Macy D. Jones

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EDUCATION

• Ph.D., Theatre History, Louisiana State University, 2017. Dissertation: “Precarious Democracy: It Can’t Happen Here as the Federal Theatre’s Site of Mass Resistance.” Advisor: John Fletcher, Ph.D.
• M.A., Speech/Theatre, Louisiana Tech University, 2005.
• B.A., Speech/Theatre, Arkansas Tech University, 2003. 

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS

• Walton Professor of Theatre, University of the Ozarks, 2024-present.
• Assistant Professor of Theatre and Communication, University of the Ozarks, 2022—2024. 
• Visiting Instructor, University of the Ozarks, Communication, 2021—2022. 
• Adjunct Instructor, University of Arkansas Fort Smith, 2018-2021.
• Adjunct Instructor, Louisiana State University, 2015.
• Visiting Instructor, University of Arkansas Fort Smith, 2005—2010.
• Adjunct Instructor, Arkansas Tech University, 2005.

PUBLICATIONS AND PERFORMANCES

Book Reviews

• New England Theatre Journal 2022, Vol. 33, “Greene, Alexis. Emily Mann: Rebel Artist of the American Theatre.” Book Review.
• Theatre History Studies 2020, Volume 39, “Smith, Matthew Wilson. The Nervous Stage: Nineteenth-century Neuroscience and the Birth of Modern Theatre.” Book Review.
• Ecumenica 2019, Volume 12, Issue 1, “Dimitrova, Diana. Hinduism and Hindi Theatre. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.” Book Review

Other Publications

• The Ponder Review, Vol. 3 Issue 1. “Real Life, Dolphin Unicorns,” short play.

Directing

• John Proctor is the Villain, University of the Ozarks (2025)
• Antigone, University of the Ozarks (2024)
• The Revolutionists, University of the Ozarks (2023)
• Pontypool , University of the Ozarks (2022)
• Lives of the Great Waitresses, University of the Ozarks (2022)
• Helter Skelter, University of the Ozarks (2022)
• A Doll’s House, Part 2, Theatre Baton Rouge (2020)
• Love, Loss and What I Wore , Red Magnolia Theatre Company (2018)
• The Smell of the Kill, Louisiana State University (2011)
• Tartuffe, University of Arkansas Fort Smith (2010)

AWARDS AND HONORS

• Mid-America Theatre Conference New Play Festival Selection. The Impossible Moon. Atlanta, GA, March 20225.
• Mid-America Theatre Conference New Play Festival Selection. Dead Ducks. Houston, TX, March 2017.
• Rosemarie Bank Membership Fellowship, American Theatre and Drama Society (2017—2018) 
• Janice H. Pellar Fellow. Louisiana State University, 2012-2013.
• Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival Regional Selection Committee Nominee, Romeo and Juliet, 2008.
• Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival National Selection Committee Nominee, Corrigenda, 2007.

GRANTS

• Dr. Helen McElree Faculty Enrichment Endowment, 2023
• Louisiana State University Departmental Dissertation Research Grant, 2015
• Louisiana State University Departmental Dissertation Research Grant, 2015
• Louisiana State University Student Government Research Grant, 2013
• Louisiana State University Student Government Research Grant, 2012

