Maria Inês Evangelista de Oliveira Marques

Maria Inês Marques is a DFA candidate in Dramaturgy at Yale School of Drama. Her dissertation project focuses on scenic representations of miraculous and devilish interventions in early modern evangelizing theater in Latin America. She holds a BA degree in Languages, Literature and Culture (Portuguese/English), and an MA in English and American Studies from the Faculty of Arts, University of Porto. Her dramaturgy credits include La Scène, by Valère Novarina (TeCA, Portugal); The Moors, by Jen Silverman (Yale Repertory Theatre); Bulgaria! Revolt!, by Miranda Rose Hall and Elizabeth Dinkova and Neva, by Guillermo Calderón (Brown University/Trinity Rep). She has worked as managing editor for Theater (Yale University and Duke University Press) and as script reader for the Yale Repertory Theatre and Theatre for a New Audience. Maria was the translator and dramaturg of the English language world premiere of Boris Yeltsin, by Mickaël de Oliveira (Yale Cabaret; 2018 remount in NYC). She collaborates, as visiting dramaturg and translator, with the Portuguese theater company Saudade (NYC), for which she translated The Constitution, also by Mickaël de Oliveira (2017, Theater Under St. Marks, NYC).