Professional Experience
- present Producer of the Edward Albee Festival, Arena Stage
- 2003-present Freelance Experiential Education (Teambuilding) Facilitator
- 2007-09 Chair and Director of Theater, Lake Forest College
- 2006-07 Mellon Post-Doctoral Teaching Fellow, Kalamazoo College
Education & Fellowships
- 2006 Ph.D. Theatre Studies, University of Michigan
- 2005 Fulbright/IIE Postgraduate Award to Australia, University of Sydney
- 2004 International Center for Advanced Theatre Studies (ICATS), Helsinki, Finland
- 2002 School for Criticism & Theory (SCT), Cornell University
- 1999 B.A. Theatre / Philosophy, New College, Florida
Teaching detailed course descriptions and syllabi
University Teaching
- 2008-09 Lake Forest College Theater History III: Shaw to Kushner | Playwrights & Performers: Considering Voice (First-Year Seminar) | Origins & Theories of Theater | Directing
- 2007-08 Lake Forest College Directing | Dramatic Theory
- 2006-07 Kalamazoo College Fundamentals of Acting | Theatre of Revolt: Modernism and Postmodernism in Western Theatre
- 2003-04 University of Michigan Introduction to Acting
- 2002-03 University of Michigan Introduction to Acting | Introduction to Theatre & Performance | Introduction to World Performance
- 2001-02 University of Michigan Introduction to Theatre & Performance
Freelance Teaching
- 2010 Arlington Learning in Retirement Institute | instructor: The Educated Audience
- 2009 Traveling Players Ensemble High School Ensemble director
- 2009 Camp Hanover Adventure Course Teambuilding Facilitator Training
- 2008-09 KCACTF region III workshop "Building Ensemble"
- 2008-09 KCACTF region III Production Response
- 2008 Camp Hanover Adventure Course Teambuilding Facilitator Training
- 2008 Lake Forest College Office of Residential Life Teambuilding Session for RA Training
- 2007-08 KCACTF region III Production Response
- 2007 Camp Hanover Adventure Course Teambuilding Facilitator Training
- 2006-07 KCACTF region III workshop "Ensemble Building in Rehearsal"
- 2006-07 KCACTF region III Production Response
- 2004 Camp Hanover Adventure Course Teambuilding Facilitator Training
- 2003 Camp Hanover Adventure Course Teambuilding Facilitator Training
- 2003-06 University of Michigan Challenge Program Custom-Designed Teambuilding Sessions
- 2000 Urbana Parks & Recreation Creative Kids After School
Research & Publications abstracts
Publications
Ohlandt, D. "This is My Body, Broken: Fantasies of Resurrection in 21st Century Television"
forthcoming chapter in anthology Small Screen Revelations, edited by Marcus O'Donnell, Sheffield Phoenix PressOhlandt, D. "Voice Embodied: Rhetoric at the Intersection of Writing and Performance"
2007 chapter in anthology What Is the New Rhetoric?, edited by Susan Thomas, Cambridge Scholars PressOhlandt-Ross, D. "Rehearsal As Cartography: Some Challenges for Metaphor and Practice"
January 2006 article published in About Performance, #6 (2006)Ross, Dee. "Playing the Line: Language Games in the Plays of Tom Stoppard"
April 2002 article published in Text & Presentation, v. 23 (April 2002)
Dissertation
"Trying to Relate: Disability and the Politics of Representation in Contemporary Theatre"
University of Michigan, 2006 | dissertation chair: E. J. Westlake
winner 2007 Michael Myatt Distinguished Dissertation in Disability Studies Award
Juried Presentations & Invited Talks
- November 2010 "'Tutu-Clad Studs' and 'Pseudo-Ballerinas': The 'Body Language' of Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo" ASTR conference
- November 2007 "The Appearance of Authenticity: Adapted & Artificial Language(s) in Deaf Theatre" PSi conference
- November 2006 "Actors in the Mist: Observing Theatre Artists in Their Natural Habitat" ASTR conference
- August 2006 "Science or Art? A (Postmodern) Matter of Life and Death"ATHE conference
- June 2006 "Speaking As / Speaking For: Mental Illness as Disability in Theatrical Performance" Society for Disability Studies (SDS)
- July 2005 "Getting Into History: the Problem with People in Historical Re-enactments"ADSA conference
- April 2005 "Casting Strategies as a Site of Aesthetic Refusal" Philament journal (University of Sydney) conference
- November 2004 "Considering Bodies in Evaluating Taste" roundtable seminar convened and chaired ASTR conference
- August 2004 "Bodies of Research: On Acting, Ethnography, and Disability" ICATS seminar
- April 2004 "Form and Function: Disabled Characters in 20th Century Drama" Comparative Drama Conference
- April 2003 "Purely Formal Bodies: 'Characters Who Act' and Witkacy's Theory of Pure Form" Comparative Drama Conference
- November 2002 "Toward a Responsible Portrayal of Blindness: Casting 'Across Ability' in Friel's Molly Sweeney"ASTR conference
Theatre Directing & Production descriptions & photos
- April-July 2010 R. Buckminster Fuller: The HISTORY (and Mystery) OF THE UNIVERSE, by D. W. Jacobs
assistant director for director D.W. Jacobs, Arena Stage, Washington, DC - July-August 2009 All's Well That Ends Well, by Shakespeare
director, Traveling Players Ensemble - March 2009 Pippin, music by Stephen Schwartz
director, mainstage musical for Lake Forest College Theater Department - October 2008 A Day in the Life of An Undocumented Student, original docudrama
director and project coordinator, Lake Forest College Office of Intercultural Relations - May 2007 The Madwoman of Chaillot, by Jean Giraudoux
director, mainstage production for Kalamazoo College, Department of Theatre Arts - April 2004 An Arthur Miller Celebration, concept by Mark Lamos
head dramaturg, scene director, and project manager for director Mark Lamos, University of Michigan Department of Theatre & Drama - November 2003 Diary of A Scoundrel, by Ostrovsky
assistant director for faculty director Malcolm Tulip, University of Michigan Department of Theatre & Drama - October 2002 Molly Sweeney, by Brian Friel
director, in conjunction with the Center for Students with Disabilities, University of Michigan Graduate Studio - March 2002 The Balcony, by Jean Genet
dramaturg for faculty director Mbala Nkanga, University of Michigan Department of Theatre & Drama - March 2002 The Possibilities, by Howard Barker
co-director, series of one-act scenes, University of Michigan Graduate Studio - November 2001 Compleat Female Stage Beauty, by Jeffrey Hatcher
dramaturg for Globe Theatre (San Francisco) director Mark Lamos, workshop at the University of Michigan - July 2001 The 1940's Radio Hour, by Walton Jones
director, musical produced by The Station Theatre (Champaign, IL) - March 2001 Kiss Me Kate, music by Cole Porter
director, musical produced by Champaign-Urbana (IL) Theatre Company - October 2000 Women and Wallace, by Jonathan Marc Sherman
director, play in full round produced by Pandora's Players (Champaign, IL) - January 2000 The Orphan Train, by Aurand Harris
assistant director for director Jennifer Goran, produced by Parkland College Theatre (Champaign, IL) - March 1999 Chinamen, by Michael Frayn
director, bachelor's thesis practial component, New College (Florida) - February 1998 The Juniper Tree, by Wendy Kesselman (original music by Bret Aarden)
director, fantasy musical, produced with Bret Aarden at New College (Florida) - November 1996 Dancing at Lughnasa, by Brian Friel
director, student-produced play at New College (Florida) - June 1995 Godspell, music by Stephen Schwartz
director/producer, community musical, Califon, NJ