Evelyn Reidy

(she/hers) received her PhD at the University of Roehampton and Shakespeare’s Globe, funded by a Techne AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Award. Her creative-critical PhD project focused on female and laboring class performers in non-commercial drama and their use of festive performance-as-protest in the early seventeenth century. This research was the basis for an original play titled Very Small Trouble, which tells the story of a group of performers in Wells, Somerset and their controversial Midsummer performances of 1607. Very Small Trouble received two days of Research & Development workshops at Shakespeare’s Globe and was recently performed by members of the MLitt/MFA cohort at Mary Baldwin University. She has published performance reviews in Shakespeare Bulletin, blogs with Shakespeare’s Globe, and has forthcoming journal articles for The Journal of Early Modern Cultural Studies and Shakespeare Studies. Her first play Ophelia in Space received a developmental workshop production with The Cliff Dwellers (Chicago); her next play,Sky Pale Green, was long-listed for the Masterclass Pitch Your Play Contest in 2022. <a href=”https://evelynreidy.com/evelynreidy.com” evelynreidy.com