Anne-Liese Juge Fox, Ph.D. Playwright, Director, Performer, Theatre Scholar and Educator.

Anne-Liese is a native New Orleanian and studied theatre at Tisch School of the Arts, NYU and the International School of Theatre Jacques Le Coq in Paris where she focused on mask theatre and physical mime for devised performance. In Paris, Anne-Liese performed with the bilingual theatre company, Oz and appeared on French television. In San Francisco she was a company member of Theatre of Yugen where she studied and performed in the Japanese classical theatre traditions of Noh and Kyogen with founder and Artistic Director, Yuriko Doi. In San Francisco she was, a founding member of Pacific Playback Theatre, and an award-winning solo artist. She tourned internationally with her solo, Ego Rites. She returned to New Orleans and received an M.Ed. in Human Performance and collaborated with playwright Lisa D’Amour and ArtSpot Productions in the Obie-winning, Nita & Zita. Anne-Liese founded NOLA Playback Theatre after the levee break disaster following Hurricane Katrina and worked for eight years in community settings as part of the recovery efforts. She was a writer and performer of Swimming Upstream with Eve Ensler (Vagina Monologues,) and toured nationally with the production after its premiere in the Superdome with Kerry Washington, Phylicia Rashad, Jasmine Guy, La Chanze, and Shirley Knight. Fox’s scholarly articles have been published in TDR. She served on the board for the International Centre for Playback Theatre and for ArtSpot Productions in New Orleans. She was a Board of Regents and Graduate School Dissertation fellow at L.S.U. where she received her doctorate in Theatre History, Literature and Criticism with a minor in Performance Studies. Fox is a theater educator and has taught and directed at Tulane, Loyola, Delgado, and Southeastern Universities in Louisiana. She currently teaches theater and speech at Christ Episcopal High School in Covington, LA. She translated and adapted Sartre’s No Exit and Marivaux’s The Dispute for her productions at SLU and Jean Anouilh’s Antigone for CES High School. She adapted Shakespeare’s Hamlet, Marlowe’s Tragical History of Dr. Faustus, and Calderon de la Barca’s Life is a Dream for high school audiences. Her original play, Frankenstein’s Mary Shelley, is intended for high school and university theatre department productions.

photo credit: Nadine Defranoux from Ego Rites