Jeremy is Assistant Professor of Theatre & Directing at Fayetteville State University in Fayetteville, North Carolina, and a graduate of the M.Litt/MFA Program in Shakespeare and Renaissance Literature in Performance at Mary Baldwin College in partnership with the American Shakespeare Center of Staunton, Virginia. He served as Assistant Director and Stage Manager for the ASC’s 2006 Summer/Fall Season, including productions of As You Like It, Macbeth, The Tempest with director Giles Block (Master of Words at Shakespeare’s Globe in London), and Othello, a season featured in the Wall Street Journal. He is a former president and artistic director of The University Wits.
He has directed Peer Gynt, Godspell, The Merchant of Venice, The Important of Being Earnest, Julius Caesar, True West, and Twelfth Night for Waldorf College in Forest City, Iowa, Measure for Measure (Indiana Wesleyan University), The Two Noble Kinsmen, The Winter’s Tale, Macbeth (Mary Baldwin College),The Pied Piper (Golden Duck Production of Staunton, Virginia), Yasmina Reza’s Artwhile (William Jewell College, his alma mater), and The Tempest (ASC’s Young Company Theatre Camp). He has served as production supervisor for King John, Pericles, The Vagina Monologues, Top Girls, Quilters, and The 24 Hour Theatre Project. Jeremy has performed in nearly 40 productions in the past decade. Highlights include Richard in Richard III, Jaques in As You Like It, Claudius in Hamlet, the title role in King John, Don Armado in Love’s Labour’s Lost , Malcolm and Duncan in Macbeth, Seymour in Little Shop of Horrors, Antony in Sweeney Todd, and many others. Jeremy is a four-time Kennedy Center/American College Theatre Festival Irene Ryan nominee and an Equity Member Candidate.
Jeremy assists with design and technical production of shows in the FSU Theatre season, and has written essays on designing productions and using modern technology to reflect “original” staging conditions.
Jeremy has presented research including All Stage World: Audience Training for Early Modern Plays at the Fifth Blackfriars Conference, Lear Unwritten: Examing New and Renewed Aesthetics for the College English Association, “Ourself shall mingle with society”: Commendatory Plays and Original Staging as an M.Litt thesis presented for the Third Blackfriars Conference, Malvolio in Purgatory: Tragedy and the Deuteronomic Cycle in Twelfth Night for the West Virginia Shakespeare Conference, and The Practice of Original Practices: The Next Stage of the Original Practice Movement at Maryland Shakespeare Festival’s “Making Shakespeare Matter” conference. He regularly offers workshops on presenting and designing Shakespeare.
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