Jonah A. Winn-Lenetsky
Director ■ Actor ■ Writer ■ Activist ■ Gardening Expert
Contact: jonahwinnlenetsky@iaia.edu
About
Jonah Winn-Lenetsky is originally from Santa Fe, New Mexico. He has a Ph.D. and Master’s Degree in Theatre from the University of Minnesota. He is currently an Assistant Professor of Performing Arts at the Institute of American Indian Arts. His dissertation titled Common Ground looks at the intersections of race, gender, sexuality and class, in the street performance work of activist groups in the UK and Palestine. Jonah has published on this and other topics in scholarly journals.
His recent work explores threats to the environment and how communities can use performance to conceptualize and address ecosystems. He is also an actor and director whose plays have been produced throughout the US and internationally. Most recently his collaborative productions have examined community-based cultural issues in Northern New Mexico with “Voices from Israel and Palestine”, which looked at the similarities and differences between life in the Middle-East and in the Southwest and “12 Switches”, a performance that celebrated lowrider culture.
These were performed at Northern New Mexico College, Warehouse 21, the Institute of American Indian Arts and The New Mexico History Museum.
Past Productions
INDIAN SCHOOL STAGED READING
TEARING DOWN WALLS AT IAIA
WATER PERFORMANCE
WRITING
Recent Publications
Performance Research: A Journal of Performing Arts
Issue Editor
Volume 25, 2020 – Issue 2 – Issue Editorhttps://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13528165.2020.1752570
(Forthcoming) Theatre Research International Volume 45 – Issue 2
Interview with Rulan Tangen of Dancing Earth
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/theatre-research-international/latest-issue
Criticism
“A Doll’s House Part Two”, Preview
https://southwestcontemporary.com/theater-roundup-a-dolls-house-part-2/
“Chaotic Structures: Action at a Distance”, Review
CURRICULUM VITAE
EDUCATION
Ph.D. Department of Theatre Arts and Dance, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, 2015, Dissertation: Common Ground: Performing Gay Shame and Solidarity Committee: Margaret Werry (chair), Sonja Kuftinec, Roderick Ferguson, Cindy Garcia
M.A. Department of Theatre Arts and Dance, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, 2008
B.A. Department of Theatre Arts and Dance, University of California, Santa Cruz, 2001
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2017-2018 Assistant Professor, Department of Performing Arts, Institute of American Indian Arts
PUBLICATIONS
Peer Reviewed Journal Articles
“Gay Pride and Its Adverse: Europride 2006 and the Counter Performance of EuroShame.” Interalia: a Journal of Queer Studies, (2008)
“Talking Like a Woman: Feminist Group Dynamics in the Queer/Trans Israeli Performance Group Dirty Laundry” MP, Vol 3, Issue 4, (2012)
“Performing Dark Ecology: A Critical Introduction” Performance International, forthcoming (2019)
In Submission
“Common Ground: Performances of Solidarity in Israel and Palestine” Theatre Journal
In Preparation
“Chlorophyllogica: Performing a New Taxonomy of Plants”
FELLOWSHIPS & AWARDS
2016-2017 Los Alamos National Laboratory Grant, Northern New Mexico College
2015 Santa Fe Arts Commission Grant for “Voices from Israel and Palestine”
2014 EL ÉXITO, Northern New Mexico College
2008 Travel Award to present at the ASTR conference, University of Minnesota
2007 Graduate Research Partnership Program Grant, University of Minnesota
2006 Bush Foundation Grant for Teaching in Large Lecture Classes, University of Minnesota
2006 Grant for Travel and Conference Presentation, University of Minnesota
2005 Bush Foundation Grant for Teaching in Large Lecture Classes, University of Minnesota
2004 Travel Award for Summer Seminar Participation, University of Mainz
2004 Bush Foundation Grant for Teaching in Large Lecture Classes
CONFERENCE ACTIVITY
Panels Organized
2017 “Ecology and Performance Working Group” with Angenette Spalink and Lisa Woynarski, American Society for Theatre Research, Minneapolis, MN
2016 “Ecology and Performance Working Group” with Angenette Spalink and Lisa Woynarski, American Society for Theatre Research, Minneapolis, MN
Campus Talks
2005 “The Subject Outside of Representation” Mexico City, Mexico
Papers
2016 “Wild Encounters in Safe Spaces: Performing at Orchid Shows” American Society for Theatre Research annual conference, Minneapolis, MN
2015 “Chlorophyllogica: Performing a new Taxonomy of Plants” American Society for Theatre Research annual conference, Minneapolis, MN
2009 “Common Ground: Performances of Protest in Israel Build Coalitions in Order to Fight Oppression” American Society for Theatre Research Conference (ASTR), Boston, MA
2006 “Contestations of Identification: Drag Performance and Tourism in Key West.” The Association for Canadian Theatre Research Conference, Toronto, Canada
2005 “Fanning the Subject: Orientalism and Commodity Fetishism in Oscar Wilde’s Lady Windermere’s Fan.” University of Wisconsin Graduate Theater Conference, Madison, Wisconsin, U.S.
