Ian Borden

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Ian Borden

Associate Professor Area of Focus: Performance / Directing, Theatre Studies University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Contact

Address
TEMP 209
Lincoln NE 68588-0201
Phone
402-472-2072 On-campus 2-2072
Email
iborden2@unl.edu

Ian is a member of both the Performance and Theatre Studies faculty, teaching a variety of classes including Acting, Stage Combat, Scripts in Production, and Renaissance Theatre. His next big project is directing Ben Jonson’s El alquimista in Mexico City. He recently directed The Tempest for Capitol Shakespeare, as well as Agravio, The Three Musketeers, and Twelfth Night for the Carson School.  Acting credits include As You Like It for the South Dakota Shakespeare Festival and Three Musketeers at the Black Hills Playhouse, as well as Unnecessary Farce, Vino Veritas and Act a Lady for Nebraska Rep.  His scholarship focuses on the translation, performance and history of the early modern stage, especially the interchange between the theatre of England and Spain. He is also a member of the Board of Directors of the Association for Hispanic Classical Theatre.  Fight Direction credits extend across North America all the way to the Bahamas and even over to Ireland, where he has taught for the Irish Dramatic Combat Academy at the National Theatre School. Ian has a Master of Fine Arts in Acting and Directing from the University of Missouri-Kansas City and a PhD in Theatre Studies from Florida State University.

Education

  • Ph D, Florida State University, 2009
  • MFA, University of Missouri-Kansas City, 1999

Courses

  • THEA 112G, Introduction to Theatre, Fall 2013
  • THEA 234, Scripts in Performance, Fall 2013
  • THEA 402, Advanced Stage Movement, Fall 2015

Publications and Other Intellectual Contributions

  • Stage Picture Versus Text: Translating and Adapting Ana Caro for a 21st Century Audience, Comedia Performance, February 2014

Artistic & Professional Performances & Exhibitions

  • “Practicum in Dream Translation: Re-Investigating La vida es sueño.” , El Paso, TX, February 2014
  • Necessary Roughness, Dublin, Ireland, May 2014

Presentations

  • “Practicum in Dream Translation: Re-Investigating La vida es sueño.” , AHCT, El Paso, TX
  • Rebooting the Stuart Stage: An Examination of Early Modern Thrust Staging in the Restoration Theatre, American Shakespeare Center, Staunton, VA