Jenna Lourenco
Theatre Researcher, Educator, Performer, Director,
Costume Designer/Costumer
Publications
"A Stinging Critique of the American Dream Underlies The Queen of Versailles" The Theatre Times, 2024.
“Neurodivergent New Play Series Resumes Schedule for 2024.” The Theatre Times, 2024.
“Groundbreaking Autistic-Led Production of A Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time at A Common Thread Theatre Company in Framingham, MA” The Theatre Times, 2023.
The Theatre Times, 2022.
"Review of Essential Acting by Brigid Panet." METHODs: A Journal of Acting Pedagogy, Pace University, 2016.
"Marina Carr’s Swans and Goddesses: Contemporary Feminist Myth in Irish Drama." Breac: A Digital Journal of Irish Studies, Issue 2, Notre Dame University, 2014.
Conference Presentations & Workshops
2024 Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival – Region 3 (KCACTF):
“Working from Empathy: Accommodating Invisible Disabilities in the Classroom or the Theatre Space”
“Designing for Accommodations: A Faculty/Designer Discussion”
2021 Kennedy Center/American College Theatre Festival – Region 1 (KC/ACTF): “Promoting and Supporting Neurodiversity in Theatre: Rehearsal & Production Accommodations You Can Make Now,” Online.
Consortium for Graduate Studies in Gender, Culture, Women, & Sexuality at MIT: “‘He's Actually Got a Girlfriend!:’ Challenges to the Asexual/ Aromantic Perceptions of Autism in Theatrical Representations,” Radical Love Across Difference Conference, MIT Online.
2020 Emmanuel College Learning Commons Online Toolbox Workshop: “How to Prepare for Class Presentations,” Online.
Emmanuel College Learning Commons Online Toolbox Workshop: “How to Turn Your Outline (or Paper) into Notecards for a Presentation,” Online.
2019 American Conference for Irish Studies (ACIS): “Rose Mundy and Danti-Dan: The Trope of Disastrous Independence for Autistic & Neurodiverse Characters,” National Conference, Boston, MA.
2015 Emmanuel College Theater Arts Program Workshop: “18th Century Movement and Posture for Les Liaisons Dangereuses,” Boston, MA.
2014 Emmanuel College (ecPULSE) Workshop: “Communicating Effectively with Your Professors,” Boston, MA.
2013 International Association for the Study of Irish Literature (IASIL): “Urban Myth: Gender and Mythology in Mark O’Rowe’s Terminus,” Belfast, Northern Ireland.
2012 International Association for the Study of Irish Literature (IASIL): “Marina Carr’s Swans and Goddesses: Contemporary Feminist Myth in Irish Drama,” Montreal, Canada.
Emmanuel College Theater Arts Program Workshop: “Irish Dialects for Actors,” Boston, MA.
2010 Arlington Friends of the Drama Community Theater: “Into This Breathing World...” (Shakespearean Acting Workshop), Arlington, MA.