theatre & performance
production | scholarship | teaching
production
dramaturg | playwright/adaptor | performer | director
dramaturg
Playwrights Local (Cleveland, OH), Dramaturg for staged reading of The Curve of Your Spine Is My Home by Olivia Billings, directed by Erik Andrews, 2020
New York Shakespeare Exchange, Dramaturg and Literary Manager, 2007–December 2019
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Titus Andronicus, an “electric production” according to the New York Times, 2015
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Island by Kevin Brewer, New York premiere, 2012
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The Life and Death of King John, honorable mention in Time Out New York for the best theatre in New York City, 2011
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New-play dramaturg on The One Man (Two Man (not quite)) Hamlet by Kevin Brewer, 2010
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Dramaturg and talkback moderator for Two Plays; One Conversation, a staged reading series, 2010–2012
Young Playwrights, New-Play Dramaturg for this NYC organization founded by Stephen Sondheim devoted to developing adolescent playwrights, 2011–2012
America-in-Play, New-Play Dramaturg, 2010–2013
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Exodus Code: Advice for Foreigners, World Premiere, The Flea Theater, 2013
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The Time-Traveller’s Trip to Niagara Falls, World Premiere, The Lower East Side Tenement Museum, 2012
playwright and adaptor
The Card Play written with Kevin Brewer, staged reading directed by Ross Williams, New York Public Library, 2019
The Meek Inherit the Earth, adaptation of the short story by George S. Kaufman, 2017
ShakesBEER Adaptor of scenes from Lysistrata by Aristophanes and Fuente Ovejuna by Lope de Vega, 2017–2018
3 x 3 written with Kevin Brewer, full production, Access Theatre, 2012
in loco parentis, TheatreSource, NYC, 2005
Princess Betty and the Very Small Rocks written and performed with Meg Murphy, Frontera Fest (Best of Fest Wildcard), Austin, TX, 1999
A Fairy's Tale, Frontera Fest (Best of Fest Wildcard), Austin, TX, 1999
Heaven's Ghetto, Frontera Fest, Austin, TX, 1998
performer
ShakesBEER, scenes from The Merry Wives of Windsor and The Merchant of Venice, New York Shakespeare Exchange, 2016 and 2017
Mucedorus and Comedy of Errors, staged readings for New York Shakespeare Exchange, 2011
Yahweh’s Follies by Rob Reese, World Premiere, All New Talent (ANT) Festival at Ars Nova, 2016
Sundays at the Parkside, improvisation and sketch comedy, Parkside Lounge, NYC, 2006–2015
Keanu Reeves Saves the Universe by Rob Reese, People’s Improv Theatre and The Red Room, NYC, 2004–2006
director
Evenings of short plays by Christopher Durang, Konstanty Ildefons Gałczyński, George S. Kaufman, Sławomir Mrożek, Suzan-Lori Parks, George Bernard Shaw, and Tennessee Williams, 2015, 2017, and 2018
sans Hamlet co-director of a devised performance of Hamlet with New York Shakespeare Exchange, 2016
ShakesBEER director of scenes from As You Like It and Lysistrata for New York Shakespeare Exchange, 2015 and 2017
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editing, indexing, transcribing & coding
interviewer, transcriber,
copy editor, proofreader, indexer
Reclaiming Greek Drama for Diverse Audiences
edited by Melinda Powers
Routledge, 2020
copy editor, proofreader, indexer
Diversifying Greek Tragedy on the Contemporary US Stage
by Melinda Powers
Oxford University Press, 2018
assistant editor, researcher, transcriber, proofreader, map illustrator, XML coder
A Player and a Gentleman: The Diary of Harry Watkins, Nineteenth-Century U.S. American Actor
edited by Amy E. Hughes and Naomi J. Stubbs
University of Michigan Press, 2018
scholarship
publications | conference participation
publications
Journal Article
“Seeking a Fairer View: Smashing Theatrical Mirrors in Contemporary Black Drama.” PAJ 42.2 (2020): 75–87.
Encyclopedia Entries
“Live Theater” and “Actors,” in World of Jim Crow: A Daily Life Encyclopedia, edited by Steven A. Reich. (ABC-CLIO Greenwood, 2019).
Book Reviews
Provocative Eloquence: Theater, Violence, and Antislavery Speech in the Antebellum United States, by Laura L. Mielke. Theatre Annual (forthcoming).
Blacktino Queer Performance, edited by E. Patrick Johnson and Ramón H. Rivera-Servera. Theatre Survey 59:1 (2018): 129–31.
Burnt Cork: Traditions and Legacies of Blackface Minstrelsy, edited by Stephen Johnson. Theatre Journal 67:2 (2015): 370–71.
Performance Reviews
The Death of the Last Black Man in the Whole Entire World by Suzan-Lori Parks. PAJ 39:2 (2017): 66–69.
