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| Christina Keefe | | Professor in the Practice | | Professor in the Practice, Visual and Dramatic Arts | | | | e-mail:ck1@rice.edu | | | - BFA Acting (1979) New York University, New York
- MFA Acting (1992) University of South Carolina - Columbia, Coumbia, SC
| | | | Primary Department | | Department of Visual and Dramatic Arts | |  |
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| Department Affiliations |
| | Rice Theatre Program |
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| Research Areas |
| | Acting, voice/speech and dialects, directing. Creating cross-disciplinary projects across the University having to do with the arts. |
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| Teaching Areas |
| | Acting, voice/speech/dialects. |
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| Creative Works |
| | Performances - Voice/Dialect Coach |
| | Company voice and dialect coach, Texas Shakespeare Company, Texas Shakespeare Festival, Kilgore, TX (May - July 2008) |
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| | Performances - The Threepenny Opera |
| | Produced six public performances of this opera, working with Shepherd School professors, Rice students/faculty/staff and alumni as well as outside professional actors, director and designers., Rice students/faculty/staff/alumni and outside professional performers., Hamman Hall, Rice University, Hamman Hall (November 13, 2009) |
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| | Performances - Actors From the London Stage |
| | Produced touring group from England who performed ROMEO AND JULIET for 3 public performances. The group also taught master classes for the Rice students as well as high school students from two area high schools., Actors From the London Stage, Theatre, Hamman Hall (February 2010) |
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| | Performances - 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee |
| | Produced six public performances of this musical for Rice Theatre Program. Students had the opportunity to work with professional designers, musical director and professional local actor., Students, Local professional performer, Hamman Hall, Rice University (April 1, 2011) |
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| | Performances - The Laramie Project: 10 Years Later |
| | Staged reading of Laramie Project, with live video feed from Lincoln Center, NYC., Christina Keefe as well as other Houston professional actors, Wortham Theatre, U. of Houston (October 13, 2009) |
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| | Performances - Macbeth |
| | Directed and produced six public performances for Rice Theatre Program., Students, alumni and Rice staff, Hamman Hall, Rice University (November 11) |
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| | Other - Vocal Coach for Wild Oats |
| | Taught Texas and Mid-Atlantic dialects for the University of Houston's School of Theatre and Dance production of Wild Oats by James McClure., U. of Houston Graduate MFA students, Wortham Theatre, U. of Houston Main Campus (February 2011) |
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| | Performances - A Place Called Home |
| | Directed "A Place Called Home," a new opera for The Houston Grand Opera's summer program for outstanding High School Vocalists., Students, Heinin Theatre, Houston (June 2011) |
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| | Performances - Vocal Coach for 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee |
| | Worked with the cast on vocal techniques for pronunciation and diction., Students and professional artist, Hamman Hall, Rice University (April 1, 2011) |
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| | Performances - Theory |
| | TV pilot shot on Rice campus about a college anthropology department and the politics of gender. I played a featured character., Christina Keefe, Off and on campus, Houston and Rice University (April 7, 2010) |
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| | Performances - Noises Off |
| | Produced six public performances of this co-production between Rice Theatre and Rice Players. Rice students had the opportunity to work with guest director and guest fight choreographer., Rice students, Theatre, Hamman Hall (November 12, 2010) |
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| | Performances - All In the Timing |
| | Produced All in The Timing, first Theatre Program production, hiring two MFA Directing students from U. of Houston as part of their Master's Thesis., Rice students, Hamman Hall, Rice University (March 15, 2008) |
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| | Performances - Stop Kiss |
| | Produced Stop Kiss for Rice Theatre, working with professional director and student designers and actors., Rice students , Hamman Hall, Rice University, Hamman Hall (March 2009) |
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| | Other - Vocal Coach for THE CHERRY ORCHARD |
| | Taught Russian pronunciation, dialect and text work for U. of Houston's School of Theatre and Dance production of Anton Chekhov's THE CHERRY ORCHARD., MFA graduate students, Theatre, U. of Houston (January 2010) |
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| | Performances - The Bug |
| | Produced six performances of this new work. Rice students were performers, designers and technicians, working with an outside professional director., Rice students, Theatre, Hamman Hall (March 19, 2010) |
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| | Performances - Tartuffe |
| | Tartuffe, by Moliere directed by outside professional director., Rice students, Hamman Hall, Rice University (November 2012) |
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| | Performances - E. Patrick Johnson, Pouring Tea: Black Gay Men of the South Tell Their Tales |
| | Dramatic reading based on the oral histories collected in Johnson's award-winning book, Sweet Tea: Black Gay Men of the South--An Oral History (University of North Carolina Press). , E. Patrick Johnson, Rice Dance Theatre, Rice University (January 27) |
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| | Other - Vocal Coach for Tartuffe |
| | Worked with students and director on verse structure, diction and pronunciation., Christina Keefe, Hamman Hall, Rice University (November 2012) |
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| | Performances - The Drunken City |
| | Produced premiere of play, bringing in outside professional director., Rice students, Hamman Hall, Rice University (February 2012) |
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| | Performances - Actors From the London Stage |
| | Produced touring group from England who performed TWELFTH NIGHT for 3 public performances. The group also taught master classes for the Rice students as well as high school students from two area high schools., Five British Actors from London, UK, Hamman Hall, Rice University (February 2012) |
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| Presentations |
| | Workshops |
| | "“Singing the Text: An Exploration of Voice and Movement”." The International University/Global Theatre Experience, Graz, Austria. (May, 2011) |
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| Editorial Positions |
| | Other, The O'Neill Theatre Center. various.
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| | Other, The O'Neill Theatre Center. various.
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| Awards, Prizes, & Fellowships |
| | Sarofim Teaching Award, Rice University, School of Humanities (May 2012)
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| | Faculty Initiative Fund, Office of Research (July 2009)
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| | The Threepenny Project, The Kurt Weill Foundation (September 2009)
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| | Brown Teaching Grant, Brown Foundation (June 2009)
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| Residencies & Summer Festivals |
| | Residency |
| | Theatretreffen Berlin. One of two Americans chosen to observe Theatretreffen Berlin, a week long festival of the best of German theatre., Berlin, Germany. (May 2011)
Remarkable opportunity to see German theatre, which included seeing plays, discussion groups with the directors and dramaturgs, as well as meetings with the head of the Green Party and the Minister of Culture.
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| | Summer Festival |
| | Company Vocal Director. Worked as text/vocal director for The Texas Shakespeare Festival., Kilgore, Texas. (May - July 2008)
Vocal direction for 4 shows: Twelfth Night, 1776, Royal Hunt of the Sun and Julius Caesar.
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| Juries |
| | Jury |
| | Houston Arts Alliance Panelist. Theatre Grants Panelist for the Houston Arts Alliance General Operating Support panel process. , Houston Arts Alliance. (April 26, 2011)
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| | Master Class |
| | Master Acting Class. Taught acting classes to MFA graduate students at U. of Houston., Wortham Theatre, U. of Houston. (February 4-6, 2010)
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| Positions Held |
| | Master Teacher, Houston Grand Opera. (August 2011 - October 2011)
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