Marina J. Bergenstock is a first year PhD student in Stanford’s Theatre and Performance Studies Department. She is a director, dramaturg, and educator. She received her MFA in Directing at the University of Iowa. Marina’s research interests include hyphenated and diasporic identities and the performance of them in the Arab world and in the United States, and theatre as a catalyst for political, structural, and social reform.
Marina J. Bergenstock

Representation 101: Trends of Contemporary MENA Theatre in the U.S.
Podcast
Representation 101: Trends of Contemporary MENA Theatre in the U.S.
7 April 2021

Kunafa and Shay
Series
Kunafa and Shay
Season 1 of Kunafa and Shay will focus on MENA theatre post-9/11 to today - highlighting contemporary MENA plays and playwrights, spotlighting international community-engaged work in the Arab world, and pondering the present and future of MENA theater in the US.