Gibson Cima
Gibson Alessandro Cima is a theatre practitioner and academic.
Usually referred to simply as Gibson Cima.
He has a BA from Georgetown University (2000-2004), an MA form Ohio State University (2005-2007) and a PhD from the University of Washington (2007-2012). He has taught at Georgetown, Tufts University and has been an Assistant Professor of Theatre History and head of the Bachelor of Arts in Theatre Studies Program in Northern Illinois University’s School of Theatre and Dance since 2018.
He was a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the Tshwane University of Technologyfrom July 2013 to July 2014 and has written essays on South African theatre and performance, theatre from the Global South, and post-colonial theory that have appeared in Theatre Survey and in the South African Theatre Journal.
He is currently working on a book about the influence of South Africa’s anti-apartheid protest theatre on post-apartheid and global stages.
As a theatre practitioner, he has devised work addressing Georgetown University’s historical role in the institution of slavery, directed the US premiere of South African playwright Juliet Jenkin’s The Boy Who Fell from the Roof, and brought his own adaptation of Shakespeare’s Richard III to the National Arts Festival in Grahamstown, South Africa.
