Guillaume Tourniaire (he/him)

Guillaume is a teacher, translator, director, and dramaturg who has staged operettas and plays – ranging from classical to experimental – in Boston, San Diego, and Washington, DC.

He has taught courses in theater history and analysis at the University of Washington, Cornish College of the Arts, and Catholic University. He has also given workshops on acting and audition technique at American University, Peabody Conservatory, and Gettysburg College.

His dissertation, Show Boat's "Make Believe;" Subversions of Stereotype and Sympathy as Liberalism explores the manipulations of popular performance forms in musicals as a means of modeling inclusion and redefining full American citizenship.