Youth Theater Workshop – Ages 11-14 – Chisme y Chistes with Borderlands Shakespeare Colectiva
Dallas youth (ages 11-14) are invited to participate in a storytelling workshop with the co-founders of the Borderlands Shakespeare Colectiva. Participants will read a short excerpt from El Rey del Pollo by Anna Skidis Vargas and then compose and share their own short family stories.
September 20, 2025 Youth Theater Workshop Borderlands Shakespeare Colectiva presents: Family Stories – Chisme y chistes in Borderlands Shakespeare/El Rey del Pollo (Ages 11-14) 11:00am-12:30pm Classroom Free to attend, pre-registration required.
Dr. Katherine Gillen is Professor of English at Texas A&M University–San Antonio. She studies issues of race, gender, colonialism, and economics in early modern drama. The author of Chaste Value: Economic Crisis, Female Chastity, and the Production of Social Difference on Shakespeare’s Stage (Edinburgh UP, 2017). She is currently working on a monograph tentatively titled Shakespeare’s Racial Classicism: Whiteness, Slavery, and Humanism.
Dr. Adrianna M. Santos, Associate Professor of English at Texas A&M University–San Antonio, has built her career on work that is deeply rooted in and accountable to Chicanx communities. Her book Cicatrix Poetics, Trauma and Healing in the Literary Borderlands: Beyond Survival (Palgrave 2024) examines Chicana survival narratives as a critical facet of social justice work. She has research expertise in cultural production, performance, and pedagogy.
ABOUT THE COLECTIVA
The Borderlands Shakespeare Colectiva (BSC) is an award-winning group of scholars, educators, artists, and activists who engage with Shakespeare in ways that reflect the lived realities of the U.S.–Mexico Borderlands. We aim not only to change the way Shakespeare is taught and performed but also to promote the socially just futures envisioned en el arte de La Frontera.https://borderlandsshakespeare.org/who-we-are/
