Rush Rehm

Bio

An actor, director, and professor of Theater & Performance Studies and Classics, Rush Rehm publishes in the areas of Greek tragedy and contemporary politics. He also serves as Artistic Director of Stanford Repertory Theater, a professional theater company that presents staged readings, full productions, and a dramatic festival and symposium based on a major playwright or theme each summer.

Rehm’s books include Aeschylus’ *Oresteia: A Theatre Version*(Melbourne 1978); *Greek Tragic Theatre* (Routledge: London 1992, paper 1994, modern Greek translation 1999, 2nd revised edition, *Understanding Greek Tragic Theatre (2016); *Marriage to Death: The Conflation of Marriage and Funeral Rituals in Greek Tragedy* (Princeton 1994, paper 1996); *The Play of Space: Spatial Transformation in Greek Tragedy* (Princeton 2002); *Radical Theatre: Greek Tragedy and the Modern World* (Duckworth: London 2003), *Euripides' Electra* (Bloomsbury: London 2020)

Recent contributions to edited volumes include essays in *Greek Drama in the Americas* (Oxford), *Aeschylus’ Tragedies: The Cultural Divide and the Trauma of Adaptation* (Brill: Leiden), *The Brill Companion to Sophocles* (Brill: Leiden), *The Cambridge Companion to Greek and Roman Theatre* (Cambridge), *Rebel Women* (Methuen: London), *Aeschylus’ Agamemnon in Performance* (Oxford), *Sophocles and the Greek Language* (Brill), *Antigone’s Answer* (Atlanta), *Classics in Post-Colonial Worlds*(Oxford), *Space in Ancient Greek Literature: Studies in Ancient Greek Narrative* (Mnemosyne), *Blackwell’s Encyclopedia of Greek Tragedy* (Oxford), *Looking at Antigone* (Bloomsbury: London), *The Brill Companion to Euripides* (Leiden), *Looking at Agamemnon* (Bloomsbury), *Looking at Persians* (Bloomsbury 2021), *Handbook on Theatre and Migration* (Palgrave 2022), among others.

As well as seminars on ancient theater and culture, Rehm teaches courses on contemporary politics, the media, and U.S. imperialism.

Academic Appointments

• Emeritus Faculty, Acad Council, Theater and Performance Studies

Administrative Appointments

• Professor of Drama and Classics, Stanford University (2003 - Present)
• Associate Professor of Drama and Classics, Stanford University (1995 - 2002)
• Assistant Professor of Drama, Stanford University (1990 - 1995)
• Assistant Professorby courtesy, Classics, Stanford University (1990 - 1995)
• Assistant Professor of Classics and Theatre Studies, Emory University (1985 - 1990)
• Lecturer, Drama Course, Melbourne University (1979 - 1980)

Honors & Awards

• Montalvo Artist in Residence, with We Players, *Romeo and Juliet*, Montalvo Arts Center (2016)
• Lloyd W. Dinkelspiel Award for Outstanding Service to Undergraduate Education, Stanford University (2014)
• Outstanding Production and Outstanding Direction (with Courtney Walsh), *Moby Dick-Rehearsed*, Theatre Bay Area (2014)
• Stanford Hoagland Grant for Innovating Undergraduate Curriculum, Stanford University (2013-16)
• Donald Andrewes Whittier Fellow, Stanford Humanities Center, Stanford University (1995-1996)
• Lila Wallace–Reader’s Digest Arts Partners Grant (with the Lively Arts at Stanford), Lila-Wallace Arts Partners (1992–93)
• Junior Fellow, The Center for Hellenic Studies (Harvard University) (1989-1990)
• ACLS Grant, 1987–88 (American School of Classical Studies, Athens), American Council of Learned Societies (1987 - 88)
• Whiting Fellowship, Institute of Classical Studies, London (1984-1985)
• Graduate Fellowship, Stanford Humanities Center (1982-1984)
• Fulbright-Hays Fellowship, Melbourne, United States Department of Education (1973-1975)
• Daniel M. Sachs Graduating Scholarship, Princeton University (1973-1974)
• National Merit Scholarship, Princeton University (1968-1972)

Boards, Advisory Committees, Professional Organizations

• Member, Curriculum Revision, Stanford University
• Member, Senior and Junior Searches, Stanford University
• Outside Reviewer, Stanford University
• Reader/Referee, Cambridge university press
• Reader/Referee, Transactions of the American Philological Association
• Reader/Referee, Theatre Journal
• Reader/Referee, MD (Materiali e discussioni per 1 'ana list dei testi classici, Pisa)
• Reader/Referee, Arethusa
• Reader/Referee, Classical Antiquity
• Reader/Referee, Oxford university press
• Reader/Referee, Princeton university press
• Reader/Referee, Classical World
• Reader/Referee, Classical Philology
• Academic Senate, Stanford University (2017 - 2018)
• Academic Senate, Stanford University (2013 - 2015)
• Preliminary Application Reviewer, Stanford Humanities Center, Stanford University (2007 - 2009)
• Project Director, Stages of Reconciliation (Stanford Institute for Creativity and the Arts) (2007 - 2008)
• Academic Senate, Stanford University (2005 - 2007)
• Chair, Drama Department Committees: Graduate Studies, Stanford University (2005 - 2006)
• Director, Stanford Theater Discovery Institute (2000 - 2004)
• Academic Senate, Stanford University (2000 - 2001)
• Chair, Drama Department Committees: Graduate Studies, Stanford University (2000 - 2001)
• Member, Production Advisory Board, Stanford University (1998 - 2007)
• Member, Interdisciplinary Program in the Humanities: Committee-in-Charge (1998 - 2006)
• Artistic Director, Stanford Repertory Theater (1997 - Present)
• Preliminary Application Reviewer, Stanford Humanities Center, Stanford University (1995 - 2003)

