Education

Appointments

2021 | Assistant Professor of Dramaturgy, University of Oklahoma, Helmerich School of Drama

Articles

2024 | “University Theatres & Season Selection: Toward a Slow Pedagogy of Programming.” Co-written with Kate Busselle. Theatre/Practice 13 (2024).

2023 | “The Affect of Doubt in Recent Argentine History and Performance: Última(s) catástrofe(s) by Compañía de Funciones Patrióticas.” In “Poetic-Affective Rationality: A Political Approach to the Contemporary Theatrical Scene,” ed. Lorena Verzero and Lola Proaño Gómez, dossier, Religación 8, no. 35 (January–March 2023).

2022 | “Presently in Beds: Re/mediating the Sensible in Argentine Postdictatorship Performance.” In “Presence,” ed. Kimberly Jannarone, Elise Morrison, and Tavia Nyong’o, consortium special issue, TDR 66, no. 4 (December 2022: 161–178).

2021 | “Voicing the Self, Performing Collectives: Testimonio in Contemporary Argentine Theater.” Voz e Cena 2, no. 2 (July–December 2021): 34–58.

Chapters

2023 | “On the Move: A Methodology for Teaching Theater Histories of Latinxs in the Americas.” In Toward a Just Pedagogy of Performance: Historiography, Narrative, and Equity in Dramatic Practice, ed. Charles O’Malley, 30–52. New York: Routledge.

2020 | “¿Dónde estoy?: Situado en pandemia, relaborando presencia, sintiendo a distancia.” In Mutis por el foro: Artes escénicas y política en tiempos de pandemia, edited by Lorena Verzero and Lola Proaño Gómez, Red de Estudios de Artes Escénicas Latinoamericanas, 135–41. Buenos Aires: Editorial ASPO.

2020 | “Metateatro afectivo: Las ideas, de Federico León.” In Entre/telones y pantallas: Afectos y saberes en la performance argentina contemporánea, edited by Jordana Blejmar, Philippa Page, and Cecilia Sosa, 192–205. Buenos Aires: Libraria Ediciones.

Reviews

2023 | “Más allá del cuerpo o el cuerpo más allá: Reflexiones a la distancia sobre Transmutaciones Lafkenche (2020–Presente).” FITEI Digital. November 2023.

2022 | “Hernández, Paola S. Staging Lives in Latin American Theater: Bodies–Objects–Archives.” telondefondo 18, no. 35 (July 2022): 198–200.

2022 | “Forgiveness and Healing: Releasing Ni Mi Madre.” David Geffen School of Drama at Yale Annual Magazine (2021–2022): 26–29.

2019 | “Trastoy, Beatriz. La escena posdramática.” Latin American Theatre Review 53, no. 1 (Fall 2019): 153–54.

2017 | “What Makes Interactive Theatre So Fascinating.” Co-written with Maria Inês Marques. TDF Stages. Review of Top Secret International (State 1) by Rimini Protokoll.

2016 | “The Sound of the Wood Is the Soul of the Play.” TDF Stages. Review of Antlia Pneumatica by Anne Washburn, directed by Ken Rus Schmoll.

Awards

2025 | Arts and Humanities Forum Public Fellowship, University of Oklahoma Project: “De/Composing Site-Specific” Funding: $5,000

2024 | Collaborative Research Award, American Society for Theatre Research Project: “Performance/Dramaturgy: A Practical Guide to Situated Storytelling” Co-Investigator: Fernando Rubio (National University of the Arts, Argentina) Funding: $1,750

2022 | Junior Faculty Fellowship, University of Oklahoma Project: “Voicing Doubt: Confessions and Crises on the Argentine Stage (1983–Present)” Funding: $6,342

2022 | Field Grant, Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas Project: “Staging Research: Theater and Politics in Contemporary Argentina” Co-Investigators: Contemporary Theater, Politics, and Society in Latin America Working Group, Gino Germani Research Institute, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Buenos Aires Funding: $1,000

2022 | School of Drama Student Senate Service Award, University of Oklahoma

2021 | Dissertation Fellowship, Yale School of Drama

2019 | Fulbright Study / Research Award, Argentina Project: “Confessions in Argentine Theater Postdictatorship” Supervisor: Lorena Verzero, University of Buenos Aires

2011 | Austin E. Quigley Prize (Outstanding Achievement in Drama), Columbia University

Conferences

2025 | “Frontera/Nación/Democracia.” Co-presented with Rocío Galicia. Red de Estudios de Artes Escénicas Latinoamericanas (REAL). Santiago de Chile. January 15. Online.

