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Wind Dell Woods
Curriculum Vitae
EDUCATION
Ph.D. in Drama & Theatre, U.C. Irvine and U.C. San Diego Joint Program, Dramaturgy Emphasis and Critical Theory Emphasis, 2018
Dissertation title: “Pleading the Fifth Element: Disaesthetics and Hip Hop as BlackStudy.”
M.F.A. in Playwriting, Arizona State University, 2008
B.A. in English, Southern Oregon University, 2005
AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION
● Black Theatre and Performance ● Playwriting ● Hip Hop Theatre
● Disaesthetics ● Dramaturgy ● Critical Theory
PUBLICATIONS
“‘Bonding over Phobia’: Restaging a Revolution at the Expense of Black Revolt,” Reframing
the Musical: Race, Culture and Identity, ed. Sarah Whitfield, Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
“Timing the [Hip Hop] Revolution: Politics, Choreography, and the Remastering of Black
Aesthetics in Hamilton,” Co-authored with Sam Kolodezh and Ameera Nimjee, Journal
of Dramatic Theory and Criticism, Spring 2022.
Forthcoming:
Hip Hop Dramaturgy in Black, under review, Routledge Press.
“A Review of Sampling and Remixing Blackness in Hip-hop Theater and Performance by Nicole
Hodges Persely.” Theatre Annual, 2022.
“On Disaesthetics in Hip Hop Dramaturgy,” Decentered Playwriting: Alternatives Techniques
for the Stage, eds. Carolyn Dunn, Eric Micha Holmes, and Les Hunter, Routledge Press, 2022.
“Towards a [Black] Hip Hop Aesthetic: Against Manifestations of the Neoliberal Universal
(a percussive manifesto of sorts),” Know (the) Ledge: Critical Essays on the Limitation of Hip
Hop Studies, eds. P. Khalil Saucier and Tryon Woods, Lexington Books, 2022.
Woods, Wind. "Suzan-Lori Parks." The Encyclopedia of Modern Theatre. Eds. Colin
Chambers, Sara Freeman, Jim Reynolds. London: Bloomsbury-Methuen. Expected publication
in 2022.
Woods, Wind. "Branden Jacob-Jenkins." The Encyclopedia of Modern Theatre. Eds. Colin
Chambers, Sara Freeman, Jim Reynolds. London: Bloomsbury-Methuen. Expected publication
in 2022.
SCHOLARLY PRESENTATIONS, GUEST LECTURES, AND CONFERENCES
Academic Conferences:
• “A Pass(ing) Over(standing): Nwandu’s Subterranean Currents in the Mainstream,”
Southeastern Theatre Conference (SETC) 31st Annual Theatre Symposium, April 1-3,
2022.
• “Hip Hop’s Unruly Episteme: The Fifth Element, Celebration, Critique, and Knowledge
as Dissent,” The Mid-Atlantic Popular & American Culture Association Conference,
Nov. 10 -13, 2021.
• “Ghostly Matters: Percussive Interruptions and the Aesthetics of Disturbance,” American
Society for Theatre Research (ASTR) Theatre & Performance After Repetition
Conference, Virtual 2020.
• “Fugitive Escape: Freedom Dreaming in Aaliyah in Underland,” Performing Black
Futures Conference, Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE), 2020
• “Hip Hop’s Percussive Dramaturgy,” Critical Conversations Outside Our Circles,
Canadian Association of Theatre Research, June 2019
• “Tarrying With(in) Death: The Spookiness of Hinds’ Dreamscape.”
Extra/ordinary Bodies, ASTR/TLA Conference, Atlanta, GA, 2017
• “Bonding over Phobia: Restaging a Revolution at the Expense of Black Revolt.”
The Black Theatre Association’s Emerging Scholars Panel, Association for Theatre in
Higher Education Conference (ATHE), Las Vegas, NV, 2017
• “Dancing with Ghosts: Black Death and Haunting in Hinds’ Dreamscape.”
Department of African American Studies’ Eighteen Hundred and More: Mourning the
needy dead in the chaos of protest conference, Princeton University, NJ, 2017
• “Rapping Identity, Constructing the Other” Gender, Sexuality, and Hip Hop Conference,
Tulane University, LA, 2013.
• “He Got Game/Flow: Competition, Dominance, and the American Masculine Ideal.”
Summer Research Program Research Symposium, University of California, Irvine, 2013
• “Black Is” (poem) From Bourgeois to Boojie: Black Middle-Class Performances
Obermann Humanities Symposium, University of Iowa, 2007.
