Carol Symes

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Carol Symes (born 1966) is an American medieval historian at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Symes founded the Education Justice Project's Theatre Initiative and directed a full-length production of William Shakespeare's The Tempest at Danville Correctional Center in 2013. She is also the executive editor of the academic journal The Medieval Globe." [1]

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Early life

Carol Symes received her advanced education at Yale University from where she received her BA. She earned her M.Litt from the University of Oxford and her Ph.D from Harvard University. She has a Certificate in Stage Combat from the Society of British Fight Directors, which she earned while training at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. She is a member of Actors Equity. [2]

Career

Symes is a professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. [3]

Symes founded the Education Justice Project's Theatre Initiative and has appeared in Our Play, a medley of scenes by William Shakespeare performed at the Danville Correctional Center in 2012 and in Shakespeare's The Tempest at Danville in 2013 which she also directed. [2]

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References

  1. Editorial Board. The Medieval Globe. (7) 2. 2021
  2. 1 2 Professor Carol Symes. Department of History, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Retrieved 6 December 2015.
  3. "Carol Symes". history.illinois.edu. Retrieved 2023-12-14.
  4. Cities, Texts and Social Networks, 400–1500. Ashgate. Retrieved 4 December 2015.