Theatre History Studies

ANGEL A K. AHLGREN is an associate professor in the Department of Theatre and Film at Bowling Green State University, where she teaches performance studies and theatre history. She is the author of Drumming Asian America: Taiko, Performance, and Cultural Politics and articles on taiko, performance, and pedagogy. Her current research includes a study of Asian aesthetics and racial politics in American modern dance since the Cold War and an ethnographic study of stage managers, gender, and invisible labor in the performing arts. She is currently serving as VP of Awards for the Dance Studies Association and cochair of the Articles in Progress/Pitch Your Book sessions for the Mid-America Theatre Conference.

JANE BARNETTE is an associate professor in the Department of Theatre and Dance at the University of Kansas, where she teaches courses in dramaturgy, theatre history, and script analysis and seminars in theatrical adaptation and the performance of gender and sexuality. Her book, Adapturgy: The Dramaturg's Art and Theatrical Adaptation, explores the powerful alchemy of dramaturgically savvy adaptations for the stage. Jane is a director, a dramaturg, and a theatre historian whose research includes Chicago-based touring theatre at the turn of the twentieth century, American pageantry, and depictions of witchy characters onstage as well as in popular culture.

DAVID BISAHA is an assistant professor of theatre history and theory at Binghamton University, SUNY. David's research specializes in the history of scenic design in the United States and in the more recent history of immersive and participatory performance. His book project, "American Scenic Design and Freelance Professionalism," is a history of scenic design praxis among twentieth-century designers and artists in New York City. At Binghamton, David teaches theatre history and acting/directing theory in the MA and BA programs.

CHRYSTYNA DAIL is an associate professor of theatre history at Ithaca College. Her book, Stage for Action: U.S. Social Activist Theatre in the 1940s, is a part of the Theater in the Americas series published through Southern Illinois University Press. Her essays and reviews have appeared in the Journal of American Drama and Theatre, Theatre History Studies, Arthur Miller Journal, Theatre Journal, Theatre Annual, and Performing Arts Resources, as well as in the edited collection Working in the Wings: New Perspectives on Theatre History and Labor.

REBECCA K. HAMMONDS is an independent scholar currently based in West Palm Beach, Florida. Her ongoing research investigates the construction of literary and scholarly (or "bookish") female characters in American musicals in the face of the genre's abiding connection with spectacle. She holds a PhD in theatre from Bowling Green State University and an MA in theatre from Regent University.

JESSICA ANN HOLT earned an MFA in directing from Baylor University. In addition, she holds a master's of theatre studies in production and design from Southern Oregon University and a BFA in acting from Utah State University. Jessica is a director, designer, actor, and educator.

LISA JACKSON-SCHEBET TA is an associate professor and chair of the Theater Department at Skidmore College. She is the author of Traveler, There Is No Road: Theatre, the Spanish Civil War, and the Decolonial Imagination in the Americas. She has published in Theatre Journal, Theatre History Studies, Journal of American Drama and Theatre, Modern Drama, and New England Theatre Journal, among others. She is the immediate past president of the American Theatre and Drama Society and a former American Association of University Women fellow.

ODAI JOHNSON is the author of numerous books and articles—most recently, Ruins: Classical Theatre and Broken Memory. He teaches at the University of Washington's School of Drama.

LINDSEY MANTOAN is an assistant professor of theatre and resident dramaturg at Linfield College. She researches contemporary US character, on both the national and the individual levels. She is the author of War as Performance: Conflict in Iraq and Political Theatricality and coeditor with Sara Brady of Vying for the Iron Throne: Essays on Power, Gender, Death, and Performance in HBO's "Game of Thrones" and Performance in a Militarized Culture. She is an occasional contributor to CNN.com.

SCOTT PROUDFIT is an associate professor of English at Elon University. He is the associate editor of...