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Mr. Michael K. Hunt |
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Teaching Fellow in Theater |
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Smiddy 215 |
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mkh2e@uvawise.edu |
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Education: |
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B.A., Theater
1979
Furman University |
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M.F.A., Acting
1989
Indiana University, Bloomington |
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Courses
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Theater Aesthetics
Theater History
Performance Studies
Playwriting
Western Drama
Performance Practicum
Ensemble Rehearsal and Performance
Theater Seminar, Acting |
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Professional
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Mr. Hunt is dramaturg and development director for RFK in EKY (the real time, real place recreation of Robert F. Kennedy's 1968 tour of southeastern Kentucky), creating the project with artistic director John Malpede of the Los Angeles Poverty Department. Articles on the project have appeared in American Theater Magazine, Theater Journal, the NY Times, Le Figaro, Liberation, and the Community Arts Network Reading Room.
Mr. Hunt is working with the LKLP Head Start Program to develop locally defined and managed resources, art initiatives, and large scale public performances to address the issue of drug abuse in eastern Kentucky and its effects on families and communities. |
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Research
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Mr. Hunt is working on a book, archive, and documentary film on RFK's original visit to eastern Kentucky, the 2004 recreation, and issues of poverty and local initiative. The project's website is www.rfkineky.org.
Other research interests include non-traditional cultural representations, the performance of "outsider [fringeman] values" and the war-on-poverty concept of "maximum feasible participation." |
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Other
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Fiction, solo performance, and site-based biology. |
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