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

• Mid-America Theatre Conference. “Reset and Review: Theatre Departments Mission Adjustment.” Madison, WI, March 2024.
• Mid-America Theatre Conference. “The Impossible Clock: Reviving A Theatre Program within Five Years.” Minneapolis, MN, March 2023.
• Mid-America Theatre Conference. “Revolution Deferred: The Missing Department of Public Art.” Cleveland, OH, March 2022.
• American Society of Theatre Research. “Acting Up Again: Activist Erasure in the Federal Dance Project.” San Diego, CA, November 2021. 
• American Society of Theatre Research. “Hell on the Border: The Public Participant in Fort Smith’s Old West Pastiche.” Arlington, VA, November 2019.
• American Society of Theatre Research. “Arousing Suspicion: The Federal Theatre Project’s Canceled Production of Ethiopia.” San Diego, CA, November 2018.
• Mid-America Theatre Conference. “Spinning Fiction into Fact: The Federal Theatre Project’s Integrated Production of It Can’t Happen Here.” Milwaukee, WI, March 2018.
• American Society of Theatre Research. “Of Black Shirts and Golden Escalators: Historical Research in the Age of Trumpism.” Atlanta, GA, November 2017. 
• Mid-America Theatre Conference. “How Do You Solve a Problem Like Totalitarianism.” Houston, TX, March 2017.
• Mid-America Theatre Conference. “Nothing to See Here: Seeking Political Varity and National Unity in the Federal Theatre Project Promotion’s Office.” Minneapolis, MN, March 2016.
• Praise at the Crossroads: Cultural Intersections in Literary and Artistic Works. “A Dramaturg at the Crossroads: Dionysus of the Holocaust and Web 2.0 Integration” Baton Rouge, LA, April 2014.
• American Society of Theatre Research. “Fighting Fascism at Home: The Federal Theatre Project and the Rise of Totalitarianism Before World War II” Dallas, TX. November 2013.
• Mid-America Theatre Conference. “It Didn’t Happen Here: Staging the Myth of Huey P. Long” St. Louis, MO, March 2013.
• Mid-America Theatre Conference. “Working the Crowd: Mesmerist Performance.” Chicago IL, March 2012.
• Mardi Gras Conference. “Orc Lady Boys and Gamed Desire: Cross-Gendered Representation in Virtual Worlds.” Baton Rouge, LA, February 2012.
• Southeastern Theatre Conference. “Viola Spolin: The Mother of All Improv.” Lexington, KY, March 2010.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

University of the Ozarks

• Topics in Performance: Playwriting (Fall 2023)
• Fundamentals of Acting (Fall 2023)
• Public Speaking (Fall 2021—Spring 2023)
• Introduction to Theatre (Fall 2022, Fall 2023)
• Topics in Performance: Gender, Race, and Sexuality in Performance (Spring 2023)
• Theatre History 1 (Spring 2023)
• Senior Honors (Spring 2023, Fall 2023)
• Directing (Fall 2022)

University of Arkansas, Fort Smith

• Introduction to Speech Communication (Fall 2005—Summer 2010, Spring 2018—Fall 2021)
• Oral Interpretation (Fall 2021) 

Louisiana State University

Instructor of Record

• Introduction to Writing Drama (Fall 2016)
• Special Topics in Theatre History: Theatre of War (Fall 2015)
• Introduction to Theatre (Fall 2010—Spring 2015)
• Introduction the Theatre: Honors (Spring 2022)
• Introduction to Dramatic Literature (Fall 2011)

Teaching Assistant

• Directing I (Spring 2014)
• Theatre Forum (Fall 2013)
• Script Analysis (Spring 2013)

SERVICE TO THE PROFESSION

• Vice-President, Mid-American Theatre Conference, 2025- present.
• External Program Reviewer, Northeastern State University, Tahlequah, OK, Fall 2023.
• External Communications Officer, Mid-American Theatre Conference, 2023—2025.
• Member-at-Large, Mid-American Theatre Conference, 2022—present.
• Conference Co-Planner, NoPassport: “Dreaming in the Americas: The Diasporic Imagination” Louisiana State University, April 2014. 
• Conference Co-Planner, “Praise at the Crossroads: Cultural Intersections in Literary and Artistic Works of Femi Euba” Louisiana State University, April 2014. 
• Graduate Student Liaison, Mid-America Theatre Conference, 2012—2104

UNIVERSITY SERVICE

• Academic Standing Committee
• Search Committee Chair
• Academic Ceremonies Committee
• Advising
• Directing 
• Sound design
• Costume design
• Production Management
• Recruitment 

NON-ACADEMIC WORK

• Guest Director, Theatre Baton Rouge (A Doll’s House, Part 2), 2020.
• Co-founder, Red Magnolia Theatre Company, Baton Rouge.
• Artistic Vice President, Red Magnolia Theatre Company, 2018—2021, Baton Rouge.

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

• Mid-America Theatre Conference
• American Society of Theatre Research
• American Theatre and Drama Society