First Name
Priscilla
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Page
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Senior Lecturer
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Biography
Priscilla Page, MFA/PhD, is a writer, performer, and dramaturg as well as a member of the dramaturgy faculty in the Department of Theater at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where she also serves as the coordinator for the Multicultural Theater Certificate. Her research agenda includes Latina/o/x Theater and Contemporary Native American Performance and she is currently writing about Latina/o/x theater history in Chicago. She is a member of the Latinx Theater Commons, the Network of Ensemble Theaters, and Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of America (LMDA). Page served as the program curator for New WORLD Theater, a professional, non-profit multicultural theater in residence at UMass Amherst, for five years.
She has worked closely with playwright Migdalia Cruz and her essay “My World Made Real” is published in Cruz’s anthology El Grito Del Bronx, No PassPort Press, 2010. In 2016, she has published two pieces in Café Onda, the online journal of the Latinx Theater Commons: “Speedo Activism and the Aesthetics of Resistance” and “An Interview with Dr. Liza Ann Acosta.” She is a contributing editor for Wings of Night Sky, Wings of Morning Light by Joy Harjo, forthcoming from Wesleyan Press. Her essay “Contextualizing Lin-Manuel Miranda’s In The Heights and Hamilton within Hip Hop Theater History” will appear in Hamilton, History and Hip-Hop: Essays on an American Musical (McFarland and Company), edited by Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr.
Her producing/ dramaturgy credits include Infants of the Spring written and directed by Ifa Bayeza, Collidescope 2.0: Adventures in Pre and Post Racial America, co-written and co-directed by Talvin Wilks and Ping Chong; My Bronx, written and performed by Terry Jenoure; sash & trim, written and performed by Djola Branner and directed by Laurie Carlos; Crossing the Waters, Changing the Air, written and directed by Ingrid Askew; and Lydia on the Top Floor, also written and performed by Terry Jenoure, directed by Linda McInerney.
Her Performance credits: La Llorona in Quiero Volver by Diana Alvarez, October 2017 and July 2018; Performance ensemble in Latinas con Pluma, February 2017. Solo poetry/storytelling When The Women Gather and Women Who Are Free.
She has worked closely with playwright Migdalia Cruz and her essay “My World Made Real” is published in Cruz’s anthology El Grito Del Bronx, No PassPort Press, 2010. In 2016, she has published two pieces in Café Onda, the online journal of the Latinx Theater Commons: “Speedo Activism and the Aesthetics of Resistance” and “An Interview with Dr. Liza Ann Acosta.” She is a contributing editor for Wings of Night Sky, Wings of Morning Light by Joy Harjo, forthcoming from Wesleyan Press. Her essay “Contextualizing Lin-Manuel Miranda’s In The Heights and Hamilton within Hip Hop Theater History” will appear in Hamilton, History and Hip-Hop: Essays on an American Musical (McFarland and Company), edited by Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr.
Her producing/ dramaturgy credits include Infants of the Spring written and directed by Ifa Bayeza, Collidescope 2.0: Adventures in Pre and Post Racial America, co-written and co-directed by Talvin Wilks and Ping Chong; My Bronx, written and performed by Terry Jenoure; sash & trim, written and performed by Djola Branner and directed by Laurie Carlos; Crossing the Waters, Changing the Air, written and directed by Ingrid Askew; and Lydia on the Top Floor, also written and performed by Terry Jenoure, directed by Linda McInerney.
Her Performance credits: La Llorona in Quiero Volver by Diana Alvarez, October 2017 and July 2018; Performance ensemble in Latinas con Pluma, February 2017. Solo poetry/storytelling When The Women Gather and Women Who Are Free.
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Interested in freelance opportunities
Yes
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English and Conversational Spanish