2024 | “Re/placing Memory: Site and Counter-Site in Recent Argentine Performance.” American Society for Theatre Research. Seattle, WA. November 14–17.

2023 | “Timely Rethinking in the Theater Classroom: Questions of Content, Approach, and Tradition in BFA Training after COVID.” American Society for Theatre Research. Providence, RI. November 9–12.

2023 | “Dando vueltas: Tres obras para re/pensar los desplazamientos del siglo XXI neoliberal.” IV Coloquio REAL. Florianópolis, Brazil. May 31–June 2. Online.

2023 | “Critical Co-Thinking: Making Im/possible Time to Select a Season with Students and Faculty,” with Kate Busselle. Mid-America Theatre Conference. Minneapolis, MN. March 9–12.

2022 | “Forty Years of Catastrophe: Doubt, Debt, and Disappearance on the Argentine Stage.” American Society for Theatre Research. New Orleans, LA. November 3–6.

2021 | “Urban Memories: Biographic Interventions and the City as Museum in Buenos Aires.” American Society for Theatre Research. San Diego, CA. October 28–31.

2021 | “Archivos minados: El repertorio en tiempos de streaming.” XIII Coloquio Internacional de Teatro de Montevideo. Montevideo, Uruguay. May 14–15. Online.

2021 | “Leaky Affects": The Aqueous Dramaturgies of Federico León.” American Comparative Literature Association. Montréal, Canada. April 8–11. Online.

2020 | “Urban Memories: Biographic Interventions and the City as Museum in Buenos Aires.” American Society for Theatre Research. New Orleans, LA. November 5–8. Online.

2019 | “Teatralismo metamoderno: Marcos cinemáticos, la cueva de Platón y el giro afectivo en tres obras de teatro recientes.” Centro Argentino de Investigadores de Arte. Buenos Aires, Argentina. September 25–27.

2018 | “Affective Metatheatricality in Federico León’s Ideas.” American Society for Theatre Research. San Diego, CA. November 15–18.

2018 | “What Do We Talk About When We Talk About Collaboration,” with Maria Inês Marques. Yale Conference on Copyright and Collaboration in the Theater. New Haven, CT. March 9–10.

2017 | “Argentine Afterlives: The Ghostly Confessions of Postdictatorship Theater.” American Society for Theatre Research. Atlanta, GA. November 16–19.

2016 | “From Medieval Church Nave to Contemporary Cabaret Basement.” American Society for Theatre Research. Minneapolis, MN. November 3–6.

Teaching

Undergraduate

2023– | Dramatic Structures, The University of Oklahoma, Assistant Professor

2022– | Season, Sequence, Script: The Art of Critical Selection, The University of Oklahoma, Assistant Professor

2022– | U.S. Latinx Theater and Politics, The University of Oklahoma, Assistant Professor

2021– | Introduction to Dramaturgy, The University of Oklahoma, Assistant Professor

2021– | Dramaturgy Seminar, The University of Oklahoma, Assistant Professor

2021– | Dramaturgy Studio, The University of Oklahoma, Assistant Professor

2021– | Playwriting, The University of Oklahoma, Assistant Professor

2018 | Introduction to Theater, University of New Haven, Adjunct Instructor

2017–18 | Text Analysis, Yale Summer Conservatory for Actors, Teaching Assistant and Invited Lecturer

Graduate

2020–21 | The Artist as Citizen, Yale School of Drama, Teaching Assistant and Instructor of Record

2016–20 | Survey of Theater and Drama, Yale School of Drama, Teaching Assistant and Invited Lecturer

Para-academic

2020–21 | Yale Poorvu Center for Teaching and Learning, Graduate Writing Fellow

2020–21 | Dwight/Edgewood Project, Teaching Artist

2017–20 | Theatre for a New Audience, Script Reader

2016–18 | Yale University Jonathan Edwards College, Theater Manager

2014–17 | Dwight/Edgewood Project, Mentor, Director, Teaching Artist

2013–16 | Yale Repertory Theatre, Script Reader

Affiliations

2021– | Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas

2020– | Red de Estudios de Artes Escénicas Latinoamericanas

2019– | Gino Germani Research Institute, Contemporary Theater, Politics, and Society in Latin America Working Group, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Buenos Aires

2016– | American Society for Theatre Research

Dramaturgy

Off-Broadway

2025 | Rattlestick Theater, Sin Padre (staged reading) by Arturo Luíz Soria, directed by Danilo Gambini

2021 | Rattlestick Theater, Ni Mi Madre by Arturo Luíz Soria, directed by Danilo Gambini

2017 | The Araca Project, Seph by Tori Keenan-Zelt, directed by Jessika Malone

2017 | Theatre for a New Audience, Happy Days by Samuel Beckett, directed by James Bundy

