Cuir Devotion: A Conversation

JOY BROOKE FAIRFIELD is a performance maker and performance studies scholar living on the historic homeland of the Chickasaw Nation in Memphis, Tennessee, where she teaches at Rhodes College. Joy researches queer intimacy practices as they pertain to sociopolitical structures like racial capitalism and the extractive settler state and aims to create temporary spaces of alternative sociality and potential healing in all the productions she directs and devises. She is a member of the SDC and an alumna of the Drama League Director's Project. Her 2016 dissertation Fugitive Intimacies: The Unbinding Vows of Queer Wedlock Performance won the Charles R. Lyons award at Stanford University and her recent writing has been published by Theatre Topics and the Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism.

ENZO E. VASQUEZ TORAL is a Peruvian theater director, scholar, and performer pursuing a PhD in Performance Studies at Northwestern University. His doctoral work focuses on queer and trans engagement in patron-saint fiestas, folklore, and devotion in the Andes. Through his solo piece Cuir Devotion, he explores performed ethnography through drag aesthetics and analytics. His academic work in English and Spanish has been published or is forthcoming in publications including Modern Drama, El Alto, The Routledge Handbook to Theatre and Performance Historiography, and other edited volumes. Enzo holds MA degrees in Performance Studies from Northwestern University and in Spanish and Portuguese from Princeton University, and a BA in History and Literature from Harvard University.