Monographs
Innovation & Digital Theatremaking: Rethinking Theatre with ‘The Show Must Go Online’. Co-authored with Robert Myles. Routledge 2023.
Unearthing Shakespeare: Embodied Performance and the Globe. Routledge 2017.
Edited Collections
Shakespeare and Tourism, Edited with Robert Ormsby, Routledge 2022.
Objectives, Obstacles, and Tactics in Practice: Perspectives on Activating the Actor. Edited with Hillary Haft Bucs, Routledge 2019.
Experiential Theatres: Praxis-Based Approaches to Training 21st Century Theatre Artists. Co-edited by William Lewis and Sean Bartley. Introduction & Co-curator of Section 3: “Collaborative Experience Making and Interactive Performance Practice”. Routledge 2022.
Book Chapters
“Cultivating the Reflexive Practitioner in the Performance Studio: An Intersectional Approach.” Critical Acting Pedagogy: Intersectional Approaches. Edited by Lisa Peck and Evi Stamatiou. Routledge (forthcoming 2024).
“Hamlet’s Buzz” (a short play). The Shakespeare Multiverse: Fandom as Literary Praxis. Edited by Valerie M. Fazel and Louise Geddes. Routledge 2022.
“Sight Unseen: Visualizing variability through ontological representations in Macbeth.” (co-authored with Cara Gargano). Variable Objects: Shakespeare and Speculative Appropriation. Edited by Valerie M. Fazel and Louise Geddes. Edinburgh University Press 2021.
“Discovering Character Through Somatic Awareness: An Actor’s Journey”, Shakespeare in Performance, Eric Brown and Estelle Rivier, editors. Cambridge Scholars Press, 2013 (p. 86-102).
Journal Articles
“I have thee not, and yet I see thee still”: Shakespeare’s Globe, Augmented Reality, and Actor Training.” Special Issue of Shakespeare Bulletin: Shakespeare and Pedagogy. Edited by Matteo Pangallo and Will Tosh. (forthcoming 2024).
“Zoom Shakespeare: The Show Must Go Online and Read for the Globe”. PARtake Journal. Vol. 3, No. 2, March 2021. https://doi.org/10.33011/partake.v3i2.549
“Teaching Acting in the Face of COVID-19: designing instruction for variable acting studios”. Theatre Topics. Vol. 30, Issue 3, 2020. (p E-7-E-13); DOI: 10.1353/tt.2020.0047
“Artisanal Shakespeare: ‘Original Practices’ from Brand to Broadway”. New England Theatre Journal. Vol. 30, 2019 (p. 85-101).
“On the Page: A Practical Guide to Writing About Practice”, Methods: A Journal of Acting Pedagogy. Vol.4, 2018 (p. 13-32).
“Teaching Shakespeare’s Theatre Through Shakespeare’s Texts”, Teaching Shakespeare Magazine, Sarah Olive, editor; The British Shakespeare Association. Issue 7, Spring 2015 (p. 9-11).
“Shakespeare’s Globe: theatre architecture and the performance of authenticity”, Shakespeare, Abigail Rokison, editor. Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group, Vol. 10, Issue 4, 2014 (p. 411-427).
“Voice on the Globe Stage: An Actor’s Observations, a Teacher’s Recommendations”, Shakespeare Around the Globe and other contemporary issues in professional voice and speech training presented by the Voice and Speech Review, Mandy Rees, editor. VASTA, 2005 (p. 73-80).
Reviews
“Shakespedia.”* Early Modern Digital Review, vol. 6, no 3-4, 2023. https://doi.org/10.33137/rr.v46i3.42694; Renaissance and Reformation / Renaissance et Réforme vol. 46, no. 3-4, 2023. https://doi.org/10.33137/rr.v46i3.42694*commissioned
“Review of the Touring Production of Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice (directed by Jonathan Mumby for Shakespeare’s Globe) at the Rose Theater, Lincoln Center Festival 2016 NYC, 21 July 2016 and Chicago Shakespeare Theater on the Navy Pier, 9 August 2016”, Shakespeare. Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group, Vol. 13, Issue 2, 2017 (p 184-186).
