About
Lynn Deboeck (MA, PhD) is an Associate Professor of Theatre and Lecturer in Gender Studies and the Honors College at the University of Utah. Her research interests include gender performance, the representation of maternity and motherhood in Western theatrical traditions, advances in pedagogy and feminist directing of live performance. Her scholarship has been published in Theatre Journal, antae: A Journal on the Interspaces of English Studies, PARtake: The Journal of Performance as Research and Frontiers: A Journal of Women’s Studies. Most recently, her book chapters “The Momboy: Maternal Tomboys on Stage” in Reclaiming the Tomboy: The Body, Representation and Identity by Lexington Books and “Negotiating the Fifth Wall” in Theatre in a Post-truth World by Bloomsbury Methuen Drama were both published in 2022. She also co-edited and published an anthology: (M)Other Perspectives: Staging Motherhood in 21st Century North American Theatre & Performance which came out in 2023. Her most recent directing projects include a 2018 grant study on live performance as a pedagogical tool in the classroom, a production of her original play “Lynchpin” at the 2019 Edward Lewis Festival and a production of Helen by Euripedes with Salt Lake City’s 50th Anniversary of their Classical Greek Theatre Festival in 2021. In 2021, Lynn also began her journey to be trained as an intimacy director with Theatrical Intimacy Education (TIE) and is being hired to bring consent into classrooms and rehearsal spaces.
