Kyle Gillette
Kyle Gillette is a writer, director and associate professor of theatre at Trinity University. He earned his PhD in Drama from Stanford University in 2007. Recent projects include directing Rachel Joseph’s Antigone in the City for the Festival Laboratorio Interculturale Pratiche di Teatrali and writing and performing for site-specific collaborations with Teatro Potlach in Fara in Sabina, Italy. Kyle creates performances and leads workshops that explore invisibility, memory and traveling in the city. He has directed plays by Beckett, Brecht, Vogel, Wilder, Wohl, Stoppard, Shepard and others. His writing about theatre includes Railway Travel in Modern Theatre: Transforming the Space and Time of the Stage (McFarland, 2014) and Thornton Wilder’s The Skin of Our Teeth (Routledge, 2016), as well as several essays, reviews and creative work in journals ranging from Performance Research and Theatre Journal to Modern Drama. Kyle’s Imagined Theatres and Glosses appear in Daniel Sack’s book Imagined Theatres: Writing for a Theoretical Stage (Routledge, 2017). He is currently finishing The Invisible City: travel, attention and performance (under contract with Routledge).