{"id":88,"date":"2017-11-09T22:38:37","date_gmt":"2017-11-09T22:38:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/imaginedtheatres.dustysheldon.com\/?post_type=person&#038;p=88"},"modified":"2018-04-30T16:47:28","modified_gmt":"2018-04-30T16:47:28","slug":"gibson-alessandro-cima","status":"publish","type":"person","link":"https:\/\/www.imaginedtheatres.com\/gibson-alessandro-cima\/","title":{"rendered":"Gibson Alessandro Cima"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gibson Alessandro Cima is an Assistant Professor of Theatre History in Northern Illinois University\u2019s School of Theatre and Dance. His research interests include South African theatre and performance, theatre from the Global South, post-colonial theory, and theatre-for-social-change. He has presented and published his research on the influence of South Africa\u2019s anti-apartheid protest theatre on post-apartheid and global stages widely. As a theatre practitioner, he has devised work addressing Georgetown University\u2019s historical role in the institution of slavery, directed the US premiere of South African playwright Juliet Jenkin\u2019s <em>The Boy Who Fell From the Roof<\/em>, and brought his own adaptation of Shakespeare\u2019s <em>Richard III<\/em> to the National Arts Festival in Grahamstown, South Africa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gibson Alessandro Cima is an Assistant Professor of Theatre History in Northern Illinois University\u2019s School of Theatre and Dance. His research interests include South African theatre and performance, theatre from the Global South, post-colonial theory, and theatre-for-social-change. He has presented and published his research on the influence of South Africa\u2019s anti-apartheid protest theatre on post-apartheid and global stages widely. As a theatre practitioner, he has devised work addressing Georgetown University\u2019s historical role in the institution of slavery, directed the US premiere of South African playwright Juliet Jenkin\u2019s The Boy Who Fell From the Roof, and brought his own adaptation of Shakespeare\u2019s Richard III to the National Arts Festival in Grahamstown, South Africa.","protected":false},"featured_media":257,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imaginedtheatres.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/person\/88"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imaginedtheatres.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/person"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imaginedtheatres.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/person"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imaginedtheatres.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imaginedtheatres.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}