Public Performances:

10/14/2023

The One-Minute Bigorne: The Medieval Monster of Comedy in Rap (Sharon Diane King, dir.) 2023 Festival of Monsters UC Santa Cruz, California

4/29/2023

Sermon joyeux (parodic sermon, staged as a play), The Saintly Mister Louse (Anonymous, Sharon Diane King, trans., dir.) 2023 Renaissance Society of America Annual Conference San Juan, Puerto Rico

3/11/2023

Sermon joyeux (parodic sermon, staged as a play), The Saintly Mister Louse (Anonymous, Sharon Diane King, trans., dir.) 21st International Symposium 2023: Human and Natural Worlds in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Time: From Ecocriticism to Pre-Modern Anthropology University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona

1/21/2023

Reading of Essay 'Of Physiognomy', (Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592), Sharon Diane King, dir. and redactor) Physiognomy at the Crossroads of Magic, Science, and the Arts UCLA, Los Angeles, California

7/20/2022

Sottie (Fools' Play), No Fooling With Justice (Anonymous, Sharon Diane King, trans.) Sermon joyeux The Holy Life of the Blessed Saint Onion: How He Was Martyred by a Cruel Chef, and the Miracles He Works Each Day (Anonymous, Sharon Diane King, trans.) At and virtually through the 17th Triennial Colloquium of the Société Internationale pour l’étude du Théâtre Médiéval Prague, Czechia

7/18/2022

Comic monologue, Lady Mountebank, (Anonymous, Sharon Diane King, trans.) 17th Triennial Colloquium of the Société Internationale pour l’étude du Théâtre Médiéval Prague, Czechia

4/23/2021 and 4/24/2021

Sottie (Fools' Play), No Fooling With Justice (Anonymous, Sharon Diane King, trans.) Online through the UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies Conference on Law and Disorder: Fools, Outlaws, and Justice in the Middle Ages and Renaissance (Day 2.) UCLA, Los Angeles, California

10/18/2019

Sermon joyeux (parodic sermon, staged as a dialogue), The Life and Death of the Martyr, St. Herring (Anonymous, Sharon Diane King, trans.) Fourth International Symposium of Mens et Mensa: Society for the Study of Food in the Middle Ages Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ

7/11/2019

Farce, The Fart (Anonymous, 1476) translated by Sharon D. King 16th Colloquium of the Société Internationale pour l'étude du Théâtre Médiéval Genoa, Italy

5/3/2019

Saint Martin and the Peasant, adapted from a 13th-century French fabliau by Dr. Sharon D. King 16th Annual International Symposium: Fantasy and Imagination in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Age Professor Albrecht Classen, organizer. University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, 415 Harvill

11/2/2018

The Physicians Examination, a Spanish interlude, by Alonso de Castillo Solorzano (1632) UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies Conference on Medical Humanities UCLA, Royce Hall 314

3/24/2018

The Grand Inquisitor, a play in staged reading by Marguerite de Navarre, translated by Dr. Sharon D. King The 64th Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America Hilton New Orleans Riverside

2/9/2018

Sermon joyeux (parodic sermon, staged as a play), The Saintly Mister Louse (Anonymous), translated by Sharon D. King 24th Annual Arizona Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies Conference, Reading the Natural World: Perceptions of the Environment and Ecology in the Global Middle Ages and Renaissance Embassy Suites, Scottsdale, AZ

4/22/2017

The Knight of Enchantment, based on a medieval French fabliau UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies conference on The Comic Supernatural.

4/21/2017

Saint Martin and the Peasant, based on a 13th-century French fabliau UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies conference on The Comic Supernatural.

3/4/2017

An evening of two short medieval comedies (The Saintly Mister Louse, The Joyous Farce of Martin de Cambrai) Le cercle francais de CSU Fresno Fresno State Satellite Student Union

2/10/2017

Farce, Stricken (Marguerite de Navarre), translated by Sharon D. King 23nd Annual ACMRS Interdisciplinary Conference - Paradigm Shifts During the Global Middle Ages and Renaissance Embassy Suites, Scottsdale, AZ Program

