Caleen Jennings Theater wonk
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