Saturday Symposiums – Master Classes

Maria Enriquez is an Assistant Teaching Professor of Theatre at Penn State Harrisburg. She earned her PhD in Theatre Arts at the University of Pittsburgh, and her MFA in Performance from Arizona State University, where she studied with Anne Bogart and SITI Company. She has acted/directed at Victory Gardens Theatre, Chicago Dramatist, Cleveland Public Theatre, 16^th Street Theatre, Mortar Theatre, Seattle ACT, and performed in the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Maria was a Visiting Lecturer in Movement at UNC Chapel Hill, where she taught Viewpoints & Composition and Suzuki. She has directed numerous productions at Penn State Harrisburg and won a national award in directing from the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival for her work on Machinal(2020). Maria was a Steering Committee member for the Latinx Theatre Commons and is currently the Historian for the DEI Committee at the Fulton Theatre, and she is a proud company member with Teatro Paloma, Lancaster’s own Latinx theatre company. 

Rachel Anderson-Rabern is Associate Professor of Theatre at F&M. She holds a PhD in Drama from Stanford University, a BA in Theatre and Literature from Reed College, and studied acting at the Moscow Art Theatre. As an artist and scholar, her work explores the stakes of contemporary theatre and collaborative/devised performance making. On the stage and on the page, she investigates playfulness, improvisation, partnership, group creativity, and fun. Her written scholarship includes the book Staging Process (Northwestern University Press, 2020). Her articles on contemporary performance have appeared in: Theatre Journal, TDR, European Stages, and Imagined Theatres. Her artistic scholarship has appeared at: The Ware Center, Philadelphia Fringe Festival, Miracle Theatre Group, and others. http://www.rachelandersonrabern.com/