Regional

2025 | Latinx New Play Festival, La Jolla Playhouse, Novios (staged reading) by Arturo Luíz Soria, directed by Danilo Gambini

2025 | Pride Plays, Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, Novios (staged reading) by Arturo Luíz Soria, directed by Danilo Gambini

2024 | Collective Arts Productions, The Fading People (staged reading) by Lilia Ruiz Cruz, directed by Elise Bear

2023 | Oklahoma City Repertory Theater, The Brothers Size by Tarell Alvin McCraney, directed by Ato Blankson-Wood

2019 | Center Theatre Group, Happy Days by Samuel Beckett, directed by James Bundy

2016 | Yale Repertory Theatre, Happy Days by Samuel Beckett, directed by James Bundy

University

2025 | OU School of Drama, Koger New Play Lab, with new work by undergraduate students

2024 | OU University Theatre, As You Like It by William Shakespeare, directed by Alissa Branch

2023 | OU University Theatre, Narration Text for Act One of The Nutcracker, read by Boyko Dossev, choreographed by Mary Margaret Holt

2023 | OU School of Drama and OU Arts & Humanities Forum, The Paradox of Libel by Joseph Mansky, directed by Judith Midyett Pender

2023 | OU School of Drama, oh, to be pure again by Kira Rockwell, directed by Judith Midyett Pender

2023 | OU School of Drama, Student Playwriting Festival, with new work by undergraduate students

2023 | OU School of Drama, Burn This by Lanford Wilson, directed by Judith Midyett Pender

2022 | University of Buenos Aires, Insistencias de lo político en la escena teatral (1976–2022), exhibit by the Contemporary Theater, Politics, and Society in Latin America Working Group of the Gino Germani Research Institute (Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Buenos Aires)

2022 | OU School of Drama, Student Playwriting Festival, with new work by undergraduate students

2021 | Yale Cabaret, Kitchen of Truth written, directed, and performed by Madeline Seidman

2019 | Yale Cabaret, Novios: Part One by Arturo Luís Soria, directed by Amandla Jahava and Sohina Sidhu

2018 | Yale Cabaret, Fade by Tanya Saracho, directed by Kat Yen

2018 | Yale Cabaret, Mud by María Irene Fornés, directed by Patrick Madden

2017 | Yale Cabaret, The Meal by Newton Moreno, directed by Stephanie Machado and Maria Inês Marques

2016 | Yale Cabaret, Cloud Tectonics by José Rivera, directed by Sebastián Arboleda

2016 | Yale School of Drama, Women Beware Women by Thomas Middleton and Howard Barker, directed by Leora Morris

2015 | Yale Cabaret, Episode #121: Catfight by Tori Keenan-Zelt and Steven Koernig, directed by Steven Koernig

2014 | Yale Cabaret, The Zero Scenario by Ryan Campbell, directed by Sara Holdren

2014 | Yale School of Drama, The Rules by Jiréh Breon Holder, directed by Yagil Eliraz

2014 | Yale Cabaret, Look Up, Speak Nicely, and Don’t Twiddle Your Fingers All the Time by Emily Zemba, directed by Ato Blankson-Wood

2014 | Yale School of Drama, This Fucking Commedia Project conceived and directed by Christopher Bayes

2013 | Yale School of Drama, Memento Mori devised with fellow members of the class of 2016

Translation

Languages

Spanish | native reader, speaker, writer

German | proficient reader, speaker, writer

Portuguese | beginner reader, speaker, writer

References

Chantal Rodriguez, PhD | Associate Dean, David Geffen School of Drama at Yale University; Associate Artistic Director, Yale Repertory Theatre; Assistant Professor Adjunct, Dramaturgy and Dramatic Criticism, David Geffen School of Drama

Thomas Sellar, DFA | Professor in the Practice, Dramaturgy and Dramatic Criticism, David Geffen School of Drama; Editor, Theater Magazine

Catherine Sheehy, DFA | Department Chair and Professor in the Practice, Dramaturgy and Dramatic Criticism, David Geffen School of Drama; Resident Dramaturg, Yale Repertory Theatre; Senior Associate Editor, David Geffen School of Drama Alumni Magazine

Lorena Verzero, PhD | Professor, Gino Germani Research Institute, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Buenos Aires; Associate Researcher, National Council of Scientific and Technical Research

Paul Walsh, PhD | Professor in the Practice, Dramaturgy and Dramatic Criticism, David Geffen School of Drama

Brenda Werth, PhD | Associate Professor and Department Chair, World Languages and Cultures, American University