2004 “Fanning the Subject: Orientalism and Commodity Fetishism in Oscar Wilde’s Lady Windermere’s Fan.” Performance Studies Summer Session, Mainz, Germany
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Northern New Mexico College, Sole Instructor
Acting I and II (Spring 2017, Fall 2015, Spring 2014)
Introduction to Theatre (Spring 2017, Fall 2016, Spring 2015, Fall 2014, Summer 2014, Spring 2013, Fall 2012)
Stage Production (Spring 2014, Spring 2013)
English 109 (Spring 2016, Fall 2015,
English 111
Institute of American Indian Arts, Sole Instructor
Playwriting (Spring 2018)
Devised Theatre (Spring 2018)
Improvisation (Spring 2018)
English 099 (Fall 2017)
English 101 (Fall 2017)
Santa Fe University of Art and Design, Sole Instructor
“Performing the Self” (Fall 2015, Fall 2014)
“Who am I” (Spring 2017, Fall 2016, Spring 2016, Fall 2013)
“Identity in America” (Fall 2014, Spring 2013)
“Queer Performance History” (Spring 2014)
Santa Fe Community College, Sole Instructor
English 111 (Fall 2017, Summer 2017, Spring 2017)
English 109 (Fall 2017, Summer 2016, Spring 2016)
Read 101 (Fall 2015, Spring 2016)
English 108 (Fall 2016)
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
To School and Department
Faculty Advisor for Student Improvisation Club
Advisor for Student Productions
Advisor for Gay Straight Alliance
Organizer, UMN Theatre Arts & Dance Department AIDS Charity Cabaret
Crisis Point Board of Directors
Playwriting Mentor, Xperimental Theater
Tutored Students in Writing College Essays
Wrote Letters of Recommendation for College Applications
Space to Think Co-Facilitator
Historiography Theory Lecture Series
OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Business Manager, Santa Fe Performing Arts, Summer 2017
PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS
American Society for Theatre Research
Earth Matters Onstage
Santa Fe Shakespeare Society
New Mexico Theatre Connection
ARTISTIC EXPERIENCE
Directing
2017 “Twelve Switches” New Mexico History Museum
2017 “Twelve Switches” Northern New Mexico College 2015 “Voices from Israel and Palestine” Warehouse 21 2014 “September Shoes” Northern New Mexico College
2014 “Benchwarmers” Santa Fe Playhouse
2013 “The Season of La Llorona” Northern New Mexico College
2012 “Fiesta Melodrama” Santa Fe Playhouse
2012 “Bell Book and Candle” BCP
2011 “After Magritte” Mid-Peninsula High School
2010 Original Student Showcase Mid-Peninsula High School
2009 “The Real Inspector Hound” Mid-Peninsula High School
2005 “Americanisms” Xperimental Theatre
2002 “Hamway” Manhattan Playhouse
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