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Caleen Jennings

Theater Wonk

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Cred MFA acting and theatre, New York University; BA drama, Bennington College


Livelihood Theater professor, College of Arts and Sciences; faculty member at Folger Shakespeare Library Teaching Shakespeare Institute


Interests Multicultural theater, Shakespeare


Focus Preparing for Spring AU production of Measure for Measure


Recent Awards Grant from Kennedy Center’s Fund for New American Plays, Heideman Award from the Actor’s Theatre of Louisville


Last Book You Read The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family by Annette Gordon-Reed


What Keeps You Up At Night? “I keep thinking that if I can put the right words in the right characters’ mouths, suddenly all human beings will get along.”


Are You a Wonk? “If wonk means intellectual voracity, passion, engagement, with a tad of confidence in the face of all the odds, yes.”


Additional Links
AU Profile
D.C. Playwright Draws Students into the Action
Caleen Jennings “physicalizes” lines from Romeo and Juliet
Performing Arts Department
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