Finding My Voice: A Director, Performative Writing, and my Feminist Self

Abstract

      In this paper, I investigate the creation of my performance of a feminist director.  I explore using performative writing to discuss joining activism and scholarship within the rehearsal hall and on the page.
      I use performative writing as method and methodology as I contextualize my research into and experience of feminism, communication, and directing.  Performative writing allows me to tell my own unique story while still relating it to the scholars and practitioners upon whose shoulders I stand.  Rather than simply telling my story, I examine the experience through a critical lens.  This is an autobiography as a performance of self on paper. It is research as performance and story as scholarship.