Lurana O'Malley
Curriculum Vitae
Summary of University of Hawaii Service Activities, 1991-preent
Service Work
A. Departmental
Chair, Theatre Search Committee, Spring 2001.
Won grant: "Video Projector for Courses in Department of Theatre
and Dance." Educational Improvement Fund Award, 1999-2000. ($5000)
Interim Graduate Chair in Theatre Fall 1997
Elected to Departmental Personnel Committee (1996-97,1998-99)
Interim Undergraduate Advisor Fall 1994
Co-Chair of Departmental Curriculum Committee, 1993-94 (major task was revision
of Theatre PhD); 1995-96
Faculty Advisor to Late Night Theatre, 1991-present
Service on Departmental Curriculum Committee, 1991-96; 1997; helped to develop
new MFA and MA concentrations, new comprehensive exams, changes to Theatre
BA
Member of Dance Search sub-committee, spring 1994
Created Panel Discussion on the Designer/Director Relationship, featuring
a panel of Honolulu professional designers, on Thursday October 22, 1992
Guest Lecturer for Dance 431 (11/17/95)
Guest Lecturer on Russian theatre for Dance 453
Guest on K108 Talk Radio (8-5-93), interviewed about Kennedy Theatre Season
Coordinate annual departmental report of doctoral dissertations to Theatre
Journal
Proposed four courses to Arts and Humanities Curriculum Committee: (all
were accepted) 494: New British and American Drama (experimental) 413 (alpha):
Studies in Dramatic Texts 612: History of Western Theatre I 613: History
of Western Theatre II
Conducted seminar entitled "Start Making Sense: The Dramaturg and the
Theatre" on April 30, 1992. Presentation and discussion of the function
of the dramaturg and her/his possible role in enriching theatre in Honolulu
Presented "Classics Declassified: Selected Theatrical Diversions"
(scenes from THEA 430) as part of Sunday at Manoa 75th anniversary of Arts
and Sciences celebration, 11/19/95.
B. University
2000-2001
Project coordinator: Residency of Robin Scott Peters and performance of The African Tragedian, October 5-8, 2000.
Taught Pacific New Media course "Anna Deavere Smith: Theatre Artists and the Community." Nov. 20-30, 2000.
Co-coordinator, Lecture by Anna Deavere Smith, "Snapshots: Glimpses of America in Change." Nov. 28, 2000. UH Distinguished Lecture Series.
1999-00
Won grant to bring in Cheryl Flaharty, Artistic Director of Iona Pear Dance Theatre to UHM as Community Scholar in Residence Spring 2000.
Won grant to bring in "The African Tragedian: A Performance by Robin Scott Peters." President's Diversity and Equity Initiative Grant, 1999-2000. ($650)
Member, Taskforce to Reform the Manoa Core
Mentor, Women Faculty Mentoring Program
1998-99
Mentor, Women Faculty Mentoring Program
1997-98
Mentor, Women Faculty Mentoring Program
Guest Speaker at Networking Fair for Women Faculty Mentoring Program 9/12/97.
Topic: external reviewers.
1996-97
Elected as Chair of Arts and Sciences Faculty Executive Committee
Member, All-Campus Council of Faculty Senate Chairs
Member, General Education Project review committee
Mentor, Women Faculty Mentoring Program
1995-96
Elected to service on Arts and Sciences Faculty Executive Committee for
1995-1997; elected by committee as Vice-Chair (also served as alternate
for Spring 1995 )
Served on advisory committee to Awards Ceremony
1994-95
Served as outside evaluator for postdoctoral Fulbright application
Continued service on Arts and Humanities Articulation Standing Committee,
from 12/93
Advisor to Liberal Studies student Lisa Kopp
Speaker at Symposium entitled Constructions and Confrontations: Changing
Representations of Women and Feminisms, East and West, sept. 19-23 1994.
Presented my paper "Seen and Unseen Women of Moscow Theatre"
1993-94
Service on Arts and Humanities Articulation Standing Committee, from 12/93
Coordinated the University visit of Mark Weil, artistic director of the
Ilkhom Theatre, Tashkent, Uzbekistan. He attended classes and gave a lecture/discussion
on his theatre practice on 22 April 1994.
Evaluated Honors Thesis (5/94)
1992-1993
Served on Arts and Humanities Program Development Committee
Faculty Evaluator for Graduate Student Organization Travel Fund Grants,
summer '92
1991-1992 Served on Arts and Humanities Festival Committee
Appointed to the Graduate Faculty
C. Community
1999-2000
Discussion leader, Kumu Kahua Staged Reading of Soulmates: The Passion of Petra Kelly by Nancie Caraway, June 6, 2000.
1998-99
Staged reading (director and actor) "Anton and Olga" by Tony Clyman
and Marcia Morrison. Days of Russia in Honolulu. June 24, 1999.
1997-98
Served as judge for 1998 Hawai'i State Dance Council Choreographic Awards.
Lecture: "Catherine the Great as Playwright." Days of Russia in
Honolulu. June 24, 1998.
1994-95
Organized the visit of Brazilian theatre director and political theatre
theorist Augusto Boal. I coordinated all details of the visit of this world-famous
figure to Honolulu. Fifty-three students and community members attended
a lecture/workshop on 24 June 1995. Co-sponsored by Friends of Kennedy Theatre
and the Hawai'i State Theatre Council
Taught a class to high school drama students entitled "Directing: Elements
of the Craft" for the departmental Fall Calabash '94 sponsored by the
Alliance for Drama Education
1993-94
Guest instructor, Audition class, Mid-Pacific School of the Arts, September
1993
Taught a class to high school drama students entitled "Directing: Elements
of the Craft" for the departmental Spring Calabash '94 sponsored by
the Alliance for Drama Education
1992-93
Served as evaluator for the Hugh O'Brien Youth Foundation 1993 State Leadership
Conference, choosing the state's two ambassadors to World Leadership Conference
Taught a class to high school drama students entitled "Directing: The
Importance of Style" for the departmental Calabash '93 sponsored by
the Alliance for Drama Education
1991-92
Guest lecturer on Elizabethan theatre for Mililani High School
Taught a class to high school drama students entitled "Directing: The
Importance of Style" for the departmental Calabash '92 sponsored by
the Alliance for Drama Education
D. National
Service on Board of Advisors to Theatre Insight (1991-2000)
Service on Editorial Board to Theatre Studies (1992-1999)
Discussion moderator, Women and Theatre Program national conference 1992
Wrote article on Russian theatre panels at ATHE for Fall 1995 issue of ATHENews.
Reviewed NEH application for Collaborative Research Grant competition (November
1996)
Elected Electronics Communication Moderator, Eighteenth-Century Russian
Studies Association (1996-98)
Abstract reviewer for 1997 AATSEEL conference
Textbook reviewer, Addison Wesley Longman. Visions and Voices: An Introduction
to World Drama. Dec. 1998.
E. International
Listowner, EKATERINA-L (on Catherine the Great)
Listowner, RUSSTHEA-L (on Russian and Eastern
European Theatre and Drama)