Cristiana Giordano is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Davis. She received her Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. Her book, Migrants in Translation. Caring and the Logics of Difference in Contemporary Italy (University of California Press, 2014), won the Victor Turner Book Prize for ethnographic writing (2016), and the Boyer Prize in Psychoanalytic Anthropology (2017). Her current research investigates new ways of rendering ethnographic material into artistic forms. She has been collaborating with playwright and director Greg Pierotti on a new methodology at the intersection of the social sciences and performance. They have created Unstories, a 50-minute performance around the current “refugee crisis” in Europe, and Unstories II (roaming), a 45-minute performance which furthers the reflection about movement and borders.
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Greg Pierotti is an assistant teacher of Fitzmaurice voice work and a professor of theatrical devising the University of Arizona. He is a playwright, theater director, actor and scholar. He co-authored the plays The Laramie Project, Laramie: 10 Years Later, The People’s Temple and Unstories. He co-authored the devising workbook Moment Work. His honors as a writer/director include a Humanitas Prize, a Bay Area Will Glickman Award for best New Play, an Emmy nomination, a NY Drama Desk nomination, and a 2013 nomination for an Alpert Award for outstanding contribution to the theater. Since 2015 he has conducted research focus has been structural racism and police violence. Since 2015, with anthropologist Cristiana Giordano, he has developed a method for research, writing and theatrical devising called "Affect Theater.” Together they have authored articles playing at the intersection of Anthropology and Theater. They have published on a variety of platforms for The Society for Cultural Anthropology. The Drama Review published Getting Caught, their latest journal article in February 2020. They teach workshops in "Affect Theater" internationally.
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