Erith Jaffe-Berg
Director, Actor
Erith's research interests include the commedia dell’arte, multilingualism in performance and the early-modern actress. Erith has a background as both performer and director and is a member of the L.A.-based theatre group, the Son of Semele Ensemble, and recently performed with the company as part of Suzan-Lori Parks’ 365 Days / 365 Plays, LA.
She has published articles in the Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism, il cannocchiale, Quaderni d’Italinistica, European Studies Journal, Translation Perspectives, and has translated into Hebrew Marie Brassard and Robert Lepage's multilingual play Polygraph which appears in Canadian Plays: An Anthology, edited by Shimon Levy (2005). Her article, with Mas’ud Hamdan Parallel Currents in Italian and Syrian Comedy: Ghawwar Meets Mirandolina is forthcoming in Quaderni di Studi Arabi. She is currently working on a book on multilingualism in commedia dell’arte. For her research, she has received grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Canadian government and the UCLA Centre for the Study of Women.
