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'''Elizabeth LeCompte''' (born April 28, 1944) is an American director of [[experimental theater]], [[dance]] and media. A founding member of [[The Wooster Group]], she has directed that ensemble since its emergence in the late 1970s.<ref name="mitter">Mitter, Shomit, and Maria Shevtsova, ed. (2004) ''Fifty Key Theatre Directors''. London: Routledge.</ref>
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| name = Elizabeth LeCompte
| birth_name =
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1944|4|28}}
| birth_place = [[New Jersey]], U.S.
| occupation = Director
| partner = [[Willem Dafoe]] (1977–2004)
| children = 1
}}
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'''Elizabeth LeCompte''' (born April 28, 1944) is an American director of [[experimental theater]], [[dance]], and media. A founding member of [[The Wooster Group]], she has directed that ensemble since its emergence in the late 1970s.<ref name="mitter">Mitter, Shomit, and Maria Shevtsova, ed. (2004) ''Fifty Key Theatre Directors''. London: Routledge.</ref>


== Life and career ==
== Life and career ==
LeCompte was born and grew up in [[New Jersey]]. She earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Fine Arts from [[Skidmore College]]. She met director and actor [[Willem Dafoe]] at [[The Performance Group]] and began a professional and personal relationship. Their son, Jack, was born in 1982.<ref name=vogue>{{cite web |url=http://www.vogue.it/en/vogue-starscelebsmodels/couples/2010/03/willem-dafoe-and-giada-colagrande |title=Willem and Giada Dafoe |date=March 4, 2010 |publisher=English-language website of ''[[Vogue Italia]]'' |archiveurl=https://www.webcitation.org/65ImNm5Yn?url=http://www.vogue.it/en/vogue-starscelebsmodels/couples/2010/03/willem-dafoe-and-giada-colagrande |archivedate=February 8, 2012 |deadurl=yes |accessdate=February 8, 2012 |df= }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2011/10/20/spalding_gray_journal_excerpt_on_willem_dafoe_hollywood_and_writ.html|title=Spalding Gray on Hollywood, Writing, and Willem Dafoe|author=Spalding Gray|date=20 October 2011|publisher=''[[Slate (magazine)|Slate]]''|accessdate=3 July 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.contactmusic.com/news-article/dafoe-trades-old-love-for-young-new-flame|title=Willem Dafoe - Dafoe Trades Old Love For Young New Flame|publisher=''[[Contactmusic]]''|date=2 March 2004|accessdate=3 July 2012}}</ref>
LeCompte was born and grew up in [[New Jersey]]. She earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Fine Arts from [[Skidmore College]]. She met director and actor [[Willem Dafoe]] at [[The Performance Group]] and began a professional and personal relationship. Their son, Jack, was born in 1982.<ref name=vogue>{{cite web |url=http://www.vogue.it/en/vogue-starscelebsmodels/couples/2010/03/willem-dafoe-and-giada-colagrande |title=Willem and Giada Dafoe |date=March 4, 2010 |publisher=English-language website of [[Vogue Italia]] |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130111180432/http://www.vogue.it/en/vogue-starscelebsmodels/couples/2010/03/willem-dafoe-and-giada-colagrande |archive-date=January 11, 2013 |url-status=dead |access-date=February 8, 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine|url=http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2011/10/20/spalding_gray_journal_excerpt_on_willem_dafoe_hollywood_and_writ.html|title=Spalding Gray on Hollywood, Writing, and Willem Dafoe|first=Spalding|last=Gray|date=20 October 2011|magazine=[[Slate (magazine)|Slate]]|access-date=3 July 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine|url=http://www.contactmusic.com/news-article/dafoe-trades-old-love-for-young-new-flame|title=Willem Dafoe - Dafoe Trades Old Love For Young New Flame|magazine=[[Contactmusic]]|date=2 March 2004|access-date=3 July 2012}}</ref>


