Berkley Center

Maya E. Roth is director of Theater & Performance Studies at Georgetown University and was the founding artistic director of the Davis Performing Arts Center (2005-2007). Her scholarly and artistic work focuses on feminist performance, civic theater, plays by women, and cross-cultural stage adaptations; Roth is a leading scholar on the plays of Timberlake Wertenbaker. Since 2007, she has stewarded the Jane Chambers Contest for Women Playwrights, overseeing adjudication for roughly 150 plays annually for the Women and Theatre Program and Association for Theater in Higher Education. Her publications include International Dramaturgy: Translations & Transformations in the Theatre of Timberlake Wertenbaker (2008, co-edited with Sara Freeman), as well as articles in journals like Theatre Topics and Theatre Journal and chapters in anthologies such as Feminist Theatrical Revisions of Classic Texts, The Senses in Performance, and Crucibles of Culture in Anglophone Drama. Roth is a member of Georgetown's faculty-in-residence program and taught a class supported through the Berkley Center's Doyle Seminars project. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley.