GLJ--Theater

GARY LEE JOYNER'S THEATER RESUME

•Attended the Wesley Balk Institute at Macalaster College, studying opera direction, under a full scholarship.

•Staff member/consultant for an education and collaboration project with Nautilus Music Theater and The Ordway Center For the Performing Arts.

•Conceived, wrote the libretto, and directed Intension-with composer Peter Hamlin (Professor of Composition, Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vermont) and singer Jake Endres. Performances at Nautilus Music Theater, St. Olaf College, and the 2001 Fringe Festival.

•Conceived, wrote the libretto, and directed The Blind Tongue-with composer Mark Warhol and Ensemble Warhol. Productions at the Red Eye Theater in Minneapolis and Théâtre La Chapelle in Montreal.

•Conceived, wrote the libretto, and directed Ophelia at the Bates Hotel with composer Carl Witt. Performances at Nautilus Theater and Southern Theater.

•Librettist-Nautilus New Music Theater Composer-Librettist Studio

•Member of Artist Assistance Theatre Arts Advisory Panel, MN. State Arts Board

•Professional stage manager, sound designer, director, composer, musician, actor, script reader and analyst, public relations manager, lighting/sound technician, set design and construction, and consultant at the following professional and non- profit theaters, companies and venues:

Berkeley Repertory Theater
Theater on the Square, San Francisco
Marines' Memorial Theater, SF
Venetian Room, Fairmont Hotel, SF
Marin Theater Company, Mill Valley
ACT, SF
Beach Blanket Babylon, SF
The Plush Room. SF
Cabaret Metro, Chicago
Eureka Theater, SF
The Boarding House, SF
Bal Tabarin, SF
Merola Opera Company, SF
Mill Valley Cntr for Perf. Arts
American Zephyr Theater, SF
Henry Cowell Theater, SF
Royal Viking Cruise Lines
Theater Artists of Marin, San Rafael
New Performance Gallery, SF
West End Repertory Theater, Berk.
Intersection Theater, SF
FM Productions, Brisbane
Theater of Yugen, SF
The Residents, SF
Chi-Chi Theater Club, SF
Marin Comm. Playhse., San Anselmo
The Barn, Ross Valley
Lorraine Hansberry Theater, SF
University of California Theater Department, Berkeley
Theater Artaud, SF
San Francisco Bay Guardian, SF
Olympia Arts Ensemble, Mpls

•Tech support for performers including Mel Torme and George Shearing, The 5th Dimension, Tommy Tune, Barbara Cook, Miss Peggy Lee, The Kingston Trio, The Persuasions, The Platters, Lainie Kazan, Cab Calloway, Joe Pass and Oscar Peterson, Leon Redbone, Phyllis Diller, and Montgomery, Plant and Stritch.

•Solo performance poetry using original music in a wide variety of venues and theatrical contexts.