With The Wooster Group, she has composed, designed, and directed over forty works for theater, dance, film and video, starting with ''Sakonnet Point'' in 1975. These works characteristically interweave performance with multimedia technologies and are strongly influenced by historical and contemporary visual arts and architecture. She is known both for taking apart and reworking classics such as ''[[Hamlet]]'', ''[[The Emperor Jones]]'', and ''[[The Hairy Ape]]'' as well as constructing new works from scratch.
With The Wooster Group, she has composed, designed, and directed over forty works for theater, dance, film and video, starting with ''Sakonnet Point'' in 1975. These works characteristically interweave performance with multimedia technologies and are strongly influenced by historical and contemporary visual arts and architecture. She is known both for taking apart and reworking classics such as ''[[Hamlet]]'', ''[[The Emperor Jones]]'', and ''[[The Hairy Ape]]'' as well as constructing new works from scratch.
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Prior to her work with The Wooster Group, she was a member of the experimental theater company [[The Performance Group]] from 1970 to 1975. Subsequently, LeCompte and [[Spalding Gray]] founded The Wooster Group, along with [[Jim Clayburgh]], [[Willem Dafoe]], Peyton Smith, [[Kate Valk]], and [[Ron Vawter]]. For her work with these groups, LeCompte was included in Mitter and Shevtsova's 2004 volume discussing 50 influential theater directors around the world.<ref name="mitter"/> Other writers consistently include her in the lineage of experimental theater artists that passes through Meyerhold and Grotowski to the present generation of "postdramatic" theater makers.<ref>Schechner, Richard. "Theatre Alive in the New Millennium." ''TDR/The Drama Review'' 44.1 (2000): 5-6.</ref><ref>Fuchs, Elinor. Review of ''Postdramatic Theatre by Hans-Thies Lehmann''. ''TDR/The Drama Review'' 52.2 (2008): 178-183.</ref> As a ''New Yorker'' writer put it: "Luminaries of the theatrical avant-garde—[[Richard Foreman]], [[Robert Wilson (director)|Robert Wilson]], and [[Peter Sellars]] among them—describe her as first among equals".<ref>Kramer, Jane. [http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/10/08/071008fa_fact_kramer?currentPage=all "Experimental Journey: Elizabeth LeCompte takes on Shakespeare"] ''The New Yorker'', Oct. 8, 2007.</ref>
Prior to her work with The Wooster Group, she was a member of the experimental theater company [[The Performance Group]] from 1970 to 1975. Subsequently, LeCompte and [[Spalding Gray]] founded The Wooster Group, along with [[Jim Clayburgh]], [[Willem Dafoe]], Peyton Smith, [[Kate Valk]], and [[Ron Vawter]]. For her work with these groups, LeCompte was included in Mitter and Shevtsova's 2004 volume discussing 50 influential theater directors around the world.<ref name="mitter"/> Other writers consistently include her in the lineage of experimental theater artists that passes through Meyerhold and Grotowski to the present generation of "postdramatic" theater makers.<ref>Schechner, Richard. "Theatre Alive in the New Millennium." ''TDR/The Drama Review'' 44.1 (2000): 5-6.</ref><ref>Fuchs, Elinor. Review of ''Postdramatic Theatre by Hans-Thies Lehmann''. ''TDR/The Drama Review'' 52.2 (2008): 178-183.</ref> As a ''New Yorker'' writer put it: "Luminaries of the theatrical avant-garde—[[Richard Foreman]], [[Robert Wilson (director)|Robert Wilson]], and [[Peter Sellars]] among them—describe her as first among equals".<ref>Kramer, Jane. [http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/10/08/071008fa_fact_kramer?currentPage=all "Experimental Journey: Elizabeth LeCompte takes on Shakespeare"] ''The New Yorker'', Oct. 8, 2007.</ref>


