About me
Dr. Krysta Dennis, Associate Professor of Creative Arts at Siena College, works as a theatre-maker, director, and playwright in the US and internationally. Krysta holds a dual PhD from the University of Kent in the UK and the Sorbonne in Paris, and trained as a performer at L’Ecole Jacques Lecoq. Krysta has acted as chair of dramaturgy since 2020 for Region 1 of the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival. She is the author of four plays: Swept Clean (Northeast Theatre Ensemble and Historic Cherry Hill) Dutch: an original play in live performance and virtual reality installation (Historic Cherry Hill), Votes for Women (Siena College, Ten Broeck Mansion, Arts, Letters & Numbers), and The Burden of the Ballot (Historic Cherry Hill, New York State Museum). Recent directing credits include: Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Northeast Theatre Ensemble) The Turn of the Screw (Creative License), A Streetcar Names Desire (NETE), An Ideal Husband (NETE), Marjorie Prime (Theatre Voices), Aleda (Musicians of Ma’alwyck), and Arcadia (Siena College). She has published with Methuen, Contemporary Theatre Review, Interdisciplinary Network, Routledge, SPUR: The Council on Undergraduate Research, and the Pirandello Society of America.
