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Elizabeth LeCompte

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Template:Short description Template:Infobox person Elizabeth LeCompte (born April 28, 1944) is an American director of experimental theater, dance, and media. A founding member of The Wooster Group, she has directed that ensemble since its emergence in the late 1970s.<ref name="mitter">Mitter, Shomit, and Maria Shevtsova, ed. (2004) Fifty Key Theatre Directors. London: Routledge.</ref>

Life and careerEdit

LeCompte was born and grew up in New Jersey. She earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Fine Arts from Skidmore College. She met director and actor Willem Dafoe at The Performance Group and began a professional and personal relationship. Their son, Jack, was born in 1982.<ref name=vogue>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref><ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref>

With The Wooster Group, she has composed, designed, and directed over forty works for theater, dance, film and video, starting with Sakonnet Point in 1975. These works characteristically interweave performance with multimedia technologies and are strongly influenced by historical and contemporary visual arts and architecture. She is known both for taking apart and reworking classics such as Hamlet, The Emperor Jones, and The Hairy Ape as well as constructing new works from scratch.

Prior to her work with The Wooster Group, she was a member of the experimental theater company The Performance Group from 1970 to 1975. Subsequently, LeCompte and Spalding Gray founded The Wooster Group, along with Jim Clayburgh, Willem Dafoe, Peyton Smith, Kate Valk, and Ron Vawter. For her work with these groups, LeCompte was included in Mitter and Shevtsova's 2004 volume discussing 50 influential theater directors around the world.<ref name="mitter"/> Other writers consistently include her in the lineage of experimental theater artists that passes through Meyerhold and Grotowski to the present generation of "postdramatic" theater makers.<ref>Schechner, Richard. "Theatre Alive in the New Millennium." TDR/The Drama Review 44.1 (2000): 5-6.</ref><ref>Fuchs, Elinor. Review of Postdramatic Theatre by Hans-Thies Lehmann. TDR/The Drama Review 52.2 (2008): 178-183.</ref> As a New Yorker writer put it: "Luminaries of the theatrical avant-garde—Richard Foreman, Robert Wilson, and Peter Sellars among them—describe her as first among equals".<ref>Kramer, Jane. "Experimental Journey: Elizabeth LeCompte takes on Shakespeare" The New Yorker, Oct. 8, 2007.</ref>

LeCompte has lectured and taught at American University, the Art Institute of Chicago, Columbia University, Connecticut College, the Lincoln Center Theatre Directors Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, New York University, Northeastern University, the O’Neill Center, Smith College, the University of London, and the Yale School of Drama. In 2018, The New York Times critics ranked House/Lights the 16th greatest American play since Angels in America.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

AwardsEdit

Among her honors, LeCompte has received the National Endowment for the Arts Distinguished Artists Fellowship for Lifetime Achievement in the American Theater, the MacArthur Fellowship,<ref>Elizabeth LeCompte at the MacArthur Foundation</ref> the Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres from the French Cultural Ministry, a Guggenheim Fellowship,<ref>Elizabeth LeCompte Template:Webarchive at the Guggenheim Foundation.</ref> a Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship,<ref>Elizabeth LeCompte, New York, USA Rockefeller FellowTemplate:Dead link at United States Artists</ref> a United States Artists Fellowship, an Anonymous Was A Woman Award,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> the Theater Practitioner Award from Theatre Communications Group,<ref>TCG National Conference 2007 – TCG Awards Template:Webarchive at Theatre Communications Group.</ref> The Skowhegan Medal for Performance, a Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Performance Artist Award<ref>Elizabeth LeCompte Template:Webarchive at the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation</ref> and honorary doctorates from the New School for Social Research and the California Institute of the Arts. She was included in the 1993 Whitney Biennial. She won the 2016 Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Wooster Group works made by LeCompteEdit

TheaterEdit

Three Places in Rhode IslandEdit

  • Sakonnet Point (1975)
  • Rumstick Road (1977)
  • Nayatt School (1978)
  • Point Judith (an epilog) (1979)

The Road to ImmortalityEdit

  • Route 1 & 9 (1981)
  • L.S.D. (…Just the High Points…) (1984)
  • Frank Dell’s The Temptation of St. Antony (1988)
  • North Atlantic (1984, 1999, 2010)
  • Brace Up! (1991, 2003)
  • The Emperor Jones (1993, 2006)
  • Fish Story (1994)
  • The Hairy Ape (1996)
  • House/Lights (1998, 2005)
  • To You, The Birdie! (Phèdre) (2002)
  • Poor Theater (2004)
  • Who’s Your Dada?! (2006)
  • Hamlet (2007, 2012)
  • La Didone (2009)
  • Vieux Carré (2011)
  • Troilus and Cressida (2012) — a collaboration with the Royal Shakespeare Company; directed by Elizabeth LeCompte and Mark Ravenhill
  • Cry, Trojans! (Troilus & Cressida) (2014)
  • Early Shaker Spirituals (2014)
  • The Room (2016)
  • The Town Hall Affair (2017)
  • A Pink Chair (In Place of a Fake Antique) (2018)
  • Nayatt School Redux (2019)
  • The Mother (2021)
  • Symphony of Rats (2024)

DanceEdit

  • Hula (1981)
  • For the Good Times (1982)
  • Dances with T.V. and Mic (1998)
  • Erase-E(X) (2004) (with JoJi Inc.)
  • I Am Jerome Bel (2008)

Film and videoEdit

  • Flaubert Dreams of Travel but the Illness of His Mother Prevents It (1986)
  • Today I Must Sincerely Congratulate You (1991)
  • White Homeland Commando (1992)
  • Rhyme ’Em to Death (1994)
  • The Emperor Jones (DVD - 1999)
  • House/Lights (DVD - 2004)
  • There Is Still Time . . Brother (installation - 2007)
  • Brace Up! (DVD - 2009)
  • Dailies (2010 - present)
  • To You, The Birdie! (Phèdre) (DVD - 2011)
  • Rumstick Road (DVD - 2013)

Radio-audioEdit

  • The Emperor Jones (BBC Radio 3 play - 1998)
  • Racine’s Phèdre (BBC Radio 3 play - 2000)

Personal lifeEdit

In 1977 LeCompte began a relationship with actor Willem Dafoe. They never married and ended their relationship in 2004 after 27 years. The couple have one son, Jack.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

See alsoEdit

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