Solo_Performances

		Katie Hargis Story of Jane Austen Repertoire of Solo Performances of Literature and Historical Autobiographies Performance Studies Department of Communication and Media Studies College of Humanities University of Mary Hardin-Baylor Belton, Texas

		The following repertoire includes sample pieces that have been performed for a variety of purposes (discussion-starters, cameos, full-length presentations) and in a variety of formats (for onsite or distance performances). The autobiographical stories of historical characters have been based on primary sources. The scripts have been researched and written by the performers. They have been facilitated by Dr. Diane Howard and guided by the process outlined in her text, Autobiographical Writing and Performing, An Introductory Guide to Process and Research in Speech Performance.
		*These abbreviated performances have been video-streamed from the Apple Corp. Learning Interchange.

		**These full-length presentations have been performed via distance technologies.
		***These full-length performances have been available through the Temple Cultural Activities Center's Artists-for-Hire program.
		****These abbreviated performances have been available for Technology Fairs and Conferences.

		, , , ** UMHB Performance Studies Students Present Ethnic Stories, Art, Literature UMHB Performance Studies Students Perform Poetry from around the World for Television and for on-site events. (Voice Sample- Performance of Poetry Guidelines ) UMHB Performance Studies Students Serve the Military, Perform for Equal Opportunity Days/Months (Jan.-Dr. Martin Luther King Day, Feb.-African American History Month, March-Women's History Month, April- Days of Remembrance (Holocaust), May-Asian Pacific Month, August- Women's Equality Month, Sept.- Hipanic Heritage Month & Nationally Disabled Month, and Nov.- Native American Month) UMHB International, Bi-Lingual Performance Studies Students perform literature in dialects, especially for voice-overs: Peter McBride - Irish; Michael Peterson - Greek; Okechuwu Iwundu - African; Breanna Sherbert, Shuntaro Yanasaki - Japanese; Stacia Yu - Chinese, Sara Culpepper- Mandarin Chinese; Angela Espada- Korean; Jessica Stockel - German; Natalia Trejo, Michael Fox, Sandra Rodriquez, Candi Kelly, Dani Brown, Brisa Ruiz, Jeff Contreras - Spanish; Layla Kalati- Farsi, Rumi Poetry Autobiographical Performances have been produced in the following categories: African American, American, Asian , Biblical, Christian, Ethnic American, European , Hispanic, Physically Challenged, Jewish , Texan, Women ... UMHB Performance Studies Students Perform Literature Via Videoconference and Videostreaming Technologies, Temple ISD, TX
		(See the following lists and links: Performances of Poetry, Ethnic Programs Equal Opportunity Programs, Performance/Communication Programs.)