LeCompte has lectured and taught at American University, the Art Institute of Chicago, Columbia University, Connecticut College, the Lincoln Center Theatre Directors Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, New York University, Northeastern University, the O’Neill Center, Smith College, the University of London, and the Yale School of Drama.
LeCompte has lectured and taught at American University, the Art Institute of Chicago, Columbia University, Connecticut College, the Lincoln Center Theatre Directors Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, New York University, Northeastern University, the O’Neill Center, Smith College, the University of London, and the Yale School of Drama. In 2018, ''[[The New York Times]]'' critics ranked ''House/Lights'' the 16th greatest American play since ''[[Angels in America]]''.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/05/31/theater/best-25-plays.html,%20https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/05/31/theater/best-25-plays.html|title=The Great Work Continues: The 25 Best American Plays Since 'Angels in America'|date=2018-05-31|work=The New York Times|access-date=2020-04-17|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}}</ref>


== Awards ==
== Awards ==
Among her honors, LeCompte has received the National Endowment for the Arts Distinguished Artists Fellowship for Lifetime Achievement in the American Theater, the [[MacArthur Fellows Program|MacArthur Fellowship]],<ref>[http://www.macfound.org/fellows/515 Elizabeth LeCompte] at the [[MacArthur Foundation]]</ref> the Chevalier des Artes et Lettres from the French Cultural Ministry, a Guggenheim Fellowship,<ref>[http://www.gf.org/fellows/8535-elizabeth-lecompte Elizabeth LeCompte] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140319204210/http://www.gf.org/fellows/8535-elizabeth-lecompte |date=2014-03-19 }} at the [[John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation|Guggenheim Foundation]].</ref> a [[Rockefeller Foundation]] Fellowship,<ref>[http://www.unitedstatesartists.org/utility/showPage/index.cfm?objectID=public2,387 Elizabeth LeCompte, New York, USA Rockefeller Fellow] at [[United States Artists]]</ref> a United States Artists Fellowship, an [[Anonymous Was A Woman Award]],<ref>[http://www.anonymouswasawoman.org/past-award-winners.html Anonymous Was A Woman award winners]</ref> the Theater Practitioner Award from Theatre Communications Group,<ref>[http://www.tcg.org/events/conference/2007/awards.cfm TCG National Conference 2007 – TCG Awards] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140319220822/http://www.tcg.org/events/conference/2007/awards.cfm |date=2014-03-19 }} at [[Theatre Communications Group]].</ref> The Skowhegan Medal for Performance, a [[Doris Duke Performing Artist Award|Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Performance Artist Award]]<ref>[http://ddpaa.org/artist/elizabeth-lecompte Elizabeth LeCompte] at the [[Doris Duke Charitable Foundation]]</ref> and honorary doctorates from the New School and California Institute of the Arts. She was included in the 1993 [[Whitney Biennial]]. She won the 2016 [[The Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize|Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/29/theater/elizabeth-lecompte-of-the-wooster-group-wins-the-gish-prize.html |title=Elizabeth LeCompte of the Wooster Group Wins the Gish Prize |work=[[New York Times]] |author=Jennifer Schuessler |date=September 28, 2016 |accessdate=April 27, 2017}}</ref>
Among her honors, LeCompte has received the National Endowment for the Arts Distinguished Artists Fellowship for Lifetime Achievement in the American Theater, the [[MacArthur Fellows Program|MacArthur Fellowship]],<ref>[http://www.macfound.org/fellows/515 Elizabeth LeCompte] at the [[MacArthur Foundation]]</ref> the Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres from the French Cultural Ministry, a [[Guggenheim Fellowship]],<ref>[http://www.gf.org/fellows/8535-elizabeth-lecompte Elizabeth LeCompte] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140319204210/http://www.gf.org/fellows/8535-elizabeth-lecompte |date=2014-03-19 }} at the [[John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation|Guggenheim Foundation]].</ref> a [[Rockefeller Foundation]] Fellowship,<ref>[http://www.unitedstatesartists.org/utility/showPage/index.cfm?objectID=public2,387 Elizabeth LeCompte, New York, USA Rockefeller Fellow]{{Dead link|date=August 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} at [[United States Artists]]</ref> a United States Artists Fellowship, an [[Anonymous Was A Woman Award]],<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.anonymouswasawoman.org/past-award-winners.html |title=Anonymous Was A Woman award winners |access-date=2014-03-19 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111103142744/http://www.anonymouswasawoman.org/past-award-winners.html |archive-date=2011-11-03 |url-status=dead }}</ref> the Theater Practitioner Award from Theatre Communications Group,<ref>[http://www.tcg.org/events/conference/2007/awards.cfm TCG National Conference 2007 – TCG Awards] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140319220822/http://www.tcg.org/events/conference/2007/awards.cfm |date=2014-03-19 }} at [[Theatre Communications Group]].</ref> The Skowhegan Medal for Performance, a [[Doris Duke Performing Artist Award|Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Performance Artist Award]]<ref>[http://ddpaa.org/artist/elizabeth-lecompte Elizabeth LeCompte] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140319222654/http://ddpaa.org/artist/elizabeth-lecompte/ |date=2014-03-19 }} at the [[Doris Duke Charitable Foundation]]</ref> and honorary doctorates from the [[New School for Social Research]] and the [[California Institute of the Arts]]. She was included in the 1993 [[Whitney Biennial]]. She won the 2016 [[The Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize|Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/29/theater/elizabeth-lecompte-of-the-wooster-group-wins-the-gish-prize.html |title=Elizabeth LeCompte of the Wooster Group Wins the Gish Prize |work=[[The New York Times]] |first=Jennifer |last=Schuessler |date=September 28, 2016 |access-date=April 27, 2017}}</ref>