Keynote / Guest Speaker:
• “Dreaming Beyond What My Hands Could Grasp: Self-doubt, Perseverance, and self-care,”
Olympic College, Nov. 9th 2022
• “Dreaming Beyond What My Hands Could Grasp: Self-doubt, Perseverance, and Selfcare”
(Keynote) Kitsap Strong 4th Annual Resiliency Summit, October 7th and 8th, 2021.
• “It’s Bigger Than Hip Hop: The Fifth Element and the Black Radical Tradition,”
(Keynote) Black History Month Celebration, Orange Coast College, Feb. 22, 2021
• “Black Theatre Beyond the Politics of Representation,” with Professor Stacie
McCormick, Intiman Theatre, Feb. 23, 2021.
• “What is Knowledge?” Keynote Speech Ronald E. McNair Orientation Ceremony,
Southern Oregon University, 2013.
Guest Lectures:
• “Hip Hop Theatre and Disaesthetics,” Professor Jaye Austin Williams, Radical Black
Drama class, Bucknell University, April 2021 and 2022.
• “Wilson’s Radical Cycle,” Professor Jaye Austin Williams, (Really) Reading Black
Plays—August Wilson class, Bucknell University, March 2021 and 2022.
• “Thinking Through the Theatricality of Fanon’s Black Skin, White Masks,” Professor
Sam Kolodezh, Performing Race: The Renaissance and Now, New York University,
September 2020.
• “Hip Hop Theatre and Black Critique,” African American Theatre class, Professor
Donatella Gallela, University of California, Riverside, September 2019.
• “Fear of a Black Planet: Antiblackness, the Imaginary, the Symbolic, and the Real,”
Professor Teresa Neighbor, Scholarship & Leadership Class, University of California,
Irvine, 2018
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS / TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Associate Professor 2019 – present.
University of Puget Sound, Department of Theatre Arts
• THTR 200, The Theatrical Experience
• THTR 215, Fundamentals of Acting
• THTR 250, World Theatre I: African Diaspora
• THTR 252, World Theatre II: Asian Theatre
• THTR 323, Projects in Dramaturgy
•THTR 325, Playwriting
• SSI2: Hip Hop and Philosophy
• SSI1: Hip Hop Theater
Lecturer of Theatre Arts 2018 – 2019
Loyola Marymount University, College of Communication and Fine Arts
• THEA 240, Theatre History and Dramatic Literature
• THEA 430, Hip Hop Theatre History and Aesthetics
Visiting Lecturer 2018 – 2018
University of California, San Diego, Department of Theatre/Dance
• TDHT 109, African American Theatre
Graduate Teaching Instructor 2014 – 2018
University of California, Irvine, Department of Drama
• DRAMA 40 series, Development of Drama
Designed, instructed, and administered grades for year-long Theater
History/Dramatic Literature course. Utilized my training in dramaturgy
and Critical Theory to provide a theoretical framework for the course.
Associate Faculty 2015 – 2018
Saddleback College, Department of English
• ENG 200 Fundamentals of Composition
• ENG 300 Beginning Writing
• REFRESH English Workshop
Instructor 2011 – 2012
Coleman University, Liberal Arts Division
• ENG 351 Creative Writing
• ENG 200 Introduction to Communication & Public Speaking
• SOC 325 Interpersonal Communication
• HUM 410 The Art of Film
Instructor 2010 – 2011
East Stroudsburg University, Department of English
• ENGL 162 Literary Analysis
• ENGL 103 English Composition
• ENGL 090 Developmental Writing
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Academic Position and Teaching Experience, continued
Adjunct Professor 2009 – 2011
Hudson County Community College, Department of English
Teaching Associate 2014 – 2018
University of California, Irvine, Department of Drama
Teaching Assistant 2005 – 2008
Arizona State University, Theatre Program & Dept. of English
ACADEMIC AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS
University of California, Irvine
• The Claire Trever School of the Arts Graduate Research & Travel Award 2017
• African American Alumni Council’s Joseph L. White Scholarship 2017
• The Eugene Cota-Robles Graduate Fellowship 2013
Arizona State University
• Virginia Piper Center International Writing Residency Fellowship 2007
• Virginia Piper Center New Play Development Fellowship 2006
Southern Oregon University
• The Southern Oregon University Diversity Scholarship 2003-2005
• The Ronald E. McNair Post Baccalaureate Achievement Program 2004-2005
• The Catherine Molinar Knapp Multicultural Award 2004
SERVICE
University of Puget Sound
• Member, Provost Search Advisory Committee, 2022 – 2023.
• Cohort member, Decolonizing the Curriculum taskforce and development program,
2022-2023.
