Assistant Professor, InterArts
Office: College Hall C209C
Phone: (703)993-8865
Email: kmalone@gmu.edu
Office Hours: by appointment
Syllabi: AVT 377, AVT 497
Professional Activities:
Kirby Malone is a writer, director and multimedia designer. He teaches InterArts courses including Cyberpunk and Performance Studio, and serves as Director of the Multimedia Performance Studio, which received a $125,000 National Endowment for the Arts grant. He is the co-founder, with Gail Scott White, of the performance company, Cyburbia Productions. His work has appeared at the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s NEXT WAVE Festival, Seattle Rep, Arena Stage, Peabody Chamber Opera, Theatre Cornell, Painted Bride Art Center, Banff Centre/School of Fine Arts and Minnesota Opera’s OPERA TOMORROW Festival. Directing credits include the original productions: Silence & Darkness—a live movie for the cell phone age, Time Traveler Zero Zero: A Story of John Titor, The Pleasure Raiders, and Columbus, a ghost story; Linda Hartinian’s adaptation of Philip K. Dick’s Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said; and the operas Chatter & Static by Paul Mathews, and Komar & Melamid’s Naked Revolution. Selected multimedia designs include Bertolt Brecht’s Caucasian Chalk Circle, Mac Wellman’s Bad Infinity, Anna Deavere Smith’s House Arrest, and Theatre X’s Bode-wad-mi: Keepers of the Fire. His multimedia productions have been featured in two cover stories in American Theatre in 1987 and 1995, and his writings have appeared in Link and Boston Book Review. His profile of Rainer Werner Fassbinder was featured on NPR’s All Things Considered.
LINKS:
www.cyburbiaproductions.com
www.avt.gmu.edu/mps