Stacey Manos

Stacey Manos (she/her) is a poet, playwright, and theatre artist from Redondo Beach, CA. She received a BA in Psychology and Social Behavior and a BA in Drama, Honors in Acting from University of California, Irvine. She has eleven poetry and short fiction publications and her original play, Unsung Morning, just opened at New York Theatre Festival at the Hudson Guild Theatre. Her academic work focuses predominantly on intersecting identity, memory, and spirituality. She is extremely grateful to her professors and cohort members for gifting her with their performance of thought everyday in this wonderful year of Performance Studies.

Title of Project:

May Her Memory Be Eternal

Project Description:

My project is about memory and trauma, specifically the connection between the encoded bodily memory in sexual trauma survivors and the Greek Orthodox concept of "eternal memory." I use a close analysis of Suzie Miller's one woman show, Prima Facie, focusing on what her cross-examination of her own memory activates in me as the audience member, to reimagine what is understood as proof and how eternal memory remains.

Areas of Academic Interest/Research:

Intersecting Identities, Memory and Trauma, Ritual and Poetry as Performance