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One conference right after the other, I return to the ASTR American Society for Theatre Research Conference between November 14–17, this year in Seattle, WA on the theme “Ecologies of Time and Change.” I’ll discuss my paper “Large Production, Big History: The Actor-Network Dramaturgy of Good Bye Mister Freud through Space and…

On November 6-10 I’ll present my paper “Shipwrecked in Paradise: Expanding Consciousness in Michael Fleck’s The Tempest, A New Age Adaptation” for the “Shakespeare and the Early Moderns” Panel at the PAMLA Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association Conference “Translation in Action,” in Palm Springs, CA. This paper analyzes Michael…

On July 23, I’ll speak about my archival research in Argentina and France at the “Unveiling Queer Archives: Narratives, Legacies, Histories” online roundtable, organized by my colleagues Kel Aliano, Benjamin Gillespie, and Bess Rowen for the ATHE Association for Theatre in Higher Education Conference “Revisioning the Story” (in person in…

After a couple of years from when I presented the paper on the same topic at the PSi Performance Studies international Conference “Hunger,” my article “Deliberate Starvation: Hunger Artists in Kafka, Różewicz, and Sinking Ship” is being published in Global Performance Studies 6, nos 1–2 (2024). A special thanks to…

Soon traveling to London for the PSi Performance Studies international conference #29 “Assemble” to present a bit more of my research on how theatre and performance can be perceived from the point of view of assemblages and actor-networks. Saturday, June 22, 2024. University of London, Senate House, Panel #77, Room…

My chapter on controversial French author Jean Genet has recently been published in The Routledge Companion to Absurdist Literature, “the first authoritative and definitive edited collection on absurdist literature. As a field-defining volume, the editor and the contributors are world leaders in this ever-exciting genre.” Transforming his early life experiences…

The current NCT production of María Irene Fornés’s Mud is an intense play beautifully directed and elevated by Norma Saldivar, with precise movement direction by Sean Boyd, and a cast fully present to their roles. Read my interview with the director about her approach to the play, here.

My chapter “Latin America” has finally been published in the collection Pirandello in Context, edited by Patricia Gaborik for Cambridge University Press. Happy to be in the company so many other Pirandellian scholars!  Combining my interest in Italian and Latin American theatre studies, this was the first time I became…

My chapter “Echoes of Theatre Past: Blasco Ibañez’s El comediante Fonseca and Cozarinsky’s El rufián moldavo” has been published in the The Routledge Companion to Theatre-Fiction edited by Graham Wolfe. In the chapter, I continue my digging into topics related to Argentine theatre, Buenos Aires, and the importance of looking…

On November 9 I discussed my paper “Friends or Foes, You’ve Gotta Love ’Em: Reframing Theatre’s Adversaries as Unwitting Allies” during the “Anchoring Historiographies: Hope, Method, and the Future of Theatre History” Working Session at ASTR American Society for Theatre Research Conference “Hope,” in Providence, RI. Abstract: Inspired by the…

On October 26, I presented the paper “The Balcony, The Pope, and The Screens: Jean Genet’s Unsettling Perspectives on the Society of the Spectacle” for the “Theatre and Society” Panel at the PAMLA Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association Conference “Shifting Perspectives,” in Portland, OR. Jean Genet (1910–1986) found recognition…

After about 6 years from project through on-site research in Buenos Aires and Paris to book, I just finished checking the proofs of my monograph Actor-Network Dramaturgies: The Argentine of Paris, forthcoming in August with Palgrave Macmillan in the Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History series. What a journey!…

I interviewed Valerie Rachelle, who directed Violet – the musical by Jeanine Tesori (music) and Brian Crawley (libretto) –for the Nevada Conservatory Theatre, has been published on the UNLV website. You can read the interview here.  

My interview with May Liang, who directed Nguyen’s She Kills Monsters, has been published on the UNLV/Nevada Conservatory Theatre website. Read it here.

Continuing with my interviews with the directors of the Nevada Conservatory Theatre season, here is my chat with the director of the Crumbs from the Table of Joy by Lynn Nottage at the Nevada Conservatory Theatre. Read it on the UNLV website.