			Performer	Performance of Poetry
				American Poetry
			Christine Pointer----------------------------------	Still I Rise, Maya Angelou
			Suzanne White-----------------------------------	Coming Home, Roger Bradford
			Melissa Gonzales--------------------------------	, **Poetry of Gwendolyn Brooks
			Ginny Byrd-------------------------------------	The Asylum, MD Burke
			Christy Edwards -------------------------------	Ocean, Isabelle Burke
			Matthew Irvine ----------------------------------	Gertrude of Wyoming by Thomas Campbell
			Alisha Osborn------------------------------------	Afraid! Of whom am I afraid? Emily Dickinson
			Cynthia Thibodeau------------------------------	If I Can Stop One Heart, Emily Dickinson
			Amy Vessels-----------------------------------	I Never Heard the Word Escape, Emily Dickinson
			Robyn Hynes-----------------------------------	It Struck Me Every Day, Emily Dickinson
			Emily Kidwell-----------------------------------	That I Did Always Love, Emily Dickinson
			Eugenia Greaves----------------------------------	We Wear a Mask, Paul Laurence Dunbar
			Eugenia Greaves----------------------------------	I Will Not Give My Black Back, unknown author
			Nicole Young----------------------------------	I am He, Robert Ellis
			Monica Alexander	An Emotional Idiot, Maggie Estep
			Kyle Ledbetter-------------------------------------------	Fire and Ice, Robert Frost
			Beth Prater---------------------------------------	The Lockless Door, Robert Frost
			Alma Shirtum-------------------------------------	A Prayer in Spring, Robert Frost
			Jane Polach-------------------------------------	The Road Not Taken, Robert Frost
			Jeff Reiswig ------------------------------------	The Road Not Taken, Robert Frost
			Chase Williams-----------------------------------	Stars, Robert Frost
			Carrie Kelley-------------------------------------	Love Is, Nikki Giovanni
			Kristeya Price------------------------------------	Balances, Nikki Giovanni
			Sterling Stewart---------------------------------	Collection of Poems, by Langston Hughes
			Kevin Guyden-----------------------------------	*Daybreak in Alabama,* video, Langston Hughes
			Lisa Banks-------------------------------------	A Dream Deferred, Children Rhymes, Langston Hughes
			Ryan Mosley-----------------------------------	Cultural Exchange, Langston Hughes
			Shannon Robinson-------------------------------	*The Cross,* Langston Hughes
			Lorenzo Morgan--------------------------------	Life is Fine, Langston Hughes
			Christine Pointer---------------------------------	, ** Negro , Langston Hughes
			Lennard Ball-------------------------------------	*The Negro Speaks of River*s, Langston Hughes
			Joseph Warren----------------------------------------------	*The Negro Speaks of River*s, Langston Hughes
			Lejon L. Wright Sr.--------------------------	Night Funeral in Harlem, Langston Hughes
			Brandon Fulcher---------------------------------	Let America Be America Again, Langston Hughes
			Dee Hughes---------------------------------------	The Creation, video, James Weldon Johnson
			Jessica Stockel----------------------------------	Bitter Strawberries, Sylvia Plath
			Cassie Threadgill---------------------------------	Mirror, Sylvia Plath
			Charles Turner ----------------------------------	The Bells,
			Jenise Smith---------------------------------------	Annabel Lee,video, Edgar Allen Poe
			Jenna Artus--------------------------------------	In Memoriam
			Jessica Hobratsch--------------------------------	Home Burial
			Katie Hargis-------------------------------------	After Apple-Picking and The Road Not Taken
			Christine Pointer---------------------------------	, **Still I Rise, Ballad of Birmingham, Negro
			Melissa McAdams-------------------------------	Unspoken, Dana Gioia
			Carlotta Russell Maneice-------------------------	, **, Poetry by Nikki Giovanni
			Will Johnson-------------------------------------	The Slave’s Complaint, George Horton
			Brooke Bennett-----------------------------------	Star-Spangled Banner (in English & Amer.Sign Language), Francis Scott Key
			Angelique Myers---------------------------------	Her Story, Naomi Long Madgett
			Carlotta Russell Maneice-------------------------	,,***What If I am A Woman, Claudette Elaine Sims
			Melinda Lovorn---------------------------------	Reflection on the Viet Nam War Memorial, Jeffery Harrison
			Tim Scherwin-------------------------------------	My Time, Cleatus Rattan
			Chris Johnson ----------------------------------	A Cowboy's Prayer
			Rhonda Bailey----------------------------------	I Am Not Yours, Sarah Teasdale
			Kathy Olin--------------------------------------	America for Me, Henry Van Dyke
			Eric Clawsen -----------------------------------	Light Of Stars, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
			Suzanne White---------------------------------	Coming Home
			Merrit McKinnon Johnson----------------------	The Highwayman, Alfred Noyes
			Megan Lee-------------------------------------	Casey at the Bat, Ernest Thayer
			Chad Hampton----------------------------------	Casey at the Bat, Ernest Thayer
			Brooke Bennett-----------------------------------	Star-Spangled Banner, Francis Scott Key


				Biblical, Christian, Jewish Poetry
			Colette Chadwell---------------------------------	*Job 6*
			Amy Lunde---------------------------------------	If I Forget Jerusalem, Yehuda Amichi
			Sarah Durham------------------------------------	Isaiah 53
			Chad Crawford ----------------------------------------	The Prayer of St. Patrick, attributed to St. Patrick
			Lacey Thomas------------------------------------	Psalm 27
			Cynthia Brehm----------------------------------	Psalm 63
			Jamie Parker------------------------------------	Psalm 67
			Raychelle Presley---------------------------------	Psalms

