Dramaturg, Confederates
Angela M. Farr Schiller, PhD is an Emmy® Award–winning director, a multi-award-winning dramaturg, and Associate Professor of Theater at the Boston Conservatory at Berklee. Formerly serving as the Director of Arts Education at the four-time Southeast Emmy® Award–winning ArtsBridge Foundation for the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre, in Atlanta, GA—her leadership is feature in American Theatre Magazine. Additionally, she works as a Dramaturg-In-Residence with Atlanta-based Working Title Playwrights (WTP), the leading new play development organization in the Southeast on new play development. As a director, her production of In the Red and Brown Water won an Outstanding Director award from the Kennedy Center College Theatre Festival. Her televised production of The Georgia High School Musical Theatre Awards won a 2021 Southeast Emmy® Award. As a scholar, her areas of research include Performance Studies, 20th Century African American History and Performance, Critical Race Theory, Dramatic Literature, Sensorial Studies, and 20th and 21st Century American Drama. Her most recent published book projects are The Methuen Drama Book of Trans Plays (2021), shortlisted for a 2022 LAMBDA Literary Award, and Troubling Traditions: Canonicity, Theatre, and Performance in the US (2022). Her body of work is ultimately rooted in revealing the ways that performance can be utilized as a meaningful tool for critical thinking, social justice, and the development of empathy and compassion for the human experience.