ELECTRONIC PORTFOLIO
by D. Amy-Rose Forbes-Erickson, Ph.D.
Please scroll down to see samples of artistic work, syllabi, evaluations, publications & creative works, theatre reviews, and programs I created for productions I directed, designed, and composed with The Pan-African Theatre Ensemble - as founder/artistic director.
SAMPLE OF ARTISTIC WORK
“Griot Ballads” (Parts I-IV) is a digital media installation/film on African mythology, Afrofuturism, Black feminism, Latin American and Caribbean performance as cultural and social activism. This project was originally conceived as a devised piece with live performance, spoken word, dance/movement, and digital media, with performances scheduled in Sacramento, CA, at the Fringe Theatre Festival, Edinburgh, Scotland for summer 2020.
Due to COVID-19, “Griot Ballads” transformed into a digital media installation that can be viewed as is, or in a museum setting, or for my future use as background, superimposed projections with live performance including dance/movement.
Thanks to Yayra Tamakloe, Alexis Destiny Fennell, Abigail Ramsay, Angela Ahlgren, PhD, Fadi Skeiker, PhD, Beliza Torres Narváez, PhD, and Maria Andréa dos Santos Soares, PhD.
SAMPLE SYLLABI
SAMPLE SYLLABUS - PAS 23002 BLACK EXPERIENCE II - DESIGNED, DEVELOPED, AND TAUGHT ONLINE FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF PAN-AFRICAN STUDIES, KENT STATE UNIVERSITY, SPRING 2019
SAMPLE SYLLABUS - 50:965:216 AFRICAN AMERICAN THEATRE - DESIGNED, DEVELOPED, TAUGHT ONLINE FOR THE THEATRE PROGRAM, DEPARTMENT OF VISUAL, MEDIA, AND PERFORMING ARTS, RUTGERS UNIVERSITY - CAMDEN, SINCE 2014 TO THE PRESENT - FALL 2020
SAMPLE SYLLABUS - THEA 002 THEATRE HISTORY: ANCIENT TO RENAISSANCE, CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, SACRAMENTO
SAMPLE SYLLABUS - THEA 140 BLACK DRAMA IN THE AFRICAN DIASPORA, CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, SACRAMENTO
SAMPLE SYLLABUS - THEA 003 THEATRE HISTORY AFTER 1660, CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, SACRAMENTO
SAMPLE SYLLABUS - THEA 170 AFRICAN AMERICAN THEATRE & CULTURE - 1619 TO THE PRESENT, CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, SACRAMENTO
EVALUATIONS
PEER EVALUATION, FALL 2019
COURSE EVALUATIONS, FALL 2019 THEA 170 AFRICAN AMERICAN THEATRE & CULTURE
- 1619 TO THE PRESENT
COURSE EVALUATIONS, FALL 2020 THEA 002 THEATRE HISTORY: ANCIENT TO RENAISSANCE
COURSE EVALUATIONS, FALL 2020 THEA 170 AFRICAN AMERICAN THEATRE & CULTURE - 1619 TO THE PRESENT
COURSE EVALUATIONS, SUMMER 2020 RUTGERS UNIVERSITY ONLINE COURSE IN AFRICAN AMERICAN THEATRE
PUBLICATIONS & CREATIVE WORKS
THEATRE PROGRAMS & REVIEWS
SELECTED PROGRAMS
Artistic Director - Vejigantes (Devil Mask) by Francisco Arrivί - the Pan-African Theatre Ensemble, African Community Theatre, ORH 230. Thursday-Saturday, November 16, 17, 18 at 8pm, and Sunday, November 19 , 2017 at 2pm.
Artistic Director – Suzan-Lori Parks’s Venus. Performed by the Pan-African Theatre Ensemble, The African Community Theatre, Department of Pan-African Studies, Kent State University, Kent, Ohio in March 2017.
Artistic Director – An Echo in the Bone by Dennis Scott – the Pan-African Theatre Ensemble, African Community Theatre, ORH Room 230. Opening on Thursday, November 15, 2018 at 7pm.
Artistic Director – Digital Masks to Africa – a devised performance of Cheikh Anta Diop: A Poem for the Living by Mwatabu Okantah. Opening on March 7, 2019 at 7pm.
SELECTED REVIEWS
Review for Vejigantes (Devil Mask) by Francisco Arrivί, 2017
Review for Digital Masks to Africa – a devised performance of Cheikh Anta Diop: A Poem for the Living by Mwatabu Okantah - 2019
Preview for Wole Soyinka’s The Bacchae of Euripides: A Communion Rite, performed by The Pan-African Theatre Ensemble, 2016.
Review for Suzan-Lori Parks’s Venus, Performed by the Pan-African Theatre Ensemble, The African Community Theatre, 2017.