Presentations

  • “Practicing Utopia: Affective Science and the Building of Theatre,” in (Still) Finding Hope at the Theatre: The State and Fate of the Utopian Performative, American Society for Theatre Research, 2023.
  • “Brechtian Emotion: Mother Courage and the construction of experience in the midst of war,” in Cognitive Approaches to Performing Catastrophe, American Society for Theatre Research, 2022.
  • “The Aesthetics of 4.48 Psychosis: Realism and Postdramatic Techniques” in Dramaturgy, Theory and Criticism Focus Group, Association for Theatre in Higher Education, 2021
  • “Rehearsing Reading: Initial steps to text-based performance”, in Dramaturgy, Theory and Criticism Focus Group, Association for Theatre in Higher Education, 2021.
  • “Becoming a Director: A Survey of education and careers,” Practice/Production Symposium, Mid-America theatre Conference, 2020
  • “Crave as Memory Play,” International Network for Cognition, Theatre, and Performance, Heath, MA, 2019.
  • “Feeling Depression: The productive discomfort of 4.48 Psychosis,” Mid-America Theatre Conference, 2019
  • “The Performative Body: Emotion Science and Utopia in Performance,” American Society for Theatre Research, 2018
  • “Spinning Laramie: Engaging a Community,” Mid-America Theatre Conference, 2018
  • “The Body in Extremity: Sarah Kane and the Effect of Affect,” American Society for Theatre Research, 2017
  • “Digital Humanities and the Historical Imagination: Houston … Do we have a problem?” Mid-America Theatre Conference, 2017
  • “Dystopian Performatives: The Productive Discomfort of Sarah Kane,” Association for Theatre in Higher Education, 2016
  • “Conceptual Variety: The Director’s Vision, Metaphor, The Aim,” Mid-America Theatre Conference, 2016
  • “Violent Inspirations: Sarah Kane’s Blasted and the Affective Response to Violence,” Mid-America Theatre Conference, 2015
  • “Mormon Massacres: The Performance of a Traumatic Past,” American Society for Theatre Research, 2014
  • “Th(re)visions of Hamlet: Antic Disposition at the University of Kansas,” Mid-America Theatre Conference, 2014
  • “Rehearsing Research, Researching Rehearsal: Staging Dramaturgical Research,” Association for Theatre in Higher Education, 2013
  • “Mythic Brecht: Re-performance as the Creator of Myth,” Mid-America Theatre Conference, 2013  

Publications

  • “Dramaturging Script analysis.” Theatre Topics 33.3: 121-130.
  • “Remaking Masculinity: Split Britches, Killer Lesbians, and the Cultural Disruption of Masculine Violence.” Etudes 6.1.
  • Performance Review, Utah Shakespeare Festival’s How to Fight Loneliness by Neil LaBute. Theatre Journal, 70.2 (2018): 255-57
  • Book Review, Theatre, Performance and Cognition: Languages, Bodies and Ecologies by Rhonda Blair and Amy Cook (eds.), Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism. Spring 2018
  • “Lynn Nottage Production Chronology.” A Critical Companion to Lynn Nottage. Ed. Jocelyn Buckner. London and New York: Routledge, 2016
  • Book Review, Embodied Conciousness: Performance Technologies by Jade Rosina McCutcheon and Barbara Sellers-Young (eds.), Theatre History Studies. Spring 2016

Managing Editor, 2012-14

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