2022 Theatre History Symposium Co-Respondents
Patricia Ybarra and Will Daddario
Patricia Ybarra (she/her) is Professor in the Department of Theatre Arts and Performance Studies at Brown University. She is the author of Performing Conquest: Five Centuries of Theatre, History and Identity in Tlaxcala, Mexico (Michigan, 2009), co-editor with Lara Nielsen of Neoliberalism and Global Theatres: Performance Permutations (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012; paperback 2015), and Latinx Theatre in Times of Neoliberalism (Northwestern University Press, 2018). She is currently working on projects on Reza Abdoh’s Father Was a Peculiar Man and the hemispheric history of theatre and debt. She is the former president of ATHE. She is also a first generation Latinx college student who has ferried through all kinds of imposter syndromes along the way to being a director, dramaturg, professor and former department chair. She has received awards for her graduate mentorship and promoting diversity and inclusion on campus. She is the proud child of essential workers.
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Will Daddario (he/his) is a theatre historiographer, performance philosopher, grief worker, and student of clinical mental health counseling at the College of William and Mary (concentrating on Military and Veterans’ Counseling). He has published over 20 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters, two anthologies of essays, and a monograph entitled Baroque, Venice, Theatre, Philosophy. He is also an editor of the Performance Philosophy journal and PP Book Series, which, to date, has published over 20 titles. Will frequently speaks on panels dedicated to the intersection of grief and philosophy and designs workshops and online classes related to creative grief work with Joanne Zerdy for their business, Inviting Abundance. His most recent academic projects are a second monograph titled, Pitch and Revelation: reconfigurations of reading, poetry, and philosophy through the work of Jay Wright, co-written with Matthew Goulish; a three-volume book project that will showcase previously unpublished plays by Jay Wright alongside an anthology of creative and critical essays addressing those works; and an anthology of essays tentatively titled Rethinking Roland Barthes through performance: a desire for Neutral dramaturgy, co-edited with Harry Wilson.