About the Creator and Director

A workshop for Salt Waves Fresh in Townsville, with (from left to right) Emma Lamberton, Gretchen Minton and George Abednego

Dr. Gretchen Minton is Professor of English and College of Letters and Science Distinguished Professor at Montana State University in Bozeman, Montana. She has published extensively on Shakespeare and his contemporaries, including several critical editions of early modern plays, including Timon of Athens, Twelfth Night, and The Revenger’s Tragedy. Her 2020 monograph, Shakespeare in Montana: Big Sky Country’s Love Affair with the World’s Most Famous Author, is the winner of several regional book awards.  >In addition to her scholarly work, Minton is a dramaturg, script adaptor, and director. She is the dramaturg for Montana Shakespeare in the Parks and the co-founder of Montana InSite Theatre, which is dedicated to site-specific performances that use classical texts to address current environmental issues. 

In 2023 she was a Fulbright Scholar hosted by James Cook University in Townsville, Australia, where she wrote and staged an adaptation of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night that is set in North Queensland and speaks to the intertwined human and ecological histories of this region.

Staged reading of Salt Waves Fresh at the Australian and New Zealand Shakepeare Association Conference in Sydney (December 2023).