Joy Brooke Fairfield

Joy Brooke Fairfield is an Assistant Professor of Theatre and Performance Studies at Rhodes College in Memphis Tennessee. She is a director/devisor of new plays, opera, and site-specific performance. Her scholarship focuses on queer intimacy and consent onstage and in other forms of cultural production. She is an alumni of the Drama League Director’s Project and her 2016 dissertation at Stanford University won the Charles R. Lyons Memorial Prize.

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Future Perfect : Gloss 1

Will our love stories ever resolve, they wonder, will they come to a head at some point like a mountain peak or a vast plateau or will they stubbornly revolve in spinning sequences of not-quite-endings, hapless or half-hearted attempts to cut cords left over from the last vow-less beginning?