Join us for a virtual program with Kate Moncrief, Associate Director and Dramaturg for the Hanover Theatre Repertory's production of Julius Caesar. She will provide an intro to the play and discuss staging the production for a contemporary audience in downtown Worcester.

Dr. Kathryn M. Moncrief is Paris Fletcher Distinguished Professor of Humanities and Head of Humanities and Arts at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) in Worcester, MA. She serves as co-editor of the Shakespeare Life and Times section of the Internet Shakespeare Editions and has published widely on Shakespeare and performance. She is co-editor of Shakespeare Expressed: Page, Stage and Classroom in Early Modern Drama; Performing Pedagogy in Early Modern England: Gender, Instruction and Performance; and Performing Maternity in Early Modern England. She is the author of articles published in book collections and journals, including Hamlet: The State of Play (Arden Shakespeare); Literary Cultures and the Child, Shaping Shakespeare for Performance, Metaliterary in Practice, Gender and Early Modern Constructions of Childhood, and Renaissance Quarterly. Selected dramaturgy/text coaching: Utah Shakespeare Festival (Twelfth Night, The Book of Will, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat); Colorado Shakespeare Festival, Prague Shakespeare (Love’s Labour’s Lost); Chesapeake Shakespeare (Wild Oats, Othello, She Stoops to Conquer, Henry IV, Part 1 and Henry IV, Part 2, Hamlet); Hanover Repertory (Romeo and Juliet). Directing (selected): Worcester Polytechnic Institute (Every Brilliant Thing). She is Associate Director and Dramaturg for Julius Caesar (Hanover Repertory, summer 2021).