Adjunct Faculty
Creative Writing
Juanita Rockwell is a playwright, librettist, lyricist, songwriter and director with over one hundred works of theatre, opera, radio, multimedia, puppetry, music theater, dance theater and site-specific projects presented on five continents. During the pandemic, she has co-created 3 socially-distanced multimedia performance events, each of which took into account different mandated restrictions. In the before-times, her produced writing includes: Backwards from Winter (opera libretto, Blue Moon Plays; CD/libretto, Ablaze Records - composer Douglas Knehans); Between Trains (play with songs, Blue Moon Plays; Mobtown Studios CD - composer Chas Marsh); The World is Round (opera libretto, Company One Publications; CD/sheet music, Hog River Music - composer James Sellars); Playing Dead (trans. from Bros. Presnyakov, digital publication, Center for International Theatre Development); and The Circle (audio play) external website. For six years she was artistic director of Hartford’s Company One Theater, directing professional premieres of work by America’s leading experimental playwrights; and was founding director of Towson University’s MFA in Theatre, a rigorous laboratory environment training the total theater maker. Awards and grants include: Marion Fellowship in the Visual and Performing Arts, Rubys Artist Project Grant, Fulbright Fellow, and funding from the National Endowment for the Arts and National Public Radio. Writing residencies include: Ucross (WY), The Studios at Key West (FL), VCCA (VA), Playa (OR), Wildacres (NC) and a Djerassi Scientific Delirium Madness residency (CA).