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, 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 presentationsAugust 2024
I will present my paper "It's a Scandal! It's an Outrage!: Disrupting Nostalgia in Daniel Fish's revived Oklahoma! (2019)," at the Association for Theatre in Higher Education 2024 conference in Atlanta, GA. March 2024 I presented my paper, "Corn Off the Cob: Nostalgia and the Dramaturgy of Shucked" at the 2024 Mid-America Theatre Conference at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. December 2023 I visited rehearsals for Keystone Theatrics' upcoming production of The Prom to chat about LGBTQ+ representation in the American musical, as well as Cumberland Valley High School's upcoming production of Anything Goes to discuss musical comedies of the 1930s. |
Publications 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!