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Education
MFA in Drama: Playwriting (2020)
University of Calgary (Calgary, AB)
Thesis: “Us: Identity, Queer Romance, and Dramatic Writing”
MA in Comparative Literature (2018)
Indiana University Bloomington (Bloomington, IN)
Master’s Paper: “‘Who Tells Your Story’: Hamilton and Steps Towards and Understanding of Renaissance Epic Theatre”
MA in Comparative Literature: Translation Studies (2014)
Florida Atlantic University (Boca Raton, FL)
Thesis: “And yet: Studio sulla traduzione di alcuni ‘Appunti’ epigrammatici di Sandro Penna”
BA in English (Writing and Rhetoric) and Languages and Linguistics: Italian
Florida Atlantic University (Boca Raton, FL)
Certificate: Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Dead Girl, USA. University of Central Oklahoma. Edmond, OK, 2024. (Staged reading. Full-length.)
Pylades: An Oresteia. dir. Dr. Annie Holt. University of Central Oklahoma. Edmond, OK, 2023. (Staged reading. Full-length.)
://SHELF_LIFE. dir. S M Boyer. 2023 Theatre Crude Fringe Festival. Oklahoma City, OK, 2023. (One-act.)
Us. dir. Jenna Rodgers. Alchemy Festival of Student Work, University of Calgary. Calgary, AB, 2020. (Staged reading. Full-length. Cancelled due to COVID-19.)
Taking Shelter. dir. Mark Bellamy, Alchemy Festival of Student Work, University of Calgary. Calgary, AB, 2019. (Staged reading. One-act.)
Two Poems, “On Learning that Neither Rodgers Nor Hammerstein…” and “Season” (& Change. Issue 7. 2024.)
“Sucking the…” (Ghost City Review. Sept. 2024.)
““How am I going to peel…” (DEAR Poetry. Issue 4. 2024)
“f*ggot” (TRANSverse. Issue 17. 2018.)
When We Were Bandini: Humor and Satire in John Fante’s Novels by Emanuele Pettener. Translated from the Italian. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, July 2024.
A Window to Zeewijk by Marino Magliani. Translated from the Italian. Bordighera Press, October 2021.
Selected Works, Dramaturgy
The Campaign by Whatever Works (co-creator), production, Theatre Crude Fringe Festival, October 2024. (One-act)
The Man from Midnight Station by Dillon Bertholf. 2023 Theatre Crude Fringe Festival. Oklahoma City, OK, 2023. (One-act.)
Scenes from an Italian Trattoria by Nicholas Diriviam. Seventh Annual Italy in Transit Symposium, Florida Atlantic University. Boca Raton, FL, 2023. (One-act.)
Bury the Wren by Beth Kates and Neil Christensen. Toasterlab, presented at the University of Calgary. Calgary, AB, 2019. (VR/AR/CR project)
Selected Presentations and Workshops
Workshop facilitator. “So You Want to Write a Play.” Literati Bookstore and Creative Writing Center. Oklahoma City, OK, November 2024.
Workshop facilitator. “Do Your Worst: Getting Through Your Bad Play.” Theatre Crude Fringe Festival. Oklahoma City, OK, October 2024.
Discussant for Keynote with Anna Cox. International Gender and Sexuality Studies Conference. Edmond, OK, September 2024.
Presenter. “See It / Say It: Balancing Dialogue and Action” LitFest 2024, Metropolitan Library System. Oklahoma City, OK, August 2024.
Speaker. “Stage Poetics: A Craft Conversation.” Department of English, University of Central Oklahoma. Edmond, OK, April 2024.
Speaker. “Keeping it ‘True’: Metaphors in and of Italian-English Translation.” Faculty Author Book Talk Series. University of Central Oklahoma. Edmond, OK, March 2024.
Workshop facilitator. “Writing For One: The Monodrama.” Theatre Crude Fringe Festival. Oklahoma City, OK, 2023.
Panel Participant. “'[I]ts very blinding palpableness’: Queer Melville(s) in Criticism and Creation.” International Gender and Sexuality Studies Conference. Edmond, OK, 2023.
Plenary session participant. Seventh Annual Italy In Transit International Symposium, Florida Atlantic University. Boca Raton, FL, 2023.
“Letting the Tornado In: A Reading.” Presented as part of the New Faculty Lecture Series through the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Central Oklahoma. Edmond, OK, 2022.
Interpreter (Italian-English). “A Conversation with Franco Ferrini,” led by Manuela Filomena. Online. Florida Atlantic University. Boca Raton, FL, 2022.
“Patrick Rizzotti interviews Zachary Scalzo, Dramaturg, about Bury the Wren.” Interview, Toaster Lab. 2021.
Selected Awards and Distinctions
Artist in Residence.
University of Central Oklahoma, Department of English. 2022-2025.
Alberta Graduate Excellence Scholarship (AGES) – International
Alberta Student Aid, 2019
Transformative Talent Internship Scholarship
Faculty of Graduate Studies – University of Calgary, 2019
Thompson-Reddick Graduate Scholarship in Drama
School of Creative and Performing Arts – University of Calgary, 2018
Wertheim Award in Comparative Drama
Department of Comparative Literature – Indiana University Bloomington, 2018
Teaching and Related Experience
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