Gretchen Minton is a Shakespeare scholar and Professor of English at Montana State University. She is the editor and author of several works, including the award-winning Shakespeare in Montana, and she works frequently as a dramaturg, script adaptor, and director. Her passion is finding ways to enable classical texts to speak about our current environmental crises.
In 2023 Minton spent four months at James Cook University in Townsville, Australia, as a Fulbright Scholar. She wrote an ecologically inflected adaptation of Twelfth Night, called Salt Waves Fresh, that is set in North Queensland.
Minton has spent more than two decades teaching and researching Shakespeare. She serves as dramaturg for Montana Shakespeare in the Parks and is the co-founder of Montana InSite Theatre.
