Maya Roth (
Director) serves as Artistic Director of Georgetown’s Davis Performing Arts Center. As director, dramaturge, professor, and scholar, she specializes in feminist plays, cross-cultural adaptations of classics, theater of exile, and new works. These strands converge in her sustained focus on Timberlake Wertenbaker’s plays. Maya’s recent research includes adaptation of Aphra Behn’s
The Rover (2020) and developmental dramaturgy for Iraqi-American Playwright Heather Raffo on
Noura (Shakespeare Theatre and Playwrights Horizon co-premieres, 2018). For over a decade, she has stewarded the Jane Chambers Prize for Feminist Playwriting—whose recent recipients include Martyna Majok, Natalie Marlena Goodnow, and Christine Evans, among others.
Lesbian & Queer Plays from the Jane Chambers Prize (2019) and
Cross-Cultural Plays from the Jane Chambers Prize (2020), coedited with Jen-Scott Mobley, furthers that work. For Georgetown, she has stewarded multiple guest artist residencies to bring interdisciplinary students and faculty into collaboration with artists, such as Raffo (
Fallujah), L. Feldman
(Amanuensis), Moises Kaufman and Tectonic Theatre in partnership with Arena Stage (
33 Variations) and
LubDub Theatre
(On the Lawn). Her critical essays appear in volumes, such as
Feminist Theatrical Revisions of Classic Works, Theatre of War and Exile, her coedited
International Dramaturgy and the forthcoming
Heather Raffo’s Plays: The Things that Can’t Be Said (2021). Maya is honored to have won the College Dean’s Excellence in Teaching Award (2014), in addition to WTP’s Career Achievement Award in Service to the Field (2018). She served as Chair of the Department of Performing Arts at Georgetown from 2012-2016.
Christine Evans (Playwright) Australian-American Christine Evans’ plays and libretti have been produced or developed at venues including the Royal Shakespeare Company, Playbox Theater, Arts Above, and Questor’s Theatre (UK); the Sydney Opera House, Green Room Music, Opera Queensland, Belvoir Street, and the Adelaide International Festival of the Arts (Australia), Playwrights’ Theater of New Jersey, Centennial Stage, Cutting Ball Theater, Providence Black Rep, HERE Arts, the Women's Project, Crowded Fire, StreetSigns, Spooky Action Theater, Theater J, Rattlestick Theater, Perishable Theater, the Bay Area Playwrights’ Festival, the Davis Center for Performing Arts (Georgetown), and elsewhere. Christine’s play Trojan Barbie premiered at the American Repertory Theater (ART), received the Jane Chambers Award and the “Plays for the 21st Century Award, is published by Samuel French and has had over thirty productions in the US and internationally. Christine is a 2020-21 Howard Foundation Fellow, a multiple MacDowell Colony Fellow and DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities recipient. A Playwrights Center Core Alumna and Australian Fulbright alumna, she holds an MFA (Playwriting) and PhD (Theater & Performance Studies) from Brown and taught playwriting at Harvard from 2007-12. She serves as Associate Professor in Performing Arts at Georgetown University. Her first novel, Cloudless, was published in 2015. www.christineevanswriter.com