Editorial Work
Turn That Thing Off! Collaboration and Technology in 21st Century Actor Training by Rose Burnett Bonczek, Roger Manix, and David Storck. (Associate Editor), Routledge 2018.
Podcasts
“Research in Action”, Oregon State University E-campus. Hosted by Dr. Katie Linder.
Episode 77: Dr. Valerie Clayman Pye on Practice-as-Research. September 18, 2017. (including 2 bonus clips. (http://ecampus.oregonstate.edu/research/podcast/e77/)
Episode 154: Three-year Anniversary Episode, Part II. April 15, 2019. Hosted by Dr. Katie Linder. (https://ecampus.oregonstate.edu/research/podcast/e154/)
“State of Shakespeare”, Unearthing Shakespeare. (http://stateofshakespeare.com/?p=5387). Hosted by James Elliot and Gerrritt VanderMeer. March 31, 2017.
Papers/Conferences
American Society for Theatre Research (ASTR):
Shakespearean Performance Research Group / Early Modern Performance Group:
“Echoes of Past Hope: Fat Ham’s Amplified Soliloquies” (2023); Co-convenor, Early Modern Performance Working Group
“’Imaginary Forces’: Pandemic Shakespeare and The Show Must Go Online (2022)
“Shakespeare’s Globe: the Provocative Arousal of the Spectator” (2018)
“Extra/Ordinary Embodiment: ‘Imaginary Forces’, Audience Agreement, and (Gender-Blind) Corporality in Henry V”. (2017)
“Shakespeare’s Globe “360”: transmedial performance and the reconstructed playhouse”. (2016)
“Staking a Claim and Claiming the Stakes: ‘Original Practices’ and the Cultivation of Brand Identity”. (2015)
“OP” on Broadway: inauthentic ‘authenticity’ and the commercialization of practice as research”. (2014)
Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE):
Engineering Process for Scaffolded Learning. “Accountability Meets Process – Inspiring Curiosity in the Acting Studio” (2023)
Sifting Through the Rubble: Identifying the Pieces that Remain Productive and Restructuring Past Practice. (2023)
Respondent, Adjudicated Acting Exercises Debut Session (2023)
Re-Visiting the Past: Nostalgia, Tourism, and Pandemics: “’No Traveler Returns …’ Revisiting Touristic Performance as Pandemic Pastime (2021)
Session Facilitator: “Crafting a Successful Book Proposal” (2021)
Re-inforcing Student Accountability In and Out of the Acting Classroom: How to Build a Productive Independent Process: “Creating an Independent Process: Transparency in Reflection” (listed as ‘Improving Goal Setting, Time-on-Task and Mutual Accountability for Self-Guided Rehearsals’) (2021).
Respondent, Adjudicated Acting Exercises Debut Session (2021)
Cruising the Shakespeare Highway: Scoring Shakespeare (2020)
Session Coordinator and Facilitator: “Writing and Publishing for Practitioners”
“Writing Successful Book Proposals” (2020)
Respondent, Adjudicated Acting Exercises Debut Session (2020)
Shakespeare: Recent Innovations in Casting
“Gender-Blind, Race-Blind, Ability-Blind Casting at Shakespeare’s Globe” (2019)
Reclaiming Shakespeare Scholarship in the Acting Classroom
“’Know You the Character?’: from marks on the page to bodies on stage” (2019)
Heightened Listening: Experience Transition (2019)
Respondent, Adjudicated Acting Exercises Debut Session (2019)
Session Coordinator and Facilitator: “Revolutionizing Rubrics: Evaluation in the Acting Studio”. (2018)
“Encouraging Creative Practice with Rubrics” (2018).
