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Women’s Performance Workshop

Using community-engaged theater and feminist performance collective techniques to change how theater artists apply and define directing

Art can challenge aesthetic and social boundaries, but it can also mirror the culture that produces it — reifying norms and reinforcing hierarchies. In theatre, where directors are typically white men, this can mean perpetuating and exacerbating racial and gender disparities. Jayme Kilburn’s dissertation project challenges industry norms and offers more inclusive pedagogical approaches to directing, thereby shifting the artistic biases that delegitimize community-engaged work. Using applied theater methodologies, including story circles, group work and reflective listening combined with improvisation, movement techniques and writing exercises, the Women’s Performance Workshop provides a theatrical model where women and trans individuals create their own public performances based on personal narratives.

Topics: Access, Equity and Justice; Arts, Communication, Design and Media

The Team

  • Graduate student:  Jayme Kilburn, Department of Performing and Media Arts

    College of Arts and Sciences

  • Special committee chair:  Sara Warner, Department of Performing and Media Arts

    College of Arts and Sciences

  • Community partner:  Strand Theater
  • Community partner:  Civic Ensemble

In the News

APRIL 18, 2018 
Two PhD students receive Engaged Graduate Student Grants
– Department of Performing & Media Arts website


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