Professional Education

• Ph.D., Stanford University, Drama (Directing and Criticism) and Humanities (1985)
• M.A., Classical Studies, Melbourne University (1975)
• B.A., Princeton University, Creative Writing/Classics (1973)

Current Research and Scholarly Interests

Stanford Repertory Theater (SRT) presents *Voices of the Earth: From Sophocles to Rachel Carson and Beyond* at tthe Sebastopol Arts Center later November 7, 2021. With the collaboration and support of the Henry Miller Library, the Arts Council for Monterey County, and Stanford's Woods Institute for the Environment, SRT's *Voices of the Earth" (audio) was broadcast in 21 3-minute sections on NPR radio station KCBX (San Luis Obisbo) during the first 3 weeks of Earth Month, culminating in the Earth Day celebrations April 22, 2021. KALW (San Francisco) also aired segments of the program. The audio/visual version of *Voices of the Earth* is available for use by schools, arts councils, and environmental groups, free of charge, and the script is also available for free. Contact stanfordrep@stanford.edu, or go to our website stanfordreptheater.com

Projects

• Ancient Tragedies/Modern Stages, Stanford University/Ecole normale superieure/Paul Valery in Montpellier

  Professor Eleni Papalexiou at the University of the Peloponnese and I are collaborating to develop a summer institute in the Argolid, "Ancient Tragedies/Modern Stages," exploring contemporary approaches to staging Greek tragedy. A combination of workshops, lectures, classes, and performances will provide participants with an up-to-date understanding of how our oldest theatrical form, Greek tragedy, continues to challenge contemporary theater artists and audiences in the 21st century.

  Location

  Napflion, Greece

• Bilingual Beckett, Stanford University/Ecole normale superieure/Paul Valery in Montpellier

  I continue working on a long-term project entitled "Bilingual Beckett," which has included Stanford Repertory Theater's bilingual production of Samuel Beckett's *Happy Days/Oh les beaux jours," performed at Stanford, San Francisco, Montpellier, and Paris.

  Location

  France

  Collaborators

  • Joëlle Chambon, Maître de conferences en Etudes Théâtrales, Université Paul-Valéry-Montpellier 3
• Comparative Clytemnestra, Stanford University/Stanford Repertory Theater

  SRT's "Comparative Clytemnestra" (performance/lecture focusing on the various treatments of Clytemnestra in Greek tragedy, with actress Courtney Walsh) will travel to New Zealand and Australia in the fall of 2015. This work will find its way into the revision of my 1992 *Greek Tragic Theatre,* which will come out in a new version entitled *Understanding Greek Tragedy* in 2016

  Location

  Wellington, New Zealand

2024-25 Courses

• Independent Studies (4)
  • Directed Reading in Classics (Graduate Students)
    CLASSICS 298 (Aut, Win, Spr, Sum)
  • Directed Readings (Undergraduate)
    CLASSICS 198 (Aut, Win, Spr, Sum)
  • Dissertation Proposal Preparation
    CLASSICS 297 (Aut, Win, Spr)
  • Undergraduate Thesis: Senior Research
    CLASSICS 199 (Aut, Win, Spr, Sum)
• Prior Year Courses

  2023-24 Courses

  • Education as Self-Fashioning: The Challenge of Choice
    ESF 14 (Aut)
  • Education as Self-Fashioning: The Challenge of Choice
    ESF 14A (Aut)
  • Learning Theater: From Audience to Critic at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival
    TAPS 11SC (Sum)
  • Noam Chomsky: The Drama of Resistance
    TAPS 180Q (Aut)

  2022-23 Courses

  • Education as Self-Fashioning: The Challenge of Choice
    ESF 14 (Aut)
  • Education as Self-Fashioning: The Challenge of Choice
    ESF 14A (Aut)
  • In and Out of the Margins: The Plays of Athol Fugard
    OSPCPTWN 35 (Spr)
  • Learning Theater: From Audience to Critic at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival
    TAPS 11SC (Sum)
  • Noam Chomsky: The Drama of Resistance
    TAPS 180Q (Aut)
  • To Die For: Antigone and Political Dissent
    CLASSICS 17N, TAPS 12N (Aut)

  2021-22 Courses

  • Education as Self-Fashioning: The Challenge of Choice
    ESF 14 (Aut)
  • Education as Self-Fashioning: The Challenge of Choice
    ESF 14A (Aut)
  • Learning Theater: From Audience to Critic at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival
    TAPS 11SC (Sum)
  • Noam Chomsky: The Drama of Resistance
    TAPS 180Q (Aut)
  • To Die For: Antigone and Political Dissent
    CLASSICS 17N, TAPS 12N (Aut)