Julie Archer
 
 
A Co-Artistic Director of Mabou Mines since 2005
Currently collaborating with Liza Lorwin on the upcoming production CORN  

   

                    CURRICULUM VITAE


    Projections/Photography and/or Pinhole Photograph
y

2007   
Song for New York

  • Audience photo-booth on the pier at Gantry State Park, L.I.C.

2003-2008   
Cara Lucia a/k/a Lucia’s Chapters

  • Here Arts Center, NYC
  • California State University at Fresno, Fresno, CA
  • Colby College, Colby Maine
  • The Charlestown Working Theater, Boston
  • Kilkenny Arts Festival, Kilkenny, Ireland

2005   
Summa Dramatica

  • The Flea Theater, NYC
  • Brown University, Providence, RI

1999-2005   
Red Beads   

  • Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
  • Mass MoCA, North Adams, MA
  • Skirball Center - NYU, New York City

    Sets, Lights and Projections

2004   
The Princess is Waiting

  • New York University, NYC

   
1999-2001           
Belén, A Book of Hours

  • Brava! For Women in the Arts, San Francisco
  • The Mexican Fine Arts Center, Chicago
  • La Capilla, Mexico City
  • University of California at Northridge, LA
  • P.S.122, NYC
  • ToRoNaDa, NYC
  • XV Festival del Centro Histórico, Mexico City   

    Sets, Lights and Puppets

1981-2009   
Peter and Wendy

  • Edinburgh Festival, Edinburgh Scotland
  • Arena Stage, Washington, D.C.
  • La Jolla Playhouse, San Diego
  • Dublin Theater Festival, Tivoli Theater, Dublin
  • Berkeley Repertory, San Francisco
  • Yale Repertory Theater, New Haven
  • The Geffen Theater, Los Angeles
  • The New Victory Theater, NYC
  • The International Puppetry Festival, The Public Theater, NYC
  • Spoleto Festival USA, Charleston
  • Arts at St Ann’s, NYC (workshop)
  • Arizona State University, (residency)

1995   
An Epidog

  • HERE Arts Center, NYC

 
    Sets and Lights
   
1982-2000   
Hajj

  • Seoul Theater Festival, Seoul, Korea
  • Maly Theater, St Petersburg, Russia
  • The International Theater Chekhov Festival, Moscow
  • ToRoNaDa Theater, NYC
  • The Public Theater, NYC
  • The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
  • CalArts, Valencia
  • The Toga Festival, Togamura, Japan
  • La Foret Center, Tokyo, Japan
  • The American Film Institute National Video Festival, LA and DC

1984       
From the Point of View of the Salt
    Theater for the New City, NYC

    Sets

2007   
Song for New York

  • Performed from a barge moored at Gantry State Park L.I.C.

   
1996   
Days Are Silver Nights Are Gold 

  • Homeless shelters, prisons, juvenal detention Centers, etc., in and around Minneapolis

   
1980   
Vanishing Pictures

  • Theater for the New City, NYC
  • The Performing Garage, NYC
  • Oberlin College, Oberlin Ohio

    Lights

1987-1989   
The Warrior Ant

  • Brooklyn Academy of Music, Next Wave Festival, NYC
  • Yale Repertory Theater, New Haven
  • American Music Theater Festival, Philadelphia
  • Spoleto Festival USA, Charleston
  • Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center, NYC

1982-87               
Gospel at Colonus

  • The Lunt Fontanne Theater, Broadway, NYC
  • Playhouse Square Center, Cleveland
  • Spoleto Festival, Spoleto
  • Chateauvallon Festival, Toulon
  • Teatra Grec, Barcelona
  • The Guthrie Theater, Minneapolis
  • The Dolittle Theater, LA
  • Theatre Musical de Paris, Paris
  • The Alliance Theater, Atlanta
  • The Annenberg Center (AMTF), Philadelphia
  • Brooklyn Academy of Music, Next Wave Festival, NYC
  • Walker Arts Center, Minneapolis
  • “Great Performances” PBS Broadcast

(Work-in-Progress)

  • Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
  • The Denver Center, Denver
  • The Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Edinburgh
  • Riverside Studios, London
  • Traverse Theater, Edinburgh
  • The American Center, Paris
  • The Avignon Festival, Avignon

1985   
Pretty Boy

  • Performing Garage, NYC

1984   
The Knee Plays (from The Civil Wars, A Tree is Best Measured When it is Down)

  • The Walker Art Center/Guthrie Theater, Minneapolis

1984   
Geography

  • Red Eye Collaboration at Performers Ensemble, Minneapolis

1980-1985   
Wrong Guys

  • The Public Theater, NYC

Sister Suzie Cinema

  • The Public Theater, NYC
  • Toured extensively in the U.S. and Europe
  • Televised, “Alive From Off Center,” produced by KTCA, Twin Cities

   
Prelude to A Death in Venice

  • The Public Theater, NYC
  • Toured extensively in the U.S., Europe, South America and Asia

    Sculptural Props/Masks

2004                        
Mabou Mines DollHouse

  • doll’s head - St. Ann’s Warehouse,  Brooklyn

2001       
Ecco Porco

  • cow head mask - PS 122, NYC  

1981   
Dead End Kids

  • sculpted set pieces/props - The Public Theater, NYC

1980   
The Tempest

  • latex mask of Raul Julia - NYSF at the Delacorte Theater

1978                          
The Shaggy Dog Animation

  • “cloud” sculpture in cotton and plastic - The Public Theater, NYC

1977   
Dressed Like an Egg

  • “Toby Chein”  (Colette’s dog) in plaster - The Public Theater, NYC

 

 

    Awards and Citations
2003   

  • American Theater Wing (nomination) for Cara Lucia

1999   

  • American Theater Wing (nomination) for Belén, A Book of Hours

1998   

  • LA Ovation Award (nomination) for Peter and Wendy

1997   

  • Village Voice OBIE Award for Peter and Wendy
  • American Theater Wing Award for Peter and Wendy
  • Dramalogue Award for Peter and Wendy

1996   

  • Village Voice OBIE Award for the puppet Rose, An Epidog
  • American Theater Wing Award for the puppets Rose and Sri Moo

1987   

  • The Maharam Award (nomination) for Gospel at Colonus, Broadway

1985   

  • Hollywood Reporter Award for Gospel at Colonus

1983   

  • The Maharam Award for Hajj

1980   

  • Village Voice OBIE Award for Vanishing Pictures