Faedra Chatard Carpenter

Faedra Chatard Carpenter (Dramaturg) Folger Theatre: Metamorphoses; Ford’s Theatre: Production Dramaturg, Something Moving: A Meditation on Maynard (world premiere), Script Treatment Writer and Panelist Facilitator, Written Then, Spoken Now: Freedom Was in Sight!; Mosaic Theater Company: Development & Production Dramaturg, The Till Trilog­­­­­­­­­y (The Ballad of Emmett Till, That Summer in Sumner, and Benevolence), Production Dramaturg, Fabulation, or The Re-Education of Undine, Queens Girl in Africa; the Kennedy Center Theater for Young Audience: Production Dramaturg, Kimmy ( radio play series); Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, Dramaturgy Curator: RESET,

 

Dr. Carpenter is also the author of the critically-acclaimed book, Coloring Whiteness:  Acts of Critique in Black Performance, and her scholarly analysis can be found in a number of anthologies and peer-reviewed journals such as 50 Key Figures in Queer US Theatre, Cambridge Companion to American Theatre, Diverse Dramaturgy, College Literature, Theater Magazine, The Routledge Companion to Dramaturgy, The Cambridge Companion to African American Theatre, Theatre Survey, Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism, Theatre Topics, Women & Performance, and Callaloo.