“Lenora Champagne’s poetry burrows under the skin in a way that is elegant and painful….in this comic sigh.”
— Laurie Stone, Village Voice.
» Original Works
» Selected Works with Other Artists
» Translations, Screenplay, Exhibitions
Original Works
PLAYS, MUSIC/THEATRE WORKS, PERFORMANCE TEXTS
MOTHER’S LITTLE HELPER solo
Ohio Theatre, February 2004, Soho Think Tank’s Ice Factory, July 2003
Developed at Dixon Place at Patio, Feb 2003; SUNY/New Paltz, Oct 2002; SUNY/Purchase, Sept 2002 and April 2003
Exerpts performed at New Georges Perform-a-thon, Oct 2002; Hemispheric Institute Conference, NYU, July 2003
MEMOIRS OF A CAJUN-AMERICAN PRINCESS (compilation of performance texts)
SUNY/Purchase College, April 2003
THE MAMA DRAMAS solo
HERE Arts Center, Jan 2001, SUNY/Purchase, March 2001, Ohio Theatre, Feb 2002
COATICOOK
Undermain Theatre at Dallas Theatre Center, March 2000; at Soho Think Tank’s Ice Factory Festival, NY, August 2000
Just Add Water Festival at New York Theatre Workshop, March 2000
Finalist, Ensemble Studio Theatre’s One Act Marathon, 2000
DUSK solo
Dusk
Dixon Place, Dec 1999, Tonic, May 2000, New Dramatists, Oct 2000 (DUSK became Part II of The Mama Dramas)
THE SINGING: a cyberspace opera (book and lyrics) with composer Daniel Levy
York Theatre, 1999; New Dramatists, 1998; Dance Theatre Workshop’s Hit & Run Festival, 1997
Richard Rodgers Award, 1999; Frederick Loewe Music Theatre Award, 1998
WANTS solo
Dance Theatre Workshop, Oct 1996 (premiere, commission); Vineyard Theatre, Watermark’s WordFire Festival, March 1997
NY Shakespeare Festival/The Public Theatre, New Work Now!, May 1997
WANTS play for 3 actors
Ohio Theatre, 1998 (workshop co-produced by *New Georges *and *Soho Think Tank *for Ice Factory ‘98)
Theatre 1774/Playwrights Workshop of Montreal, 1995 (workshop, staged reading)
Finalist, 1997 Weissberger Award; Honorable Mention, 1996 Jane Chambers Playwriting Award
MY NEBRASKA, play inspired by Willa Cather’s MY ANTONIA! with music by Bill Ruyle
Australian National Playwrights Conference, 1997 (workshop,staged reading)
Additional workshops and readings: Nebraska Repertory Theatre/Wagon Train Project (Lincoln, NE), 1995
New York Theatre Workshop, New Dramatists, Classic Stage Company, 1996
FLYING HOME
Primary Stages "American Myths” Festival, 1996
VALENTINE’S DAY, 1980 (bis)
Ensemble Studio Theatre, "Hell’s Kitchen Sink” series, 1996
THE BEST THINGS IN LIFE solo
The Best Things in Life
Downtown Art Co., Ohio Theatre (Project 3 and TWEED New Works Festival), Primary Stages, Dixon Place, Alice’s Fourth Floor, New York Theatre Workshop (studio), Atelier Trigon (Paris), Cleveland Performance Art Festival, Oberlin College, Portland Art Museum (OR), 1993
THE BEST THINGS IN LIFE _play for 3 actors
Classic Stage Company; Company One (Hartford, CT) (staged readings) , 1994
A TOURIST’S GUIDE TO THE BIG EASY solo
Cucuracha Cabaret, 1994; New Dramatists, 1996
CREOLE, A TROPICAL FANTASY solo
Primary Stages "Planet Project" Festival, 1993
Text for THE CORPORATION WITH A MOVIE CAMERA, a film by Joel Katz
THE KNOWLEDGE PROJECT The New Museum of Contemporary Art, 1992
Interactive solo with installation (created with Vivian Selbo) for "The Art Mall As Social Space" show
WITH YOU THE REST OF….
Downtown Art Co., Nuyorican Poets Cafe, Maryland Art Place (Baltimore), 1991
Finalist, 1992 Jane Chambers Playwriting Award
ISABELLA DREAMS THE NEW WORLD
Isabella Dreams the New World
full cast version Ohio Theatre, Directed by Champagne, music by Zeena Parkins, set by Liz Prince, 1990
Ohio Theatre, Directed by Robert Lyons, 1994
HERE Arts Center, Directed by Ruth Margraff for Tiny Mythic’s U.S.A. Project, 1997
Readings: Seven Stages Theatre (Atlanta), Louisiana State University
Native Voices/Native Visions Playwriting Award, 1993
ISABELLA DREAMS THE NEW WORLD solo
Alice’s Fourth Floor, Downtown Art Co., Dixon Place, Movement Research, the Gas Station, MacDowell Colony, M.K., Under One Roof, 1990-91
DR. CHARCOT’S HYSTERIA SHOWS
A collaboration with Judy Dworin, Dianne Hunter, Jerry Rojo.
