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Carla Della Gatta

Writer. Scholar. Educator. Arts Advocate.

Dr. Carla Della Gatta is a theatre historian and performance theorist, specializing in contemporary Shakespearean performance and bilingual and Latinx theatre. She is a theatre archivist and dramaturg, and she offers casting workshops for theaters. She is author of Latinx Shakespeares: Staging US Intracultural Theater. Professor Della Gatta built and maintains the only archive of Latinx theatrical adaptation, LatinxShakespeares.Org.

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Current and Recent Work

Books and Public History Projects


Other Writing

 All of Carla's writing is in dialogue with artists, advancing a conversation on theatre.

She writes for academic presses and journals, trade publications, and online magazines and blogs.

Program notes and scholarship for the theatre are located on the Theatre page.

Argentine theater
Latinx theatre

Photo credit: Latinx Theatre Commons

Theatre Work

Carla offers consulting and dramaturgy, especially related to performances of identity through language and accents.  ​
She works with artists and theaters on script development and staging possibilities for classical and early modern plays and adaptations, intercultural, ethnic, bilingual and semi-bilingual theatre. 

Located here are video and audio lectures, interviews, and program notes.

Appearances
& Media


With links to video and audio lectures, podcasts, and panels, as well as a list of past and upcoming in-person speaking engagements.

In the News

"For Never Was a Story of More Whoa: Why We Still Can't Get Enough of Juliet and Her Romeo," Town and Country

"The Here-and-Now Insight in Folger’s youth-centric, DC-set Romeo and Juliet," DC Theater Arts

"Caught Up in the Metaverse During an Election Year Warring Families Underpin This Brilliantly Reimagined Story of Romeo and Juliet at the Folger," The Zebra

"Theatre News: Folger Shakespeare Reading Room Festival – Reframing the ‘Shrew,’" MD Theatre Guide

"Outdoor Theaters Have To Compete With a Lot of Noise Including Low-flying Planes,"
NPR

"At CalShakes, Romeo and Juliet Offers Two Brave Turns for Timeless Love Story," San Francisco Chronicle

"In Translations, A Canon For All," American Theatre

"A 400 Años del First Folio: Shakespeare Resignificado," El Universal

"PBIC: Young Chinese Come Up With Ideas to Improve People's Lives in Africa," CGTN

"A Carnaval of Latino Writing in the Windy City, American Theatre

"DramaWatch: Brain Food at Barbecue," Oregon ArtsWatch

Dr. Carla Della Gatta is Associate Professor of Theatre at University of Maryland
She is author of Latinx Shakespeares: Staging US Intracultural Theater
a
nd co-editor of Shakespeare and Latinidad.

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Bilingual Shakespeare; Spanish Shakespeare; Latino Shakespeare; Shakespeare and Race; bilingual theatre

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