For the 2022 ASTR Conference, on November 5, I chaired a virtual Working Session with my colleague and co-editor Sarah Lucie, on the same topic of our forthcoming collection Revealing Posthuman Encounters in Performance. I also presented the paper “Catastrophe for Whom?: Posthuman Ecologies in Bontempelli’s Hedge to the North-West,”…

An article I worked on last year was finally published! At some point during the pandemic I began watching more TV than usual and ended up writing on collaborations between human and non-human actors in RuPaul’s Drag Race. Can Drag Performance be seen as posthuman? I’d have never imagined I’d…

My interview with Michael Lugering, director of the Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov at the Nevada Conservatory Theatre has been published. Read it on the UNLV website.

Edited by Stefano Boselli and Sarah Lucie  Abstract proposals due by February 28, 2022 Revealing Posthuman Encounters in Performance is an intervention to reframe current theatre studies methodologies to attend to the broader spectrum of non-human actors and the crucial ways they exert agency in the theatre event.  Posthumanist discourse…

On August 4, 2021 at 3:30 pm, I’ll present a paper on Japanese playwright and artist Jukio Mishima’s attempts to transfer his modern Nō plays to Broadway and the unexpected interference between artistic and technological performance. This year, the Association for Asian Performance’s Conference is online (August 2-4, 2021) so the…

Between January and April, I will participate in two Zoom/Facebook livestreams: the first will be an introduction to the Pirandello Society of America, “Meet the PSA: Pirandello in the 21st Century” (January 22 at 12 pm EST) and the second will be a lecture on “Staging, Performing , and Directing…

After 6 years and a half, I finally concluded my PhD in Theatre and Performance studies with the defense of my dissertation “The Argentines of Paris: Theatrical Networks and Assemblages.” After so much reading and writing, I now look forward to devoting some more time to practical artistic projects. In…

Double paper presentation coming up at the ATHE Conference “Theatre of Revolution” in Boston. The first, “Oscillating Between Mythical Past and Recent Events: Alexis. A Greek Tragedy by Motus as a Mechanism for Revolt” for the Performance Studies Focus Group and the second “How to Become an Argentine of Paris:…

Just published, a collaborative translation with the legendary Marvin Carlson of a play in Italian by the founder of Egyptian theatre, James Sanua. Thanks to Egyptian scholar Wafaa El Beih for editing and providing the Italian edition. Full text of The Unfaithful Husband in Arab Stages 8 (2018)

On March 12, I’ll be performing an excerpt from The Odyssey, along with other actors/story-tellers. Let me know if you’ll be joining us! Martin Puchner takes us on a remarkable journey around the world to reveal how over 4,000 years of story-telling and literature have shaped history and civilization. The…

Yesterday I participated in the working group session “(Re)presenting Muslim Bodies of Performance” during the American Society for Theatre Research Conference “Extra/Ordinary Bodies: Interrogating the Performance and Aesthetics of ‘Difference’” in Atlanta, GA, I talked about a play by James Sanua, seen as the father of modern day Egyptian theatre.

Continuing my collaboration with LaMicro Theater, on November 19 I’ll direct a staged reading as part of Escena Sur – Latin American Plays. Thebes Land by contemporary Uruguayan playwright Sergio Blanco explores the themes of patricide and homoerotic attraction within a metatheatrical frame. For details see LaMicro’s Facebook event page

On September 16 we’ll spend an entire day speaking about Pirandello’s legacy at 150 years from his birth. Organizing this international conference has been the culmination of six years working with the Pirandello Society of America as board member, PSA Journal editor, and webmaster. At this event, I’ll present the…

On September 1 between 1:40-2:40 pm at The Graduate Center, CUNY I’ll present a short paper on the process of in the field research for my dissertation topic, Argentine theatre artists in Paris. Panel “Transculturation: Between the Americas and Europe,” chaired by Giancarlo Lombardi during the 4th Annual Early Research and…

On November 19 I’ll direct a reading of a play by Chilean playwright, novelist, and poet Juan Radrigán, for LaMicro’s Escena Sur festival. In Spanish with English supertitles, Fantasmas borrachos is a drunken dream that portrays the confusion felt by the common man confronted with Chilean politics. The Bridge Theatre…