PhD Theatre History, Theory & Criticism, University of Washington, Seattle, WA

Dissertation: Producing Absence: Theatrical Representations of Domestic Space

Committee: Herbert Blau; Sarah Bryant-Bertail; Nancy Hartsock; Barry B. Witham

MFA Playwriting, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA

BA Theatre Arts, Drew University, Madison, NJ

Professor and Chair, Theatre Arts and Dance Department

University of Texas at Arlington

2023 - present

Associate Professor, School of Theatre

The Pennsylvania State University

2017 – 2023

Assistant Professor of Dramaturgy, Theatre Department

University of North Carolina at Charlotte

2011 – 2017

Theatre & Performance Production Faculty

Cornish College of the Arts

2007 – 2011

Studio Courses

Playwriting / Interdisciplinary Art - New Performance Workshop / Theatre Collaboration

Theatre Studies Courses

Dramaturgy / Critical Performance Theory / Play Analysis / Research Methods / Introduction to Theatre / Ancient - 17th Century Theatre History / 17th – 20th Century Theatre History / Contemporary Theatre History / Women in Performance / Post-colonial Theory & Performance / London and Dublin Study Abroad

In process:

#HERETOO

open source performance-devising project and online portal for stories of gun violence and activism

Project Leaders, Barbara Pitts McAdams and Jimmy Maize, co-authors of Moment Work: Tectonic Theater Project's Process of Devising Theater

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INSIDE ASHLAND, OR TROUBLEMAKER, a new play about the life of civil rights organizer, Bayard Rustin

People's Light & Theatre, Malvern, PA 2023

Written and Directed by Steve Broadnax

Co-dramaturg, Les Gray

SECOND STORY PROJECT

Children's Theatre of Charlotte & Actors Theatre of Charlotte 2017

Playwright: Steven Dietz

Co-Investigator: Dr. Beth Murray

WIN. PLACE. SHOW. AGA Collaborative Davidson College 2016

Choreographers: Gretchen Alterowitz, Alison Bory, Amanda Hamp

PLACED AGA Collaborative UNC Charlotte 2015

Choreographers: Gretchen Alterowitz, Alison Bory, Amanda Hamp

GEOMANCY Elisabeth Lewis Corley and Elizabeth Gray, poets. The Process Series UNC Chapel Hill 2015

Directed by Joseph Megel. Choreography by AGA Collaborative. An interdisciplinary performance with poetry, dance, and visual design.

IMPERIAL GESTURE Martha Graham Dance Company 2013

Choreographer, Kim Jones after Martha Graham (1935); Performed by Blakeley White-McGuire; Original Music by Pat Daughtery after Lehmann Engel (1935); Costume Design, Karen Young; Lighting Design, Judith Daitsman

NEW WORKS FESTIVAL UNC Charlotte Department of Theatre & Children’s Theatre of Charlotte 2013

Director Adam Burke

AND HOW TO BE IN TWO PLACES AT ONCE AGA Collaborative 2013

Gretchen Alterowitz, Alison Bory, Amanda Hamp. The Dance Complex, Boston (2015); Colby College (2014) UNC Charlotte, (2013)

MAMA GOOSE, UNC Charlotte and the Charlotte Mecklenburg County Libraries 2013

A new bilingual Spanish/English musical play for children by Beth Murray and Irania Patterson

Co-Editor with Samuel Yates. Teaching Writing Across Theatre and Performance Studies. Palgrave, 2025.

Co-Editor, Elisha Clark Halpin. Teaching Performance Practices in Remote and Hybrid Spaces. Routledge, 2022.

Editor, Teaching Critical Performance Theory in Today's Theatre Classroom, Studio, and Communities. Routledge, 2020.

