Enacting History

List of Contributors

Contributors Leigh Clemons is an associate professor of Theatre/Women’s and Gender Studies at louisiana State University. She is the author of Branding Texas: Performing Culture in the Lone Star State. Catherine Hughes, PhD, is a teacher, theater artist, researcher, and writer. She is the project director of Meet the Past at the Atlanta History Center. She has written about and spoken widely on the practice of museum theater. Her dissertation was an empirical study of spectators’ aesthetic reception of performances in museum sites. She wrote Museum Theatre: Communicating with Visitors through Drama and founded the international Museum Theatre Alliance (http://www .imtal.org). Rhona Justice-Malloy, PhD, is a professor in the Department of Theatre Arts at the University of Mississippi and the editor of Theatre History Studies. She is a member of the national Theatre Conference. Kimberly Tony Korol-Evans received her PhD from northwestern University and has been visiting assistant professor of theatre history at the University of Arizona and visiting assistant professor of performance studies at Missouri State University. Her areas of study include early modern drama and performance, contemporary popular performance, and performance theory and ethnography. She is the author of Renaissance Festivals! Merrying the Past and Present. other publications include work on Tudor court culture and on the theatricality of the national Hockey league. Lindsay Adamson Livingston is a doctoral candidate in the theater program at the Graduate Center, the City University of new york, and teaches in the Journalism, Communications, andTheatre Department at lehman College. Her primary research interests include the social construction of space, memory, and history; contemporary theater and performance in the United States; and tourist performance. She has published work in a/b: Auto/Biography, The Journal of the Wooden O Symposium, and The Children’s Book and Play Review. Scott Magelssen is an associate professor of theater at bowling Green State 230 / Contributors University and the editor of the Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism. He is the author of Living History Museums: Undoing History through Performance. Aili McGill is currently the assistant general manager for guest experience and was formerly the manager of the Museum Theater initiative and of Prairietown , an 1830s living history village, at Conner Prairie in fishers, indiana. She has worked at Conner Prairie for seven years, during which time she received a bachelor’s degree in Museums and Museum Management from Earlham College and a master’s degree in Museum Studies from indiana University–Purdue University at indianapolis. She also appears weekly at Comedysportz indianapolis, an improv comedy show with a sporting twist. Richard L. Poole is a professor in the Department of Theatre and Speech Communication at briar Cliff University in Sioux City, iowa. A fulbright scholar, he has given numerous professional papers on Midwestern rural and small town theater. His essays have appeared in Theatre History Studies, The Guide to United States Popular Culture, The Tamkang Review (Taiwan), and the Cambridge Guide to American Theatre (2nd edition). He is the co-author (with George Glenn) of The Opera Houses of Iowa. Amy M. Tyson worked seven summers as a living history interpreter at Historic fort Snelling in St. Paul, Minnesota. She received her PhD from the University of Minnesota in 2006 and is currently an assistant professor in the History Department at DePaul University. Patricia Ybarra is an associate professor in brown University’s Department of Theatre Arts and Performance Studies. Her publications include Performing Conquest: Five Centuries of Theater, History, and Identity in Tlaxcala, Mexico and articles and reviews in TDR: The Drama Review, Aztlán, Theatre Journal, and Modern Language Quarterly. Her area of specialization is theater historiography of the Americas, with emphasis on the relationship between theater, nationalism , and American identities in north America. She is also a director and dramaturge . ...