Nancy C. Jones

Nancy Jones is a Professor of Theatre in the College of Fine Arts at the University of Kentucky. Her work as a theatre director has been featured in New York at the Lincoln Center Directors Lab, the New York International Fringe Festival, La MaMa Experimental Theatre, the American Living Room Festival at HERE, Immigrant’s Theatre Project, New York Performance Works, New Dramatists, and in Paris at the Salle Adyar. Her research interests include French Theatre, translation, comedy, and Feminist Theatre and has been published in Victorians: A Journal of Culture and Literature, Theatre Journal, Sorbonne Université Presses, the Harold Pinter Review, Athens Journal of Humanities and Arts, and Shakespeare Bulletin. Her teaching includes theatre practice (directing and acting) as well as Musical Theatre History. Nancy is a former board member for the National Association of Schools of Theatre and was Chair of the UK theatre department for twelve years. Her current research project explores feminist reinterpretations of Molière’s Don Juan in the twenty-first century.