Contributing Authors: Angela K. Ahlgren; Andrew Belser; Michael Chemers, Maria Enriquez; La Donna L. Forsgren; Kikora Franklin; Jeanmarie Higgins; Stephanie Hodde; Les Hunter; Mimi Kammer; Beth Murray; Jean O'Hara; Jennifer Ewing-Pierce; Jen Plants; Susan B. Russell; Mike Sell, Emma Watkins; Stacy Wolf; Isaiah Matthew Wooden; Samuel Yates

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

• "AGA Collaborative: Walking in the Academy." SDC Journal 5:4 (Summer 2017): 34-38.
• "Rehearsal Skirts: Undergraduate Research and 'Hamletmachine'’s Chorus of Dead Ophelias," PARtake: The Journal of Performance as Research: Vol. 1: Iss. 1, Article 5. 2016.
• "Iconicity and the Archive: Imperial Gesture 1935/2013." Review: Journal of Dramaturgy 24:1 (2015): 8-18.
• With Anita Tripathi Easterling. “The Front Porch: A Case Study In Designing Domestic Stage Space Using Semiotic Analysis.” Theatre Topics 23.1 (2013): 35-44.
• “The End of Room-Space: Domesticity and the Absent Audience In Wallace Shawn’s The Fever.” Journal Of Dramatic Theory and Criticism 1.2 (2012): 57-73.
• “The Revitalization of Space: Freestyle Parkour and Its Audiences.” Theatre Symposium 17 (2009): 113-123.

Book Chapters

• Higgins, Jeanmarie.“Annie Baker's Domestic Uncanny” in The Drama and Theatre of Annie Baker.Ed. Amy Muse. Bloomsbury, 2023.
• Higgins, Jeanmarie. “Miss Saigon.”50 KeyMusicals. Ed. Rob Schneider. 1st ed. London: Routledge, 2022.
• Higgins, Jeanmarie "Dancing Haunting Legacies:Diana Szeinblum's Alaska" Theatre and the Macabre. Eds.Meredith Conti and Kevin Wetmore. University of Wales Press, 2022.
• Higgins, Jeanmarie and Michael Schweikardt (Co-Author- Graduate Student). “Deep Thought: Teaching Theory to Designers.” TeachingCritical Performance Theory in Today's Theatre Classroom, Studio, and
  Communities. Ed. Jeanmarie Higgins. 1st ed. London: Routledge, 2020,137-144.

Journal Issues

Performing Ethos. Special Issue: "Ethical Dramaturgies." 2020.

Etudes. with Michael Schweikardt. Special Issue: "Domestic Space On and Off Stage." 2020.

Performance Reviews

"The Glas Nocturne by Akropolis Performance Lab, Seattle, WA." Theatre Journal 68:1 (2016): 114-116.

“Poetic Portraits of a Revolution by the Sacrificial Poets, Chapel Hill, NC.” Theatre Journal 65.1 (2013): 117-119.

Book Reviews

Freak Performances: Dissidence in Latin American Theatre by Analola Santana. Theatre Research International 2020.

“Contemporary Mise En Scène: Staging Theatre Today by Patrice Pavis.” Theatre Journal. 66.4 (2014): 648-649. Solicited.

“Walking on Fire: the Shaping Force of Emotion in Writing Drama by Jim Linnell." Theatre History Studies. 33.1 (2014): 278-280.

Leaving Art: Writings on Performance, Politics, and Publics, 1974–2007 by Suzanne Lacy. New England Theatre Journal 23 (2012): 149-151.

"Correspondence Course: An Epistolary History Of Carolee Schneemann and Her Circle. Ed, Kristine Stiles." Theatre Research International 37.3 (2012): 291-292.

"Albee in Performance by Rakesh Solomon." Theatre Survey 53.2 (2012): 359-361.

Other Publications

"Teaching Dramaturgy in the PostCovid World." with Jennifer Ewing-Pierce. Dramaturging the Phoenix. Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas. 30 April 2020.

DuPont, C., Higgins, J., and Mayhorn, J. "Student learning outcomes." Prospect for Success: A campus guide for developing success, inquiry and cultural awareness in first year students (eBook). Charlotte, N.C.: J. Murrey Atkins Library, 2017.

