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Robin Mello
Job Title: Professor
Organization affiliation:
Location: Wauwatosa,
WI
UW-Milwaukee
Education:
Ph.D (Interdisciplinary Studies) Lesley University, Cambridge, Massachusetts; M.S. (Educational Psychology) State University of New York, Albany, New York;
B.F.A. (Theatre: Acting) Purchase College, Purchase, New York
Professional Training: Celebration Theatre, Tony Montanaro, South Paris, Maine
Professional Training: American Academy of Dramatic Arts, New York City, New York
Biography:
Robin Mello is a researcher, teacher, and theatre maker. Her interdisciplinary approach is best demonstrated through her work on The Penelope Project—when she participated as actress, teacher, dramaturg, and program evaluator. Her chapters describing these various roles (and the research outcomes) can be found in The Penelope Project, published in Spring 2016 by Iowa Press. Icon watch the documentary here. (http://www.uiowapress.org/books/2016-spring/penelope-project.htm
Areas of Expertise:
Supporting new artists in creating original works of theatre;
Teaching dramaturgy and theatre history from critical perspectives;
Storytelling and oral-history;
Docudrama & Ethnodrama;
Evaluation and critical practices.
Language(s) spoken:
English, French (reading)
Recent Work:
Mello, R. (Playwright & Director), University of Wisconsin Milwaukee Department of Theatre (Producer). (2016). Orphan train [Play]. In performance April 4, 2016-April 10, 2016, 508 Productions, University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, WI).
Mello, R. (Co-Author) & Creighton, J. (Co-Author), Randall Boyd Planetarium (Producer). (2015). Odyssey in the stars [Play]. (In Performance, Boyd Planetarium, Weymouth, MA).
Mello, R. (Playwright & Director), University of Wisconsin Milwaukee Department of Theatre (Producer). (2014). Cinderella, the first 30,000 years[Play]. (In Performance April 24, 2014-May 4, 2014, Labworks 508 Series, University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, WI).
Mello, R. (submitted by invitation, anticipated publication date 2017). Collocation analysis of stories from the Winter Constellations storytelling project. In Lewis, Ed. Qualitative Methods-Datasets, International Research Methods Platform. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE.
Mello, R. (accepted with revisions). The deep heart of the matter: Teaching storytelling and service learning. In Delano-Oriaran, Parks, & Fondrie, Eds. Service Learning and Civic Engagement. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
Mello, R. (2016). The challenges for students. In Basting, Towey, & Rose, Eds. The Penelope Project: An Arts-based Odyssey to Change Elder Care. Teaching Humanities and Public Life Series, Iowa City: University of Iowa Press.
Mello, R. & Basting, A. (2016). Teaching Penelope: Shaping the project structure from a teaching/learning perspective. In Basting, Towey, & Rose, Eds. The Penelope Project: An Arts-based Odyssey to Change Elder Care. Teaching Humanities and Public Life Series, Iowa City: University of Iowa Press.
Mello, R. & Basting, A. (2016). The mythic lens of Penelope. In Basting, Towey, & Rose, Eds. The Penelope Project: An Arts-based Odyssey to Change Elder Care. Teaching Humanities and Public Life Series, Iowa City: University of Iowa Press.
Mello, R. & Voights, J. (2016). What did the research tell us? In Basting, Towey, & Rose, Eds. The Penelope Project: An Arts-based Odyssey to Change Elder Care. Teaching Humanities and Public Life Series, Iowa City: University of Iowa Press.
Mello, R. & Voights, J. (2016). The essential elements of Penelope. In Basting, Towey, & Rose, Eds. The Penelope Project: An Arts-based Odyssey to Change Elder Care. Teaching Humanities and Public Life Series, Iowa City: University of Iowa Press.
Mello R. & Basting, A. (2013). “The sublime, the unsettling, and the exuberant:” Changing students’ attitudes toward aging through TimeSlips creative storytelling. In T. Thaxton, Ed. Creative writing in the community. NY: Continuum.
Bjerken, T., Mello, B., & Mello, R. (2012). Cultivating a lively use of tension: The synergy between acting and the Alexander Technique. Theatre, Dance and Performance Training, 3 (1), 27-40.
Mello, R. (2008). Teaching and learning in an undergraduate ethnodrama course. Journal of Arts and Learning, 24 (1), 42-67.
Mello, R. (2007). Teaching for meaning-making and deep understanding in a general education theatre course. 7 (2). 90-109. Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning.
Website: http://www.robinmello.com