https://www.leticiaridley.com/dramaturgy daily 0.75 2022-10-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ea0774d4dc2d54ec7d812c7/b383fa15-8845-4f06-beb3-9343770f4dcc/Rock+Paper+Scissors.jpg Dramaturgy - Rock, Paper Scissors by Sisi Reid, Directed by Paige Hernandez. The Reach at the Kennedy Center, September 2022. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ea0774d4dc2d54ec7d812c7/1de55477-e3eb-4647-8618-c33b00267375/The+Wolves.jpeg Dramaturgy - The Wolves by Sarah DeLappe, Directed by Kim Mohne Hill. Santa Clara University, March 2022 Educational Packet for Audience Engagement Created by Leticia Ridley https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ea0774d4dc2d54ec7d812c7/e3c3344c-3271-4c02-8370-34b176ad94cc/BWS.jpeg Dramaturgy - Boss Ladies and Tender-Hearted Girls By Shay Youngblood, Directed by Lydia Fort. Horizon Theatre Company, Atlanta, GA. February 2022 (New Play Development) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ea0774d4dc2d54ec7d812c7/1588174280633-4GHG7YGJYMST080IWDTY/Tides.png Dramaturgy - Tides by Ama Law, choregraphed by Ama Law. University of Maryland, College Park, February 2019 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ea0774d4dc2d54ec7d812c7/1588169776554-S1N3YS30TLE7ZWT3RY23/Skeleton+Crew.jpeg Dramaturgy - Skeleton Crew by Dominique Moriseau, directed by Nicole A. Watson. Baltimore Center Stage November 2017 – January 2018 (Assistant Dramaturg) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ea0774d4dc2d54ec7d812c7/1588174161100-XBA48TUPI3K5D2SFOP98/Wake+Up+.png Dramaturgy - Wake Up! By MK Abadoo and Vaughn Middler, choregraphed by MK Abadoo. Dance Place, May 2018 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ea0774d4dc2d54ec7d812c7/1588169988568-C6CQ53NLISPTFOYXWLQM/New+Visions+and+Voices.jpg Dramaturgy - Mbuzeni by Koleka Putma, directed by Alvin Mayes. New Visions/New Voices: New Work for Young Audiences, A Collaboration between The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and the University of Maryland, December 2015- April 2016. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ea0774d4dc2d54ec7d812c7/1588169881535-8OUU6VHTFV23XHXTNQLQ/TheCall_FB_940x788.jpg Dramaturgy - The Call by Tanya Barfield, directed by Elanor Holdridge. Clarice Performing Arts Center, University of Maryland, College Park, August 2016 – October 2016 https://www.leticiaridley.com/daughters-of-lorraine daily 0.75 2024-05-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ea0774d4dc2d54ec7d812c7/e4760dbe-b4eb-407c-8ca1-dcda10f507fc/DOL+-+Podcast+Image+%5BFINAL%5D.jpeg Daughters of Lorraine Hosted by Jordan Ealey and Leticia Ridley, Daughters of Lorraine features reviews of Black theatre productions, current national conversations around, within, and about Black theatre, academic discussions concerning Black theatre, recommendations on Black theatre scripts, and interviews with Black theatre artists. 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Blood Memory was created as a direct response to our current racial climate and offers students accessible and relatable material with which to critically analyze socio-political issues. In doing so, Blood Memory asks how Black women are uniquely affected by state-sanctioned violence against their bodies, thereby also addressing current socio-political events and expressions of violence against Black bodies in popular culture. https://www.leticiaridley.com/contact daily 0.75 2022-08-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ea0774d4dc2d54ec7d812c7/edd252fe-2bfe-4f55-938d-890cdfe10603/Leticia07.06.2021-1-Retouched.jpeg Contact https://www.leticiaridley.com/donate daily 0.75 2020-04-22 https://www.leticiaridley.com/home daily 1.0 2023-08-30 https://www.leticiaridley.com/teaching daily 0.75 2022-10-08 https://www.leticiaridley.com/research daily 0.75 2023-10-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ea0774d4dc2d54ec7d812c7/356f79f1-41a9-4db1-857d-10fd4b448a82/SuzanLoriParks.jpeg Research - “Seen/Scene: Suzan-Lori Parks’ Manifesto for Black People Onstage Revisited.” Theatre History Studies. Spec. issue Manifestos in Black Theatre (Vol. 43 Issue 1). (Forthcoming) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ea0774d4dc2d54ec7d812c7/0b6f47f5-52a2-480d-ab29-b90ff3897fc0/Schulyer+Sisters.jpeg Research - “‘Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells [Her] Story”: An Intersectional Analysis of the Women of Hamilton.” The Journal of American Drama and Theatre 34.1 (Fall 2021). