Contributors
- Contributors
Dean Adams is an associate professor in the department of theatre and associate dean of performing arts services at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. He is a member of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society, Actors’ Equity Association, the Association of Performing Arts Presenters, the Southeastern Theatre Conference, and the Association for Theatre in Higher Education. He is listed in Who’s Who in America and Who’s Who in Entertainment.
Jane Barnette, associate editor of Theatre Symposium and the resident dramaturg of the department of theatre and performance studies at Kennesaw State University, is a theatre historian who writes about adaptation, train culture, and American pageantry. She has published reviews and articles in Theatre Journal,Theatre Symposium,Theatre InSight, and TPQ. Barnette serves as the southeast regional vice president for the Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas and is the 2014 Theory and Criticism Focus Group conference planner for the Association for Theatre in Higher Education. She completed her work on volume 22 before moving to Lawrence in the summer of 2014 to begin a new post at the University of Kansas in the department of theatre. For examples of her dramaturgical websites, visit http://www.kennesaw.edu/theatre/dramaturgySites.shtml.
John Patrick Bray is a lecturer in the department of theatre and film studies at the University of Georgia. He earned his PhD in theatre studies at Louisiana State University and his MFA in playwriting from The Actors Studio Drama School/The New School for Drama. John is a [End Page 135] member of the Dramatists’ Guild of America, Inc., and he is an Equity membership candidate. His research interests include new play development and production, adaptation studies, and Geek Theatre. For more information, visit www.johnpatrickbray.webs.com.
Tony Gunn is a third-year theatre studies doctoral student at Florida State University. His research interests include nostalgia, performance in sports broadcasting, and the theatrical work of Edward Gorey.
Boone J. Hopkins is an assistant professor in the department of theatre and dance at Converse College, where he teaches courses in acting, directing, theatre history, and performance studies. Boone completed his PhD in theatre studies at the University of Kansas in 2012 after receiving an MFA in acting and directing pedagogy at Virginia Commonwealth University in 2007. His research focuses on histories of rehearsal and contemporary rehearsal practices. Boone is currently developing his dissertation into a book entitled Everyday Rehearsal Rhetoric: Director/ Actor Communication, which documents collaboration between professional directors and actors in U.S. regional theatres.
Jae Kyoung Kim completed her PhD in theatre at the University of Georgia in 2012. She is a lecturer in the English department at the Catholic University of Korea and Korea University, ROK. Her research is primarily focused on international theatre festivals, intercultural theatre, East Asian theatre, and Korean musicals.
Jacek Mikolajczyk is an assistant professor in the drama department at the University of Silesia in Katowice (Poland). In the 2012–2013 academic year he was a Fulbright Visiting Lecturer at the University of Washington in Seattle. He is also a dramaturg at Gliwice Musical Theatre. His research is focused on the history of musical theatre in Poland and relations between politics and theatre. He is an author of two books, The Destructive Flirtation: Literature and Terrorism (2011) and The Musical at the Vistula River: The Musical in Poland in 1957–1989.
George Pate is a PhD candidate in the department of theatre and film studies at the University of Georgia. He is currently writing his dissertation on the ideological stakes of conflicts between text-based and performance-based models of theatre from the 1960s to the present. In addition to his scholarship, George is an award-winning playwright and has had plays produced or workshopped in New York and New Orleans. [End Page 136]
Erin Scheibe holds a BA in theatre/speech education from Evangel University, and she recently completed her MA at Oklahoma State University. Her thesis focused on the development of curriculum for the high school theatre classroom, an ongoing passion. Her performance credits include leading roles in productions of The Drowsy Chaperone, Hello Dolly, and The Light in the Piazza. Erin has spent...
