RE:STRUCTURING? Policy and Performance Today

APP '09 Jasmine Mahmoud will be expositing how to expand the boundaries of cultural production in regards to how the pandemic has impacted theatre and performance studies at the 2022 RE:STRUCTURING symposium.

RE:STRUCTURING? POLICY AND PERFORMANCE TODAY will be hosted on May 6 by NYU's Drama, Theatre, and Performance Studies Working Group at the Tisch Dean's Conference Room. It is building off of the group's symposium last fall, when RE:OPENING?: Rethinking NYC’s Performance Infrastructures framed inquiry in the context of theatre’s “reopening” in the wake of COVID-19. For Spring 2022, RE:STRUCTURING? will broaden the aperture beyond New York as well as bring attention to the ways a focus on policy and infrastructure opens up new methodological and theoretical opportunities for theatre and performance studies.

The symposium will be presented in three panels, bringing together three scholars who are at the forefront of this infrastructural turn in theatre and performance studies – Mahmoud (University of Washington), Patrick McKelvey (University of Pittsburgh), and Sarah Wilbur (Duke University) – as well NYU Skirball presenting artists John Collins (Elevator Repair Service), Ty Jones (Classical Theatre of Harlem), and Marianne Weems (The Builders Association) – whose work engages closely with these questions. The event will also launch – via a critical engagement with – Brandon Woolf’s new book Institutional Theatrics: Performing Arts Policy in Post-Wall Berlin.

Mahmoud will be speaking in the first and third panels, "Theatre & Institutions, Policy & Performance" and "On Institutional Theatrics." All can obtain tickets here.

Co-sponsored by the Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies Working Group; Tisch Drama; English Department; Program in Dramatic Literature; Center for the Humanities; and NYU Skirball.