Gretchen is Professor of English at Montana State University. She has published extensively on Shakespeare and his contemporaries, including several critical editions. She is the co-founder of Montana InSite Theatre, which is dedicated to sitespecific performances that use classical texts to address environmental issues. Gretchen also serves as dramaturg and script adaptor for Montana Shakespeare in the Parks, which participated in the 2021-22 international project called Cymbeline in the Anthropocene.
Gretchen will travel to James Cook University in Townsville, Queensland for her Fulbright project entitled Applied Theatre for Shakespeare and the Environment. She is writing and workshopping an adaptation of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night that speaks to local environmental concerns in North Queensland.