Margaret Laurena Kemp

She/Her

Website: mlkemp.space

Location:

Davis/Sacramento, California

Sandboxes played in:

Actor + Director + Writer + Educator

Degrees & Certifications: 

M.F.A. Classical Theatre, The George Washington University at The Shakespeare Theatre

B.S. Interdepartmental Studies, School of Speech, Northwestern University

Affiliations:

Associate Professor of Theatre and Dance at University of California, Davis

Fitzmaurice Voicework, Lead Instructor & Director of Creative Projects

MICHA - Michael Chekhov Association, Faculty

Margaret Laurena Kemp, is an actor, a multi-disciplinary theatre and performing artist, writer and teaching artist. Her research explores authorship and spatial politics through performance. Most recently she co-directed with Sinéad Rushe AntigoneNOW. This version Antigone was adapted, by Kemp and Rushe,  for internet performance. Her new solo performance This Land Is...was commissioned by and performed at  the Elaine Jacobs Gallery in Detroit, Michigan. Her recent films include Blood Bound (2019), and Ten Cent Daisy (2021 release), recent stage work included The Christians a B Street Theatre.  Her next project is CLICK by Jaqueline Goldfinger as adapted,  for the internet performance, by the author.  Margaret is an Associate Professor of Theatre and Dance at the University of California, Davis. She is a  Fitzmaurice Voicework Lead Instructor and Director of Creative Projects, additionally, she MICHA Michael Chekhov Association Faculty.