Thomas P. Riccio
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Thomas P. Riccio is an American multimedia artist and academic. He received his BA from Cleveland State University in English Literature in 1978, his MFA from Boston University in 1982, and studied in the PhD program in Performance Studies at New York University from 1983 to 1984. Riccio has directed nearly one hundred plays.
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[edit] Career
In 1980 Riccio was appointed Assistant Literary Director at the American Repertory Theatre, Cambridge, MA and Research Assistant to Robert Brustein. In 1984 he was appointed Dramaturg and Resident Director of the Cleveland Play House. 1985 he served as Artistic Director of the Organic Theatre, Chicago. In 1988 Riccio was appointed as Professor of Theatre at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, and Artistic Director of Tuma Theater, an Inuit theatre group. He continued in both of these positions until 2003. From 2003 until present he has been the Professor of Performance Studies and Aesthetic Studies at the University of Texas at Dallas.
Since 2006 Riccio has worked with David Hanson at Hanson Robotics as a lead narrative engineer. He has also served as a Visiting Professor at the Korean National University for the Arts, California Institute of Integral Studies and the University of Dar es Salaam. He is a producing artist with Project X a Dallas-based performance collective [1].
[edit] Notable works
- 2003: Published the book Reinventing Traditional Alaska Native Performance[1]
- 2004: Initiated the "Story Lab" and Artistic Director
- 2004: Kartasi, a new media performance work
- 2006: Alpha Male, a cyberpunk paranoia new media performance work
- 2006: There is Never a Reference Point, a performance work about a person with multiple personality disorder [2]
- 2006: Inuit, a play awarded the Alexander S. Onassis Foundation Distinction Prize in Playwrighting[3]
- 2007: Participated in the creation of Einstein, a life-like conversational robot, which was on display at the Cooper-Hewitt Design Museum NYC (12/2006 to 05/2007)
- 2007: Published the book Performing Africa: Remixing Culture, Theatre and Tradition"[4]
- 2008: The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, a performance/media immersion inspired by the 1920 Expressionist film[5]
- 2008: So There and Orange Oranges, two short plays for the theatre, Festival of Independent Theaters, Dallas
- 2009: Some People a theatre/media performance work, Out of the Loop Festival and Project X, Dallas
- 2009: Andgena (The First), a devised performance work, Lul Theatre and Litooma, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, also conducted workshops at Addis Ababa University.
- 2009: Orange Oranges play published by Sojourn Literary Journal[6]
- 2009: Video Documentary Director and Editor, There is Never a Reference Point premiere Dallas Video Festival[7]
- 2009-2010: Featured Performance Artist, "All the World's a Stage," Dallas Museum of Art[8]
- 2010: Published Articles "Robot as Ritual Oracle and Fetish,[9]" University of Tartu (Estonia), "Performance of Body, Space and Place" chapter in Healing Collective Trauma, Springer Publishing[10]
- 2010: Participated in the creation of Bina, a conversational robot for Hanson Robotics
- 2010: PlayLab reading of new play TNB (Typical Nigga Behavior) Great Plains Theatre Conference and Workshop Instructor[11]
[edit] References
- ^ Thomas Riccio (March 2003). Reinventing Traditional Alaska Native Performance. Edwin Mellen. ISBN 978-0773469877.
- ^ There is never a reference point review at GuideLive.com, February 2006
- ^ Onassis Foundation prize announcement, October 2006
- ^ Peter Lang Publishing Announcement April 2007
- ^ Pegasus News Theatre Review November 2008
- ^ Sojourn Literary Journal December 2009
- ^ Dallas Video Festival Schedule November 2009
- ^ Dallas Museum of Art Video Excerpt October 2009 to February 2010
- ^ Transforming Culture in the Digital Age link April 2010
- ^ Springer Publishing link April, 2010
- ^ Great Plains Theatre Conference link April 2010
