Theatre
Advisory Boards
Latinx Theatre Commons
2017 - present: Steering Committee
The Fornés Institute
2022 - present: Digital Humanities Editor
2018 - present: Member
Expand the Canon Initiative, Hedgepig Theatre Ensemble
2020-21: Board Member
Workshop offered:
The Casting Conversation
A workshop designed for theatre-makers about the nine different kinds of casting practices that are possibilities for staging. I define and illustrate each of these casting strategies, and we discuss the ethics, dramaturgy, and practicality of each.
Carla offers consulting and dramaturgy, especially related to staging 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.
Program Notes
Lectures, Interviews, and Panels
"Shakespeare's Heroines," Shakespeare Hour Live!, Shakespeare Theatre Company
"The Gunpowder Plot," Victory Gardens Theater
"Bilingual Classical Theater," Classic Stage Company
"West Side Story," Shakespeare Hour Live!, Shakespeare Theatre Company
"Introduction to Measure for Measure," The Show Must Go On(Line)
"Staging Antony and Cleopatra," Shakespeare Center of Los Angeles
Moderator, “Honor and Amplify: An Intercultural Conversation on Legacy, Identity, and Expanding the American Theatre Canon,” SolFest2021, The Sol Project
"Shakespeare and Chill: West Side Story," St. Louis Shakespeare Festival
"Sense and Sensibility," Pre-Amble lecture, Chicago Shakespeare Theater
"Evita," Shakespeare Hour Live! Shakespeare Theatre Company
"King Lear," Pre-Amble lecture, Chicago Shakespeare Theater
"Dig Deeper: Equivocation," Victory Gardens Theater
"The Merchant of Venice: Gender and Sexuality," Shakespeare Hour Live!, Shakespeare Theatre Company
"The Influence of the Crown," Victory Gardens Theater
"Kiss Me, Kate: Power Dynamics in The Taming of the Shrew," Folger Theatre
"Shakespeare and Stereotypes," Folger Theatre
"Staging Subversive Gender in Twelfth Night," Shakespeare Center of Los Angeles
"Humor in Macbeth," Shakespeare Center of Los Angeles
"Post-Show Talk Back, Marqués," University of California, Santa Cruz
Translation
The Courage To Right A Woman's Wrongs
by Ana Caro
As part of UCLA's working group devoted to translating Spanish Golden Age comedias, she collaborated on the translation of this play.
Winner of the 2022 Franklin Smith Comedia Translation Prize from the Association for Hispanic Classical Theater
The full translation is available online here.
The 2020 production at Red Bull Theater is available online here.
The Cardenio Project
by Jesús Eguía Armenteros
Lead translator for the Spanish commission of Stephen Greenblatt's Cardenio project, first performed in Madrid in 2008.
The full translation is available online here.
A video clip can be found here.
A Scholar for the Theatre
Theatre Scholarship and Development
2024: "Casting for Dubbing," Netflix
2021: “The Casting Conversation,” Antaeus Theatre Company
2019: Academic Advisor, Public Humanities Initiative, Workshop, Director Saheem Ali, The Public Theater
2018: Translation Collaborator, The Comedia in Translation & Performance Working Group, Diversifying the Classics, UCLA
2017: Scholar in Residence, Encuentro de las Américas, Los Angeles Theatre Center
2016: Facilitator and Speaker, Post-Show Talk Back, Romeo and Juliet, School of Dramatic Arts, USC
2015: Dramaturg, The Wild Duck, Director Tony Adams, Halcyon Theater, Chicago
2014-15: Pre-Amble Speaker, Chicago Shakespeare Theater
2012: Scholar for the Theater, Bill Cain’s Equivocation, Victory Gardens Theater
2011: Dramaturg, Brighton Beach Memoirs, Director Mary Poole, Northwestern
2011: Dramaturg, Peribañez, Director Henry Godinez, Northwestern
Theatre Collaboration
2023: Head Scholar/Documentarian, Designer & Director Colaboratorio, Latinx Theatre Commons, Portland
2018: Organizing Committee, María Irene Fornés Symposium, Latinx Theatre Commons, Princeton
2017: Member, Latino Theater Alliance/LA (LTA/LA), Los Angeles
2016: Roundtable Member, “Pushing Buttons, Pushing Boundaries: Contemporary Latina/o Theater and Performance Scholarship Methods/Practices—A Long Table Discussion,” Latino Studies Association (LSA), Pasadena
2016: Invited Participant, “Re-Writing Shakespeare Aquí,” The Betsy Escribe Aquí Festival Charlas/Chats, Miami
2015: Participant, Latino Playwrights’ Project, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Ashland
2015: Participant, Scholars’ Pod, Latino Theatre Commons, Carnaval, Chicago
2014: Member, Visibility/Artistic Working Group, Alliance for Latino Theatre Artists, Chicago
2014: Invited Participant, Roundtable Conference on the production of Spanish Golden Age theatre, Fundación de Siglo de Oro/REKATá, Madrid