• Reader, Cross-institutional Firt-Year Reflective Writing Assessment Committee, 2021.
• Member, Writing Excellence Awards Arts and Humanities Reading Committee, 2020,
2021.
• Member, Committee on Diversity, since 2019
• Educator and Presenter for the Race and Pedagogy Institute’s Race Matters Series:
o “On Breath: B(l)ack at the Edge of the Wor(l)d.” We Can’t Breathe: 400 Years of
Institutionalized Violence, June 3, 2020.
o “Politicizing the “Apolitical”: Unsettling the Universal in the Performing Arts,
Co-presented with Professor Ameera Nimjee and Professor Grace Livingston,
July 8th 2020.
o “The Wake Work of Dramaturgy,” Panel Discussion: “What Now is Our Wake
Work” Black History Month, 2020.
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University of California Irvine
• Planning Committee Member for The UC Consortium for Black Studies in California
Autumn Research Conference, Nov. 2016
• Planning Committee Member for UCI Irvine Black Urban Music Conference, 2015-2016.
• Editorial Staff for Trans-Script an Interdisciplinary Online Journal in the Humanities and
Social Sciences, 2014-2016.
• Writer, researcher, and creative consultant for the annual research-performance project
Dramatic Transformations, 2014-2015.
• School of the Arts Representative, Associate Graduate Students, 2013-2015
• Representative for the School of the Arts, Diverse Educational Community and Doctoral
Experience (DECADE), 2012-2013
Coleman University
• Committee Member, Liberal Arts Curriculum Development Committee, 2011-2012
Southern Oregon University
• President, The Associated Students, 2004-2005
• Director of Multicultural Affairs, Associated Students, 2004
• President, Black Student Union, 2003-2004
Other Service
• Advisory Board Member, Black Lights Arts Collective, 2019-present
OTHER TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Performing Arts Instructor
Inspire Academy, Southern Oregon University, summers 2014 and 2015.
Assistant Teaching Artist
The Old Globe, San Diego, CA, 2012-2013.
Senior Teaching Artist
The Shakespeare Society, New York, NY, 2008-2011.
PLAYS
FULL-LENGTH
• Troy the Hillian, Norton Clapp Theatre, University of Puget Sound, 2022.
• Star Alarm (A Musical), Hands Together Collective, Brooklyn, NY, 2011.
• 233a Play (A Theatrical Happening), Hands Together Collective, Brooklyn, NY, 2011.
• BeBopShubang, Arizona State University, Tempe AZ, 2008.
• Jonny May’s Soul Kitchen, Directed by Patrick Demers, Herberger College of Fine Arts,
Arizona State University, 2007.
• Giving Voice to the Dream, commissioned and produced, The Black Theatre Troupe of
Arizona, directed by David J. Hemphill, 2007.
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PLAYS, continued
• A Bronzian Tale, directed by Toussaint Jeanlouis, Student Production Board, Arizona
State University, 2007.
• Skylark Dreams, directed by William Partlan, Herberger College of Fine Arts, Arizona
State University, 2006.
ONE-ACT
• Big Block Letters, Street Art Prophets, Circle Circle Dot Dot Theatre, San Diego, 2012.
• The Black & White Minstrel Show, The DC Black Theatre Festival, Warehouse Theatre,
Washington, DC, 2011; Striking Short Play Lab, The Roy Arias Studios, New York, NY,
2010; Vignettes of the Apocalypse, EndTimes Production, New York, NY, 2010;
SlamBoston Ten-Minute Play Festival, Another Country Productions, Boston, MA, 2008;
The Fifth Annual North Park Playwrights Festival, San Diego, CA, 200
STAGED READINGS
• Aaliyah in Underland, New Visions, New York Classical Theatre, directed by Marcus D.
Harvey, Brooklyn, NY, 2022
• Troy the Hillian, directed by Chevi Chung, University of Puget Sound, 2022
• Aaliyah in Underland, HowlRound livestream, 2020.
