Contributors

{ 255 } CONTRIBUTORS JOSEPH BROMFIELD is a recent graduate of Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida. As a Rollins Cornell Scholar, he received his B.A. in Theatre Arts with an Emphasis in Performance in May 2009. He is a native of Chattanooga, Tennessee, where he graduated from The McCallie School in 2005. Joseph now plans to pursue his theatrical interests via postgraduate study in the United Kingdom or regional theatre work in the United States. JACKSON R. BRYER is Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Maryland. Among the books on American dramatic literature he has edited or coedited are Selected Letters of Eugene O’Neill; The Playwright’s Art: Conversations with Contemporary American Dramatists; Conversations with Lillian Hellman; The Actor’s Art: Conversations with Contemporary American Stage Performers; The Facts on File Companion to American Drama; The Art of the American Musical: Conversations with the Creators; Conversations with August Wilson; and The Selected Letters of Thornton Wilder. JENNIFER JONES CAVENAUGH is Chair of the Theater and Dance Department at Rollins College. Her book Medea’s Daughters: Forming and Performing Women Who Kill was published in 2003 by Ohio State University Press. She has published articles in theatre journals such as Modern Drama, New England Journal of Theater, Theater Notebook, and American Drama, and has chapters in several anthologies, including Passing Performances: Queer Readings of Leading Players in American Theater History and Women in the American Musical Theater. She has also cowritten a play about Annie Russell with Joseph Bromfield titled Stage Fright. { 256 } CONTRIBUTORS L ARRY D. CL ARK is Dean Emeritus of the College of Arts and Science and Professor Emeritus of Theatre, University of Missouri–Columbia. He specializes in the history of the American theatre, focusing on the theatre and drama of the 1920s. He is coauthor of the acting text Acting Is Believing, now in its tenth edition. PAUL CORNWELL has a diploma in Primary Education (Cambridge University ) and a M.Ed (Leicester University). He spent five years researching the life of Terence Gray for a biography, Only by Failure: The Many Faces of the Impossible Life of Terence Gray (Salt, 2004). Two other articles came out of that study:“Pirandello in Cambridge” (Pirandello Studies 22 [2002]) and “American Drama at the Cambridge Festival Theatre” (Eugene O’Neill Review 27 [2005]). His current research interests include Cambridge theatre during the interwar period and creative playmaking in the English primary school. CHRISTIN ESSIN is an Assistant Professor of Theatre Studies at the University of Arizona. Her research examines theatrical design as an artistic and cultural practice that reflects historical circumstances and shapes people’s perceptions of the everyday landscapes they traverse. VALLERI J. HOHMAN is a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Theatre at the University of Illinois. Her areas of focus include production dramaturgy, adaptation, and Russian-American cultural exchange between 1890 and 1930. Her work appears in the New England Theatre Journal, the Journal of American Drama and Theatre, African American Dramatists, and the Encyclopedia of Modern Drama, and is forthcoming in the Dictionary of Literary Biography . She is currently writing a book about Russians in the American theatre. MARC MARTINEZ, a Senior Lecturer at the University of Bordeaux, is a specialist of eighteenth-century English comic literature who has published widely on theatre and pantomime. He coauthored a study of satire in English and French literature—La satire (Armand Colin, 2000). ELIZABETH OSBORNE is an Assistant Professor in Theatre Studies at Florida State University. Her research interests focus on early-twentieth-century American theatre, particularly the Federal Theatre Project, and the relationship between theatre and its surrounding community. She has presented her research at the International Federation for Theatre Research, the American Society for Theatre Research, the Association for Theatre in Higher Education, { 257 } CONTRIBUTORS the America Library Association, Theatre Symposium, and the Mid-America Theatre Conference, and her work has appeared in Theatre Symposium and the Journal of American Drama and Theatre. CAROLYN D. ROARK is editor of Ecumenica, a journal dedicated to the study of religion/spirituality and performance. She is also Focus Group Representative for the Association for Theatre in Higher Education’s Religion and Theatre group, an occasional...