				British Poetry
			Jenny Ewton -------------------------------------	How Do I Love Thee, Elizabeth Barrett Browning
			Christie Curtis-------------------------------------	My Kate, Elizabeth Barrett Browning
			Lauren Chamberlain------------------------------	Portuguese Love Sonnet, Elizabeth Barrett Browning
			Megan Robertson-------------------------------	**Meeting at Night & Parting at Morning, Robert Browning**
			Jessica Leonard----------------------------------	The Chimney Sweeper, William Blake
			Robert Copeland---------------------------------	The Lamb, William Blake
			Stephen Milillo----------------------------------	Love's Secret, William Blake
			Ronnie McAdams--------------------------------	On Another's Sorrow, William Blake
			Josh Gwyn-----------------------------------------------------------	Songs of Experience, William Blake
			Jennifer Lovell-----------------------------------	Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience, William Blake
			Ronnie McAdams---------------------------------	On Another's Sorrow by William Blake
			Eric Clawson-------------------------------------	To the Evening Star, William Blake
			Amy Lowman-------------------------------------	Sunflower, William Blake
			Jimmy Torres------------------------------------	The Tyger, William Blake
			Robyn Renfroe----------------------------------	To a Louse, Robert Burns
			Andrew Rey ------------------------------------	Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Samuel Taylor Coleridge
			Jeremy Thompson--------------------------------	Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Samuel Taylor Coleridge
			Joel Hudson-------------------------------------	Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Samuel Taylor Coleridge
			Day Lusby---------------------------------------	Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats, T. S. Eliot
			Julie Kendig-------------------------------------	*The Wastelands,* T. S. Eliot
			Rebekah Powell----------------------------------	God's Grandeur, video, Gerard Manley Hopkins
			Mary Susan McGarr------------------------------	As Kingfishers Catch Fire, Gerard Manley Hopkins
			Amanda Dickinson-------------------------------	To Sleep, John Keats
			Jennifer Ellis-------------------------------------	Revenge, Letitia Elizabeth Landon
			Stacy Regian-------------------------------------	The Owl and the Pussy Cat, Edward Lear
			Ryan Busby-------------------------------------	On the Late Massacre at Piedmont, John M ilton
			Aaron Rosberg-----------------------------------	At Solemn Music, John Milton
			Benjamin Tindall	Arnold Winkelried, James Montgomery
			Peter McBride-----------------------------------	Dulce Et Decorum Est, Wilfred Owen
			Tyna Hammond----------------------------------	*A Christmas Carol,* Christina Rossetti
			Rachel Tomasek----------------------------------	The First Day, Christina Rossetti
			Jennifer Strickland-------------------------------	Goblin Market, Christina Rossetti
			Sarah Ray----------------------------------------	A Daughter of Eve, Christina Rossetti
			Sri Fulton--------------------------------------- -	Hymns of Pan, Percy Shelley
			Jenna Artus---------------------------------------	In Memoriam, Alfred Lord Tennyson
			James Love--------------------------------------	Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night, Dylan Thomas
			Stacy Fannin--------------------------------------	Daffodils, William Wordsworth
			James Chapman----------------------------------	Coole Park and Ballylee,William Butler Yeats
			Josh Jones----------------------------------------	The Sorrow of Love, William Butler Yeats
			Jerica Sowers-------------------------------------	When You are Old, William Butler Yeats
			Kyle Tubbs----------------------------------------------	The Wild Swans at Coole, William Butler Yeats
			Mark Arrazola----------------------------------	Poverty Knock, anonymous
			Jessica Roush------------------------------------	Shakespearean Sonnets
			Liz Unger-----------------------------------------	Lost (In a Celtic dialect) – A Traditional Celtic Poem

				Canadian Poetry
			Sara Barnes--------------------------------------	Variations on the Word Love, by Margaret Atwood

