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Rachel Wolfe
Job Title: Adjunct Faculty
Organization affiliation:
Location: Seattle,
WA
University of Puget Sound
Member since: 2017
Education:
Ph.D. in Theater Studies (Feminist Studies doctoral emphasis), University of California at Santa Barbara, March 2016.
M.A. in Theater Studies, University of California at Santa Barbara, June 2012.
B.A. in Theatre Arts and Spanish, University of Puget Sound, May 2009.
Biography:
Rachel M. E. Wolfe is a theater academic, director, and dramaturg living in the Seattle area. She received her Ph.D. in Theater Studies with an emphasis in Feminist Studies from the University of California at Santa Barbara in March 2016. She holds an M.A. in Theater Studies from the same institution and a B.A. in Theatre Arts and Spanish from the University of Puget Sound. She is a co-founder of the Seattle-based theater company Handwritten Productions, and a member of a dramaturgy reading group organized by the Umbrella Project. An adjunct professor at the University of Puget Sound for the upcoming year, she divides her time between teaching, academic writing, and practical theater work.
Areas of Expertise:
Adaptation and translation theory; theater history and historiography; feminist theory; classical theater; theaters of early modern Europe.
Language(s) spoken:
Spanish; reading knowledge of French, Italian, and Ancient Greek
Recent Work:
Production dramaturgy for "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" with Book-It Repertory Theatre
“Opera’s ‘Return to Antiquity’: Adaptation, Gender, and the Illusion of Authenticity in Gluck’s Iphigénie en Aulide,” in Journal of Adaptation in Film and Performance, Vol. 9, No. 3 (2016): 253-68.
Dramaturgy and teacher's guide for "Cagney: The Musical"
Website: http://www.rachelmewolfe.com