Book Credits
BOOK CREDITS
Author and editor:
Kiara Pipino
Kiara is an Associate Professor of Theatre at SUNY Oneonta, where she teaches a variety of theatre classes along with directing productions. She is an Associate Artist at Prague Shakespeare Company (Prague, Czech Republic) and a Fulbright Awardee. She collaborates with several theatre companies and institutions nationally and internationally (including The National Theatre of Genoa, Italy, The Actor’s Guild of the Philippines, PETA), directing productions, translating plays, and conducting workshops. She was awarded the Best Director of a Play Award twice and the Distinguished Dramaturg Award once by the Kennedy Center. She was also awarded Best Director of a Play by BroadwayWorld Philippines for the direction of the Asian premiere of Lauren Gunderson’s The Half Life of Marie Curie (2024). She has published with Routledge (Women Writing and Directing in the USA. A Stage of Our Own), with the University of Trento (Theatre and Pietas), and with Kendall Hunt (Conquering the Stage and Dead by Jack). This is her second book for the Open Repository, her first one being #TheatreAppreciation, serving Theatre Appreciation/Introduction to Theatre classes. Her research focuses on female voices in contemporary theatre, on Shakespeare and the Classics, along with Theatre for Social Change.
Contributors:
Caterina Mordeglia
Caterina Mordeglia is Professor of Roman Drama at the University of Trento. In 2024, she was a Short Visiting Professor at the University of Cincinnati (USA). She especially studies the works of Plautus, Seneca, and Terentius and their fortunes in the Middle Ages and Modern Age, both in a philological and literary perspective. About Roman drama, she published several essays in international peer-reviewed reviews and edited three collected volumes, “Gruppi, folle e popolo in scena. Persistenza del classico nel teatro europeo (Trento, 2012), “Animali parlanti. Letteratura, teatro, canzoni” (Florence, 2017), “Seneca. Il futuro della scena” (Pisa, 2023). In 2024, she translated Plautus’ Miles Gloriosus for the stage of the Greek Theatre of Siracusa (Sicily, Italy). The translation, with an introduction and a commentary, will be published by Feltrinelli in 2026. She is co-editor of the international series “Fabula” (Sismel Publisher, Florence), and is a member of the editorial board of the classical reviews “Maia. Rivista di letterature classiche” and “Dioniso. Rivista di teatro antico dell’Istituto Nazionale del Dramma Antico” – INDA).
Jennifer King
Jennifer King is an award-winning Professor of Theater at Napa Valley College, where she heads the Theater Arts and Film Studies Department, and Shakespeare Napa Valley. A professional theater director, her regional and international credits include work with Prague Shakespeare Company (Associate Artist), Marin Shakespeare Company, California Shakespeare Theater, Dallas Theater Center, The 222, Capital Stage, SF PlayGround, Berkeley Playhouse, Cinnabar Theater, Symmetry Theatre, and Sonoma County Repertory Theater (where she served as Executive/Artistic Director). She is also a champion of new work, having collaborated with Reduced Shakespeare Company co-artistic directors/playwrights Reed Martin and Austin Tichenor to develop five of their plays, and directed Laura Jane Bailey’s award-winning solo show The Paris Effect. She has also directed at Nanjing University (China), Kingston University (London), Sonoma State University, and UC Davis, where she co-edited Reflections of Diversity, A Scene Book for Actors.
Illustrators:
Arlee Peterson
Jessie Reed
Lazaro Mahar
Photography:
Kiara Pipino
Christine Schmidle
Andrea Izzotti
Francesco Franchin
