Gamel’s interests include: performance studies, ancient Mediterranean performance, Greek and Latin literatures, myth, reception of Greek and Roman texts and artifacts, film, and feminist approaches to literature and performance.
ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL DRAMA PRODUCTIONS
The Congressladies (a version of Aristophanes’ Ekklesiazousai), UCSC 2015
- adapted by Mary-Kay Gamel; directed by Danny Scheie; song parodies written by cast members; original choreography by Zoe Galle
Orestes Terrorist (a version of Euripides’ Orestes), UCSC 2011
- adapted by Mary-Kay Gamel; directed by Danny Scheie; original music by Philip Collins; original choreography by Zackary Forcum, Areyla Moss-Maguire and Jenna Purcell
The Ajax Project (a version of Sophocles’ Ajax), Christopher Newport University, 2011
- adapted and directed by Mary-Kay Gamel
Helen of Egypt (a version of Euripides’ Helen), UCSC 2008
- adapted by Mary-Kay Gamel; directed by Mike Ryan; original music by Philip Collins; original choreography by Sommer Ulrickson
The Buzzzz!!!! (a version of Aristophanes’ Wasps), UCSC 2006
- adapted by Mary-Kay Gamel; directed by Christopher Grabowski; original music by Philip Collins; original choreography by Sommer Ulrickson
Iran Man (a translation of Plautus’ Persa)
- translated by Amy Richlin; adapted by Mary-Kay Gamel; directed by Mary-Kay Gamel, UCSC 2004; American Philological Association meeting 2005
The Eunuch (a translation of Terence’s Eunuchus), UCSC 2003
- translated by Douglass Parker, adapted and directed by Mary-Kay Gamel
Hrotsvit of Gandersheim, The Conversion of Thais (a translation of Conversio Thaidis Meretricis) UCSC 2003; translated and directed by Mary-Kay Gamel
Hrotsvit of Gandersheim, Conversio Thaidis Meretricis) in Latin, directed by Mary-Kay Gamel, UCSC 2002
The Julie Thesmo Show (a version of Aristophanes’ Women at the Thesmophoria)
- directed by Mary-Kay Gamel and Ali El-Gasseir, UCSC, UCLA 2000; directed by Mary-Kay Gamel and Michael Fullmer, Case Western Reserve University 2001
Euripides, Iphigenia at Aulis (translated by Mary-Kay Gamel, with introduction and commentary, in volume Women on the Edge: Four Plays of Euripides (Routledge, 1999); Theater Department, University of Puget Sound, 2002; Utah Classical Greek Theatre Festival, 2005; Trent University, Peterborough, Canada, 2012
Prometheus 1.1 (a version of Aeschylus’ (?) Prometheus Bound)
- adapted by Mary-Kay Gamel, directed by Greg Fritsch, with original music by Ralph Denzer and original choreography by Tyffyne Stuart, UCSC, UCB, UCD 1998
Eye on Apollo (a version of Euripides’ Ion) UCSC 1996; adapted by Mary-Kay Gamel, directed by Mary-Kay Gamel and Laura Sheedy; directed by Mary-Kay Gamel, University of Auckland, 2009
Effie and the Barbarians (a version of Euripides’ Iphigenia among the Taurians) UCSC 1995; adapted by Mary-Kay Gamel; directed by Mary-Kay Gamel, John Maloney and Sommer Ulrickson
Aristophanes, Lysistrata, translated by Douglass Parker, directed by Stacy Bryan, UCSC 1993
The Furies (a version of Aeschylus’ Eumenides), UCSC 1992; adapted by Mary-Kay Gamel; directed by Jennifer Chan
Euripides, Iphigenia at Aulis, translated by Don Taylor, directed by Paul Graf, UCSC 1991
Euripides’ Electra, translated by Mary-Kay Gamel; directed by Christopher Grabowski, UCSC 1990; Patterson Theatre Company, Baltimore, 2002
Aeschylus’ Choephori, adapted by Tony Harrison, directed by Christopher Grabowski, UCSC 1990
Aristophanes’ Frogs, adapted by Mary-Kay Gamel and Audrey Stanley; directed by Audrey Stanley, UCSC 1989
Euripides, Alcestis, translated by Mary-Kay Gamel; directed by Timothy Earle, UCSC 1987; directed by Mary-Kay Gamel and Mark Damen, Brock University 2012, American Philological Association annual meeting 2012
Euripides, Hippolytus, translated by David Rudkin, directed by Timothy Earle, UCSC 1987
Sophocles’ Ajax, translated by Theodore Howard Banks, directed by Christopher Grabowski, UCSC 1986
Euripides, Medea, translated by Mary-Kay Gamel; directed by Christopher Grabowski, UCSC 1985; by Utah Classical Greek Theatre Festival 1994; by Gettysburg College 1995; by Brevard College 2014; published in Quarterly West 40 (spring/summer 1995); in Types of Drama (anthology ed. Sylvan Barnet Harper Collins, 1996)