				Ethnic Poetry
				African
			Okechuku Iwundu--------------------------------	I eared, Phedi Tlhobolo
				African American
			Christine Pointer	, **Still I Rise, Maya Angelou
			Christine Pointer---------------------------------	, **Ballad of Birmingham
			Eugenia Greaves----------------------------------	We Wear a Mask, Paul Laurence Dunbar
			Eugenia Greaves----------------------------------	I Will Not Give My Black Back, unknown author
			Carlotta Russell Maneice-------------------------	,,***Poetry of C.E. Sims, Nikki Giovanni
			Melissa Gonzales--------------------------------	, **Poetry of Gwendolyn Brooks
			Will Johnson-------------------------------------------------------	The Slave’s Complaint , George Horton
			Christine Pointer---------------------------------	, **Negro, Langston Hughes
			Christine Pointer---------------------------------	, **Still I Rise, Ballad of Birmingham, Negro
			Kevin Guyden-----------------------------------	*Daybreak in Alabama,* video, Langston Hughes
			Lisa Banks-------------------------------------	A Dream Deferred, Children Rhymes ,Langston Hughes
			Shannon Robinson---------------------------------------------	The Cross, Langston Hughes
			Lorenzo Morgan---------------------------------	Life is Fine, Langston Hughes
			Ryan Mosley-------------------------------------	Cultural Exchange, Langston Hughes
			Sterling Stewart---------------------------------	Collection of Poems, by Langston Hughes
			Christine Pointer---------------------------------	, ** Negro , Langston Hughes
			Lennard Ball-------------------------------------	*The Negro Speaks of River*s, Langston Hughes
			Joseph Warren----------------------------------------------	*The Negro Speaks of River*s, Langston Hughes
			Lejon L. Wright Sr.--------------------------	Night Funeral in Harlem, Langston Hughes
			Brandon Fulcher---------------------------------	Let America Be America Again, Langston Hughes
			Carlotta Russell-----------------------------------	*On Being Brought to* *America, Phyllis Wheatley*
				American Indian
			Nicole Young -----------------------------------	I am He (about a Native American Indian) by Robert Ellis
				Chinese
			Deanna Johnston----------------------------------	Unsteady is that cypress boat, Shih Ching
			Stacia Yu-----------------------------------------	Chinese Poetry (in Chinese & English)
			Janice Whited-----------------------------------	Thoughts on a Still Night, Li Bai (in Chinese and English)
				Filipino
			Ashley Goodin-----------------------------------	Love is a Two-Way Street by Randy Villanueva
				French
			Donya Fagan-------------------------------------	Qui Quoi (In English and French), Michel Deguy
				Greek
			Michael Peterson--------------------------------	Ithaca, Constantin Cavafy
				Hispanic
			Brittany Edwards---------------------------------	Song to the Most Holy Name of Jesus by Fernanado de Cordova y Bocanegra
			Sandra Rodriquez--------------------------------	The Delicate Rose, Sor Juana Inez De La Cruz
			Yasmin Blackwood------------------------------	Me gusta cuando callas , Pablo Neruda
			Diane Myers-------------------------------------	**Keeping Quiet, Pablo Neruda**
			Natalia Trejo-------------------------------------	*The Balcony, Octavio Paz**
			Aaron Castillo------------------------------------	No More Cliches, Octavio Paz
			Brisa Ruiz ---------------------------------------	Day of the Refugios, Alberto Rios
			Jeff Contreras------------------------------------	I Am a Product (in Spanish and English) by Ben Weinmen
			Cindy Hardwick----------------------------------	I Am Not Alone Gabriela Mistral, video, performed by in English and Spanish
			Angela Vasquez-----------------------------------	I Live in Cuba, Lourdes Casal, Cuban poet
				Japanese
			Kazunori Yamaguchi------------------------------	Poetry of Basho Matsuo
			Breanna Sherbert ---------------------------------	A Crow on a Withered Branch (in Japanese and English) by Matsuo Basho
			Shuntaro Yanasaki-------------------------------	Performance of Japanese Literature
				Korean
			Angela Espada----------------------------------------------------	Years from Now, Kim Sowol
			Kimberly Stone---------------------------------	**An Italian Evening, Davide Rondoni**