Session Coordinator and Facilitator: “Revolutionary Receptivity: Heightening Kinesthetic Awareness in the Actor’s Body”
“Finding Connection: Revolutionizing Partner Connection for Enhanced Presence” (2018)
Radical Connections: Enhancing Performance through Revolutionary Uses of Images, Imagining, and Imagery
“Digital Imagery and Embodied Performance: Activating Shakespeare’s Texts”. (2018)
Adjudicated Acting Exercises Debut Session presenter: “Basketball Shakespeare” (2018) * *respondent feedback
Respondent, Adjudicated Acting Exercises Debut Session (2018)
Session Coordinator and Facilitator: “Shakespeare’s Spectacle: Actor, Architecture, Audience, and Imagination”. (2017)
“Embodied Performance and the Globe” (2017) * peer-reviewed
Adjudicated Acting Exercises Debut Session presenter: “The Radiating Box” (2017) * *respondent feedback
Respondent, Adjudicated Acting Exercises Debut Session (2017)
Session Coordinator and Facilitator. “Objectives in Action: Activating Analysis in the Acting Studio” (2017)
“Cultivating the Actor’s Lexicon Through Experiential Learning” (2017)
The Performance of Silence: Inner Connection with Body, Space, and Movement (2017)
“Connecting Breath: Kinesthetic Awareness and Partner Connection” (2017) * peer-reviewed
Session Coordinator and Chair: “Documenting our Work: The Scholarship of Practice” (2016)
“Writing ‘Work’: A Practical Guide to Writing about Practice” (2016)
The Actor’s Warm-up: Preparing the Performer’s Mind and Body for Theatrical Work and Play
“The Dynamics of Centering: Aligning Breath, Sound, and Articulation” (2016)
Respondent, Adjudicated Acting Exercises Debut Session (2016)
Session Coordinator and Chair: “Re-membering the Classics: Heightened text, body, and practice in the contemporary acting studio” (2015)
“Locating, Radiating, and Communicating Classical Text in the Three-dimensional Body” (2015)
Adjudicated Acting Exercises Debut Session: presenter, “Hunter/Hunted” (2015) * *respondent feedback
Beyond the Bard: Performing Heightened Language in Contemporary Plays and Texts
“Unlocking Character Through Alliteration, Repetition, and Word Choice. Case Study: The Motherfucker with the Hatby Stephen Adly Guirgis” (2015)
Remembering to Listen: The Relationship Between Director and Voice/Dialect Coach/Designer
Roundtable panelist. (2015).
“Playing the Shakespeare Score” Master Class / Workshop. (2013)
“Protecting Poopsie: an introduction to objectives, obstacles, and tactics”, Best Practices in Teaching Beginning Acting(Acting Focus Group Pre-conference Session). (2013)
“Acting Shakespeare: Secrets from the Globe Theatre”, Theatre, Pedagogy and Student Learning in the Performing Arts Seminar. (2006)
Shakespeare Association of America (SAA)
“Casting and Embodying Shylock” (2022)
“I have thee not, and yet I see thee still”: Virtual Rehearsal and the Actor’s Imagination (2019)
TYA/USA New Visions, New Voices Conference (2020):
“How Can We Develop New Multi-Disciplinary TYA while creating Innovative Development Partnerships between Producing and Presenting Organizations?: An Interactive Panel Conversation and Works-in-Progress Sharing with New Victory LabWorks” **
Shakespeare and the Globe (2020):
“Exceeding Fantastical”: Shakespeare’s Globe, Augmented Reality, and Actor Training” **
** cancelled due to COVID-19
South Eastern Theatre Conference (SETC) Symposium 27: Theatre and Embodiment
“Elliptical Energy: Devising actor training for embodied performance” (2018)
Thinking Serially: repetition, continuation, and adaptation Conference (2015)
Department of Comparative Literature at The Graduate Center, CUNY
“Lend Me Your Ears: Communitas in the podcast SERIAL” (co-authored with Hannah Fox)
Shakespeare in Performance (2012):
“Uncovering the Tragic Voice in the Activated Body” an interactive presentation and workshop.
Shakespeare and the Queen’s Men (2006):
“Channeling the Queen’s Men: how can the modern actor use what the Globe reveals in alternate spaces?” Dramaturgy and Stagecraft Seminar.
Panelist: Round-table discussion between professional actors and directors with scholars on the issues of reconstructive staging.
Valerie Clayman Pye 