Tiffany Trent
Tiffany Trent is an accomplished director, deviser, and scholar of theater and performance studies. Her artistic and scholarly practices encompass theater and performance primarily in contexts of justice work and faith practice, particularly with youth. She earned her B.A. in Politics, Economics, Rhetoric, and Law at the University of Chicago, an MFA in Directing at the Carnegie Mellon School of Drama, and an M.Div. from Chicago Theological Seminary. Most recently, Trent completed her doctorate in Theatre for Youth at Arizona State University, where she received research support from the American Alliance for Theatre Education (AATE) as a Winifred Ward Scholar, grants from the Center for the Study of Religion and Conflict at ASU and the American Society for Theatre Research (ASTR), and was a doctoral fellow with the Forum for Theological Exploration. Her dissertation, “Radical Welcome in Youth Performance Spaces on Chicago’s South Side: the Child as Hungry, the Child as Village, the Child as Visible,” intertwines her research areas of performance studies, child drama, child theology, liberation theology, and critical race theory. In her wider projects analyzing embodiments of race, class, gender, childhood, and faith, Trent connects arts practice to citizenship, self, and culture.
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