Milly S. Barranger Distinguished Term Professor of Dramatic Art, Department of Dramatic Art; Chair and Dramaturg, Play Makers Repertory Theatre; Member, UNC-Duke Consortium Executive Committee
• DFA Dramaturgy and Dramatic Criticism, Yale School of Drama 1990
World Area Of Focus:
• Latin America 75%-99%
Languages:
• French (professional proficiency) • Spanish (native/bilingual proficiency)
Specialization:
Latin American theatre, U.S. Latino/a Theatre
Relevant Experience:
• Overseas Experience: Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Mexico, Peru, Uruguay • Production Dramaturg, UNC PlayMakers Repertory Company • Community outreach as speaker on drama throughout Durham, Chapel Hill
Distinctions:
• -ongoing Editorial Board: Latin American Theatre Review, Modern Drama, Telonfondo: Revista de Teoría y Crítica Teatral • -ongoing Distinguished Professor, Department of Art and Joint Faculty in Global Studies • -ongoing keynote speaker, “Dream, Dance, Flow: The Mercurian and the Dissemination of Theatrical Translation,” at Drama Translation in the Age of Globalization Syposium, University of Salford, Manchester, England. • 2014-2014 Resident, Banff Literary Translation Centre, 2014 • 2014-ongoing Elected to Executive Committee of the American Society for Theatre Research. • 2008-2008 Director: Carolina Performing Arts Series, New Works in Progress Series, 2008 • 2007-2007 Inaugural Lecture, ISA Faculty Lecture Series, 2007 • 2004-2009 Chair, Curriculum in International Studies, 2004-09 • 2001-2004 ISA Curriculum and Awards Coordinator, 2001-04
Relevant Courses Taught:
• DRAM 120 Play Analysis • DRAM 281 Theatre History and Dramatic Literature I • DRAM 282 Theatre History and Dramatic Literature II • DRAM 283 Theatre History and Dramatic Literature III • DRAM 294 Arts Criticism • DRAM 486 Latin American Theatre • DRAM 488 U.S. Latino/a Theatre and Performance
Recent Publications:
• 2016 Your Desires in Fragments, translation of Tus deseos en fragmentos by Ramón Griffero. Teatro Latino Series. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press. 2014
• 2016 “Evita, Inevitably: Performing Argentina’s Female Icons Before and After Eva Peron” in Theatre Annual.
• 2013 The Mustache, translation of El bigote by Sabina Berman. Pittsburgh, Pa.: University of Pittsburgh Press. 2013
• 2012 “George’s Helping Hands.” Latin American Theatre Review 46:1, 187-88. 2012
• 2010 “Translation as a Hemispheric Approach to Theatre in the Americas.” Revista CELCIT, 37-8. 2010
• 2010 Oxford Companion to Theatre and Performance, advisory editor for Latin America. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2010
• 2009 Versenyi, Adam. Theatre in Latin America: Religion, Politics and Culture From Cortes to the 1980s. Cambridge University Press, Paperback reprint, 2009. ix-229.
• 2007 Author, "Translation as an Epistemological Paradigm for Theatre in the Americas," Theatre Journal 59 (2007): 431-447.
• 2007 Author, "Journeys Through the Mexican Heartland with Ixtlamatinij," Revista CELCIT, 31 (2007), Online publication, no page numbers.
• 2007 Adam Versenyi, Editor, The Mercurian: A Theatrical Translation Review, Vol. 1, No.1, (April 2007).
• 2007 Founder and Editor, The Mercurian: A Theatrical Translation Review. Online publication. 2007-present. Since the journal’s inception we have published fifteen issues containing forty-six plays in translation from ten different languages and nineteen different countries, critical articles about theatrical translation, position papers, roundtable discussions, and book reviews.
• 2006 El Teatro en América Latina. Cambridge University Press.
• 2005 Editor, Dictionary of Literary Biography: Latin American Dramatists, Vol. 305, Thomson/Gale 2005: xx & 464.
• 2004 "You mean there is theatre in Latin America?" Forum on Latin American Theatre and Performance Studies, Theatre Journal 56 (October 2004): 445-447.
• 2004 Author, "Sabina Berman y la cuestion de la identidad" in Un viaje sin fin: Teatro mexicano de hoy. Heidrun Adler, Jaime Chabaud, Eds. Madrid: Iberoamericana, 2004: 125-131.
• 2003 Theater of Sabina Berman:The Agony of Ecstasy and Other Plays. Illinois:S. Illinois University Press. 2003
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