Jenna Lourenco
Theatre Researcher & Practitioner
Publications
"EPIC Players Creates Employment and Training Opportunities for Autistic & Neurodivergent Theatre Makers."
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
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.