Christopher J Staley

News and Updates

What I’ve Got Going On

Acting and Directing

• Directing project based on Jules Feiffer's Little Murders, 2022

• Performance collaboration with Jia-Jen Lin on Treading on Thin Ice; installation opens Earth Day 2022 at Locust Projects, Miami, FL

• Training in Toga Mura Japan with the Suzuki Company of Toga, 2022

• Remote Collaboration on Death of Cleopatra, Sonic Cartography and Clepsydra  (Choreography/Movement) with Devon Osamu Tipp and Sarah Alice Steranka. Additional Link Here

• Training with SITI Company, Skidmore Intensive, Summer 2021,

• Training with Theatre Nohgaku at Hampden Sydney College, Summer 2021. 

Select Scholarly Work

• Dissertation Project: "'What's the Point?': Multipodal Orbits in the Suzuki Method of Actor Training."  

• "Imaginative Deixis and Distributed Fictions in the Suzuki Method of Actor Training." In Teaching Performance Practices in Remote and Hybrid Spaces, edited by Jeanmarie Higgins and Elisha Clark Halpin. Routledge: Forthcoming. 

• Summer 2021, Presenter at ATHE, Comparative Drama Conference, European Shakespeare Research Association Conference.

• Spring 2021 Participation with American Association of Teachers of Japanese Conference, The Makings of the Actor Conference 

• "Fear of Death and Lyrical Flight: Mortality Salience Mediation in Fun Home." In Theatre and the Macabre, edited by Kevin Wetmore and Meredith Conti. University of Wales Press: 2022.