Tinamarie Ivey

As a scholar and artist, Tinamarie’s work centers on immersive community engagement, using theater as a transformative tool for social change through original play productions. Her work amplifies community voices, illuminating both challenges and resilience, and fostering critical dialogue among audiences. One of her 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.

Tinamarie has collaborated with regional and national theater companies, including Dell’Arte International, Oregon Contemporary Theatre, Cornerstone Theatre Company, Redwood Curtain, and Riverside Civic Light Opera. Her academic work has led her 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 that combines History and Performing Arts, she focuses on the historical and creative practices surrounding gender fluidity and male impersonation.

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