Marina Johnson
Marina Johnson is a Ph.D. candidate in TAPS at Stanford University (M.F.A. in Directing, University of Iowa). Her dissertation research focuses on Palestinian performance from 2015 to the present. Johnson is the co-host of Kunafa and Shay, a MENA theatre podcast produced by HowlRound Theatre Commons, and they are also a member of Silk Road Rising's Polycultural Institute. Johnson's work has appeared or is forthcoming in Theatre/Practice, Arab Stages, Decolonizing Dramaturgy in a Global Context (Bloomsbury), Milestones in Staging Contemporary Genders and Sexualities (Routledge), Women's Innovations in Theatre, Dance, and Performance, Volume I: Performers (Bloomsbury). Prior to her Ph.D., she was a Visiting Assistant Professor at Beloit College for three years. Most recently, Johnson directed The Wolves at Stanford University, dramaturged two plays in Golden Thread Productions' ReOrient Festival, and directed The Shroud Maker with the International Voices project.