Mera Moore, Ph. D.
University of Pennsylvania
3624 Market Street Room 142
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6219
Telephone: (215) 898-7341
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Mera Moore (T. Mera Moore Lafferty) received her Ph.D. in theatre from the University of Hawai`i. She also holds an M.A. in theatre and an M.A. in ESL from that institution, and she earned a B.A. in playwriting from Ohio State University. With specializations in international theatre and American theatre, she has directed plays by Xiong Foxi of China and Richard Rive of South Africa, has directed plays by American immigrants Ursule Molinaro from France and Layla Dowlatshahi from Iran, has produced one-person shows by Pakistani immigrant Bina Sharif, and has written and directed her own original plays. She has published essays and criticism in journals and newspapers including Text and Performance, Peace and Policy, The Honolulu Advertiser, and Honolulu Weekly. She has edited special women’s issues of the literary journal Kaimana, and she is currently co-editing an anthology of poetry, prose, plays, and screenplays by Muslim Americans. At Penn, she teaches courses in Critical Writing focused on theatre, television, and film, as well as humanities seminars including Literature of Muslim America, East Meets West on Stage and Screen, and King Kong: Monsters and Their Brides. In spring 2006, she will direct at Penn a multimedia production of Chinese American Ping Chong’s play Kind Ness in conjunction with screenings of Indonesian American Fatimah Tobing Rony’s short film On Cannibalism.