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. November 2023 I was a guest lecturer for the University of Pittsburgh's World Theatre course, talking about The Black Crook and the "origins" of the Broadway musical. March 2023 I will be presenting my paper, "Enter the Mouse: How Disney 'Transformed' Broadway with a Beauty and a Beast", at the Mid-America Theatre Conference in Minneapolis, Minnesota. February 2023 I was an invited lecturer for Penn State School of Theatre's Critical Theory undergraduate seminar, speaking on "Queer Theory for the Undergraduate Theatre Artist." I was a guest lecturer for the University of Pittsburgh's World Theatre undergraduate seminar, speaking on Early Christian Drama and its ties to modern day musical theatre. October 2022 I delivered a talk at Wilkes University on Disney's Beauty and the Beast and the redevelopment of the Times Square Neighborhood. I was a guest lecturer for the University of Pittsburgh's World Theatre undergraduate seminar, speaking on Musical Theatre in South Korea. |
Publications![]() 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.
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