Tinamarie Ivey

As a scholar and artist, my work centers on immersive community engagement, using theater as a transformative tool for social change through original play productions. This work amplifies community voices, illuminating both challenges and resilience and fostering critical dialogue among audiences. One of my notable projects, highlighted in an upcoming Routledge Focus volume Ecodramaturgies, features the co-authored chapter "Crossing Currents: A Synergetic Relationship Between Marine Biologists and Theatre Artists," which explores the intersection of science and theater in a community-engaged play addressing the impact of plastic pollution on the oceans. Additionally, my socially engaged arts practice is featured in the chapter "Sanctuary Stage Giving Voice to the Voiceless," in Barbara Sellers-Young 2023 book Artists Activating Sustainability, The Oregon Story.

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I have collaborated with regional and national theater companies, including Dell’Arte International, Oregon Contemporary Theatre, Cornerstone Theatre Company, Redwood Curtain, and Riverside Civic Light Opera. My academic work has led me to teach and direct mainstage productions in theater departments at the University of Texas at Dallas, California State Polytechnic University Humboldt, Oregon State University, and Linn-Benton Community College. With a Ph.D. in Interdisciplinary Studies (ABD) my research combines History and Performing Arts, I focus on the historical and creative practices surrounding gender fluidity and male impersonation.

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A recipient of the Texas Educational Theatre Association’s Scholars Debut Award for my 2022 article "Gender in Discourses as Related to Drag King Culture and Theatre Training," I have also contributed a chapter in the book Iconic: Drag Celebrities and Queer Communities (2025) titled "Dismantling Bastions of Masculinity: Rebellious Acts in Leigh Crow's Archival Practice." Currently, I am developing a new play for Sanctuary Stage that delves into the career and acting methodology of the 19th-century queer actor Charlotte Cushman.