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"New Swan Shakespeare Festival: Interculturality and Gender" interview with Mehmet Özbek
Association of Theater Critics of Turkey (TEB Journal) | TEB OYUN, BULUŞMALAR | Interview, Turkey - 2024 "...everyone involved in the “commonality” can mutually put teaching and learning into practice and reinforce the artistic research (artography) or education process. Perhaps, a knowledge-sharing, application-based education/research model that is far from such a hierarchical understanding and based on equality should be among the goals that every art institution prioritizes." |
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"Drama: Institutional Critique with Jesús López Vargas" interview with Jesse Colin Jackson
UCI Claire Trevor School of the Arts | Research Feature, Irvine, CA - 2022 "López sat down for a virtual interview with Associate Dean of Research and Innovation Jesse Colin Jackson. They discussed Jesús' 21C project, "When We Watch (WWW)", a haunting interactive web series, as well as ways to innovate the field of stage management and theater in general." |
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"Renaissance Man" story by Christine Byrd
UCI Claire Trevor School of the Arts | CONNECT Magazine , Irvine, CA - 2020 "Graduate student Jesús López Vargas reflects a new generation behind the scenes in theatre. Director, stage manager, producer, poet, photographer, videographer, designer, and an advocate for underrepresented voices: Jesús López Vargas wears many hats." |
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"Meet our New Director of Outreach, Jesús López Vargas" story with Aisling Alvarez
UCI School of Humanities | News, Irvine, CA - 2022 "Recently López Vargas, joined by New Swan actors Hope Andrejack and Evan Lugo, visited Garden Grove High School to teach students about empathy-based rituals which will help them navigate conflicts and better understand one another." |
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"/Echo’: a take on performance art and social issues" story by Claudia Flores
University of Texas at El Paso | The Prospector Newspaper, El Paso, TX - 2018 “I have this belief that as artists we have the responsibility to speak about what is going on in the world, because at the end of the day, art is political no matter if it’s just for show... We have the responsibility to speak for the voices that can’t speak up,” López said. |
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"When Shakespeare brings out gender:
Shakespeare's play and 'Women with Knives' on stage in 2024" story by Jeon Ji-ni Munjang webzine published by the Korea Arts Council | Munjang, South Korea - 2024 On New Swan Shakespeare Festival's 2024 production of "Measure for Measure," directed and adapted by Beth Lopes. |
