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Elizabeth Tavares

Job Title: Assistant Professor, Hudson Stode Program in Renaissance Studies
Organization affiliation:

University of Alabama

Location: Northport, AL
Member since: 2017
Education:

PhD, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Urbana, IL); BA, DePaul University (Chicago, IL)

Biography:

Elizabeth E. Tavares, PhD (@ElizETavares) is assistant professor in the Hudson Strode Program in Renaissance Studies at the University of Alabama. Specializing in early English drama, her research foci include playing companies, theatre history, and Shakespeare in performance. Completing her book on staging in the Elizabethan repertory system, Tavares’s prize-winning scholarship has appeared in Early Theatre, Shakespeare Studies, Shakespeare Bulletin, and several edited collections. A three-time Mellon Foundation fellow, she has received grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Society for Theatre Research, Newberry, Folger, and Huntington libraries.

Areas of Expertise:

Medieval, early modern, and Restoration drama, including Shakespeare; adaptations of pre-modern work; verbatim and site-specific staging

Language(s) spoken:

English

Recent Work:

Tavares is the artistic director of the Alabama Shakespeare Project (http://alabamashax.org), where she directs a four-person dramaturgy team each season. Dramaturgy credits include a three-woman Macbeth at Portland Center Stage; consultancy with the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Back Room Shakespeare Project, and Original Practice Shakespeare Festival; and blog series for Artists Repertory Theatre’s Feathers & Teeth, Magellanica, Teenage Dick, and The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart.

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