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== Wooster Group Works Made by LeCompte ==


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== Wooster Group works made by LeCompte ==
=== Theater ===
=== Theater ===

==== Three Places in Rhode Island ====
==== Three Places in Rhode Island ====

* ''Sakonnet Point'' (1975)
* ''Sakonnet Point'' (1975)
* ''Rumstick Road'' (1977)
* ''Rumstick Road'' (1977)
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==== The Road to Immortality ====
==== The Road to Immortality ====

* ''Route 1 & 9'' (1981)
* ''Route 1 & 9'' (1981)
* ''L.S.D. (…Just the High Points…)'' (1984)
* ''L.S.D. (…Just the High Points…)'' (1984)
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* ''Cry, Trojans! (Troilus & Cressida)'' (2014)
* ''Cry, Trojans! (Troilus & Cressida)'' (2014)
* ''Early Shaker Spirituals'' (2014)
* ''Early Shaker Spirituals'' (2014)
* ''The Room'' (2016)
* ''The Town Hall Affair'' (2017)
* ''A Pink Chair (In Place of a Fake Antique)'' (2018)
* ''Nayatt School Redux'' (2019)
* ''The Mother'' (2021)
* ''Symphony of Rats'' (2024)


=== Dance ===
=== Dance ===
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* ''I Am Jerome Bel'' (2008)
* ''I Am Jerome Bel'' (2008)


=== Film and Video ===
=== Film and video ===
* ''Flaubert Dreams of Travel but the Illness of His Mother Prevents It'' (1986)
* ''Flaubert Dreams of Travel but the Illness of His Mother Prevents It'' (1986)
* ''Today I Must Sincerely Congratulate You'' (1991)
* ''Today I Must Sincerely Congratulate You'' (1991)
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* ''Rumstick Road'' (DVD - 2013)
* ''Rumstick Road'' (DVD - 2013)


=== Radio-Audio ===
=== Radio-audio ===
* ''The Emperor Jones'' (BBC Radio 3 play - 1998)
* ''The Emperor Jones'' (BBC Radio 3 play - 1998)
* ''Racine’s Phèdre'' (BBC Radio 3 play - 2000)
* ''Racine’s Phèdre'' (BBC Radio 3 play - 2000)

