The Latinx Theatre Commons presents a digital e-book launch get together for Latinx Shakespeares: Staging US Intracultural Theater (University of Michigan Press, January 2023) and the launch of LatinxShakespeares.Org livestreaming on the worldwide, commons-based, peer-produced HowlRound TV community on Wednesday 8 March at 4 p.m. PST (San Francisco, UTC -4) / 6 p.m. CST (Chicago, UTC -6) / 7 p.m. EST (New York, UTC -5).
This monograph explores how Latinx tradition is constructed dramaturgically and textually in Shakespearean diversifications and productions.
Della Gatta’s work has been supported by two Fellowships from the Folger Shakespeare Library and the Citizens and Scholars Career Enhancement Fellowship. Della Gatta was awarded the J. Leeds Barroll Dissertation Prize in 2016 from the Shakespeare Association of America for her work on Shakespeare and Latinidad.
LatinxShakespeares.Org is a web based dwelling theatre archive of Latinx adaptation. Della Gatta constructed the location and is managing it as editor. The archive holds info on over 275 performs and productions, together with ephemera and sources. The web site has evaluations from over 20 contributors and rising.
Latinx Shakespeares: Staging U.S. Intracultural Theater (2023)
The e-book is open entry and free to obtain from all main booksellers. To order paperback or hardcover, use code UMS23 for 30% off on the University of Michigan web site.
Shakespeare and Latinidad (2021)
This collected version consists of essays and interviews from twenty-five playwrights, actors, students, dramaturgs, and administrators who work on the intersection of Shakespearean and Latinx theatrical manufacturing. As of this month, it’s now accessible in paperback. Use code NEW30 for 30% off paperback on the Edinburgh University Press web site.
Latinx Shakespeares.Org. An on-line dwelling archive of Latinx theatrical adaptation. Launched in February 2023.
Livestream Schedule
7:00 – 7:05 p.m. EST: Greeting by Jacqueline Flores, Producer of the Latinx Theatre Commons and Henry Godinez, Resident Artistic Associate on the Goodman Theatre and Professor at Northwestern University
7:05 – 7:10 p.m. EST: Introduction of the Book by Dr. Chantal Rodriguez, Associate Dean of David Geffen School of Drama at Yale
7:10 – 7:30 p.m. EST: Presentation of the e-book by Dr. Carla Della Gatta
7:30 – 7:40 p.m. EST: Presentation of the web archive by Dr. Carla Della Gatta
7:40 – 7:55 p.m. EST: Q&A