7/11/2016	Sermon joyeux (parodic sermon, staged as a play), The Saintly Mister Louse (Anonymous), translated by Sharon D. King Societe Internationale pour l'etude du Theatre Medieval (SITM) Durham, United Kingdom
2/5/2016	Sermon joyeux (parodic sermon, staged as a play), Brother Ham and Sister Sausage (Anonymous), translated by Sharon D. King 22nd Annual ACMRS Interdisciplinary Conference - Marginal Figures in the Global Middle Ages and Renaissance Embassy Suites, Scottsdale, AZ
4/10/2015 4/11/2015	Farce, The Gallant Who Got Away With It (Anonymous), translated by Sharon D. King Farce, Stricken (Marguerite de Navarre), translated by Sharon D. King Re/Creations: Text and Performance in the Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe UCLA Royce 314
2/6/2015	Farce, Tinker, Cobbler, Tavernkeeper, translated by Sharon D. King 21st Annual ACMRS Interdisciplinary Conference - Trades, Talents, Guilds, and Specialists: Getting Things Done in the Middle Ages and Renaissance
9/20/2014	A Knight To Remember: The Chivalrous Tale of Gillion de Trazegnies, translated and adapted by Sharon D. King Getty Family Festival celebrating Chivalry in the Middle Ages
2/7/2014	Farce, The Pilgrimage To Her Holiness, Saint Blabbermouth, translated by Sharon D. King 20th Annual ACMRS Interdisciplinary Conference - Catastrophes and the Apocalyptic in the Middle Ages and Renaissance.
7/25/2013	Farce, St. Martin and the Peasant by Sharon D. King, adapted from the French fabliau 14th Triennial Colloquium of the Société Internationale pour l'étude du Théâtre Médiéval
2/15/2013	Farce, Bigorne and the Good Husband (Anonymous) translated and adapted from French Texts by Sharon D. King 19th Annual ACMRS Conference - Beasts, Humans, and Transhumans in the Middle Ages and Renaissance
2/2012	Farce, Rowley Plowbender (translation Of Pierre Gringoire's Raoullet Ployart, performed on the 500th anniversary of the debut performance in Les Halles, Paris, during the Carnival festivities in February) ACMRS Annual Conference, Tempe, AZ
2/2011	Sermon joyeux (parodic sermon, staged as a dialogue), The Life and Death of the Martyr, St. Herring (Anonymous) ACMRS Annual Conference, Tempe, AZ
7/2010	Sermon joyeux (parodic sermon, staged as a dialogue), The Life and Death of the Martyr, St. Herring (Anonymous) SITM Conference, Giessen / Schloss Braunfels, Germany
4/2009	Allegorical farce, The Five Senses of Man (Anonymous) UCLA Conference on Courtliness and Conviviality, UCLA
2/2009	Allegorical farce, The Five Senses of Man (Anonymous) ACMRS Annual Conference, Tempe, AZ
2/2008	Farce, The Fart (Anonymous) ACMRS Annual Conference, Tempe, AZ
3/2007	Farce, Martin de Cambrai (Anonymous) Medieval Association of the Pacific Conference, UCLA
10/2006	Farce, Martin de Cambrai (Anonymous) CEMERS Annual Conference, SUNY Binghamton
2/2005	Farce, Master Morton Goes to War (Anonymous) CMRS Conference, "Women of Violence in the Medieval World", UCLA
2/2004	Farce, Stricken (translation of Marguerite de Navarre's Le Malade, 1535) CMRS Conference, "Early Modern Women and Religious Conversion", UCLA
5/2002	Selections in original translation from Marguerite de Navarre's The Grand Inquisitor and the Comedy of the Mont de Marsan CMRS Conference, "Women and Theatre", UCLA
7/2001	Sermon joyeux / parodic monologue, Saint Onion (Anonymous) International Conference on Medieval Translation, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
3/2000	Program of Spanish/ European medieval songs in costume Spanish class, "El Camino de Santiago", Professor John Dagenais, UCLA
3/1998	Comic monologue, Lady Mountebank CSW-CMRS Conference on "Women and Money", UCLA
2/1996	Program of Sephardic songs CMRS "Creating Ethnicity" conference, UCLA
4/1995	Dialogue from Ragionamenti, The Courtesan's Apprentice (Aretino) UCLA Center for the Study of Women-CMRS Joint Annual Conference, "The Renaissance Courtesan", UCLA
Fall 1994	Sottie / Fools' play, No Fooling With Justice (Anonymous) Farce, Martin de Cambrai (Anonymous) UCLA at the Armand Hammer Museum Exhibit "The French Renaissance in Prints", Armand Hammer Museum, Westwood
5/1993	Farce moralisée / Allegorical farce The Upstarts (Anonymous) UCLA CMRS Friends Annual Luncheon, Novotel, Beverly Hills
12/1992	Entremés / Spanish interlude, The Physicians' Examination (Alonzo de Castillo Solórzano) Program in Medical Classics, UCLA
10/1992	Farce, The Privy (Anonymous) French Department Conference on François Rabelais, UCLA
5/1992	Farce / Sottie, The Way to Paradise (Anonymous) SCRC, Huntington Library
10/1991	Farce, The Miller Whose Soul Went to Hell (André de la Vigne) Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies Symposium on Demons, UCLA
5/1991	Fool's Play (Sottie), No Fooling With Justice (Anonymous) Southern California Renaissance Conference, Huntington Library.

Private organizations (selected):

2/1997	Performance / workshop on medieval French farce
1991	Farce, The Pilgrimage to Her Holiness, Saint Blabbermouth (Anonymous)
1990	Farce, The Gallant Who Got Away With It (Anonymous)
10/1989	Farce, Master Morton the Scholar (Anonymous)