Kyle Gillette

Kyle Gillette writes about travel, cities, theatre, technology, and perception. He is the author of three books and texts that appear in edited volumes, including most recently Imagined Theatres: Writing for a Theoretical Stage edited by Daniel Sack (Routledge, 2017) and Pirandello’s Visual Philosophy: Imagination and Thought Across Media edited by Lisa Sarti and Michael Subialka (Fairleigh Dickinson UP, 2017).

Gillette’s essays, book reviews and performance reviews appear in performance studies and theatre studies journals, including Performance Research, Modern Drama, Comparative Drama, Theatre Journal, Theatre Survey, the Contemporary Theatre Review, and the Journal of American Drama and Theatre.

As a director, Gillette has staged plays by Samuel Beckett, Bertolt Brecht, Bess Wohl, Will Eno, Peter Handke, Paula Vogel, Naomi Iizuka, Sam Shepard, Tennessee Williams, Thornton Wilder, Stanislaw Witkiewicz and others. He has also co-created or otherwise collaborated on several devised pieces. Most recently, he directed the premiere of Rachel Joseph’s Antigone in the City at the 2019 Festival Laboratorio Interculturale di Pratiche Teatrali in Fara in Sabina.