Theater in Lockdown, or a Performance-Studies Paradox

barbara fuchs is Distinguished Professor of Spanish and English at UCLA. She is founder and director of the Working Group on the Comedia in Translation and Performance and its Diversifying the Classics initiative, which has promoted Hispanic classical theater since 2014. In 2018 she founded LA Escena. She has published widely on early modern literature and culture and contemporary performance. She has also translated a range of early modern Hispanic classics. Her most recent book is Theater of Lockdown: Digital and Distanced Performance in a Time of Pandemic (2022). In 2021 her work to promote Hispanic language and culture was recognized with the inaugural Premio Ñ from Spain’s Instituto Cervantes.