Professor Margaret Laurena Kemp, Department of Theatre and Dance chair, is pleased to announced that Olga Faccani, an artist and scholar, will be participating in several sessions of DRA 159: Contemporary Theatre and Drama. Faccani’s first appearance will be on Oct. 17 in which she will focus on the ancient roots of theatre for social change. 

Faccani received her PhD in Classics from the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her research focused on ancient Greek performance, and looked at psychotherapy, trauma studies, and affect theory to analyze the process of disorientation caused by death and change in the work of Athenian playwright Euripides. Olga is also interested in public humanities and maintains an active collaboration with The Odyssey Project, a theater and writing program between incarcerated youth and UC undergraduate students.