with Dr. Christine Varnado (Global Gender and Sexuality Studies) and members of the creative team from UB’s Department of Theatre and Dance:

Dr. Danielle Rosvally (Director), Kaylie Horowitz (Assistant Director), Natasha McCandless (Choreographer), and Dahlia Frier (Dramaturg)

Moderated by Dr. Lindsay Brandon Hunter

Please join us for an in-person discussion of queerness, gender, desire, and identity in Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night!  Our conversation will draw from UB’s upcoming mainstage production of the play and the scholarly work of UB professors Danielle Rosvally (Early Modern Liveness: Immediacy and Presence in Text, Stage, and Screen, forthcoming, Bloomsbury: Arden Shakespeare) and Christine Varnado (The Shapes of Fancy:  Reading For Queer Desire in Early Modern Literature, U of Minnesota Press).  This open conversation will be moderated by Performance Research Workshop co-organizer Lindsay Brandon Hunter and feature student members of the production team.

Tuesday, April 5 at noon

Honors College Colloquium Room (Capen 107, inside Silverman Library)

Please bring questions; attendees are welcome to join the discussion!