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Dan Smith
@danaturg.bsky.social
Dramaturg and translator
I was confused about the Robbie Williams discourse, because that music video where he removed his skin was everywhere when it came out. Then I looked up the year and realized "everywhere" meant "Chicago gay bars."
December 28, 2024 at 8:57 PM
Theatre translation: This year's ASTR Translation Prize winners are Nikta Sabouri and Richard Saul Chason for Naqqali Trilogy, an anthology of three plays by Bahram Beyzaie. www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...
Naqqali Trilogy — Harvard University Press
Widely regarded as the Shakespeare of Persia, Bahram Beyzaie—playwright, director, screenwriter, and scholar—has made the greatest contribution to modern Persian drama of any individual artist, yet he...
www.hup.harvard.edu
November 30, 2024 at 4:17 PM
We were just reminiscing about our trip to the Pink Pony Bar on Mackinac Island, and now several family members in their 60s have been introduced to Chappell Roan.
July 4, 2024 at 8:31 PM
20 years ago in Massachusetts I dated a lawyer who was involved in NORML, and tonight I chatted with a corporate marijuana retailer who is based in Massachusetts and expanding into Michigan. Life comes at you fast.
December 4, 2023 at 11:36 PM
My institution intends to launch an initiative encouraging interdisciplinary teams of 3 faculty researchers to work together. The name of the program? Tetrad. Maybe the university is the fourth partner.
November 7, 2023 at 11:11 PM
Remember when Wayne Brady came out as pansexual? That feels like a long time ago.
October 27, 2023 at 12:25 AM
At a well-attended book launch for my colleague Philip Effiong, who has recently published a memoir of his childhood experiences of the Nigeria-Biafra War: www.amazon.com/Nigerias-Civ...
October 24, 2023 at 8:31 PM
Self portrait as interdisciplinary alien for #CIRCLEMSU Launch event.
October 19, 2023 at 12:33 AM
Maybe I'm on nobody's side.
October 17, 2023 at 10:18 PM
Today's Gen Ed Theatre lecture on Lighting Design was much too long! There was a time when it did not have sufficient content. I have overcorrected.
October 11, 2023 at 1:22 AM