Shuffle Along, or, the Making of the Musical Sensation of 1921 and All That Followed. Theatre Journal 68:4 (2016): 667–68.
conference participation
Papers Presented
“Clowning Around in Colored Faces: Complicating the Binary in Historical Narratives of Racial Ridicule in Early 20th Century Musical Comedy Performances,” Mid-America Theatre Conference; March 17, 2017; Houston, Texas.
“Terping Up a Racialized Comedic Storm: Dancing for Laughs in Black,” Approaching Dance: The Doctoral Theatre Students’ Association 2017 Conference; May 11, 2017; New York, New York.
“Shakespeare in the Digital Age: Translating the Bard to Mobile Technology, Social Media, and the Internet,” Festival Cine Futuro; May 27, 2015; Salvador, State of Bahia, Brazil.
“Re-imagining Theatre History: Developing Games and Liminal Pedagogy: A Practical Pedagogy Workshop on the History of El Teatro Campesino,” American Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE); July 25, 2014; Scottsdale, AZ.
“Playing with the Past: Energizing the Classroom through ‘Reacting to the Past’ Games: A Practical Pedagogy Workshop,” ATHE; August 4, 2013; Orlando, FL.
“Mother, Home, and Mammy: Stillness, Movement, and Revolution in Tony Kushner’s Caroline, or Change,” Comparative Drama Conference; April 5, 2012; Baltimore, MD.
“Reconstruction and Subversion on Broadway with The Scottsboro Boys,” Art of Public Memory Conference; April 9, 2011; University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC.
“Defying Impotence and Defining Identity in Jean Genet’s The Blacks,” Comparative Drama Conference; March 31, 2011; Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA.
“Aristophanes and Will Ferrell—Partners in Political Satirical Crime,” Comparative Drama Conference; April 2, 2010; Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA.
Roundtable Presentations
“Leapin’ Lizards, Annie’s Black! A Discursive Genealogy of ‘The Black Musical,’” ATHE; July 31, 2015; Montréal, Canada.
“Introducing the Sonnet Project,” ATHE; August 1, 2015; Montréal, Canada.
“Digital Scholarship Panel,” ATHE; July 26, 2014; Scottsdale, AZ.
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teaching
higher education | invited lectures | acting | other education
higher education
NYU, Tisch School of the Arts, Drama Department, Adjunct Lecturer, 2019
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Introduction to Theatre Studies
City College of New York, CUNY, Teaching Fellow and Adjunct Lecturer, 2012–2019
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Introduction to Theatre, Writing Intensive Course, including 2 SEEK sections
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World Theatre History I
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World Theatre History III
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Black Drama in the US I (1821–1950)
Marymount Manhattan College, Adjunct Lecturer, 2016–2018
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Script Analysis
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Theatre History I and II
Brooklyn College, CUNY, Adjunct Lecturer, 2015–2016
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Text Analysis
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History of Western Theater I, Writing Intensive Course
LaGuardia Community College, CUNY, Adjunct Lecturer, 2013
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English Composition 102: Writing through Literature
invited lectures
Case Western Reserve, Fall 2020
"A Racial and Class-Based History of American Musical Comedy," undergraduate Intro to Theatre course
Borough of Manhattan Community College (BMCC), CUNY, Fall 2017
“More than Just Black and White: Chinese and Chinese Americans in Early 20th Century Musical Comedy Performances,” presentation for the “Memory Faculty Interest Group” at the Center for Excellence in Teaching
Marymount Manhattan College, Spring 2016
“Black Arts Movement and Amiri Baraka’s Dutchman,” undergraduate Theatre History II course
BMCC, CUNY, Fall 2015
“Ancient Greece and Rome: Classical Art and Theatre,” undergraduate Art History course
Hunter College, CUNY, Spring 2014
“Black Arts Movement and Amiri Baraka’s Dutchman,” undergraduate Theatre History III course
Brooklyn College, CUNY
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“Digital Scholarship,” graduate Research and Bibliography course, 2013, 2018
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“Dramatic Structure of Comedy,” graduate course, 2014
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“Text Analysis,” undergraduate course, 2014, 2015
SUNY Stony Brook, Spring 2011
“Identifying ‘Given Circumstances’ in a Play,” undergraduate Script Analysis course
acting master classes
Texas A&M, 2016
“Embodying Shakespeare,” half-day undergraduate acting class
Teatro Vila Velha, Salvador, Brazil, 2015
“Embodying Shakespeare,” three-day master class in performing Shakespeare for professional actors
other education
Medgar Evers College, CUNY, Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC) Fellow and Writing Tutor, 2016–2017
Borough of Manhattan Community College, CUNY, WAC Fellow and Writing Tutor, 2015–2016
New York Shakespeare Exchange, Curriculum writer for The Sonnet Project Education,
2015–2016
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