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Adriano Cabral and I led an introduction to Knight-Thompson Speechwork workshop to drama students at the Universidad de las Artes in Havana, Cuba. We were traveling in Cuba and the Dominican Republic conducting accent and dialect research for our upcoming book, Performing Accents and Dialects of the Spanish-Speaking Diaspora.
I had the pleasure of co-chairing the Building Bridges as We Walk symposium on April 8, 2024 at UMass Amherst. This historic gathering on our campus was to celebrate and reflect on the recent publication of The Routledge Companion to Latine Theatre and Performance.
The Routledge Companion to Latine Theatre and Performance has been published! I am honored to have an essay included - "El Silencio: A Chicana Perspective on Contemporary Latinx Theatre and Performance as Testimonio."
The UMass College of Humanities and Fine Arts wrote a nice profile piece on my work!
Behind the Curtain with Elisa Gonzales: Paving the Way for Latinx Representation in Theater
CORIOLANUS runs April 20th - May 19th at Portland Center Stage. This production is presented by PCS and Oregon Shakespeare Festival, and produced in partnership with upstart crow collective and Play On Shakespeare. I served as the production voice and text coach.
Wolf at the Door is now playing at American Players Theatre through September 18th! I was the production's voice and text coach. For more info, check out the American Players Theatre website.
I'm thrilled to be making my Oregon Shakespeare Festival debut as the voice and text director for Coriolanus, directed by Rosa Joshi. Previews begin July 23rd and the production runs through October 13th. For more information, check out the OSF website.
I'm thrilled to have my 2018 article, "La Casa de Inez: Investigating History, Voice, and Memory through Embodied, Site-Specific Storytelling" included in the new book, Practitioner Research in Voice Studies. For more info on the book, please visit Routledge.