Featuring dramaturg, critic, producer, and playwright Linnea Valdivia | she/her:
Will starts with the question we all want to know: what is a dramaturg??? After we listen with bated breath, Will and Linnea discuss her Howlround article, “Queering Theatre Criticism” which placed responsibility on the critic to understand queerness in order to inform the audience. Then the pair discusses working on the 2018 gender-bending production of OKLAHOMA! at Oregon Shakespeare Festival, the mindfulness required when queering classics, and the cultural costs of losing small theatres due to COVID closures.