• The EnterView, Midnight Project, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Ashland, OR, 2013
• Star Alarm, Mud/Bone Collective, Brooklyn, NY, 2011
• Skylark Dreams, New York City Repertory Theatre/NYC Rep, Brooklyn, NY, 2010
• 3 Sistas, The Pen ‘n’ Pad Reading Series, Brooklyn, NY, 2009
• (Re)Working Wilson, Phoenix Theatre, Phoenix, AZ, 2008
• The Waiting and Unseen, Three Roots Cafe, Tempe, AZ, 2007
• Desert Hills, Phoenix Theatre, Phoenix, AZ, 2006
DRAMATURGICAL EXPERIENCE
• These Shining Lives by Melanie Marnich, Directed by Sarah Butts, The Claire Trevor
School of the Arts, U.C. Irvine, 2016
• The Liquid Plain by Naomi Wallace, Directed by Jaye Austin Williams, The Claire
Trevor School of the Arts, U.C. Irvine, 2015
• Two Trains Running by August Wilson, Directed by Lou Bellamy, Oregon Shakespeare
Festival, Ashland, Oregon, 2013
• Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare, (Assistant Dramaturg), Directed by David
Ivers, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Ashland, 2013
• We Lost it at the Movies by Guillermo Reyes, Directed by Erma Duricko, Herberger
College of Arts, Arizona State University, 2005
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DIRECTING EXPERIENCE
• Troy the Hillian by Wind Dell Woods, University of Puget Sound, 2022
• Life is a Dream adaptation by Nilo Cruz, University of Puget Sound, 2021
• A Live Mixtape by Tahirih Moeller, Theatre Arts Department production, California State
Long Beach, 2018
• Master of the Keys by Susan C. Hunter, Scripteaser’s Short Play Showcase, San Diego,
CA, 2012
• The Biggest Secret by Janet S. Tiger, Scripteaser’s Short Play Showcase, San Diego, CA,
2012
• As You Like It by William Shakespeare, The Hunts Point Children’s Theatre Ensemble,
Bronx, NY, 2010
• An Awkward Customer by Mark Petrie, Playwrights on Campus Second Annual 10-
Minute Play Festival, Arizona State University, 2007
• Statement by Gregory Farber, Playwrights on Campus First Annual 10-Minute Play
Festival, Arizona State University, 2006
ASSISTANT DIRECTING EXPERIENCE
• Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare, The Hunts Point Children’s Theatre Ensemble,
Bronx, NY, 2011
• The Tempest by William Shakespeare, The Hunts Point Children’s Theatre Ensemble,
Bronx, NY, 2009
• The Vine by Jose Casas, Teatro Bravo, Phoenix, AZ, 2005
ACTING EXPERIENCE
• Gaius Suetonius, Boudica by Tristan Bernay, directed by Chevi Chung, Tacoma Little
Theatre (Reading), Tacoma, WA, March, 2022
• Jacques, As You Like It by William Shakespeare, directed by Jordan Dann, Hunts Point’s
Children Ensemble, Bronx, NY, 2010.
• Lucian, Scribblin’ at the Automat by Arthvr Alleyne , directed by Ira Kip, Kumble
Theatre, Long Island University, Brooklyn, NY, 2009.
• Ensemble Member, Water Music by Josh Gelb, directed by Barrie Gelles, Union Drama
Club, Brooklyn, NY, 2009.
• Levi, Bernice The Skunk (reading) by Johnny Culver, Brooklyn, NY, 2009
• Babu, Big Cats by Katie May, directed by Blake Wilson, Arizona State University,
Tempe, AZ, 2006.
• Ensemble Member. The Vine by Jose Casas, directed by Carlos Manuel, Teatro Bravo,
Phoenix, AZ, 2005.
• Malcolm X, The Meeting by Jeff Staton, City of Ashland Martin Luther King Jr.
Celebration, 2004.
• Rueben, Joe Turner’s Come and Gone by August Wilson, directed by Clinton Turner
Davis, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Ashland, OR, 1993
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OTHER THEATRE EXPERIENCE
• Playwriting Judge, Artists of Promise Program, The Maricopa Community Colleges,
2014, 2015, and 2016.
• Artistic Member, Brown Bag Theater, UCI, CA, 2014-2018
• Artistic Member, Scripteasers, San Diego, CA, 2012-2017
• Assistant Artistic Director, Hands Together Collective, Brooklyn, NY, 2010-2011
• Playwright-in-Residence, Mud/Bone Theatre Collective, Brooklyn, NY 2010-2011
• Artistic Member, The Union Drama Club, Brooklyn, NY 2009-2011
• President/Artistic Director, Playwrights on Campus, Arizona State University, 2007-2008
• Submission Reader, Phoenix Theatre’s 10th Annual New Works Festival, Phoenix, AZ,
2006
• Submission Reader, Arizona Playwrights Competitions, Arizona State University,
Tempe, AZ, 2005
• Director and Producer, Student Playwrights Short-Play Festival, Rogue Community
College Medford, OR, 2002
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
Since 2021 Cohort Member, Tacoma Arts Live
Since 2015 Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas
Since 2007 The Dramatists Guild of America
Since 2018 The Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE)
Since 2018 The American Society for Theatre Research (ASTR)
REFERENCES
Available upon request.
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