Jane Cox
Jane Cox did her undergraduate work at Iowa State
University and has now been on the ISU faculty for over twenty years.
She is a full Professor and stage director for Iowa State University
Theatre. She has been involved with over two hundred-fifty productions
as an actress, designer, or director. Her one woman shows have been
performed in over twenty states as well as the Kennedy Center, and
the Smithsonian.
The first one woman show she performed was The Belle of Amherst which
toured Iowa through a grant from the Fisher Foundation. It was also
performed in other states and Russia. She wrote The Yellow Rose of
Suffrage through funding from a grant from the Liberal Arts and Sciences
College at Iowa State. It concerns the life and words of one of Iowa's
women, Carrie Chapman Catt.
Jane has also written Fields of Endless Days which starred Ossie Davis
and Ruby Dee; A Woman's Place, concerning the life of suffragist Lucy
Stone; and scripts for musical plays on the lives of Clara Schumann
and Johannes Brahms and Nadia Boulanger. Jane's latest one woman plays
are The Promised Land about homesteading in the late 1800's and The
Longing to Understand, the story of Barbara McClintock, winner of
the Nobel Prize in medicine.
Her latest project is Heroes Among Us, a book dealing with
the lives of Iowa men and women in World War II. The script from these
interviews opened December 7, 2001 at Fisher Theatre.
Jane also teaches a wide variety of theatre classes to university
students, children, and seniors. Jane has been awarded The Faculty
Citation, the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Excellence in Artistic
Creativity Award, and a Commendation from Governor Terry E. Branstad.
Classes
- Theatre 106 - Introduction to the Performing Arts
2008 Summer Session
Syllabus (PDF)
Shows
- Love and Honor
2/08 - Director
- Quilters
11/07 - Director
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Arcadia
3/07 - Director
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Our Town
10/06 - Director
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The Rivals
3/06 - Director
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A Christmas Carol
12/05 - Director
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Diary of Anne Frank
3/05 - Director
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Bleacher Bums
10/04 - Director
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The Promised Land
5/04 - Sarah
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Little Women
3/04 - Director
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Ruddigore or The Witch's Curse
11/03 - Director
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I Never Sang For My Father
5/03 - Director
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The Matchmaker
3/02 - Director
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Crimes of the Heart
10/01 - Director
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The Longing to Understand
9/01 - Costume Designer
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Noises Off
2/01 - Director
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I've Got Something to Say Too
10/00 - Director
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Mass Appeal
8/00 - Director
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Les Liaisons Dangereuses
2/00 - Director
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I've Got Something to Say
10/99 - Director
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A Little Night Music
11/98 - Director
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Prelude to a Kiss
2/95 - Director
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The Yellow Rose of Suffrage
9/93 - Carrie Chapman Catt
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Dear Iowa
8/93 - Director
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The Miracle Worker
10/92 - Director
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Clarence Darrow
1/92 - Director/Costume Designer
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A Streetcar Named Desire
10/91 - Director
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The Madwoman of Chaillot
5/91 - Costume Designer
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The Bell of Amherst
9/90 - Costume Designer
