Working Sessions 4
Sunday November 15, 10:15AM-12:45PM
Contemporary Women Playwrights
Conveners: Anna Birch; Penny Farfan, University of Calgary; Lesley Ferris, Ohio State University
James Al-Shamma Belmont University
In the Next Room (or the Vibrator Play) by Sarah Ruhl
Claudia Barnett, Middle Tennessee State University
Frozen by Byrony Lavery
Ryan Claycomb, West Virginia University
4.48 Psychosis by Sarah Kane
Eileen Curley, Marist College
After Mrs. Rochester by Polly Teale
J.K. Curry Wake Forest University
Intimate Apparel by Lynn Nottage
Jill Dolan, Princeton University
An American Daughter by Wendy Wasserstein
Sharon Friedman, New York University, Gallatin School
Palace of the End by Judith Thompson
Anne García-Romero, University of California, Santa Barbara
Elliot, A Soldier’s Fugue by Quiara Alegría Hudes
Kate Kelly, Texas A&M University
Her Naked Skin by Rebecca Lenkiewicz
Melissa Lee, The Ohio State University
Playhouse Creatures by April De Angelis.
Karen O’Brien, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Woman and Scarecrow by Marina Carr
Juliana Omoifo Okoh, University of Port Harcourt, Nigeria
Closed Doors by Julie Okoh
Chris Olsen, The University of Puerto Rico, Río Pedras
Telling Tales, by Migdalia Cruz
Susan Russell, Penn State University
9 Parts of Desire by Heather Raffo
Jenny Spencer, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Stoning Mary by Debbie Tucker Green
Performance and Politics in the Americas: Methods and Paradigms (Part 2)
Conveners: Jill Lane, New York University; Diana Taylor, New York University
Renee Alexander Craft, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
When the Devil Knocks: The Congo Tradition and the Politics of Black Identity in Panama
Candice Amich, Rutgers University
Resisting Neoliberalism through Form: Toward a Poetics of Globalization
Francine A’Ness, Dartmouth College
The Diverted Gaze: Performing “Mexico” in the U.S. and Canada
Ivone Barriga, University of Minnesota , Twin Cities
Unpacking sixteenth century Andean historiography: the role of Indigenous archives and repertoires in the de-colonization of knowledge
Soyica Diggs Colbert, Dartmouth College
Black Theatrical Reparations: Repetition/Reproduction
Marcela Fuentes, University of California, Los Angeles
In the Event of Performance: Media, Embodiment, and Politics in the Americas
Armando Garcia, Cornell University
Impossible Indians: Antonin Artaud and the Space of Cruelty in Latina Performance
Patricia Herrera, University of Richmond
Nuyoriqueñas In the House: Staging Identity, Performing Community
Ana Elena Puga, Northwestern University
Desperate Acts: Melodrama and the Performance of Migration
Chantal Rodriguez, University of California, Los Angeles
Hemispheric Identifications: Towards a notion of transindigeneity in performance
Carolina San Juan, University of California, Los Angeles
American Vaudeville in the Philippines
Shannon Steen, University of California, Berkeley
ReOrientations: California and the Performance of Cultural Location
Cláudia Tatinge Nascimento, Wesleyan University
Brazilian Group Theatre: Dictatorship, Community, Resistance
Tamara Underiner, Arizona State University
Taking Pride, Mobilizing Shame: Performances of Nativism in the age of NAFTA
Katherine Zien, Northwestern University
Claiming the Canal: Performances of Race, Labor, and Citizenship in Panama, 1904-1999
Popular Fiestas and Carnival of the Americas
Conveners: Pao lo Vignolo, Universidad Nacional of Colombia; Angela Marino Segura, New York University;
Pablo Assumpção, New York University
‘É de fazer chorar:’ social sentimentality and eroticism as modes of historicizing
Rachel Bowditch, Arizona State University
Rehearsing Utopia: Staging Identity, Politics, and Political Performance at the Burning Man Festival
Jason Bush, The Ohio State University
Staging the Ethnographic Archive: The Peruvian Scissors Dance and the Performativity of Heritage
Edwin Emilio Corbin Gutiérrez, Northwestern University
Super Justice, Super Relajo, and Super Barrio Politics: Superbarrio in Mexico City
Christian DuComb, Brown University
The Wenches of the Philadelphia Mummers Parade: A Performance Genealogy
Courtney Elkin Mohler, California State University , Dominguez Hills
Festival, Nostalgia & the Making of Regional Identity in Santa Barbara, California’s “ Old Spanish Days Fiesta”
Charmel A. Joiner, Ohio State University
Parade to get Paid: Black Power and Economic Freedom through Barnstorming
Jenna Kubly, Tufts University
Displaying Patriotism and Funding the War: Pageants and Rallies in the United States, 1917-1918
Kevin Landis, University of Colorado
Carlos Uriona and the Double Edge Company
J.L. Murdoch, Bowling Green State University
A Summons to Ecstasy: Form and Function in Korea’s Talchum Processional
Jimmy A. Noriega, Cornell University
Performing a New Nation: ‘Day without an Immigrant’ as Protest and Fiesta
Milla Riggio, Trinity College
Praying to the Devil in Trinidad Carnival
AnnMarie T. Saunders, University of Maryland
Texts, Tropes, & Tortillas: A Performance Studies Exploration of Fiesta San Antonio’s Cornyation
