Kathryn de la Rosa (b. 1997, Prestonsburg, Kentucky) is a dramaturg, writer, producer, and current MA student at United Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities. Through research, writing, criticism, and theatrical production, their projects map religion and secularity within globalization.
Collaborations
Since 2021, Kathryn has worked with Audible Theater on their Emerging Playwright Commissions: Dirty Laundry by Mathilde Dratwa dir. Brian Roff (associate producer); Vanessa in Bed by Diana Grisanti dir. Pirronne Yousefzadeh (dramaturg). View CV ↗
Research interests
- aesthetics
- apophatic theology
- Asian Christianities
- atheism
- atheologies
- Bertolt Brecht
- Catholic-Protestant relations
- Catholicism in the United States
- deimperialization
- drag
- folk Catholicism
- Jesuits in Asia
- Jewish-Christian relations
- liturgical drama
- Marxism
- medieval Christianity
- medieval Spain → Spanish Empire
- monasticism
- multiple religious belonging
- mysticism
- nationalism — religious, diaspora, anticolonial
- Philippine cinema
- Philippine history
- political theology
- pop music
- Protestant neo-Orthodoxy
- religious syncretism
- resource extraction
- rurality
- state atheism
- textile production
- theopoetics
Writing
- [Exhibition] United Theological Seminary Arts Praxis, pasyon play, 2022
- [Development] The COOP Clusterf**k Write Vol. 2, Arkansas, 2021
- [Reading] Artists at Play, NON SO PIU COSA SON dir. Sarah Shin, 2021
- [Development] Ashland New Plays Festival New Voices, NON SO PIU COSA SON, 2021
- [Nomination] Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, Holy Virgins, 2021
- [Finalist] APAFT & Artists At Play Emerging Playwright Commission, 2021
Kathryn is also a hobby web developer since 2007 interested in Internet epistemology: how ~extremely online~ breeds cosmopolitans and fascists alike. They ♡ CSS, vanilla JS, and brutalism.
CV / GitHub / New Play Exchange / Tinyletter / Letterboxd