Ohio Theatre (NYC), Oberlin College, Trinity College (Hartford), New York Theatre Workshop (studio), 1988-89OUT FROM UNDER solo
Classic Stage Company, Soho Rep, Real Art Ways , Berkeley Rep, Westbeth Theatre, Irish Arts Center, Ingber Gallery, Movement Research, Dixon Place, Performance Space l22, Home for Contemporary Theatre, 1989WOMEN WITHOUT PARTS
LaMama, Yale Cabaret, Home for Contemporary Theatre, Continental Life (LMCC), 1988SARAH BERNHARDT MEETS HER WATERLOO
DIA Art Foundation, 1987
FRACTURED TALES FROM THERE TO HERE
Boston Film and Video Foundation, Grove Street Gallery (Worcester, MA), 1987WINTER HEAT
Set by Claudia Fitch, films by Jim Hubbard. Performance Space 122, 1987
AS READY, APART FROM HERSELF
As Ready, Apart from Herself
Installation by Claudia Fitch. Franklin Furnace, 1986
HOME
Set by Claudia Fitch, films by Jim Hubbard. Danspace Project at St. Mark’s Church, Real Art Ways (Hartford), 1986
THE EYE OF THE GARDEN
The Eye of the Garden
Commissioned ollaboration with sculptor Claudia Fitch and composer Glen Velez. Creative Time’s Art on the Beach, 1985
FRACTURED JULIET
B.A.C.A.’s Downtown Cultural Center (Brooklyn), Painted Bride Arts Center (Philadelphia), Real Art Ways (Hartford, CT), Hallwalls (Buffalo), Pyramid Arts Center (Rochester), Poetry Project at St. Mark’s Church , 1985-86
FROM THE RED LIGHT DISTRICT
Performance Space 122, Institute of Contemporary Art (Boston), 1984-85
REPTILE WARMTH
Poetry Project at St. Mark’s Church, Basement Workshop, Central Halls Gallery;
Trinity College, 1984-85
THE WAY TO THE RIVER
solo for Artists Call Against U.S. Intervention in Central America Franklin Furnace, College of New Rochelle, 1984
FLYING HOME
Flying Home
MANNA
New Museum of Contemporary Art, Franklin Furnace, 1983
GETTING OVER TOM
Getting Over Tom, 1982
Franklin Furnace, l982, College of New Rochelle, Performance Space 122, Trinity College, 1984-85
Williams College "New Voices" Playwriting Festival, Playwrights Horizons, 1992
WOMEN IN RESEARCH
Women in Research
Collaboration with Cindy Carr and Patricia Jones; music by Jim Farmer. Inroads, 1981-82
SELECTED WORK WITH OTHER ARTISTS
Live performance in work by others
September in YESTERDAY’S WINDOW, Woman 2 in NOTHING FOREVER, by Chiori Miyagawa, New York Theatre Workshop, 1996 (also 1994 workshop version)
Performer, THE SPAGHETTI SPECTACLE, by Stuart Sherman, Ontological at St. Mark’s, 1994
Performer, REALITIES, by Fiona Templeton, at Art Awareness (Lexington, NY), Capp Street Project (San Francisco), Art in the Anchorage (Brooklyn), 1992, 1993
Performer, WHERE ON EARTH, by Fiona Templeton, Franklin Furnace, February 1990
The Critic in ARTBUSINESS, by Stephanie Skura, The Joyce Theatre and P.S. 1’s "Dance and Social Commentary” series, l984
Emmy Hennings in READINGS FROM THE DIARIES OF HUGO BALL, by Chris Kraus, Performance Space 122 (Feb l985) and Ward-Nasse and A.I.R. Galleries (Dec l984)
Film/video/internet: performance
ANXIOUS WOMEN, cybercast performance through Franklin Furnace/pseudo, 1998
THROUGH THE LOOKING LASS (Snow White’s Dream), video by Abigail Child, 1991-93
CORPORATION WITH A MOVIE CAMERA, video by *Joel Katz, 1991
OUT OF THE CORNER, video by Adrian Piper, Whitney Museum, 1990
PRIVILEGE, a film by Yvonne Rainer, 1990
Momento Mori, a film by *Jim Hubbard,
HOME, a film by Jim Hubbard, 1987
Film/video: production
Associate Producer, interviewer/artist, and writer, SPHINXES WITHOUT SECRETS, video on women performance artists, 1990
Production assistant, PRIVILEGE, a film by Yvonne Rainer, l989
Performer and technical assistance (camera and sound) for AIN’T NOBODY’S BUSINESS, video on battered women by Marianne Wafer and Karl Sporer, 1978
TRANSLATIONS from the French
Wallworld, by Sesrge Kribus, translation commissioned by Seven Stages (Atlanta) , with funds from Etants Donnes: French American Fund for the Performing Arts, 2004
In the Solitude of Cotton Fields, by Bernard-Marie Koltes, translation commisioned by In Parenthesis with funds from Etants Donnes: the French American Fund for the Performing Arts, 2002; produced May 2003 during a festival of plays by Koltes.
The Mother and the Whore, (La Maman et la Putain), a screenplay by Jean Eustache, 1992
SCREENPLAY
Almost Home 1998
EXHIBITIONS
Shattered Anatomies, a box anthology of objects and texts on performance, Arts Council of England and the Arnolfini, Bristol, England, 1997
Installation (with Vivian Selbo) for the New Museum’s "Art Mall as Social Space” show, 1992