James Hesla

Education/Training:

BFA, Cornish College of the Arts. MFA, University of Hawaii. Red Nose Clown: Aitor Basauri; Christopher Bayes; Giovanni Fusetti; Dody DiSanto. Stage Combat: Geoff Alm; Mike Chin; Brent Gibbs; Gregory Hoffman; Robert MacDougall; Alan Suddeth; Robert Tuftee. Low-Flying Trapeze: Robert Davidson. 

Areas of Specialization/Interest:

Contemporary clown theatre and devised theatre in North America; Experimental Indonesian Theatre; Asian Theatre.

Professional Affiliations:

Member of American Society for Theatre Research (ASTR), member of Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE); Member of Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas (LMDA).

Representative Productions:

Playwright: Lost and Found at the Hotel Mogador, It’s Me You Should Blame (Source Festival), Petri Dish Circus, The Long Shot (Active Cultures Theatre), Graves’ Rule (The Inkwell), in Parentis Loco, Soap Lake, Behold (Rorschach Theatre), Home and Abroad (Seattle Fringe Festival, Beowulf Alley Theatre), Relative Gravity, Travel Advice for Lonely Guys (Lab Theatre, University of Hawaii).

Representative Publications/Research Activities:

Encyclopedia of Asian Theatre (Greenwood Press, 2007)


Honors and Awards: 

School of Arts and Humanities Graduate Student Travel Grant; Graduate School Summer Research Fellowship; Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship; Goldhaber Travel Award; Washington, DC Cultural Development Corporation Creative Communities Fund Grant; Arizona Commission on the Arts Individual Grant for Playwriting.