Bio
Dr. Amy K. Kilgard is a performance artist, director, and scholar with an emphasis in performance studies. Her performance work and research explores everyday and aesthetic performances of consumerism and queer aesthetics and narratives. She has examined her own and others' work experiences at Walt Disney World in a show she directed, Slippin' Mickeys, and she has explored the performances of retail clerks in solo performance work such as "Hitting the Bull's Eye" and "Target Practice." She toured her solo show Triskaidekaphobia: 13 Consumer Tragedies to 13 sites (mostly in 2013). Her new show, Not Your Lesbian Cliché, explores navigating queer, poly relationships in middle age.
Amy teaches courses in performance of literature, performance art, gender and communication, and qualitative and performative methods. She actively participates in the National Communication Association, Western States Communication Association, and the Association for Theatre in Higher Education.
When she's not surrounded by "performance treats," she loves reading fiction, poetry, and graphic literature, doing puzzles, and playing games.
Amy teaches courses in performance of literature, performance art, gender and communication, and qualitative and performative methods. She actively participates in the National Communication Association, Western States Communication Association, and the Association for Theatre in Higher Education.
When she's not surrounded by "performance treats," she loves reading fiction, poetry, and graphic literature, doing puzzles, and playing games.