== Personal life ==
In 1977 LeCompte began a relationship with actor [[Willem Dafoe]]. They never married and ended their relationship in 2004 after 27 years. The couple have one son, Jack.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2007/10/08/experimental-journey|title=Experimental Journey|website=The New Yorker}}</ref>


== See also ==
== See also ==
*[[The Performance Group]]
*[[The Performance Group]]
*[[The Wooster Group]]
*[[The Wooster Group]]
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==References==
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== Further reading ==
== Further reading ==
* Champagne, Leonora, “Always Starting New: Elizabeth LeCompte,” ''[[The Drama Review]]'' 25:3 (1981).
* Champagne, Leonora, "Always Starting New: Elizabeth LeCompte," ''[[The Drama Review]]'' 25:3 (1981).
* Dunkelberg, Kermit, “Confrontation, Stimulation, Admiration: The Wooster Group’s Poor Theater,” ''The Drama Review'' 49:3 (2005).
* Dunkelberg, Kermit, "Confrontation, Stimulation, Admiration: The Wooster Group’s Poor Theater," ''The Drama Review'' 49:3 (2005).
* Kramer, Jane, "[http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/10/08/071008fa_fact_kramer Experimental Journey: Elizabeth LeCompte Takes on Shakespeare]", ''[[The New Yorker]]'' (October 8, 2007).
* Kramer, Jane, "[http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/10/08/071008fa_fact_kramer Experimental Journey: Elizabeth LeCompte Takes on Shakespeare]", ''[[The New Yorker]]'' (October 8, 2007).
* LeCompte, Elizabeth, “An Introduction,” ''Performing Arts Journal'', 3:2 (1978).
* LeCompte, Elizabeth, "An Introduction," ''Performing Arts Journal'', 3:2 (1978).
* LeCompte, Elizabeth, “Who Owns History?”, ''Performing Arts Journal'', 4:1 (1979).
* LeCompte, Elizabeth, "Who Owns History?", ''Performing Arts Journal'', 4:1 (1979).
* LeCompte, Elizabeth, “The Wooster Group Dances: From the Notebooks of Elizabeth LeCompte,” ''The Drama Review'', 29:2 (1985).
* LeCompte, Elizabeth, "The Wooster Group Dances: From the Notebooks of Elizabeth LeCompte," ''The Drama Review'', 29:2 (1985).
* LeCompte, Elizabeth, "[http://artforum.com/words/id=27528 500 Words: Elizabeth LeCompte]," [[Art Forum]] (February 9, 2011).
* LeCompte, Elizabeth, "[http://artforum.com/words/id=27528 500 Words: Elizabeth LeCompte]," [[Art Forum]] (February 9, 2011).
* Quick, Andrew, ''The Wooster Group Work Book'' (Routledge 2007).
* Quick, Andrew, ''The Wooster Group Work Book'' (Routledge 2007).
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* Savran, David, "The Death of the Avant Garde," ''The Drama Review'' 49:3 (2005).
* Savran, David, "The Death of the Avant Garde," ''The Drama Review'' 49:3 (2005).
* Sterrit, David, "[http://www.csmonitor.com/1981/1214/121400.html Pioneering a New Kind of Stage Magic]," ''[[The Christian Science Monitor]]'' (December 14, 1981).
* Sterrit, David, "[http://www.csmonitor.com/1981/1214/121400.html Pioneering a New Kind of Stage Magic]," ''[[The Christian Science Monitor]]'' (December 14, 1981).
* Yablonsky, Linda, "[http://bombsite.com/issues/37/articles/1496 Elizabeth LeCompte]," [[Bomb (magazine)|Bomb]] (Fall 1991).
* Yablonsky, Linda, "[http://bombsite.com/issues/37/articles/1496 Elizabeth LeCompte] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130920231553/http://bombsite.com/issues/37/articles/1496 |date=2013-09-20 }}," [[Bomb (magazine)|Bomb]] (Fall 1991).

