Contributors
- Contributors
LEZLIE C. CROSS is an assistant professor at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Her articles and book reviews appear in Shakespeare Bulletin, The Journal of American Drama and Theatre, Theatre Survey, and Theatre Annual and the book projects Shakespeare Expressed: Page, Stage, and Classroom in Shakespeare and His Contemporaries and Performing Objects and Theatrical Things. She is also a professional dramaturg who works at regional theatres across America.
DAVID AFRIYIE DONKOR is an assistant professor at Texas A&M University. He earned his PhD in performance studies and doctoral certificate in African studies from Northwestern University, his MFA in directing and MS in multidisciplinary studies (ethnic studies, speech communication, educational foundations) from Minnesota State University, and a diploma in theatre from the University of Ghana. Donkor's publications include the book Spiders of the Market: Ghanaian Trickster Performance in a Web of Neoliberalism and entries in the volumes Legacy of Efua Sutherland: Pan-African Cultural Activism, by Ann Adams and Esi-Sutherland Addy, and Cambridge Encyclopedia of Stage Actors and Acting, by Simon Williams. Dr. Donkor has adapted and directed folktales, personal narratives, and literature for stage in productions like Spiders and Spirits: Tale of Two Tricksters, Two Takes on Hurricane Katrina, Strange and Bitter Fruit (a memorial of the 1906 Springfield Missouri lynching), and his own one-person show, A Travelers Tale, on migration and memory.
SHANNON EPPLETT is a PhD candidate in theatre history at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. His dissertation, "The Steppenwolf Script: The Habitus of Chicago's Off-Loop Theatre," takes a sociological approach to [End Page 357] examining how Chicago's off-Loop theatre community has been structured by the success of Steppenwolf Theatre. His article "The Press Release as Bully Pulpit: Stormfield Theatre Calls It A Day" appeared in the 2015 New England Theatre Journal. He has twice been awarded fellowships to the Newberry Library: in 2014, as part of the Newberry Consortium in American Indian Studies, and in 2015 he received the Susan Kelly Power and Helen Hornbeck Tanner Fellowship. He is a member of the Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians and in addition to his dissertation research is developing a performance piece based on the life and poetry of Anishinaabe poet Jane Johnston Schoolcraft.
LAURA FERDINAND FELDMEYER is a PhD student in the Interdisciplinary Theatre and Drama Program and a member of the British studies cluster, both at Northwestern University. She received her MA in theatre from Miami University in Ohio, where she also served as adjunct instructor in the College of Creative Arts. She has shared her research on constructions of childhood, wartime propaganda, and imaginative play at the American Society for Theatre Research conference.
LA DONNA L. FORSGREN received her PhD from the Interdisciplinary Theatre and Drama Program at Northwestern University. She has published her research in Callaloo: A Journal of African Diaspora Arts and Letters, Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies and the New England Theatre Journal. She is an assistant professor of theatre at Notre Dame University, where she teaches courses in theatre history, dramaturgy, playwriting, and African American performance. Her book manuscript, In Search of Our Warrior Mothers: Female Dramatists of the Black Arts Movement, is forthcoming.
MARTINE KEI GREEN-ROGERS, PhD, is an assistant professor of theatre at the State University of New York at New Paltz. She is a freelance dramaturg who has worked at places such as the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Pioneer Theatre Company, and the Court Theatre. Publications include the article "Talkbacks for 'Sensitive Subject Matter' Productions: The Theory and Practice" in the Routledge Companion to Dramaturgy.
NICHOLAS HOLDEN is an associate lecturer in drama within the School of Fine and Performing Arts at the University of Lincoln in the United Kingdom. His research is largely concerned with contemporary theatremaking, playwriting, and the work of the Royal Court Theatre. His PhD is titled "Building the Engine Room: A Study of the Royal Court Young Peoples' Theatre and Its [End Page 358] Development into the Young Writers' Programme" and looks to present a new history of the Royal Court Theatre from the perspective of its work with young people and playwrights.
GABRIELLE HOULE holds a PhD from the...
