Thinking Cap Theatre's Artistic Director Nicole Stodard talks with Carla Della Gatta PhD, theatre historian and performance theorist on Shakespeare's problematic play The Taming of the Shrew. CARLA'S BIO Carla Della Gatta is a theatre historian and performance theorist whose research focuses on adaptation, ethnicity, and aurality. She is Associate Professor of Theatre and Performance Studies at University of Maryland. Della Gatta is author of Latinx Shakespeares: Staging US Intracultural Theater (2023) and co-editor of Shakespeare and Latinidad (2021). In 2023, she launched the first archive of Latinx theatrical adaptation, LatinxShakespeares.Org. She has received grants and fellowships from the Woodrow Wilson Foundation (now Citizens and Scholars), Folger Shakespeare Library, the New York Public Library, and The Wallace Foundation (Project Lead and co-PI). She has served as a scholar for the theatre for Shakespeare Center Los Angeles, The Public Theater, Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Victory Gardens, and more. She is on the Steering Committee for the Latinx Theatre Commons and a board member for the Arden series, Shakespeare and Social Justice, and the journal, Shakespeare Survey. Support for this program has been provided by the following Funds at the Community Foundation of Broward: John O. and Victoria C. Kirby Fund, Frederick W. Jaqua Fund, The Frederick A. DeLuca Foundation Broward Community Fund. Sponsored in part by the State of Florida through the Division of Arts and Culture and the National Endowment for the Arts, Broward County Cultural Division and a grant from The Our Fund Foundation, an LGBTQ community foundation.

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