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==References==
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==External links==
==External links==
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* [http://thewoostergroup.org The Wooster Group website]
* [http://thewoostergroup.org The Wooster Group website]
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[[Category:Skidmore College alumni]]
[[Category:Skidmore College alumni]]
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Elizabeth LeCompte
Born (1944-04-28) April 28, 1944 (age 80)
New Jersey, U.S.
OccupationDirector
PartnerWillem Dafoe (1977–2004)
Children1

Elizabeth LeCompte (born April 28, 1944) is an American director of experimental theater, dance, and media. A founding member of The Wooster Group, she has directed that ensemble since its emergence in the late 1970s.[1]

Life and career[edit]

LeCompte was born and grew up in New Jersey. She earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Fine Arts from Skidmore College. She met director and actor Willem Dafoe at The Performance Group and began a professional and personal relationship. Their son, Jack, was born in 1982.[2][3][4]

With The Wooster Group, she has composed, designed, and directed over forty works for theater, dance, film and video, starting with Sakonnet Point in 1975. These works characteristically interweave performance with multimedia technologies and are strongly influenced by historical and contemporary visual arts and architecture. She is known both for taking apart and reworking classics such as Hamlet, The Emperor Jones, and The Hairy Ape as well as constructing new works from scratch.

Prior to her work with The Wooster Group, she was a member of the experimental theater company The Performance Group from 1970 to 1975. Subsequently, LeCompte and Spalding Gray founded The Wooster Group, along with Jim Clayburgh, Willem Dafoe, Peyton Smith, Kate Valk, and Ron Vawter. For her work with these groups, LeCompte was included in Mitter and Shevtsova's 2004 volume discussing 50 influential theater directors around the world.[1] Other writers consistently include her in the lineage of experimental theater artists that passes through Meyerhold and Grotowski to the present generation of "postdramatic" theater makers.[5][6] As a New Yorker writer put it: "Luminaries of the theatrical avant-garde—Richard Foreman, Robert Wilson, and Peter Sellars among them—describe her as first among equals".[7]

LeCompte has lectured and taught at American University, the Art Institute of Chicago, Columbia University, Connecticut College, the Lincoln Center Theatre Directors Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, New York University, Northeastern University, the O’Neill Center, Smith College, the University of London, and the Yale School of Drama. In 2018, The New York Times critics ranked House/Lights the 16th greatest American play since Angels in America.[8]

Awards[edit]

Among her honors, LeCompte has received the National Endowment for the Arts Distinguished Artists Fellowship for Lifetime Achievement in the American Theater, the MacArthur Fellowship,[9] the Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres from the French Cultural Ministry, a Guggenheim Fellowship,[10] a Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship,[11] a United States Artists Fellowship, an Anonymous Was A Woman Award,[12] the Theater Practitioner Award from Theatre Communications Group,[13] The Skowhegan Medal for Performance, a Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Performance Artist Award[14] and honorary doctorates from the New School for Social Research and the California Institute of the Arts. She was included in the 1993 Whitney Biennial. She won the 2016 Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize.[15]

Wooster Group works made by LeCompte[edit]

Theater[edit]

Three Places in Rhode Island[edit]

  • Sakonnet Point (1975)
  • Rumstick Road (1977)
  • Nayatt School (1978)
  • Point Judith (an epilog) (1979)

The Road to Immortality[edit]

  • Route 1 & 9 (1981)
  • L.S.D. (…Just the High Points…) (1984)
  • Frank Dell’s The Temptation of St. Antony (1988)
  • North Atlantic (1984, 1999, 2010)
  • Brace Up! (1991, 2003)
  • The Emperor Jones (1993, 2006)
  • Fish Story (1994)
  • The Hairy Ape (1996)
  • House/Lights (1998, 2005)
  • To You, The Birdie! (Phèdre) (2002)
  • Poor Theater (2004)
  • Who’s Your Dada?! (2006)
  • Hamlet (2007, 2012)
  • La Didone (2009)
  • Vieux Carré (2011)
  • Troilus and Cressida (2012) — a collaboration with the Royal Shakespeare Company; directed by Elizabeth LeCompte and Mark Ravenhill
  • Cry, Trojans! (Troilus & Cressida) (2014)
  • Early Shaker Spirituals (2014)
  • The Room (2016)
  • The Town Hall Affair (2017)
  • A Pink Chair (In Place of a Fake Antique) (2018)
  • Nayatt School Redux (2019)
  • The Mother (2021)
  • Symphony of Rats (2024)

