theater production of Virtual Theater with equity actors.

Armitage was recently on the visiting team to evaluate Smith College's theater department and continues to be asked to respond to tenure decisions of colleagues outside of Oberlin.

In 1995, Professor Armitage was nominated and elected to the Educational Theater Association Hall of Fame for outstanding work in the field of theater education for over 25 years.

Jane has moved off Oberlin's campus but still welcomes correspondence. Email