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ea0774d4dc2d54ec7d812c7/c0253cb6-05e8-49db-8f83-d7b233b8eb76/Lorraine+Hansberry.jpg Research - “Lorraine Hansberry and the Praxis of Freedom.” AAIHS, September 7, 2022. https://www.aaihs.org/lorraine-hansberry-and-the-praxis-of-freedom/ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ea0774d4dc2d54ec7d812c7/979ca701-a7ed-43c5-9ea5-3f0b3c7b29f6/Frontiers+Journal+article+front+.jpg Research - “‘Posin’ a Threat’: Countering the Colonial Project from Jay-Z’s “Moonlight” to the House of Representatives.” Frontiers: A Journal of Women's Studies. Spec. issue African American Performance: Feminist and Queer Perspectives (Vol. 42 Issue 1, 2021), 141-160. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ea0774d4dc2d54ec7d812c7/8daa6dd2-7a33-4d8b-a190-3db67295b216/Cambridge.jpeg Research - “Black Queer Drama.” In The Cambridge Companion to African American Theatre, Second Edition, ed. Harvey Young. (2023). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ea0774d4dc2d54ec7d812c7/babbb6da-c8ec-4adf-9ec8-5ef2c6616b5b/Contemporary+Black+Theatre+and+Perf.+.jpeg Research - “Grunt Work: Serena Williams’s Black Sound Acts as Rebellion.” In Acts of Rebellion, Activism, and Solidarity in Contemporary Black Theatre and Performance, eds. Khalid Yaya Long, Martine Kei Green-Rogers, and DeRon Williams. Bloomsbury Press. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ea0774d4dc2d54ec7d812c7/1634326762302-PE7H7XJQ8LMA3HYM5WP7/Front+cover+-+SP.jpg Research - “Surviving Against a Sharp White [Tennis] Background in Terrence McNally's Deuce and Claudia Rankine's Citizen.” In Sports and Plays. Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, eds. Broderick Chow and Eero Laine. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ea0774d4dc2d54ec7d812c7/933a2300-9ef2-431b-8dd1-3d9f49702df1/Radical+Vision.jpeg Research - “Book Review of Radical Vision: A Biography of Lorraine Hansberry.” by Soyica Diggs Colbert. Theatre History Studies (Forthcoming) A review of Soyica Diggs Colbert's Radical Vision: A Biography of Lorraine Hansberry. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ea0774d4dc2d54ec7d812c7/1587579358452-0BY1D34W7UYQAMAKQHQO/Gem+of+Ocean+2+.jpg Research - “Performance Review of Gem of the Ocean.” by August Wilson. August Wilson Journal vol. 1.1 (2019) A review of August Wilson's Gem of the Ocean, staged at the Round House Theatre in Bethesda, Maryland, from November 28-December 30, 2018. https://www.leticiaridley.com/about daily 0.75 2024-05-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ea0774d4dc2d54ec7d812c7/1627491819967-04A9NF9613CINV0ONWST/Leticia07.06.2021-210-Retouched.jpeg About Dr. Leticia L. Ridley is an Assistant Professor of English and Drama at the University of Toronto. Her primary teaching and research areas include African American theatre and performance, Black feminisms, Black performance theory, sports and performance, and the intersections of Black digital studies and performance. Leticia earned a Ph.D. in Theatre and Performance Studies from the University of Maryland, College Park. Her research has been funded by the Ford Foundation (where she was a Predoctoral Fellow) and the Mellon-funded African American Digital Humanities program (AADHum). She has presented her scholarship at numerous conferences, including the Association for Theatre in Higher Education, the American Society for Theatre Research, National Women’s Studies Association, and the American Studies Association. Leticia has published scholarly essays in Frontiers: A Journal of Women’s Studies, the August Wilson Journal, Routledge Anthology of Sports Plays, Journal of American Drama and Theatre, and Contemporary Black Theatre and Performance: Acts of Rebellion, Activism, and Solidarity. Leticia is also the co-producer and co-host of Daughters of Lorraine, a Black feminist theatre podcast, which is supported by HowlRound Theatre Commons, and a recurring co-host on On Tap: A Theatre & Performance Studies Podcast. She is also a freelance dramaturg. Leticia’s manuscript-in-progress employs a Black feminist methodology to examine contemporary Black women’s performance culture. Her book, divided into four chapters, archives and analyzes the performance repertoires that contemporary Black women popular artists and entertainers in the United States deploy to assert blackness as a space of freedom, possibility, and abundance: the visual art of Carrie Mae Weems, the Broadway musicals dedicated to the lives of Tina Turner and Donna Summer, the visual and sonic disruptions of athlete Serena Williams, and the technological performance praxis of musician Beyoncé Giselle Knowles-Carter. This study argues that contemporary Black women popular artists and entertainers serve as critical voices, preservers, and performers of Black feminist expressive culture.