Education
2016-2024
PhD Candidate, Theatre and Performance Studies
York University – Toronto, Ontario
Dissertation: Tradition is Dead, Long Live Tradition: Critical Approaches to Postvernacular Yiddish Culture
2008-2008
MA Devised Theatre
Dartington College of the Arts/Falmouth University – Devon, England
Awarded with Distinction
2003-2007
BA Honors Drama
University of Alberta – Edmonton, Alberta
First Class Honours
Publications
Unpacking a Production of the Dybbuk: An Artist’s Reflection
Moore, Avia. “Unpacking a Production of the Dybbuk: An Artist’s Reflection.” The Dybbuk Century: The Jewish Play that Possessed the World, Edited by Debra Caplan and Rachel Moss, University of Michigan Press, Forthcoming (2023).
Take My Hand: Reflections on Cultivating Dancing Communities Through Yiddish Dance
Moore, Avia. “Take My Hand: Reflections on Cultivating Dancing Communities Through Yiddish Dance.” Oxford Handbook on Jewishness and Dance in Contemporary Perspective, Edited by Naomi Jackson et al, Oxford University Press, 2021.
Dartington as a Continuing Praxis
2018 Hart, Sarah and Avia Moore. “Dartington as a Continuing Praxis.” Theatre, Dance, and Performance Training, vol. 9, no.3, 2018.
Dramaturg For Hire: Contextual Dramaturgy for a Global (St)Age
Moore, Avia and Jessica Kaplow Applebaum. "Dramaturg For Hire: Contextual Dramaturgy for a Global (St)Age." In K. Amine & G.F. Robertson, Eds., Alternative Dramaturgies (pp. 79–90). Collaborative Media International, 2015.
Fellowships and Research Grants
- SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship 2020
- Ontario Graduate Scholarship 2019
- Sylff Foundation Graduate Fellowship for Academic Distinction 2019-2018
- Ferdinand Zweig Grant for Travel and Artistic Research (Falmouth University) 2009
Awards
- Alison White Honors Award for High Honors Achievement (Faculty of Arts, University of Alberta) 2007
- Edmonton Opera Guild Bursary for Exceptional Promise in the Theatre 2007
- Mary Cameron Douglas Memorial Scholarship (University of Alberta) 2006
- Universiade ’83 for Excellence in Athletics or Fine Arts (University of Alberta) 2006
- Houselighters of the Citadel Award in Drama (University of Alberta) 2005