"The Youngest Person in the Room: Dramaturgy in Undergraduate Theatre Programs." HowlRound 15 May 2016.

Performance Prospectus “Art and Work in Pat Graney’s Faith Triptych,” Extended program essay for the NW Dance Series, On the Boards, (presenting organization) Seattle, WA, October 2010

Play. To Moscow!. New York: Playscripts, Inc., 2004

Play. Science Fair. New York: Playscripts, Inc., 2004

• University of Texas at Arlignton Open Educational Resources Grant. 2023-2024.
• Association of Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE) Oscar Brookett Award for Excellence in Teaching, 2021.
• Curriculum lead. Mellon Arts on Campus grant. Pennsylvania State University. 2010-2022.
• The Mellon School, “Locations of Theater” Conveners: Martin Puchner, Andrew Sofer, and Derek Miller. Harvard University. Summer 2014.
• Faculty Research Grant, University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Toward research related to book in progress, Dwelling in Public: Domestic Space in Contemporary Theatre, Dance, and Performance Art. 2014-2015.
• American Society for Theatre Research (ASTR) Collaborative Research Award. Jeanmarie Higgins and Lisa Jackson-Schebetta (University of Pittsburgh). toward Embodied Research / Researching Embodiment in collaboration with the Department of Theatre Studies at the University of Pittsburgh. 2013.
• UNC Charlotte Faculty Research Grant. Dance Dramaturgy. toward research in dance dramaturgy as a collaborative, artistic practice. 2012-2014
• UNC Charlotte Diversity Grant. with Robin Witt. Sacrificial Poets, to support Chapel Hill performance poets Kane Smego and Will McInerney’s spoken word poetry master class for Theatre Collaboration students. 2013
• UNC Charlotte Diversity Grant. with Beth Murray. Dramaturgy Outreach, to support master classes in African-American performance history, delivered to Arts & Society: Theatre students, in support of the theatre department production of George C. Wolfe’s The Colored Museum. 2012

• "Where Have All the Good People Gone?: Emotional Labor in the Academy." Musical Theatre Educators Association. 2024.
• "Space-making in Dance: the Nelken-Line Project." Arts & Design Research Incubator, Penn State, University Park, PA, with Michele Dunleavy and Anthony B. Buccitelli, 2018.
• "Domestic Stage Space in Hamletmachine." The University of Wisconsin, Madison. 2017.
• "AGA Collaborative: Walking in the Academy" for UNC Charlotte, 2017.
• Master Class (via Skype). “Dance Reconstruction Dramaturgy” for Dr. Ariel Nereson's Advanced Dramaturgy Seminar. SUNY-College at Buffalo Department of Theatre and Dance. 2015.
• Barbara Morgan's Photographs of Martha Graham." Lecture dance with Kim Jones for "ArtFusion: Modernism" public lecture at the Mint Museum, Charlotte, NC. 2014.
• “Dance Reconstruction: a Dramaturgy of the Body.” Lecture dance with Kim Jones. Public Praxis: Performing, Race, History. University of Pittsburgh Humanities Institute. 2014.
• Master Class (via Skype). “Dance Reconstruction Dramaturgy” for Dr. Lisa Jackson-Schebetta’s graduate seminar, “Race and Embodiment in 20th Century Performance in the Americas.” University of Pittsburgh Department of Theatre Studies. 2013.
• Gia Kourlas, “Recreating the Reign: the Better to Fall.” New York Times 15 Feb 13.
• Invited Talk. Preshow Panel: “Reconstructing Martha Graham’s Imperial Gesture.” January 18, 2013. Martha Graham Dance Company, Knight Theatre, Charlotte, NC.
• Radio interview. “Martha Graham Dance Company Comes to Charlotte.” January 14, 2013. Charlotte Talks, Interview with Mike Collins, NPR station WFAE 90.7, Charlotte, NC.
• Master Class. “Dramaturgies of (Post)Modernisms: from Literature to Performance,” University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Department of Communication Studies. 2012.