Shelley Orr (she/her) is Associate Professor and Head of the MA in Theatre Arts at San Diego State University. She is a dramaturg and theatre scholar, specializing in 20th and 21st century theatre. She has a BS in Performance Studies from Northwestern University, an MFA in Dramaturgy from UCSD, and a PhD in Theatre from the UCI/UCSD joint program. She has taught at Washington University in St. Louis and the University of Arizona. Her professional credits include dramaturging or providing dramaturgical support for the San Diego Rep, The Old Globe, and Mo`olelo Theatre Company. She dramaturged Marguerite Duras’s _Savannah Bay_ at New York’s Classic Stage Company, directed by Les Waters and starring Kathleen Chalfant. She co-dramaturged Beckett’s _Happy Days_, directed by Robert Woodruff at La Jolla Playhouse; this production had a run at PS 122 in New York. Her article on Duras’s _India Song_ appears in Review: The Journal of Dramaturgy (2019). Her publications have appeared in Theatre Journal, Theatre Topics, TheatreForum, American Theatre, Theatron, and Paroles gelees. She has presented at the annual meetings of LMDA, ASTR, and ATHE. Orr is a Past President of Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas.

Experimental and post-modern theatre, Feminist theatre, 20th Century French theatre, Dramaturgy

English, French

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