Originally from Germany, Dr. Schreyer Duarte has made a name for herself as a dramaturg in Toronto while also transitioning into directing in the past ten years. Her current production, a contemporary interpretation of Lessing’s Nathan the Wise, is part of the 2019 Stratford Festival. Dr.
The Silversides Theatre Artists Series 2016 presents Canadian actor and playwright Monique Mojica in a talk, "Inscripted Earth: embodiment of place as research, process and performance."
Monique Mojica will describe her evolving process of creating an Indigenous dramaturgy rooted in land-based embodied research. This presentation looks specifically at work begun in 2011 (along with a collaborative team of Indigenous artists) and focuses on effigy mounds and earthworks as the first literary structures on this land.
The Waterloo Renaissance Workshop is hosting a talk by Department postdoctoral fellow, Toby Malone. Toby will discuss his current course of research, which involves the digital, parallel-text codification of the prompt-book collections at the Stratford Festival Archives. Toby will speak to the history of the project and will outline the practical and dramaturgical opportunities that arise from considering theatrical archives as sites of generative work.