Thomas Riccio Professor, Performance & Aesthetic Studies Artistic Director, Story Lab Office: JO 4.126 Phone: 972-883-2016 Email: thomas.riccio@utdallas.edu

Website:
http://www.thomas-riccio.net
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_P._Riccio
http://www.wooloo.org/thomasriccio
http://rhizome.org/profile.php?1052388

Teaching/Research/Creative Areas
Performance Studies, Media Performance and Installation; Indigenous Performance; Ritual and Shamanism; Acting, Stage Directing, Dramaturgy, and Theatre Theory, Literature and Criticism.

Producing Artist, Project X
http://www.projectxtheatre.com/about.html

Hanson Robotics, Richardson, Texas http://hansonrobotics.com/
Lead Narrative Engineer
Narrative designs include:
Einstein, a life-like conversational robot, Cooper-Hewitt Design Museum NYC, 12/2006-05/2007 http://www.artnewyorkcity.com/category/cooper-hewitt-museum/
Jules: presented at Wired Magazine’s Next Fest, NYC, 2006
Joey Chaos: presented at RoboWorld, Boston, 2006
Swami: Neiman-Marcus, 2006 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrJCO5QFV6E&feature=related
Zeno: presented at NextFest, Los Angeles, 2007.
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id=3593762

Education
MFA Boston University 1982
BA Cleveland State University 1978
Further study New York University

Recent Activities
So There and Orange Oranges: two performance fragments, text and stage direction, Project X at The Festival of Independent Theatres, 2008
http://www.bathhousecultural.com/FIT2008.html
http://www.pegasusnews.com/news/2008/jul/23/theater-review-so-there-and-orange-oranges/
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/ent/stories/DN-fit_20gl.ART.State.Edition1.4d77d65.html

Chicago Directors Lab, weeklong workshop leader, “Myth, Ritual, and Stage Directing,” summer 2008

Inuit, stage reading, Great Plains Theatre Festival, Omaha, NE, summer 2008
http://www.mccneb.edu/theatreconference/biographies/thomas_riccio.asp

Recent Publications
“Rhythm Reality,” book chapter in Rhythm Steps of Africa, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland (in press) 2009

Performing Africa: Remixing Tradition, Theatre and Culture, Peter Lang Publishing, 2007 http://www.peterlang.com/Index.cfm?vID=68899&vHR=1&vUR=2&vUUR=1&vLang=E

Reinventing Traditional Alaska Native Performance, Mellen Press 2003
"Follow the Grey Giants," Puppet Notebook (UK) Issue 6, Summer, 2006
http://www.maskandpuppetbooks.co.uk

"Body as Text: Inupiat and Yup’ik Story Dancing," Conference Proceedings, Int’l Theatre Institute, Krakow, Poland, 2005

"Kenya’s Community Health Awareness Puppets," PAJ, Performing Arts Journal, Spring 2004 http://www.mitpressjournals.org/toc/pajj/26/1

"Museum Collections and Shamanism," encyclopedia contribution in The Encyclopedia of Shamanism, ABC Publications, 2004

Recent Conferences/Workshops
MIT5: creativity, ownership and collaboration in the digital age. Paper: “Trickster Reality” http://web.mit.edu/commforum/mit5/subs/MiT5_abstracts.html#rz

Refresh: International Conference On The Histories Of Media Art, Science And Technology, Banff Center, Alberta, Canada. Paper: "World Narrative: The Creation of a New Place?" 2005 See the presentation at: http://www.banffcentre.ca/bnmi/programs/archives/2005/refresh/lisiten.asp

The Human Body a Universal Sign 2005, week-long workshop, Jagiellonian University and National Theater School, Krakow, Poland

Recent Performance Work
RUR: stage direction, UTD, Fall 2007 http://media.www.utdmercury.com/media/storage/paper691/news/2007/11/12/LifeArts/R.u-r.Runs.Like.Clockwork-3092543.shtml

Alpha Male: A Cyberpunk Paranoia, Text and Stage Direction. Story Lab, Fall, 2006. http://ah.utdallas.edu/season0607/alphamale.htm

There is Never a Reference Point, a performance immersion. Conception, Text and Stage Direction. from the life and writings of Jamie Dakis, a woman with multiple personality disorder. Story Lab and South Side on Lamar/Project X, Spring 2006 http://ah.utdallas.edu/season0506/referencepoint.htm

Fernando Krapp Wrote Me This Letter: An Assaying of the Truth, By Tankred Dorst. Stage Direction. Story Lab, Fall 2005 http://ah.utdallas.edu/season0506/fernando.htm

Kartasi :The Traveler, Conception, text and stage direction. A cyber ritual, produced, Story Lab, University of Texas at Dallas, Fall 2004 http://ah.utdallas.edu/season0405/kartasi.htm

Recent Award
Distinction Prize in Playwrighting—for the play Inuit, An international competition sponsored by the Alexander S. Onassis Foundation (15,000 euros) 2006
http://www.onassis.gr/english/competition_prizes/2006.php