Musical Theatre History. Dramaturgy.
My research explores dramaturgies of the American musical in the 20th- and 21st-centuries. In particular, I am interested in the librettos of musicals and how directors imagine and reimagine the stories they tell. I have been a guest lecturer and speaker at Penn State University, Binghamton University, Wilkes University, and Bucknell University in addition to serving as an Instructor of Record for courses at the University of Pittsburgh and Penn State University.
I have presented my work at the Mid-America Theatre Conference (MATC), Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE), and the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival (KC/ACTF). For MATC, I serve as a Graduate Student Representative and a member of the Conference Planning Committee.
I have presented my work at the Mid-America Theatre Conference (MATC), Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE), and the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival (KC/ACTF). For MATC, I serve as a Graduate Student Representative and a member of the Conference Planning Committee.
Recent and upcoming presentationsJuly 2025
"Holding Space and (Time) for Rewrites: Reprisal Dramaturgies in Dear Evan Hansen (2021) and Wicked (2024" at Association for Theatre in Higher Education 2025. Virtual. June 2025 "Independently Owned (and Operating): The Revival of Conventions in Shucked" at Song, Stage and Screen in Chicago, IL. March 2025 "Everything I First Learned about Dramaturgy, I Learned from Smash: A Manifesto for Musical Theatre Dramaturgy" at Harrisburg Area Community College in Harrisburg, PA. March 2025 "It's Time to Build [an Afterglow]: The Prom Post-Broadway" at 2025 Mid-America Theatre Conference in Atlanta, GA. January 2025 "Further Fracturing Fairytales: Reworking Shrek on the Road" at 2025 Music Theatre Dance Association Winter Symposium. Virtual. August 2024 "It's a Scandal! It's an Outrage!: Disrupting Nostalgia in Daniel Fish's revived Oklahoma! (2019)," at Association for Theatre in Higher Education 2024 in Atlanta, GA. |
Publications"It's a Scandal! It's an Outrage!: Disrupting Nostalgia in Daniel Fish's revived Oklahoma! (2019)" was published as part of the inaugural issue of MusicTheatre Dance Journal, the digital journal for MusicTheatreDance Association.
 True joy is finding a copy of FIFTY KEY STAGE MUSICALS for sale in New York's Drama Book Shop.
My essay on Dear Evan Hansen is featured in Fifty Key Stage Musicals, a collection of essays about the fifty musicals that were seminal in creating the landscape of the American musical.
A companion podcast is also available for streaming wherever you get your podcasts. The book is available for purchase now from Routledge. |
Thanks to my classmate, Hansel Tan, for capturing this pic before my guest lecture at the University of Pittsburgh!