Elizabeth E. Tavares, PhD, is assistant professor with the Hudson Strode Program in Renaissance Studies at the University of Alabama. Specializing in early English drama, her intellectual commitments include Shakespeare in performance, repertory companies, theatre history, as well as new approaches to sustainable material and labor practices.

Dramaturgy credits: currently artistic director of the Alabama Shakespeare Project (alabamashax.org), where she directs a four-person dramaturgy team each season. Other projects include a three-woman Macbeth at Portland Center Stage; consultancy with the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Back Room Shakespeare Project, and Original Practice Shakespeare Festival; and engagement dramaturgy for Artists Repertory Theatre’s Feathers and Teeth, Magellanica, Teenage Dick, and The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart.

Scholarship credits: co- and solo-authored original research in Early Theatre, Shakespeare, Shakespeare Bulletin, Shakespeare Quarterly, and Shakespeare Studies, among others, as well as several edited collections, including the recent The Arden Handbook of Shakespeare and Early Modern Drama. Through the support of grants and fellowships from the NEH, Mellon Foundation, National Humanities Center, SEC, societies for Theatre Research and Renaissance Studies, as well as the Newberry, Folger, and Huntington libraries, this work has won prizes from the Medieval and Renaissance Drama Society and Illinois Humanities Research Institute.

Medieval, early modern, and Restoration drama, including Shakespeare; adaptations of pre-modern work; verbatim and site-specific staging

English

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