Dance[edit]

  • Hula (1981)
  • For the Good Times (1982)
  • Dances with T.V. and Mic (1998)
  • Erase-E(X) (2004) (with JoJi Inc.)
  • I Am Jerome Bel (2008)

Film and video[edit]

  • Flaubert Dreams of Travel but the Illness of His Mother Prevents It (1986)
  • Today I Must Sincerely Congratulate You (1991)
  • White Homeland Commando (1992)
  • Rhyme ’Em to Death (1994)
  • The Emperor Jones (DVD - 1999)
  • House/Lights (DVD - 2004)
  • There Is Still Time . . Brother (installation - 2007)
  • Brace Up! (DVD - 2009)
  • Dailies (2010 - present)
  • To You, The Birdie! (Phèdre) (DVD - 2011)
  • Rumstick Road (DVD - 2013)

Radio-audio[edit]

  • The Emperor Jones (BBC Radio 3 play - 1998)
  • Racine’s Phèdre (BBC Radio 3 play - 2000)

Personal life[edit]

In 1977 LeCompte began a relationship with actor Willem Dafoe. They never married and ended their relationship in 2004 after 27 years. The couple have one son, Jack.[16]

See also[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b Mitter, Shomit, and Maria Shevtsova, ed. (2004) Fifty Key Theatre Directors. London: Routledge.
  2. ^ "Willem and Giada Dafoe". English-language website of Vogue Italia. March 4, 2010. Archived from the original on January 11, 2013. Retrieved February 8, 2012.
  3. ^ Gray, Spalding (20 October 2011). "Spalding Gray on Hollywood, Writing, and Willem Dafoe". Slate. Retrieved 3 July 2012.
  4. ^ "Willem Dafoe - Dafoe Trades Old Love For Young New Flame". Contactmusic. 2 March 2004. Retrieved 3 July 2012.
  5. ^ Schechner, Richard. "Theatre Alive in the New Millennium." TDR/The Drama Review 44.1 (2000): 5-6.
  6. ^ Fuchs, Elinor. Review of Postdramatic Theatre by Hans-Thies Lehmann. TDR/The Drama Review 52.2 (2008): 178-183.
  7. ^ Kramer, Jane. "Experimental Journey: Elizabeth LeCompte takes on Shakespeare" The New Yorker, Oct. 8, 2007.
  8. ^ "The Great Work Continues: The 25 Best American Plays Since 'Angels in America'". The New York Times. 2018-05-31. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-04-17.
  9. ^ Elizabeth LeCompte at the MacArthur Foundation
  10. ^ Elizabeth LeCompte Archived 2014-03-19 at the Wayback Machine at the Guggenheim Foundation.
  11. ^ Elizabeth LeCompte, New York, USA Rockefeller Fellow[permanent dead link] at United States Artists
  12. ^ "Anonymous Was A Woman award winners". Archived from the original on 2011-11-03. Retrieved 2014-03-19.
  13. ^ TCG National Conference 2007 – TCG Awards Archived 2014-03-19 at the Wayback Machine at Theatre Communications Group.
  14. ^ Elizabeth LeCompte Archived 2014-03-19 at the Wayback Machine at the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation
  15. ^ Schuessler, Jennifer (September 28, 2016). "Elizabeth LeCompte of the Wooster Group Wins the Gish Prize". The New York Times. Retrieved April 27, 2017.
  16. ^ "Experimental Journey". The New Yorker.

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